Reduced Vitamin D in Acute Stroke
Background and Purpose— Stroke leads to a reduction in bone mineral density, altered calcium homeostasis, and an increase in hip fractures. Vitamin D deficiency is well document...
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Characterization of the integrin alpha v beta 6 as a fibronectin-binding protein.
Integrins are a complex family of divalent cation-dependent cell adhesion receptors composed of one alpha and one beta subunit noncovalently bound to one another. A subset of in...
The relationship of worker productivity to cognitive dissonance about wage inequities.
2 hypotheses derived from dissonance theory were tested: (a) when a person is paid by the hour his productivity will be greater when he perceives his pay as inequitably large th...
Friendsickness in the Transition to College: Precollege Predictors and College Adjustment Correlates
In this study friendsickness (preoccupation with and concern for the loss of or change in precollege friendships) is seen as a significant source of distress for college student...
A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health
Study objective: Using a conceptual rather than a mathematical approach, this article proposed a link between multilevel regression analysis (MLRA) and social epidemiological co...
Chronic respiratory symptoms in children and adults living along streets with high traffic density.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate if the population living along streets with high traffic density has a higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms. METHODS: A sample of 673 adu...
Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment as Interactive Predictors of Tardiness and Absenteeism
This study examined job involvement and organizational commitment as interactive predictors of absenteeism and tardiness behaviors. Personnel records and questionnaires were use...
Variation in the Drinking Trajectories of Freshmen College Students.
F. K. Del Boca, J. Darkes, P. E. Greenbaum, and M. S. Goldman (2004) examined temporal variations in drinking during the freshmen college year and the relationship of several ri...
Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Residential Choice
completely from the question of why households decide to live within a particular jurisdiction. Although we have no satisfactory thleory of urban local government, economists ha...
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
Anyone interested in The University of Iowa will enjoy browsing through this storehouse of bibliographic information.Earl Rogers of the University Archives has compiled some 575...