This study examined the effect of child sexual or physical abuse on brief cognitive-behavioral therapy treatments with adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We analyzed secondary data from two randomized controlled trials (Resick, Nishith, Weaver, Astin, & Feuer, 2002; Resick et al., 2008) that included women with PTSD who did or did not have child sexual abuse (CSA) or child physic...

PURPOSE The aims of this analysis were to determine if there is an association between serum levels of testosterone and estradiol with meibomian gland (MG) morphology and lipid layer thickness. METHODS The data used for this analysis were collected from postmenopausal women with and without dry eye disease. Meibography was used to assess MG dropout on the central two-thirds of the eyelid and ...

To examine why court mandated offenders dropout of drug treatment and to compare their characteristics, treatment experiences, perceptions, and outcomes with treatment completers, we analyzed self-reported and administrative data on 542 dropouts (59%) and 384 completers (41%) assessed for Proposition 36 treatment by thirty sites in five California counties during 2004. At intake, dropouts had l...

Title of Thesis: SCHOOL DROPOUT AND SUBSEQUENT OFFENDING: DISTINGUISHING SELECTION FROM CAUSATION Gary Allen Sweeten, Master of Arts, 2004 Thesis directed by: Professor Shawn D. Bushway Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Past research on the relationship between school dropout and offending is inconclusive. In explaining their findings, researchers have focused on strain and control...

Color dropout refers to the process of converting color form documents to black and white by removing the colors that are part of the blank form and maintaining only the information entered in the form. In this paper, no prior knowledge of the form type is assumed. Color dropout is performed by associating darker non-dropout colors with information that is entered in the form and needs to be pr...

Regularizing neural networks is an important task to reduce overfitting. Dropout [1] has been a widely-used regularization trick for neural networks. In convolutional neural networks (CNNs), dropout is usually applied to the fully connected layers. Meanwhile, the regularization effect of dropout in the convolutional layers has not been thoroughly analyzed in the literature. In this paper, we an...

With the integration of communication networks and distributed control in modern manufacturing and process industries, networked control systems (NCSs) are becoming increasingly important due to its simplicity, scalability, flexibility, and cost effectiveness. However, there are still significant technical barriers that limit the applications of NCS technologies. Two challenges are network-indu...

PURPOSE Despite the importance of selecting students whom are capable for medical education and to become a good doctor, not enough studies have been done in the category. This study focused on analysing the medical students' academic performance (grade point average, GPA) differences, flunk and dropout rates by admission types. METHODS From 2004 to 2010, we gathered 369 Konyang University Co...

introduction. student dropout in medical colleges is a significant problem unless is controlled. it will result in shortages exacerbation of qualified physicians that may occur in future years. methods. a retrospective study was done for evaluation of student dropout risk factors. the students, according to the average grade of university, were classified into two groups (successful – unsuccess...