Old Gold and Black Slalf lleport Six graduate students ·in the sciences will present their awardwinning abstracts in RoOm B, Wmston Hall at 2 p.m .. today. Sigma Xi, the honorary research society, and the Graduate Stu!lent Association (GSA) will co-sponsor the session. . . Seventeen graduate students in the,sci~~ces ~mp:et@.;~j~~.:.:..~~ ting their' abs.~ ~j~_,~ Sigma Xi andthe GSA., James ·New...

OBJECTIVE To develop a calibrated spinal cord injury-quality of life (SCI-QOL) item bank, computer adaptive test (CAT), and short form to assess depressive symptoms experienced by individuals with SCI, transform scores to the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) metric, and create a crosswalk to the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9. DESIGN We used grounded-the...

INTRODUCTION Active transportation opportunities and infrastructure are an important component of a community's design, livability, and health. Features of the built environment influence active transportation, but objective study of the natural experiment effects of built environment improvements on active transportation is challenging. The purpose of this study was to develop and present a no...

.......................................................................................... 3 Background and Purpose...................................................................... 4 Study Description and Location.............................................................. 7 Key Findings.................................................................................... 12 Management Imp...

Due to the presence of various traffic calming measures (TCM) and lights in urban areas, speed vehicles is maintained low. Nevertheless, a problem arises frontier between non-urban areas because drivers must adapt their behavior new conditions. This risk becomes even greater rural roads that penetrate small villages without bypass with short segment, since do not normally down these segments. V...

CONTEXT Motor vehicles struck and killed 4739 pedestrians in the United States in the year 2000. Older pedestrians are at especially high risk. OBJECTIVE To determine whether crosswalk markings at urban intersections influence the risk of injury to older pedestrians. DESIGN Case-control study in which the units of study were crossing locations. SETTING Six cities in Washington and Califor...