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Describing associations between child maltreatment frequency and the frequency and timing of subsequent delinquent or criminal behaviors across development: variation by sex, sexual orientation, and race

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Child maltreatment has been linked to lower health, education, and income later in life, and is associated with increased engagement in delinquent or criminal behaviors. This paper explores trajectories of these behaviors from adolescence into
Hannah Lantos, Andra Wilkinson, Hannah Winslow, Tyler McDaniel   +3 more
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Disrupting the link between maltreatment and delinquency: how school, family, and community factors can be protective

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Past experiences of childhood maltreatment are common for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This paper explores potential protective factors at the peer, family, school, and neighborhood levels that disrupt the relationship ...
Andra Wilkinson, Hannah Lantos, Tyler McDaniel, Hannah Winslow   +3 more
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Is Choosing a Major Choosing a Career or Interesting Courses? An Investigation into College Students’ Orientations for College Majors and Their Stability

Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2021
Students’ orientations towards choosing their college majors lead them to make different major choices with long-term stratification implications.
Alanna Gillis, Renee Ryberg
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Food authentication: Techniques, trends & emerging approaches [PDF]

, 2016
Food authentication is a rapidly growing field due to increasing public awareness concerning food quality and safety. This review presents critically the analytical techniques which are used for authenticity assessment, explaining how and why they give ...
Brusic, Vladimir, Georgiou, Constantinos A., Danezis, G. P., Camin, Federica, Tsagkaris, A. S., Danezis, Georgios P., Brusic, V., Georgiou, C. A., Tsagkaris, Aristidis S.   +8 more
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Linking Changes in Contraceptive Use to Declines in Teen Pregnancy Rates

Societies, 2015
Using a unique microsimulation tool, Teen FamilyScape, the present study explores how changes in the mix of contraceptive methods used by teens contributed to the decline in the U.S. teen pregnancy rate between 2002 and 2010.
Jennifer Manlove, Quentin Karpilow, Kate Welti, Adam Thomas   +3 more
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Interpreting models interpreting brain dynamics

Scientific Reports, 2022
Brain dynamics are highly complex and yet hold the key to understanding brain function and dysfunction. The dynamics captured by resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data are noisy, high-dimensional, and not readily interpretable.
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Usman Mahmood, Noah Lewis, Harshvardhan Gazula, Alex Fedorov, Zening Fu, Vince D. Calhoun, Sergey M. Plis   +7 more
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Deep learning encodes robust discriminative neuroimaging representations to outperform standard machine learning

Nature Communications, 2021
Recent critical commentaries unfavorably compare deep learning (DL) with standard machine learning (SML) for brain imaging data analysis. Here, the authors show that if trained following prevalent DL practices, DL methods substantially improve compared ...
Anees Abrol, Zening Fu, Mustafa Salman, Rogers Silva, Yuhui Du, Sergey Plis, Vince Calhoun   +6 more
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Structural modeling based on supply chain management in relation to total quality management, maintenance and comprehensive productivity, learning organization and operational performance [PDF]

Muṭāli̒āt-i Mudīriyyat-i Ṣan̒atī, 2022
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between comprehensive productive maintenance, TQM, supply chain management, learning organization characteristics and operational performance.
amir mohammad khani, Abolfazl Kazzazi, Soraya birami   +2 more
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Investigation of Anisotropy Caused by Cylinder Applicator on Dose Distribution around Cs-137 Brachytherapy Source using MCNP4C Code [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, 2011
Introduction: Brachytherapy is a type of radiotherapy in which radioactive sources are used in proximity of tumors normally for treatment of malignancies in the head, prostate and cervix.
Sedigheh Sina, Reza Faghihi, Mehdi Zehtabian, Simin Mehdizadeh   +3 more
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Alekseeva, T.A. (2019). Theory of International Relations as a Political Philosophy and Science. Moscow: Aspect Press publ. 608 p. (In Russian)

Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2019
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Alexey Demosfenovich Bogaturov
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