Abstract Objective Following the Journal of Pediatric Psychology’s special edition on health disparities, calling for Phase 2 research exploring mechanisms racial groups in this study aims to explore social information processing predictors longitudinal hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) trajectories a racially diverse group adolescents. The model glycemic control type 1 diabetes (T1D) posits that adolesce...

Introduction. Setting up “Clinical Skills Labs” has been started in some Iranian medical universities since five years ago. In an educational workshop for Clinical Skills Labs managers in January 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. These standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

The "tree of life" iconography, representing the history of life, dates from at least the latter half of the 18th century, but evolution as the mechanism providing this bifurcating history of life did not appear until the early 19th century. There was also a shift from the straight line, scala naturae view of change in nature to a more bifurcating or tree-like view. Throughout the 19th century ...

PURPOSE To determine the effectiveness of a progressively "skating specific" periodized off-season training program on skating performance in competitive hockey players. METHODS Twenty (M = 18; F = 2) highly skilled hockey players (age 15.9 +/- 1.5 yr) completed 16 wk of standardized resistance and stability training supplemented with either off-ice simulated skating using the SkateSIM (SIM) ...

introduction. setting up “clinical skills labs” has been started in some iranian medical universities since five years ago. in an educational workshop for clinical skills labs managers in january 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. these standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...