OBJECTIVES To examine the amount of time adolescents waited to have intercourse with past partners (main and casual), and intentions to delay with future partners. To determine psychosocial factors which predict delay intentions among adolescent males and females with future partners (main and casual). METHODS Adolescent STD clinic attendees were approached before clinical appointments to par...

Let X1,. .. , XN be independent non-negative integer valued random variables. In this paper we present a sufficient condition for the collection (X1,. .. , XN) to be stochastically increasing in the sum X1 + · · · + XN. Thus, if the condition is satisfied then (X1,. .. , XN) are negatively associated when conditioned on the sum X1 + · · · + XN. The result is a generalization of the main theorem...

Historically, economic changes have negatively affected the nursing workforce in Ontario. The trend towards part-time and casual employment emerged from healthcare restructuring in the 1990s. The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 alerted the Ontario government to the issue of part-time and casual nursing. In 2007, the Nursing Graduate Guarantee (NGG), a health human reso...

This paper provides new evidence for the relationship between the nature of banking relationships, managerial ownership and operational performance in supporting reciprocal effects between these variables in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A simultaneous equations model was applied to a sample of 4,163 Portuguese SMEs and to cross-section data. Evidence was found that these ...

Dance requires skillful composition of complex movements that follow rhythmic, tonal and timbral features music. Formally, generating dance conditioned on a piece music can be expressed as problem modelling high-dimensional continuous motion signal, an audio signal. In this work we make two contributions to tackle problem. First, present novel probabilistic autoregressive architecture models th...