BACKGROUND Filipino Americans are the fastest growing Asian minority group in the United States. There is limited knowledge about their breast cancer knowledge, screening practices and attitudes. METHODS As part of the evaluation of the Asian Grocery Store-Based Cancer Education Program, 248 Filipino American women completed baseline and follow-up surveys, while an additional 58 took part in ...

We present growth studies of InSb nanowires grown directly on [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] substrates. The nanowires were synthesized in a chemical beam epitaxy (CBE) system and are of cubic zinc blende structure. To initiate nanowire nucleation we used lithographically positioned silver (Ag) seed particles. Up to 87% of the nanowires nucleate at the lithographically pre-defined ...

The endeavour of the Virtual Business learning concept of OTO developed at the Open University of the Netherlands, is the implementation of a new type of open learning arrangements, meeting the learning needs of today’s bachelor students at the School of Informatics. OTO is the virtual learn-work environment for a course ‘Design Project’. The constructivist and prescriptive learning elements in...

Reliability is a fundamental quality of the internal consistence of any measuring instrument. Researchers sometimes use “reliable” and its derivative terms, yet fail to address reliability. Bowers et al. (2005) claimed that the knowledge survey (KS) “does not reliably measure student learning as measured by final grades or exam questions.” They addressed their purpose (p. 311) “to evaluate how ...

abstract background: evaluation of breast masses in women under 40 years old starts with a triple test score (tts) which is composed of clinical breast examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration. increased breast density in this age group decreases the sensitivity of mammography. so deciding whether to biopsy such nondiagnostic lesions or not is subject to challenge. breast masses up t...

In screening for secondary prevention of breast cancer, clinical breast examination (CBE) combined with mammography may improve overall screening sensitivity compared with mammography alone. A systematic evaluation of the relative expenses and projected benefit of combining these two screening modalities is not presently available. We addressed this issue using a microsimulation model incorpora...

To increase the awareness and practice of breast health guidelines, a media-based education campaign on breast health was launched among immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco. The media campaign included airing two public service announcements (PSAs) on Chinese television and radio stations and publishing the same message in Chinese newspapers during 2000. Seven-hundred-ten face-to-face ...

AIM The aim of this study was to test community-based nursing education about breast self-examination to see whether self-examination frequency could be increased. BACKGROUND Breast cancer rates in China are rising rapidly, especially in cities. The majority of Chinese women does not know about breast self-examination, and the Chinese health care system cannot provide mammograms for the milli...