Comparing cumulative index and factor analytic approaches to measuring maltreatment in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

Child maltreatment is a complex and multifaceted construct in need of advanced statistical techniques to improve its measurement. The current study compared the predictive utility of a cumulative index to a factor analytic approach for constructing a measure of maltreatment. Data were from Waves III and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Wave III: n = 14,800; Wave IV: n = 12,288). As adults, participants retrospectively reported on their childhood experiences of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, supervisory neglect, and social services investigations. Both the cumulative index and a two-factor solution showed evidence of convergent validity, predicting lifetime incidence of homelessness, being paid for sex, and various measures of running away or living apart from biological parents, and prospectively predicting depression, substance use, and criminal behavior. The latent variables, derived from a factor analytic approach, had greater explanatory power for many outcomes compared to the cumulative index, even when controlling for sociodemographic variables. Results suggest that factor analysis is a better methodology than a cumulative index for measuring maltreatment in large datasets when explanatory power for external outcomes is of greatest concern.     

Carnosine in health and disease

Abstract

Carnosine was originally discovered in skeletal muscle, where it exists in larger amounts than in other tissues. The majority of research into the physiological roles of carnosine have been conducted on skeletal muscle. Given this and the potential for muscle carnosine content to be increased with supplementation, there is now a large body of research examining the ergogenic effects (or otherwise) of carnosine. More recent research, however, points towards a potential for carnosine to exert a wider range of physiological effects in other tissues, including the brain, heart, pancreas, kidney and cancer cells. Taken together, this is suggestive of a potential for carnosine to have therapeutic benefits in health and disease, although this is by no means without complication. Herein, we will provide a review of the current literature relating to the potential therapeutic effects of carnosine in health and disease.     

文献检索课网络化考核初探

通过对文献检索课考核方法的分析 ,提出网络化考核的模式 ,对所研制开发的“科技文献检索课考试管理系统”的技术实现及系统功能进行介绍     

对《体育与健康》课程学习和成绩评定的理论研究

本文以《体育与健康》新课程为主线,为如何建构体育教育中的学生学习评价和成绩评定体系提出了一些看法和意见。其目的是为了进一步深化体育教学改革,提高体育教学质量,提供理论依据。     

基于网络视频的设备远程维修与培训

现代设备复杂系数的不断提高,导致对设备维修技术专家的需求日益增大。基于网络视频的设备远程维修系统的出现,为缓解设备维修技术力量短缺的矛盾提供了新的解决方式。     

普通高校保健体育课现状调查及对策分析

本文对西安市部分(20所)高蒋及学生(随机抽取陕西师大99级、2000绵学生437名及已经参加体育保健班的学生患者的12 5%,并且只有24 5%的参加者认为现行保健班参自己的康复有作用。开设保健班的高校仅占80%,并且教学上有欠规范,教学内容缺乏针对性,师资达不要求。结论:高校保健康复体育教学的改革势在必行。     

Managing Health Care in Oregon: The Search for a Civic Bioethics

Managed health care deliberations in Oregon point to a "civic bioethics" model to resolve allocation issues through publicly articulated community values and priorities that influence legislative action. Communication practices in the Oregon experiment provide data to develop an evaluative framework to assess public moral deliberation in value-laden contexts such as health care distribution. The Oregon experience also points to dialogical virtues to heighten citizens' ethical sensibilities and political will, discursive tools to inform ethical communication practices in a civic bioethics model.     

我国体育信息网络化发展的背景分析

运用文献、逻辑法,从体育发展的角度综合分析了现阶段我国体育信息网络化发展的技术背景和现实背景。     

论网络环境下的信息服务模式

网络环境下信息服务 ,应采取元素 (用户、信息技术、信息人员、宏观组织和信息法规 )集成模式 :以用户为中心 ,以信息技术为桥梁 ,以信息人员为主导 ,以宏观组织、信息法规为控制手段。参考文献 13。     

21世纪普通高校体育教育前景展望

本文通过对 2 1世纪普通高校体育教育前景的研究分析 ,发现在新世纪高校体育教育面临着多种挑战 ,高校体育教育要发展就必须紧跟时代发展的步伐 ,高校体育健康教育改革必须是全方位的进行。