Universities

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Traits of irrational beliefs related to eating problems in Japanese college women.

This study focused on the relation of irrational beliefs and Body Mass Index (BMI) to inappropriate eating attitudes in Japanese college women. A total of 110 nonclinical subjects completed the Japanese Irrational Belief Test (JIBT) and the Japanese ...
Masahito Tomotake, Masao Okura, Takahide Taniguchi, Yasuhito Ishimoto (J Med Invest, 200202)
traits-irrational-beliefs-related-eating-problems-japanese-college.asp

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Five-factor personality measures in Chinese university students: effects of one-child policy?

Since the one-child policy was implemented in China in 1979, many investigators have studied the psychological consequences to children without siblings. Although the results are not conclusive, there is evidence that children who have siblings, rather ...
Wei Wang, Wuying Du, Ping Liu, Jianhui Liu, Yehan Wang (Psychiatry Res, 200201)
five-factor-personality-measures-chinese-university-students-effects.asp

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Childhood experience of sexual abuse among Hong Kong Chinese college students.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore the prevalence rate and profiles of abusers and victims of child sexual abuse in a Chinese society. METHOD: A convenience sample of 2,147 Hong Kong Chinese college students completed questionnaires which included ...
Catherine So-kum Tang (Child Abuse Negl, 200201)
childhood-experience-sexual-abuse-hong-kong-chinese-college-students.asp

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Profile--Richard A. Mathies. Interview by Suzanne Berry.

Richard A. Mathies (Fig. 1) is a professor of chemistry at the University of California (UC) at Berkeley. His early work at UC was on the use of resonance Raman and time-resolved optical spectroscopy to elucidate the structure and reaction dynamics of ...
Richard A Mathis (Trends Biotechnol, 200201)
profile-richard-mathies-interview-suzanne-berry.asp

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Switching costs, price sensitivity and health plan choice.

We investigate the extent to which sensitivity to health plan premiums differs across individuals according to characteristics related to the cost of switching plans. Our results indicate substantial variation in price sensitivity related to expected ...
Bruce A Strombom, Thomas C Buchmueller, Paul J Feldstein (J Health Econ, 200201)
switching-costs-price-sensitivity-health-plan-choice.asp

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Freshman 15: valid theory or harmful myth?

The authors investigated whether the perception that freshmen gain 15 pounds during their 1st year of college is related to either actual or perceived weight gain. Forty-nine incoming freshmen at a small liberal arts college completed the study by ...
Melody A Graham, Amy L Jones (J Am Coll Health, 200201)
freshman--valid-theory-or-harmful-myth.asp

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Vaginal douching practices among women attending a university in the southern United States.

The authors assessed the frequency, characteristics, and motivational antecedents of vaginal douching practices among 125 White and 155 Black female college students. Overall, 40% of the students had ever douched and half of those women currently douche. ...
Ellen Funkhouser, Tameka D Hayes, Sten H Vermund (J Am Coll Health, 200201)
vaginal-douching-practices-women-attending-university-southern-united.asp

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A cross-sectional audit of student health insurance waiver forms: an assessment of reliability and compliance.

To assess the reliability of using a waiver process to ensure compliance with health insurance requirements established by a university, the author conducted a cross-sectional verification and compliance audit of insurance waiver forms received for the ...
JoAnn Molnar (J Am Coll Health, 200201)
cross-sectional-audit-student-health-insurance-waiver-forms.asp

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Conducting research with community agencies: meeting recruitment and collaboration challenges.

Family therapy outcome research with community agencies has been challenging for various reasons. In two recent research projects, it was found that providing active feedback to agencies about their clinical services via a clinical report and a ...
Volker Thomas (J Marital Fam Ther, 200201)
conducting-research-community-agencies-meeting-recruitment.asp

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Student learning preferences reflect curricular change.

This study measured the learning preference profile development and readiness for self-directed learning over time of two undergraduate student cohorts experiencing different curricular presentations of essentially the same syllabus. The results from ...
Clare Kell, Robert Van Deursen (Med Teach, 200201)
student-learning-preferences-reflect-curricular-change.asp