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Rating Scale, Standard Gamble, and Time Tradeoff for Persons with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries.
No full textA longitudinal study of risk factors for motorcycle crashes among junior college students in Taiwan
No full textThe effect of crash experience on changes in risk taking among urban and rural young people
No full textA 20-month prospective study was conducted to investigate the effect of motorcycle crash experience on changes in risk taking among 2514 urban and 2304 rural students in Taiwan. Risk taking was assessed using a 14-item self-administered questionnaire at the beginning and end of the study. A risk- taking score for each student at the initial and the last follow-up assessments was generated from adding up points across all 14 items. For exposure variables, the study documented past motorcycle crash history at the initial assessment and collected detailed information about any motorcycle crash involvement that occurred during the study period. A general linear mixed model was applied to assess the effects of prior and recent crash involvements on the path of risk-taking behavior. The results show that at the initial assessment, students with crash experience had higher risk-taking levels than those without crash experience. However, crash experience, irregardless of whether it was measured in terms of crash history prior to the study, crash frequency, time elapsed since the last crash, or crash severity, did not significantly change the risk-taking path among students, even though its effect differed between urban and rural areas. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
Essays on Mau Mau: contributions to Mau Mau historiography
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Presuming reader familiarity with general works on Kenyan history and Kikuyu society, and more particularly with Mau Mau 'classics' such as Rosberg and Nottingham's 'The myth of Mau Mau' (New York, Praeger, 1966) and Barnett and Njama's 'Mau Mau from within' (New York, Monthly Review Press, 1966), the author here aims not so much to present a new, comprehensive study of Mau Mau, but rather to take stock of and to evaluate the progress made in Mau Mau studies during the last ten years. Focus is above all on points that have raised controversy or publications that carry new "discoveries" (facts as well as hypotheses). Successive chapters of the report, which in the words of the author "should be considered as a series of articles loosely held together rather than as a well-constructed book", deal with Mau Mau recruitment, Mau Mau organisation, the meaning of Mau Mau in terms of respectively cultural renewal, anti-colonialism, and civil war, and the Kiambu enigma. The final chapter indicates possible leads for comparison with the 1947-Madagascar war and the UPC insurrections in Cameroon.ASC – Publicaties niet-programma gebonde
Methane concentration and aerobic methane oxidation rate measured during RV Sonne cruise SO266 offshore SW Taiwan
No full textMethane concentrations of discrete water samples were analyzed using the batch mode of a Greenhouse Gas Analyzer (GGA, Los Gatos Research) following the procedure described by Geprägs (2016). Methane oxidation rate (MOx) measurements were implemented as described by Bussmann et al. (2015) and Mau et al. (2013).
Bussmann, I., Matousu, A., Osudar, R., and Mau, S. (2015). Assessment of the radio 3H-CH4 tracer technique to measure aerobic methane oxidation in the water column. Limnol. Oceanogr. Meth. 13, 312-327.
Geprägs, P. (2016). Methane environment around cold seeps - examples from Antarctica and the Mediterranean. doctoral thesis, University of Bremen.
Mau, S., Blees, J., Helmke, E., Niemann, H., and Damm, E. (2013). Vertical distribution of methane oxidation and methanotrophic response to elevated methane concentrations in stratified waters of the Arctic fjord Storfjorden (Svalbard, Norway). Biogeosciences 10, 6267-6278
RATING SCALE, STANDARD GAMBLE, AND TIME TRADE-OFF FOR PEOPLE WITH TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURIES
No full textBackground and Purpose. The rating scale (RS), standard gamble (SG), and time trade-off (TTO) for people with traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCIs) have not been reported . This study compared psychometric performances of these preference-based measures among people with SCIs in Taiwan. Subjects and Methods. In total, 187 subjects from a nationwide registry of people with traumatic SCIs were interviewed by telephone. Score distributions, interrater reliability, discriminant ability, and convergent validity for the RS, SG, and TTO were compared. Results. The mean ( median) values of the RS, SG, and TTO were 0.67 (0.70), 0.64 (0.75), and 0.53 (0.50), respectively, and their corresponding intraclass correlation coefficients for intrarater and interrater test-retest reliability were 92 and .89, .78 and .73, and .91 and .78. Compared with the SG and TTO, the RS had fewer floor and ceiling values as well as percent changes, more missing observations, a larger effect size, and better discrimination ability. The results of Spearman correlation and factor analysis showed that the SG strongly converged with the TTO (r=.65, and in a single common factor), but they weakly converged with the RS (r=.33 with the SG and r=.27 with the TTO). In the linear regression models, the RS was significantly associated with neurological severity, employment, educational level, and self-care ability; the SG was associated with neurological severity and employment; and the TTO was associated only with neurological severity. Discussion and Conclusion. The RS generally performed better than the SG and TTO among people with traumatic SCIs; however, the underlying construct measured by the RS differed considerably from those measured by the SG and TTO
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