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The questions raised by O'Keefe et al. challenge us to think clearly about the intent of incarceration generally and the objective of administrative segregation in particular. Our comments address several points: the study's methodology, the context of administrative segregation, several attendant pragmatic concerns li…

What are the chief information officers thinking? The 1997 Health-care Information and Management Systems Society/Hewlett Packard Leadership Survey gives us a glimpse. The study's results involving information technology present some ambitious plans.

Sixteen optometric tests were administered to 29 athletes prior to and following their running the 1974 26-mile B.A.A. Boston Marathon. The tests included amplitude of accommodation, near point of convergence, stereopsis, depth perception, near phorias, ACA, near ductions, peripheral fields, and suppression. It appears…

This letter critically evaluates Jiang's article on the differentiation of benign and malignant liver lesions using Emax and platelet count. Despite notable findings, significant methodological and interpretative limitations are identified. The study lacks detailed assay conditions for Emax measurement, employs inadequ…

Many college women report engaging in weight control strategies, yet little is known about which strategies are used and how often. The current study's goal was to evaluate the factor structure of a comprehensive list of weight control behaviors used in the previous 24-hours.Undergraduate women ( = 286) w…

AIM: The aim was to determine whether there are relationships among transformational leadership, safe team climate, knowledge sharing and reflection, and team performance in nursing and social work teams. BACKGROUND: Based on organisational learning theory, we hypothesized that transformational leadership could create…

For decades, states have passed legislation to mandate reporting of criminal conduct and the abuse of vulnerable persons. Four types of mandatory reporting laws have been enacted, including laws that require reports of injuries associated with crime or due to use of certain weapons, abuse of children, abuse of vulnerab…

BACKGROUND: Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) constitutes the most frequent cause of death in the postperinatal period in Germany. Recently, a lethal phenotype characterized by sudden infant death with dysgenesis of the testes syndrome (SIDDT) was identified to be caused by loss of function mutations in the TSPYL1 ge…

The present study empirically confabulates the authenticity of the "resource curse hypothesis" in selected emerging nations. Furthermore, we also assessed the interconnections of three essential economic indicators with financial development, i.e., human development, political stability, and gross domestic product. To…

Generic ophthalmic drug product development is challenging, and innovative methodologies to complement traditional bioequivalence (BE) studies for BE assessment are desirable to promote their evaluation. Ocular physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models can provide insight into drug partitioning in eye tissues…

A retrospective study of 28 patients who underwent ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy for thyroid nodular disease was performed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound-guided FNA biopsy in detecting malignancy of the thyroid. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative p…

In research involving human subjects, large participation payments often are deemed undesirable because they may provide 'undue inducement' for potential participants to expose themselves to risk. However, although large incentives may encourage participation, they also may signal the riskiness of a study's procedures.…

As Hinshaw (1981) has noted, the process of designing research might best be conceptualized as a series of informed decisions that involve constant trade-offs and compromise. With each advantage gained by a particular theoretical or methodological decision, the researcher inherits a certain number of threats to the stu…

The study's goal was the examination of the hypothesis that transsexualism develops on a diminution of sexual drive which itself is a result of temporal lobe dysfunction. 28 transsexuals were examined. More than 30% of this group showed pathologic findings in EEG recordings. Most of the pathological findings were situa…

BACKGROUND: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) risk correlates with C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, suggesting systemic inflammation is present well before AMI. Studying different types of periodontal disease (PD), extremely common in individuals at risk for AMI, has been one important research topic. According to rece…

Anatomy students studying dissected anatomical specimens were subjected to either a loosely-guided, self-directed learning environment or a strictly-guided, preformatted gross anatomy laboratory session. The current study's guiding questions were: (1) do strictly-guided gross anatomy laboratory sessions lead to higher…

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this literature review were to assess current challenges to estimating the prevalence of mental health disorders among individuals with mental retardation (MR) and to develop recommendations to improve such estimates for this population. METHODS: The authors identified 200 peer-reviewed a…

Recent efforts in cancer targeting have focused on nanoparticle (NP) drug delivery, yet the complexity of NP uptake makes experimental studies challenging. To streamline this, numerical models help identify key parameters. This study's model, focusing on elliptical NPs, aims to optimize NP aspect ratios for selective u…

Spiritual struggles (SSs) are distressing spiritual thoughts associated with poorer health outcomes. This study's purpose was to test feasibility, acceptability, and fidelity of an intervention to decrease SS of parents of children with CF. Parents screening positive for SS were enrolled and were randomized to interven…

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease driven by aberrant signals from the immune system. In this issue, Li et al. present the first large RNA-seq analysis of gene expression in normal skin and psoriasis lesions, providing a more comprehensive view of mRNA expression than earlier microarray studies. This stud…