Language choices matter. In 2009, Garand, Lingler, Conner, and Dew published an article in this journal examining the stigma associated with the diagnostic term dementia and the possible eff ects of that stigma on individuals’ willingness to participate in clinical research. In 2013, the American Psychological Association (APA, 2013) replaced the diagnostic classifi cation of dementia with the ...

Life-history theory predicts that as males age they should increase investment in reproductive effort because their residual reproductive value (RRV) – the opportunity for future reproductive events – declines (Stearns 1992). Such investment is often manifested as age-related increases in the intensity, rate, or duration of a costly behaviour important for acquiring mates. Sexual traits showing...

fusion index in the management of renal transplants. J Nucl Med 1978; 19: 994. 8. Kerman RH, Floyd M, Conner W, et al. Combined immunologic and radionuc1eide techniques to monitor renal allograft rejection. Transplant Proc 1979; 11: 1229. 9. Kim EE, Pjura G, Lowry P, et al. CyclosPorin-A nephrotoxicity and acute cellular rejection in renal transplant recipients: correlation between radionucleid...

High performance marine composite structures are common in many competitive arenas. This paper highlights the lessons learned through analysis, testing and post-failure review of some of the composite structures used by Team Dennis Conner during the 2003 America’s Cup. Materials were almost exclusively carbon fibre/epoxy prepreg laminates cured at elevated temperature and pressure. Specific res...

Dyspnea has many characteristics, differing from one clinical state to another. In pulmonary diseases the immediate cause is usually a disproportion between actual ventilation (breathing requirement) and breathing capacity. The hyperventilation of organic pulmonary disease is often mistakenly diagnosed as psychoneurosis. In early cardiac dyspnea, muscular fatigue associated with inadequate card...

E pidemiological study and clinical trial research has flourished during the past 40 years. During this period the decline in death rates from stroke in the United States has accelerated. Since 1970 the US stroke mortality rate has declined nearly 60%. There is reason to believe the declining death rate is related to improvements in the risk factor status of the US population. Some of the data ...

Throughout our professional lifetimes, we are conditioned by the need to choose; among careers, among treatments for our patients, among health habits and lifestyles. After detailing the extent to which a choice-making orientation has dominated our lives, our society, our health system, our science, this paper describes areas in which it is crucial that choices not be made. These include the ch...

Previous studies implied that decayed heartwood was important to cavity tree selection by redcockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealfs), but the results were inconcIusive because they either lacked a control or were limited to 1 age class of trees. We compared the incidence of heart rot in loblolly and longleaf pines (Pinus taeda and P. palust7.fs) undergoing cavity excavation to the incidence of...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue conocer el nivel concordancia entre ecuaciones estimación con método 1 RM en una muestra 30 jóvenes experimentados. Se ejecutaron cuatro ejercicios: sentadilla barra libre (SEN), press banco horizontal (PB), peso muerto (PMu) y militar (PMi) teniendo un mínimo máximo a 7 repeticiones respectivamente. consideraron 6 predicción: Brzycki (1993), Epley (1995), Lander...

To restore a population that had declined to 4 individuals by late 1985, 54 Red-cockaded Woodpeckers (P&ides borealis) were translocated at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina between 1986 and 1995. Translocation success was evaluated by sex, age, and distance between the capture and release site. For moves involving females, the presence of a resident male and the status of the male (bre...