BACKGROUND Perceived stress influences the health and well-being of older adults. This study aims to examine the association between the expectation and the receipt of filial piety and perceived stress among U.S Chinese older adults. METHODS Data were drawn from the PINE study, a population-based study of Chinese older adults aged 60 and above in the greater Chicago area. Perceived stress was...

Poor school performance has historically been one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of delinquency and criminality. Conversely, improvements in school performance have more recently been associated with desistance from delinquent and criminal activity. As a result, criminological and educational research suggests a strong link between education and crime. This chapter assesses the...

ISG e-Government Practice in collaboration with IT Strategic Learning Center, e-Development Thematic Group, GICT, PREM, WBI and other partners delivered a very successful two-day training workshop for Bank staff and clients on April 26-27, 2005 during PREM Learning Week on "Designing and Implementing e-Government: Key Issues, Best Practices and Lessons Learned". The workshop brought together so...

This paper presents an early empirical study on Extreme Programming practices employing a qualitative action research method. The study was conducted on university students doing real commercial development projects to gain an insight into the problems faced by the new developers in adopting these agile practices. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of the XP practices on the qu...

School‐based civic education is increasingly recognized as an effective means for increasing political awareness and participation in American youth. This study examines the Student Voices curriculum, implemented in 22 Philadelphia high schools, to assess program activities that mediate gains in outcomes linked to future political participation (following of politics, political knowledge, and p...

Improving care quality through hybrid implementation/effectiveness studies: Best practices in design, methods, and measures Amy N Cohen, Alison B Hamilton, Mona Ritchie, Brian S Mittman, JoAnn E Kirchner , Gail E Wyatt, John C Fortney, Gerhard Hellemann, Honghu Liu, Geoffrey M Curran, Fiona Whelan, Alicia M Eccles, Louise E Parker, Kirk McNagny, Craig S Hutchinson, Annapurni B Teague, Christoph...

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. A 85, 052508 (2012)], Gidopoulos and Lathiotakis discuss difficulties in solving the optimized effective potential (OEP) equation in a finite basis. We show that these difficulties are resolved by choosing basis sets that fulfill a balance condition. In particular, the nonanalyticity of the finite-basis OEP equation disappears in basis-set convergence. In connectio...

This informal report gives an update on our most recent activities on the DARPA PCES project. We summarize how we have realized to date the milestones established in our original PCES proposal (Section 2). We describe our initial efforts to recast our work in form that can be directly leveraged in the Boeing Boldstroke OEP and discuss how this initial effort has been received by the Boeing Bold...

BACKGROUND Little evidence exists to guide treatment of alopecia areata (AA). The current practices in treatment of children compared to adults and of progressive stages of hair loss are unknown. The objective of this study was to examine the current practices of southeastern United States dermatologists for the treatment of AA. METHODS Dermatologists were sent anonymous questionnaires regard...

Parental feeding practices reflecting coercive control are related to children's later eating behaviors, but the mechanisms underlying these effects remain poorly understood. This study examined the relationships between recalled childhood experiences of parental pressure to eat and restriction and current food preoccupation, dieting, and emotional eating in a racially diverse sample of college...