BACKGROUND Our objective was to identify factors that are independently associated with early attrition and successful weight loss (WL) in an obesity-management program. METHODS Participants were 9,498 patients enrolled in treatment at the Wharton Weight Management Clinic for at least 6 months. Predictors of early attrition (<6 months) and successful WL (≥5 %) were analyzed using relative ris...

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The article explores doctoral attrition in South Africa, investigating and comparing the attributions of attrition of doctoral students and PhD programme leaders. The article is based on secondary data analysis of two large studies on doctoral education in South Africa. The main point of the article is that the different understandings of the students and the PhD programme leaders, as well as t...

Schools of engineering throughout the United States are currently experiencing high student attrition rates, which greatly concerns institutions of higher learning and the nation itself due to the significant need for well-qualified and prepared engineers. In response, a large number of studies have been conducted to solve the attrition puzzle. To gain a better understanding of engineering attr...

Industries such as Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Hospitality and Technology are currently experiencing high attrition rates. You, as a HR manger or senior management executive, may know some apparent causes for attrition in your company. And you also know the high costs of attrition and the negative impact it has on customer facing scenarios. But how often have you felt that if you had known...

"This paper will investigate the issue of weighting for panel attrition in event-history models by comparing alternative treatments of sampling weights in a divorce model for members of the 1986 [U.S.] Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Three distinct weighting procedures are compared. These are based on (1) the initial selection probability weights; (2) the 1986 SIPP panel weig...

A study of the degree and gradient of attrition was undertaken on 352 molar teeth of 88 selected Nigerian subjects. A method for the quantification of attrition experience per molar tooth is described. There is a close correlation between age and the degree of attrition of the first molar. This finding may be of value in age determination in forensic odontology. The wear on the first molar is a...

abstract the attrition of anterior teeth leads to the loss of efficient anterior guidance, which protects posterior teeth from wear during lateral excursions. this clinical report describes a 48-year-old man with diagonal tooth wear and posterior mandibular tooth loss. the clinical diagnosis was based on a complete oral examination, photos, functional analysis of lateral excursion movements, ge...

Severe tooth wear is the most common non-caries dental disease, and it can seriously affect oral health. Studying the tooth wear process is time-consuming and difficult, and technological tools are frequently lacking. This paper presents a novel method of digital simulation modeling that represents a new way to study tooth wear. First, a feature extraction algorithm is used to obtain anatomical...

OBJECTIVE The failure of offenders to complete psychological treatment can pose significant concerns, including increased risk for recidivism. Although a large literature identifying predictors of offender treatment attrition has accumulated, there has yet to be a comprehensive quantitative review. METHOD A meta-analysis of the offender treatment literature was conducted to identify predictor...