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Decreased striatal monoaminergic terminals in multiple system atrophy detected with positron emission tomography
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-06)
We examined the density of striatal presynaptic monoaminergic terminals, using a ligand for the type 2 vesicular monoamine transporter, (+)-[ 11 C]dihydrotetrabenazine, with positron emission tomography in 7 normal control ...
College adjustment in University of Michigan students with Crohn's and colitis
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-09)
Background: Adjustment to college is critical for academic success. Poor college adjustment correlates with poor academic performance, low graduation rates, and poor success later in life. Limited data are available on ...
A model of weak selection in the infinite alleles framework
(Springer-Verlag, 1986-08)
Ewens (1972) proposed a model in the infinite allele framework for populations with neutrality of all alleles at a particular locus. This paper proposes a generalisation of Ewens' result for situations where there is a ...
Genetic counseling for BRCA1 / 2 : A randomized controlled trial of two strategies to facilitate the education and counseling process This article contains supplementary material, which may be viewed at the American Journal of Medical Genetics website at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1552–4825/suppmat/index.html .
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-04-01)
Due to the complexity of information surrounding BRCA1 / 2 counseling and testing and its time consuming nature, efforts to facilitate the genetic counseling and education process are needed. Using a 2 × 2 factorial ...
A Conceptual Framework for Adaptive Preventive Interventions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-09)
Recently, adaptive interventions have emerged as a new perspective on prevention and treatment. Adaptive interventions resemble clinical practice in that different dosages of certain prevention or treatment components are ...
Rural motor vehicle crash mortality: The role of crash severity and medical resources
(Elsevier, 1992-12)
We did a retrospective case control study to examine the relationship between the risk of dying for Michigan motor vehicle crash (MVC) drivers and the type of county (rural/nonrural) of crash occurrence, while adjusting ...
Evolution in fine-grained environments I. Environmental runs and the evolution of homeostasis
(Elsevier, 1978-06)
In this paper we discuss the problem of evolution when individual organisms are subjected to heterogeneous environments within their own lifetimes. We first develop a model of environmental heterogeneity in which there are ...
Baseline Leptin Levels Predict Change in Leptin Levels During Weight Loss in Obese Breast Cancer Survivors
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007-03)
Balanced centralized and distributed database design in a clinical research environment
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2000-06-15)
Clinical research databases can meet both research and clinical needs, but this ideal is seldom achieved. Priorities often differ for those who collect and ultimately use the data and those who develop data systems. ...
Assessing the Total Effect of Time-Varying Predictors in Prevention Research
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2006-03)
Observational data are often used to address prevention questions such as, “If alcohol initiation could be delayed, would that in turn cause a delay in marijuana initiation?” This question is concerned with the total causal ...