Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1999-2004
The prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents and obesity among men increased significantly during the 6-year period from 1999 to 2004; among women, no overall inc...
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Perception of Risk
Studies of risk perception examine the judgments people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid ri...
Qualitative Data Analysis: A Sourcebook of New Methods
Part One: Introduction Part Two: Focusing and Bounding the Collection of Data Part Three: Analysis During Data Collection Part Four: Within-Site Analysis Part Five: Cross-Site A...
A Theory of Sensitized Luminescence in Solids
The term ``sensitized luminescence'' in crystalline phosphors refers to the phenomenon whereby an impurity (activator, or emitter) is enabled to luminesce upon the absorption of...
Outline of a New Approach to the Analysis of Complex Systems and Decision Processes
The approach described in this paper represents a substantive departure from the conventional quantitative techniques of system analysis. It has three main distinguishing featur...
A power primer.
One possible reason for the continued neglect of statistical power analysis in research in the behavioral sciences is the inaccessibility of or difficulty with the standard mate...
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
This book, first published in 1979, is about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environm...
A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation
A SIMPLEST SYSTEMATICS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF TURN-TAKING FOR CONVERSATION Harvey SacksEmanuel A. SchegloffGail Jefferson University of California, University of California, Un...
Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology.
Part I: Molecular Biology of Cancer Molecular Methods in Oncology Section 1. Amplification Techniques Section 2. RNA Interference Section 3. cDNA arrays Section 4. Tissue arrays...
In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.
How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiate...
Molecular Mechanisms of Depression: Perspectives on New Treatment Strategies
Depression is a multicausal disorder and has been associated with the risk to develop cancer, dementia, diabetes, epilepsy and stroke. As a metabolic disorder depression has bee...