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Baby boomers and hospice use: A quantitative look at grief
(1999-05-30)This purpose of this study was to determine if hospice influences the level of grief in Baby Boomers. The individuals (n = 157) surveyed were categorized as “Hospice Users” and “Non-Hospice Users.” Participants were asked ... -
Baby talk: Decision making conversations about first-time parenthood
(10/25/2018)This study explored how 214 participants discussed, decided, and planned for first-time parenthood with their partners, and how conflict influenced that process. As predicted, higher scores on the communication danger signs ... -
Back massage and anxiety in older patients
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BAG6 prevents the aggregation of neurodegeneration-associated fragments of TDP43
(iScience, 2022)Neurodegeneration is associated with the aggregation of proteins bearing solvent-exposed hydrophobicity as a result of their misfolding and/or proteolytic cleavage. An understanding of the cellular protein quality control ... -
Balance as an assessment of health-related quality of life in people living with HIV
(Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, 2019)Background: Balance and cognitive decline are impairments in people living with HIV (PLWH). These impairments predispose to fall-related injuries, affecting health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study assessed ... -
A balancing act: a collection of short stories in an examination of how women write
(1990-08-30)The purpose of this study is to examine, through the creation of a collection of short stories, the problems that women must overcome in order to produce literature. Procedures followed in this study included the review ... -
Balancing Money Madness
(2021)As future educators, our goal is to teach our students to become good members of the community. For that to happen, they must be able to develop financial responsibility. This skill can be taught using manipulatives, ... -
Barbarism and Social Media
(Genealogies of Modernity, 2022)Philosophers have not entirely caught up with social media. To be sure, many philosophers use it, but this is not the same thing as philosophizing about it. This is lamentable, since the ubiquity of social media is one of ... -
Barbershop blood pressure program: A quality improvement project
(2019)Black males suffer from hypertension at far greater rates than any other demographic group. Such disproportions are due to complex, multifaceted factors ranging from perceived discrimination, physician bias, lack of ... -
Barriers and Facilitators of Engaging Pregnant African American and Hispanic Women into Research
(2021)African American and Hispanic pregnant women are underrepresented in research and at a higher risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes and of COVID-19 infection. The purpose of this study is to evaluate factors affecting ... -
Barriers to and variability of parental involvement in the education of secondary students with disabilities: A collective case study
(2003-12)The issue of parental involvement has been studied by researchers in depth for decades. However, researchers have not investigated if parents of students with different disabilities experience different barriers to ... -
Barriers to dental care for children with special health concerns
(1997-05-30)Children with special health concerns have been identified as being underserved in many areas including accessibility to dental health education and intervention. This pilot study was conducted to determine the barriers ... -
Barriers to treatment for women aged 18 to 45 with urinary incontinence
(2010-05)The purposes of this study were to explore the challenges faced by women aged 18 to 45 with urinary incontinence (UI) and to determine why they do not seek treatment. A qualitative approach was used to describe life ... -
The baseline characteristics of parents and African American girls in an online obesity prevention program: A feasibility study
(5/30/2017)The purpose of this study was to analyze the baseline characteristics of girls and their parents in an online obesity prevention program created for 8-10 year old African American girls. Girls and a parent completed online ... -
Battered (m)others syndrome: Mothers who kill their batterers and the children who are left behind
(2010-05)I examine the intersection of identities of women who kill their batterers in self-defense, as both mothers and as victims. Many scholars discuss women's use of lethal force as a result of battering; however, many of these ... -
Battered women's decision to leave or return to abusive relationships
(1990-08)A nonexperimental, descriptive, retrospective study was conducted using the records of 330 residents housed in a shelter for battered women during the year of 1984. Data were analyzed using descriptive and multivariate ... -
Batteries not included? Enhancing customer service
(2018-08-10)Every person is special but many times we simply answer the question or take action to solve the problem. Frequently there is more we can do with the people we touch that makes them want to come back to you or your ... -
Bayesian learning on dependent features
(2011-12-30)Bayesian Learning is a robust machine learning algorithm. In addition to working well with limited sample sizes, Bayesian Learning also provides a probabilistic categorization. The caveat of performing a Bayesian Analysis ...
