Learning to read in an alphabetic system requires an understanding that units of text map onto specific units of speech, not units of meaning (Perfetti, 1984). Children must learn that each letter of the alphabet is associated with a meaningless unit of speech (a phoneme). When children are...
For goods that can be accurately priced by markets, imposing administered prices can result in a net loss of social welfare for society. For example,classical economictheory shows why price controls tend to lead toshortagesin this situation. Thesupply curvehas an upward slope, meaning the higher ...
Meaning Self-administered relaxing acupressure may be a useful treatment for improving fatigue, sleep, and quality of life.Abstract Importance Fatigue is a common and debilitating late-term effect of breast cancer that is associated with poor sleep and decreased quality of life, yet therapies remain...
ATIR101 serves as an adjunctive to TCD-haplo, a historical standard of haploidentical HSCT [44,45]. Despite the groundbreaking achievement of engraftment across major HLA disparities without high-grade GvHD, overall outcomes with TCD-haplo were disappointing, with very high NRM and relapse rates [2...
For the meaning of the abbreviations of the questionnaires, please see Table 2. § Threshold for consensus was reached in the sensitivity analysis (see Appendix B). Depression The panel reached consensus on the following preferred questionnaires to assess depression: Depression subscale of the ...
Of the 1375 who passed milestone 1, 92.2 % (n = 1268) passed milestone 2, meaning they completed an hour-long at-home CASI after being independently contacted by the research team. These participants were then sent an at-home HIV and STI testing kit as part of the steps involved to...
ARJIS can be characterized as a hybrid system, meaning that it has centralized, distributed, and federated components. ARJIS customer agencies have users retrieve information via ARJIS applications from desktop computers in their agency. In addition, users can access specific applications from wireless...
The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology. 1982;143(1):29–36. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Newman JC, Des Jarlais DC, Turner CF, Gribble J, Cooley P, Paone D. The differential effects of face-to-face and computer interview...
The study was conducted in an observer-blind manner within each defined pneumococcal vaccination schedule, meaning that vaccine recipients, sponsor, laboratory personnel and anyone responsible for evaluation of any study endpoint were unaware of the administered pneumococcal vaccine. 2.3. Study vaccines PH...
For the item “If I got infected with HIV, men would not want to have sex with me,” d=0.44 at both the 6-week and 3-month follow-ups, meaning that participants were less likely to feel that getting infected with HIV would result in men not wanting to have sex with them at the ...