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Effect of grammatical gender on visual word recognition: evidence from lexical decision and eye movement experiments.

Lexical decision times and eye movements were recorded to determine whether grammatical gender can influence the visual recognition of isolated French nouns. This issue was investigated by assessing the use of two types of regularities between a nouns ...
Pascale Colé, Joël Pynte, Pascale Andriamamonjy (Percept Psychophys, 200304)
effect-grammatical-gender-visual-word-recognition-evidence-lexical.asp

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Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics in drug development and regulatory decision making: report of the first FDA-PWG-PhRMA-DruSafe Workshop.

The use of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics in the drug development process, and in the assessment of such data submitted to regulatory agencies by industry, has generated significant enthusiasm as well as important reservations within the ...
Lawrence J Lesko, Ronald A Salerno, Brian B Spear, Donald C Anderson, Timothy Anderson, Celia Brazell, Jerry Collins, Andrew Dorner, David Essayan, Baltazar Gomez-Mancilla, Joseph Hackett, Shiew-Mei Huang, Susan Ide, Joanne Killinger, John Leighton, Eliza (J Clin Pharmacol, 200304)
pharmacogenetics-pharmacogenomics-drug-development-regulatory.asp

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Providing treatment to prisoners with mental disorders: development of a policy. Selective literature review and expert consultation exercise.

BACKGROUND: Mental disorder is more prevalent among people in prison than in the general population. Prisoners who require transfer to psychiatric hospitals for treatment face long delays. Doctors working in prisons regularly face ethical and legal ...
Mark Earthrowl, John OGrady, Luke Birmingham (Br J Psychiatry, 200304)
providing-treatment-prisoners-mental-disorders-development-policy.asp

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Reliability of health utility measures and a test of values clarification.

This study examines the test-retest reliability of two methods of establishing health preference weights and assesses the effectiveness of a brief values-clarification exercise. Survey participants were randomly allocated to one of two groups and ...
Alan Shiell, Penelope Hawe, Megan Fletcher (Soc Sci Med, 200304)
reliability-health-utility-measures-test-values-clarification.asp

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Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision making within community-based multi-disciplinary teams.

This paper reports findings from a qualitative study concerning the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on shared decision making within community-based mental health teams. One-hundred participants representing five distinct multi-agency ...
A Colombo, G Bendelow, B Fulford, S Williams (Soc Sci Med, 200304)
evaluating-influence-implicit-models-mental-disorder-processes-shared.asp

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Occurrence of THMs and HAAs in experimental chlorinated waters of the Quebec City area (Canada).

Haloacetic acids (HAAs) and trihalomethanes (THMs) were generated in bench-scale chlorination experiments using treated waters (prior to final chlorination) of the three major drinking water utilities of the Quebec City area. The purpose was to ...
Jean-B Sérodes, Manuel J Rodriguez, Hanmei Li, Christian Bouchard (Chemosphere, 200304)
occurrence-thms-haas-experimental-chlorinated-waters-quebec-city-area.asp

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Visibility management in school and beyond: a qualitative study of gay, lesbian, bisexual youth.

Grounded theory was utilized to develop a theory of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) youths interactions with and response to their environment. Data included in-depth interviews of 20 GLB youth. The central phenomenon that emerged from the qualitative ...
Jon Lasser, Deborah Tharinger (J Adolesc, 200304)
visibility-management-school-beyond-qualitative-study-gay-lesbian.asp

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The introduction of the Manchester triage scale to an emergency department in the Republic of Ireland.

Triage is an integral part of the modern emergency department. The use of a recognised triage system has many advantages for the emergency department including reference to a recognised decision-making structure and support in the form of a ...
J G Cronin (Accid Emerg Nurs, 200304)
introduction-manchester-triage-scale-emergency-department-republic.asp

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Exploring dental patients preferred roles in treatment decision-making - a novel approach.

AIMS: To assess the transferability of the Control Preferences Scale to dental settings and to explore patients preferred and perceived roles in dental treatment decision-making. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A convenience sample of 40 patients, 20 recruited ...
H Chapple, S Shah, A-L Caress, E J Kay (Br Dent J, 20030322)
exploring-dental-patients-preferred-roles-treatment-decision-making-.asp

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Consumers and quality-driven health care: a call to action.

A key strategy for driving improvements in health care quality is providing comparative quality information to consumers. This strategy will not work, and could even be counterproductive, unless (1) consumers are convinced that quality problems are real ...
Dale Shaller, Shoshanna Sofaer, Steven D Findlay, Judith H Hibbard, David Lansky, Suzanne Delbanco (Health Aff (Millwood), 200303-04)
consumers-quality-driven-health-care-call-action.asp