poning sexual activity, and reproductive health educators who traditionally provide information about contraception and disease prevention (information that is not part of the curriculum) eventually came to support ENABL’s approach for middle school youths.5 Three and one-half years after its launch, ENABL had evolved from a groundbreaking health education campaign into a way of life for the ag...

Food additives have been used throughout history to perform specific functions in foods. A comprehensive framework of legislation is in place within Europe to control the use of additives in the food supply and ensure they pose no risk to human health. Further to this, exposure assessments are regularly carried out to monitor population intakes and verify that intakes are not above acceptable l...

The objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the lesion characteristics of coronary artery and risk factors of coronary heart disease (CHD). A total of 430 patients underwent coronary angiography (CAG) were recruited from January 2008 to October 2009 and divided into CHD group (n=282) and non-CHD group (control group, n=148) according to the findings on CAG. The...

Why do some actors in international politics display remarkable persistence in wartime, while others “cut and run” at the first sign of trouble? I offer a behavioral theory of resolve, suggesting that variation in time and risk preferences can help explain why some actors display more resolve than others. I test the theory experimentally in the context of public opinion about military intervent...

The group was asked to develop evidence-based reviews on topics related to various loading protocols for dental implants. Three reviews were prepared: the first addressed the literature related to different loading protocols for partially edentulous cases, the second examined the literature for loading protocols in completely edentulous cases, and the third addressed clinical procedures for the...

Conventional breeding schemes for dairy cattle are based on phenotypic information obtained from individuals and/or their relatives and progeny testing of the young bull candidates. The genetic model used in the evaluation process of the animals does not assume the underlying genes of the quantitative traits to be known. Knowing the chromosomal areas or actual genes affecting the traits would a...

In an era in which schools are expected to achieve more for their students, many teachers remain frustrated by the increasing results-driven demands made on them. A facet of teacher work life in which many feel disempowered is addressed in this study—the regular infringement of outside intrusions into the classroom learning environment. A stratified random selection of teachers in the Canadian ...