... by other men and invested in maintaining a relationship withthe father of the child Women related these incidents underscoring their partners’ blatant disregard for their own pregnancy intentions ... that their partners manipulated the condoms to render them ineffective including taking them off surreptitiously before or during sex, biting holes in them, and not telling their partners when the ... by doing things such as making the respondent eat, which prevented her from being able to have the general aesthesia she needed for the abortion; coming into the clinic and “breaking things up”...
... pregnant than nonpoor mothers (24 vs 15 percent).7 Children are also vulnerable to environmental toxins in that they have less control thanadultsin selecting where and with whom they live Their ... are consistent with two longstanding conclusions within the field of public health First, Who Are America’s Poor Children? Examining Health Disparities Among Children intheUnitedStates Exposure ... children are morethan twice as likely as nonpoor children to livein a household with someone who smokes inthe home (32 percent vs 12 percent) Because they explore their surroundings with frequent...
... covered the cost of purchasing and delivering the trucks, any revenue left over fromthe purchase price belongs to the dealer Any inquiry into the dealer’s advertising, selling or other costs is inappropriate ... Pennsylvania) The most recent growth in competitive markets has been concentrated in Texas and northeastern statesIn 2008, the number of customers buying RECs increased frommorethan 10,000 to ... as wind from within the Western Electric Coordinating Council (WECC) In 2008, prices paid for nationally sourced RECs from any technology ranged from about $1.50/MWh to $5.50/MWh; but, in the...
... those in later stages of HIV disease These 13 clinical cohorts have clinical sites in 17 US states, Washington DC, and Canadian provinces Our primary focus was on HIV- infected adultswhowere ... individuals are entering into care with advanced HIV disease The CDC recently reported an increase inthe proportion of ≥50-year-olds inthe US who had a first HIV diagnosis within a year before ... antiretroviral therapy or HIV- 1 RNA results and 1,487 (2%) had an AIDS-defining diagnosis recorded morethan months prior to the first recorded CD4 count These individuals were excluded as they were likely...
... medicine intheUnitedStates Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies have existed since antiquity Serious interest in investigating and evaluating them, however, is a rather recent ... 1991–1996 fromthe Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intheUnitedStates to examine the use of chiropractic among older adults These CMS claims data were then linked to baseline interviews ... use, and the supply of providers inthe county All of these data were obtained fromthe baseline interviews, except for the supply of chiropractors inthe county, which was taken from archival sources...
... living inthe Northeast, Midatlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Mountain, and West regions had lower odds of using chiropractic than those living inthe Midwest Respondents living in counties with ... determine the odds of using chiropractic versus not using The odds ratios for each of the covariates inthe second regression are of being inthe high user group versus not being inthe high user ... physicians inthe twelve months prior to baseline weremore likely to be chiropractic users as well Those living in rural areas had no higher odds of using chiropractic, in contrast with findings from...
... earlier, then slowing down at around 4% inthe following years In 1974, there was a sharp rise in US inflation rate when it reached its highest of 11.04% inthe last 15-year period The buying power ... a surge in consumer price index (CPI) inflation of morethan 5% in major emerging markets such as China, Brazil and Indonesia, withthe dollar prices of primary commodities rising morethan 40% ... intermediation is essentially broken is reflected inthe sharp fall in interbank lending: Interbank loans outstanding in March 2011 were only a third of their level in May 2008, just before the...
... 20 % frozen - 80 % The catfish industry maintains a quality control program to insure the consumer a fresh and healthy product Principle farming states are located inthe Southeastern U S Mississippi ... brooders/ha female male Spawning Containers Ammo cans Milk cans float Boxes in spawning pond Wooden box Spawning occurs during May and June inthe Southeastern U S Spawning cans are checked every ... feeds Fingerlings are stocked in fattening ponds during January to March Stocking density is 15,000 to 20,000/ha Catfish feed is purchased by the bag or delivered in bulk and stored in silos...
... see them before they go to bed, so in some ways, we are their extended family We know that these children must miss their families, and being there for them—being morethan their teacher inthe ... cultures intheStates they had assumed that being estadounidense (a person fromtheUnited States) meant having blonde hair and blue eyes They were surprised when they found out that their cinnamon-skinned, ... homesteaders who worked in either the lumber or farming industry I admired them for sparing their children for a few hours fromthe family chores in order to allow them the luxury of EFL lessons Living,...
... economic history without developing initial hypotheses and testing them inthe light of available evidence The initial hypotheses come fromthe body of economic theory that has evolved inthe past 200 ... tell us is that inthe past definite men or groups of men were valuing and acting in a definite way Whether they will inthe future value and act inthe same way remains uncertain All that can ... identifies all the causal factors involved, the likelihood of the forecast event being realized depends on the actor having solved the weighting problem The uncertainty inherent in forecasting, therefore,...
... day intheUnitedStates Quick stats for theUnitedStates Infant and Maternal Mortality Infant Mortality intheUnitedStates Infant Mortality and Race/Ethnicity of Mother Leading Causes of Infant ... Mortality Infant Mortality intheUnitedStates Even though infant mortality intheUnitedStates dropped dramatically inthe past century, significant room for improvement remains q q q The infant ... disorders, with varying degrees of severity Some affected individuals lack enzymes that break down amino acids, the building blocks of protein In others, there are deficiencies in enzymes that help the...
... individual works inthe collection are inthe public domain intheUnitedStates If an individual work is inthe public domain intheUnitedStates and you are located intheUnited States, we not ... Negrillos or Pigmies The true Negroes The Negroids The race in other continents Negro slavery c The Asian Race. The Sinitic branch (Chinese, Thibetans, Indo-Chinese) The Sibiric branch (the Tungusic, ... research, embracing all his nature and all the manifestations of his activity, inthe past as well as inthe present, the whole co-ordinated in accordance withthe inductive methods of the natural...
... had acquired infection from infected adults; many of these adults had resided inthe same household as the child to whom they had transmitted infection (82 ) These findings underscore the importance ... result from using subcutaneous injection in comparison with reactions from intradermal injection IntheUnited States, a recent study of the effects of BCG inadultswho volunteered to receive the ... reactions associated withthe use of the vaccine in these persons IntheUnited States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated BCG vaccination is not recommended for inclusion in immunization...
... poverty line, increased the EITC to the point where the maximum credit in 1987 equaled the real value of the credit in 1975 The TRA86 also indexed the credit for in ation During this period the EITC ... 29 percent of the decline in incomes inthe 1st quintile of the population and percent of the decline inthe 2nd quintile A more direct measure of the EITC’s importance is that in 1997 and 1998 ... by the policy from those who are not, they treat single women with children as being inthe experimental group and single women without children as being inthe control group They find that the...
... banking inthe financial world The bill prevented institutions that were “engaged principally” in banking activities from underwriting or dealing in securities of any kind, and vice versa The ... qualify them for conventional mortgages.29 The changes inthe industry led to heavy investment in alternative mortgages In 2001, therewere twice as many agency-conforming loans as therewere non-conforming ... non-conforming ones By 2006, the nonconforming market had eclipsed the conforming market in size.30 Coinciding with this expansion inthe mortgage market werethe interest rate reductions issued by the...
... Sustained financial well-being for all individuals and families intheUnitedStates National Strategy 2011 establishes a long-term vision of financial wellbeing, financial stability, and financial ... advance the elements of the national strategy as we work together to achieve our shared vision of financial well-being for all people intheUnitedStates By design, the framework for the National ... Literacy 2011 & plom Di a Promoting Financial Success intheUnited States: National Strategy for Financial Literacy 2011 Vision Sustained financial well-being for U.S individuals and families Mission...
... using the EPA's PCRAMMIT program (US EPA, 1995) Minimum boundary-layer heights were set to 150 m during the night and 250m during the day based on estimated minimum boundary-layer heights in ... cities Hourly mixing heights (m) were used in conjunction with pollution concentrations (pg m-3) to calculate the amount of pollution within the mixing layer (pg mA2) This extrapolation from ground-layer ... tree cover varies by region within theUnitedStateswith cities developed in forest areas averaging 34.4% tree cover, cities in grassland areas: 17.8%, and cities in deserts: 9.3% (Dwyer et al.,...
... recreation intheUnited States, there is a body of information available on the economic impact of various forms of outdoor recreation inthe country, including hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing and ... Association (NMMA, 2010), in 2008, nearly 66 million people inthe 10 UnitedStates went boating at least once, representing 28.3% of U.S adultsIn2008therewere 5,284 recreational marine manufacturers ... This includes hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing and the “human-powered” recreations such as hiking, camping, skiing, paddle sports and bicycling • In 2008, 28.3% of U.S adults went boating at...
... converting corn into ethanol While it is more profitable to produce ethanol from corn intheUnited States, the price of ethanol is determined by the price of gasoline and other factors, rather than ... reducing the supply of sugar for food use inthe domestic market The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of producing ethanol from sugar feedstocks intheUnitedStatesInthe ... gallons in 2004 Corn-based ethanol accounts for approximately 97 percent of the total ethanol produced intheUnitedStates Most ethanol intheUnitedStates is produced by either a wet milling or...