Method Prospective data on complementary feeding practices, using a detailed food diary over the first 6-weeks of complementary feeding, were collected as part of Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study (n 1537). An allergenic food was determined present, if labelled as an ingredient and not if stated as ‘may contain’. Eczema was determined if the UK working party diagnostic criteria were satisfied at...

Results Various practices were noted among nurses concerning the assessment of patients’ smoking history, passive smoking, smoking habits and cessation plans. The majority of nurses (56.0% yes, 28.0% sometimes) noted that psychiatric patient should be handled differently. They stated that smoking cessation may exacerbate psychiatric symptoms (38.0% yes, 62.0% sometimes) and may lead to an illne...

Merit rating is the use of the insured's actual claim experience to predict future claim experience. This paper discusses merit rating for professional liability insurance for both individual doctors and group practices. The paper presents several different theoretical formulations for merit rating. Credibilities are stated in terms of the parameters of the risk process. The paper discusses sev...

A survey of British consultant cardiologists was carried out to elicit their current practices when prescribing long term beta blockers after myocardial infarction. Sixty (72%) of the respondents reported that they used beta blockers prophylactically even in the absence of any other indications; the details of their stated policies, however, varied considerably. The favourable evidence of clini...

The Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church in the North American Division @AD)' expects pastors to complete a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program prior to their ordination.' Graduatelevel ministerial education is designed to contribute to the development and success of a candidate for professional ministry. The purpose of this research is to discover possible correlations between graduate ministeri...

A new stated preference technique is developed and tested. In an interactive computerized survey, respondents move continuous sliders to choose levels of environmental attributes. The total cost of the combination of attributes chosen is calculated according to a preprogrammed cost function, and continuously updated and displayed. Each registered choice reveals the respondent’s marginal willing...

The aim of this study was to analyse health behavior, taking into account the following aspects: proper nutritional habits (PNH), preventive behaviors (PB), positive thinking (PT) and health practices (HP) in the light of general index of intensity of health behaviors (GIIHB) of pregnant women participating in antenatal classes in Szczecin. Juczyński’s (2001) Health Behavior (HBI) Inventory con...

Earlier investment practices show that there lies a discrepancy between the actual fund strategy and stated fund strategy. Using a minimum spanning tree (MST) and planar maximally-filtered graph (PMFG), we build a network of open-ended funds in China’s market and investigate the evolution characteristics of the networks over multiple time periods and timescales. The evolution characteristics, e...