Interviews with stakeholders in deprived Hawke’s Bay schools early the COVID-19 lockdown documented exacerbated food insecurity among school whānau. Our enquiry highlights support role played by well-informed teacher aides and school–whānau networks, which were easily inexpensively resourced, intuitive, proactive collaborative, ensuring whānau access to appropriate according need. We expect our...

D espite several advances in resuscitation care over the last decade, in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) remains common and is linked to poor survival. Approximately 200 000 hospitalized patients suffer IHCA and undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the United States annually, with fewer than 20% surviving to discharge. Not surprisingly, a great deal of attention has been placed on reducing I...

Abstract Several years have passed since the removal of National Standards, however current provision and enactment music education in New Zealand remains unknown. Using a case study, this article seeks to illustrate practice at one high decile primary school. This study finds that despite reading, writing mathematics continued be prioritised, dominating classroom timetables, initial teacher al...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive validity of osteopathic medical licensing examinations for osteopathic medical knowledge measured by graduate written medical examinations. Performances on the three osteopathic initial licensing examinations, the three osteopathic internal medicine in-service examinations, and the osteopathic internal medicine board certification examina...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) amino acid (AA) sequence combined with crystallographic structural data may enable prediction of the relative immunogenicity of individual donor/recipient HLA mismatches. METHODS Multiple sera from 32 highly sensitized patients awaiting kidney transplantation were screened using Luminex/single-antigen beads to determine the HLA-specifi...

A scheme for ranking the quantitative activity of chemical carcinogens is described. This activity scheme uses as its base dose potency measured as TD50 which after conversion into an inverse log scale, a decile scale, is adjusted by weighting factors that described other parameters of carcinogenic activity. These factors include positive or negative weightings for the induction of tumors at ti...

We conducted a population-based case-control study among men 40-75 years of age encompassing all cases of lung cancer 1985-1990 among stable residents of Stockholm County 1950-1990. Questionnaires to subjects or next-of-kin (primarily wives or children) elicited information regarding smoking and other risk factors, including occupational and residential histories. A high response rate (>85%) re...

BACKGROUND Cancer screening in individuals with limited life expectancy increases the risk of diagnosis and treatment of cancer that otherwise would not have become clinically apparent. OBJECTIVE To estimate screening mammography use in women with limited life expectancy, its geographic variation, and association with access to primary care and mammographic resources. METHODS We assessed sc...

This paper examines whether investors recognize the implications of changes in order backlog, a non-GAAP leading indicator, for future performance. A hedge portfolio strategy taking a long position in the highest decile of order backlog change and a short position in the lowest decile of order backlog change earns 13.7 percent in the year after the hedge portfolio is formed. Moreover, analysts’...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate the Neonatal Risk Estimate Score for Children Using Extracorporeal Respiratory Support, which estimates the risk of in-hospital death for neonates prior to receiving respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support. STUDY DESIGN We used an international ECMO registry (2008-2013); neonates receiving ECMO for respiratory support were included. We ...