OBJECTIVE To compare rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in young women who were sexually abused, sexually precocious, and engaged in high-risk behaviors with the rates of STDs in young women who had none of these experiences. DESIGN In this descriptive, comparative study, purposive, nonrandom sampling was used to obtain representation of women in four ethnic groups. Women completed...

recent studies demonstrate an overlapping relationship between faith practices of individuals, family functioning, and the corporate faith of congregations. this study reports on the psychometric properties of the Christian faith Practices Scale (CfPS), which was created to empirically measure dykstra’s faith behaviors or “practices.” analysis of a large purposive sample (n=7,403) indicates ini...

Similar to other complex behaviors, language is dynamic, social, multimodal, patterned, and purposive, its purpose being to promote desirable actions or thoughts in others and self (Edelman, 2017b). An analysis of the functional characteristics shared by complex sequential behaviors suggests that they all present a common overarching computational problem: dynamically controlled constrained nav...

This paper proposes an evolutionary approach to select appropriate behaviors for a mobile robot. We augment each behavior by adding activation/termination constraints to accelerate the evolutionary processes. The former constraints reduce the number of situations where each behavior is executable, and the latter contribute to extract meaningful behavior sequences, each of which can be regarded ...

1 In this issue, we have an article on ‘Publication productivity and citation analysis of the Medical Journal of Malaysia’ by Sanni and Zainab.1 Their paper is a glimpse into the world of medical publishing. It is not primarily an audit of the MJM. It is an exercise in bibliometrics. It just happens to use the MJM as an available subject. It uses the MJM as a test case for Lotka’s law and Bradf...