Universities

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College students perceptions of suicide: the role of empathy on attitudes, evaluation, and responsiveness.

A total of 334 college-age students (18719 years) participated in a study investigating the role of empathy in perceptions of and responsiveness toward a hypothetical friend exhibiting symptoms associated with suicide risk. High-empathy participants ...
Michaele A Mueller, Gregory A Waas (Death Stud, 200205)
college-students-perceptions-suicide-role-empathy-attitudes.asp

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Personal choices of health plans by managed care experts.

BACKGROUND: Expert opinion has not been used as a basis for comparing different forms of health insurance, in part because this perspective may not be appropriately sensitive to aspects of care that consumers value. RESEARCH DESIGN: Using a case-control ...
David M Studdert, Jayanta Bhattacharya, Michael Schoenbaum, Brandee Warren, José J Escarce (Med Care, 200205)
personal-choices-health-plans-managed-care-experts.asp

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Teaching target-oriented and diversity-oriented organic synthesis at Harvard University.

Diversity-oriented synthesis presents many formidable challenges to the practitioners of synthetic organic chemistry. Those challenges include the effective teaching of this new and evolving discipline to ensure that students are well positioned to begin ...
Martin D Burke, Gojko Lalic (Chem Biol, 200205)
teaching-target-oriented-diversity-oriented-organic-synthesis-harvard.asp

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Mentoring college-age women: a relational approach.

Despite the popularity of mentoring programs, the relational dimension of mentoring has not been elucidated. Traditional conceptions of mentoring may exclude factors that are particularly important for women and girls, thus limiting the efficacy of ...
Belle Liang, Allison J Tracy, Catherine A Taylor, Linda M Williams (Am J Community Psychol, 200204)
mentoring-college-age-women-relational-approach.asp

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Haemorheological changes during the menstrual cycle.

OBJECTIVE: To determine changes in some haemorheological parameters: haematocrit (Hct), Whole Blood Relative Viscosity (WBRV), Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) and Fibrinogen Concentration (FC) during the menstrual cycle. DESIGN: Cross-sectional ...
D V B Dapper, B C Didia (East Afr Med J, 200204)
haemorheological-changes-menstrual-cycle.asp

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Naturally occurring mentoring in Japan and the United States: social roles and correlates.

Although the word "mentor"has traditionally been used to describe a relationship between an older adult and a younger person, recent work has extended its usage to relationships with peers and groups rather than with individuals and uncoupled the ...
Nancy Darling, Stephen Hamilton, Teru Toyokawa, Sei Matsuda (Am J Community Psychol, 200204)
naturally-occurring-mentoring-japan-united-states-social-roles.asp

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Premarital sexual activities among students in a university in Beijing, China.

BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted diseases are becoming a serious public health problem in China. College students are recognized as one of the age groups most affected. GOAL: The goal was to investigate premarital sexual activities and condom use among ...
Liying Zhang, Xiang Gao, Zhaowen Dong, Yongping Tan, Zhenglai Wu (Sex Transm Dis, 200204)
premarital-sexual-activities-students-university-beijing-china.asp

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Role models in self-esteem of college women.

This study examined the relationship between self-esteem and the existence of role models among a sample of 36 female college students. Participants completed a questionnaire which included demographic questions, the Self-esteem Inventory, and questions ...
Mick G Mack, Allison M Schultz, Kaori Araki (Psychol Rep, 200204)
role-models-self-esteem-college-women.asp

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Doing a doctorate using a participatory action research framework in the context of community health.

The use of participatory action research (PAR) for doctoral research in a health setting is still a fairly rare phenomenon. The author explores what is meant by PAR and examines some of the obstacles to undertaking PAR for doctoral research so that these ...
Marion Gibbon (Qual Health Res, 200204)
doing-doctorate-participatory-action-research-framework-context.asp

210.

Do schizophrenic patients who managed to get to university have a non-developmental form of illness?

BACKGROUND: Many people who develop schizophrenia have impairments in intellectual and social functioning that are detectable from early childhood. However, some patients do not exhibit such deficits, and this suggests that they may have suffered less ...
J H MacCabe, E Aldouri, T A Fahy, P C Sham, R M Murray (Psychol Med, 200204)
schizophrenic-patients-who-managed-get-university-non-developmental.asp