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Bowling Green State University

EducationBowling Green, Ohio, United States
About: Bowling Green State University is a education organization based out in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 8315 authors who have published 16042 publications receiving 482564 citations. The organization is also known as: BGSU.


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TL;DR: The results indicate that the STS is psychometrically sound, with SG predicting better, and SD predicting poorer, mental and spiritual well‐being following a diagnosis of cancer.
Abstract: This study assessed the factor structure, reliability, and validity of an instrument designed to assess spiritual transformations following a diagnosis of cancer-the Spiritual Transformation Scale (STS). The instrument was administering to 253 people diagnosed with cancer within the previous 2 years. Two underlying factors emerged (spiritual growth (SG) and spiritual decline (SD)) with adequate internal reliability (alpha = 0.98 and 0.86, respectively) and test-retest reliability (r = 0.85 and 0.73, respectively). Validity was supported by correlations between SG and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) Positive Affect Subscale (r = 0.23, p < 0.001), the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (r = 0.57, p < 0.001), and the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory (r = 0.68, p < 0.001). SD was associated with higher scores on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (r = 0.38, p < 0.001) and PANAS-Negative Affect Subscale (r = 0.40, p < 0.001), and lower scores on the PANAS-Positive Affect Subscale (r = -0.23, p < 0.001), and the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (r = -0.30, p < 0.001). Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that the subscales uniquely predicted adjustment beyond related constructs (intrinsic religiousness, spiritual coping, and general post-traumatic growth). The results indicate that the STS is psychometrically sound, with SG predicting better, and SD predicting poorer, mental and spiritual well-being following a diagnosis of cancer.

109 citations

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TL;DR: The results suggest that NTX only benefits a subgroup of autistic children, who may be identified by the presence of certain plasma abnormalities, and suggest a possible linkage between abnormal plasma chemistries, especially those related to the pro-opiomelanocortin system, and autistic symptoms.
Abstract: The effect of month-long naltrexone (NTX) treatment at a daily oral dose of 0.5 mg/kg/day was contrasted with placebo (PLC) in a double-blind study with conjoint clinical and biochemical evaluations of therapeutic effects. Modest clinical benefits were achieved with both PLC and NTX, with marginally better overall results following NTX, and degree of improvement appeared to be related to plasma chemical profiles. Massively elevated levels of β-endorphin were observed in all children with assays using C-terminal antibody but not with an N-terminal antibody assay. In addition, 70% of the children exhibited abnormally low levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone, and smaller subsets exhibited elevated norepinephrine (60%), arginine-vasopressin (50%), and serotonin (20%). The best clinical responders exhibited the clearest normalization of the elevated plasma chemistries, especially in C-terminal-β-endorphin and serotonin. There was some evidence of therapeutic carry-over effects in both clinical and biochemical measures in those children who received NTX before PLC. The results suggest that NTX only benefits a subgroup of autistic children, who may be identified by the presence of certain plasma abnormalities. These results suggest a possible linkage between abnormal plasma chemistries, especially those related to the pro-opiomelanocortin system, and autistic symptoms.

109 citations

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TL;DR: Investigating young adolescents' perceptions of their peers' prosocial behaviours can help guide future research on prosocial development to include a broader array of authentic behaviours of young adolescents.

109 citations

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TL;DR: To evaluate the survival of Campylobacter jejuni relative to that of Escherichia coli in groundwater microcosms varying in nutrient composition, a large number of wells were studied with different nutrient compositions.
Abstract: Aims: To evaluate the survival of Campylobacter jejuni relative to that of Escherichia coli in groundwater microcosms varying in nutrient composition. Methods and Results: Studies were conducted in groundwater and deionized water incubated for up to 470 days at 4°C. Samples were taken for culturable and total cell counts, nutrient and molecular analysis. Die-off in groundwater microcosms was between 2·5 and 13 times faster for C. jejuni than for E. coli. Campylobacter jejuni had the lowest decay rate and longest culturability in microcosms with higher dissolved organic carbon (4 mg l−1). Escherichia coli survival was the greatest when the total dissolved nitrogen (12·0 mg l−1) was high. The transition of C. jejuni to the coccoid stage was independent of culturability. Conclusion: The differences in the duration of survival and response to water nutrient composition between the two organisms suggest that E. coli may be present in the waters much longer and respond to water composition much differently than C. jejuni. Significance and Impact of the Study: The data from these studies would aid in the evaluation of the utility of E. coli as an indicator of C. jejuni. This study also provided new information about the effect of nutrient composition on C. jejuni viability.

109 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed Harris' multivariate extension of increasing failure rate, in particular his right corner set increasing property, which is a type of positive dependence, and found that multivariate monotone failure rate need not involve dependence.
Abstract: The basic reliability concept of monotone failure rate is presented, and extensions to n variables are considered. We analyze Harris' multivariate extension of increasing failure rate, in particular his right corner set increasing property, which is a type of positive dependence. But we think that multivariate monotone failure rate need not involve dependence. Hence, increasing failure rate as extended in this article requires merely that the residual life of all subsets of a set of n survival times must be increasing. Decreasing failure rate is defined analogously and it is found that the multivariate exponential distribution forms the “boundary” between.

109 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Eduardo Salas12971162259
Russell A. Barkley11935560109
Hong Liu100190557561
Jaak Panksepp9944640748
Kenneth I. Pargament9637241752
Robert C. Green9152640414
Robert W. Motl8571227961
Evert Jan Baerends8531852440
Hugh Garavan8441928773
Janet Shibley Hyde8322738440
Michael L. Gross8270127140
Jerry Silver7820125837
Michael E. Robinson7436619990
Abraham Clearfield7451319006
Kirk S. Schanze7351219118
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20241
202321
202274
2021485
2020511
2019497