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- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?
- This article uses epidemiological tables of odds (both unadjusted and adjusted for onset, total adjudications, and total out of home placements) on a sample of 2520 male confined juvenile delinquents, to evaluate the significance of the number of adverse childhood experiences on commitment for homicide, sexual assault, and serious persons/property offending.
- Age Strata Differences in Utilization of Health Care Services among Adults in the United States
- Article on age strata differences in utilization of health care services among adults in the United States.
- Amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior
- Article on amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior. The authors examine amygdala reactivity to threatening cues when avoidance responding consistently prevented contact with an upcoming aversive event (money loss).
- Assessment of the Need for Relief Services by Rural Texas Family Physicians
- Article on an assessment of the need for relief services by rural Texas family physicians.
- Behavioral Cusps: A Developmental and Pragmatic Concept for Behavior Analysis
- Article on behavioral cusps and a developmental and pragmatic concept for behavior analysis.
- Bhopal Chemical Disaster
- Encyclopedia article describing the devastating effects of a chemical disaster that took place in Bhopal, India in 1984. The author describes the effects of the chemical disaster and the events that followed.
- Bollywood and Beyond: Hinduism Changing the World
- Article discussing research on the ideals of Hinduism, such as pluralism, dharma, ritam, and nonviolence holding important lessons for the future of Hinduism in particular and for humanity in general.
- Breast Implants for Graduation: A Sociological Examination of Daughter and Mother Narratives
- Article on a sociological examination of daughter and mother narratives.
- Care and Health
- Encyclopedia article in the 'International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology' discussing health care, globalization and health, and the effect of the economy on the structure of the health care system.
- The challenges and future opportunities of emergency management education: a student's perspective
- This article describes a few of the challenges facing current emergency management curriculum and how the University of North Texas Emergency Administration and Planning program is addressing these challenges.
- The Changing Use of Health Care Services among a Sample of Unmarried Older Women: 1969 to 1979
- Article on the changing use of health care services among unmarried older women from 1969 to 1979.
- Community-oriented policing in a multicultural milieu: The case of loitering and disorderly conduct in East Arlington, Texas
- Article on community-oriented policing in a multicultural milieu and the case of loitering and disorderly conduct in East Arlington, Texas.
- Community-oriented policing in a multicultural milieu: the case of loitering and disorderly conduct in East Arlington, Texas
- Article on community-oriented policing in a multicultural milieu and the case of loitering and disorderly conduct in East Arlington.
- Community/University Collaboration in Health Care Planning: A Case Study
- Article discussing a case study on community and university collaboration in health care planning.
- Computer Modeling of Physiological Phenomena at the Cellular Level
- This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using computer modeling to study physiology, and provides an example of how students can begin to use computer modeling in the classroom.
- Consequences of Empowered CNA Teams in Nursing Home Settings: A Longitudinal Assessment
- Article on a longitudinal assessment and the consequences of empowered CAN teams in nursing home settings.
- The Cosmic Dance of Obama-Raja on Newsweek
- Article discussing an image that appears on the front cover of Newsweek magazine depicting President Barack Obama.
- Criminal Victimization and Fear of Crime Among the Elderly in the United States: A Critique of the Empirical Research Literature
- Article on criminal victimization and fear of crime among the elderly in the United States and a critique of the empirical research literature.
- Design of District Emergency Operations Centres, and the Case Study of Indian Oil Corporation Jaipur Depot Explosion
- Article on the design of district emergency operations centres and a case study of Indian Oil Corporation Jaipur depot explosion.
- The Development of Interests in Children with Autism: A Method to Establish Baselines for Analyses and Evaluation
- This article discusses development of interests in children with autism.
- Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya Practitioners
- Article on dharmic ecology and perspectives from the Swadhyaya practitioners.
- The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet
- This article discusses environmentalism and ways in which dharmic methods can help save the planet. While most Americans are familiar with the terms such as "yoga" and "Bollywood," Indian perspectives toward the ecology seem to be largely unknown.
- Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa
- Article on the disclosure of children's positive serostatus to family and nonfamily members.
- Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia
- This article is the third in a series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field" and is a personal reflection by the researcher on his experience and involvement in kinship and friendship networks while conducting agrobiodiversity research in southern Appalachia, USA.
- An Ecological Perspective on Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Health
- Article on an ecological perspective on rural, low-income mothers' health.
- The Effects of a Supportive Communication Training Workshop on the Verbal Behavior of Behavior Analysis
- Article on the effects of a supportive communication training workshop on the verbal behavior of behavior analysts.
- Emerging Opportunities in Higher Education: Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism
- This article discusses applying behavior analysis to autism.
- Ethnic Differences in the Use of Health Care Services Among Older Texans
- Article on ethnic differences in the use of health care services among older Texans.
- Ethnicity, Health Care and Socio-Economic Status: The Continuing Disparity Among Minority Children in Texas
- Article on ethnicity, health care and socio-economic status and the continuing disparity among minority children in Texas.
- Factor structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A in Kiswahili speaking children: Multidimensionality and influences on creative behavior
- This article provides evidence for the valid use of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Financing Geriatric Programs in Community Health Centers
- Article on financing geriatric programs in community health centers.
- Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership
- This article uses the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction 10 Essentials for Making Cities Resilient as guidelines to assess the progress of flood resilience building in Thailand.
- Functional Analysis and Treatment of Self-Injury in a Captive Olive Baboon
- Article on the functional analysis and treatment of self-injury in a captive olive baboon.
- Generalization of socially transmitted and instructed avoidance
- This article compares two pathways to avoidance--instructions and social observation--on subsequent generalization of avoidance behavior, fear expectancy and physiological arousal.
- Generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression
- This article explores how generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression. The authors' findings highlight frontal and limbic hypoactivation in patients with depression and comorbid anxiety and indicate that anxiety level may modulate frontal and limbic activation depending upon the emotional context.
- Geographic Distance, Contact, and Family Perceptions of Quality Nursing Home Care
- Article on the geographic distance, contact and family perceptions of quality nursing home care.
- Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
- Article describes an estimate of age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality between 1970 and 2016 for 195 countries and territories and at the subnational level for the five countries with a population greater than 200 million in 2016.
- Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
- Article discusses the generation of updated estimates of child mortality by age group (neonatal, post-neonatal, ages 1–4 years, and under 5) for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational geographies, from 1980–2015, using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015).
- “I’m Gonna Get Busy Living”: Examining the Trajectories of Affect, Behavioral Health, and Psychological Resilience Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Southeastern U.S. Health District
- Article describes results of a study seeking to provide further insight into how core affect influences the adaptability of persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) after diagnosis.
- In the Interest of Community Health: Building Relationships between Metropolitan Universities and Academic Health Centers
- Article on the importance of partnerships between metropolitan universities and academic health centers for addressing community health issues.
- Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation
- This article employs the Andersen Behavioral Model to explore increased physical activity and participation in three types of senior center activities: physical fitness, dance/aerobic classes, and chair exercises.
- Indology and Marxist Hermeneutics
- Article discussing research on Indology and Marxist hermeneutics.
- Influencing Self-Reported Health Among Rural Low-Income Women Through Health Care and Social Service Utilization: A Structural Equation Model
- Article discussing a structural equation model and influencing self-reported health among rural low-income women through health care and social service utilization.
- Inter-organizational digital divide: Civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project
- Article on inter-organizational digital divides and civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project.
- Irony and the 'yoga wars'
- Article discussing the debated topic of whether yoga is a Hindu or Secular practice and the potential causes and impacts of how and why this subject is being debated.
- Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics
- Article discussing the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics.
- Loading the Problem Loader: The Effects of Target Training and Shaping on Trailer-Loading Behavior of Horses
- Article on the effects of target training and shaping on the trailer-loading behavior of horses.
- Local Government Adoption of Age Friendly Policies: An Integrated Model of Responsiveness, Multi-Level Governance and Public Entrepreneurship Theories
- This article argues that responsiveness, multi-level governance, and public entrepreneurship theories offer a fuller explanation for local government policy decision-making.
- The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response
- This article addresses what a highly complex public health situation such as the Dallas-Fort Worth Ebola outbreak tell about the use of discretion by executive level public administrators.
- Managing for Citizen Satisfaction: Is Good Not Enough?
- Article proposes a theory that suggests the quantity of public goods and services is important to citizen satisfaction.