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Northampton Community College
Education•Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States•
About: Northampton Community College is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3410 authors who have published 4582 publications receiving 130398 citations. The organization is also known as: Northampton County Area Community College.
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TL;DR: A systematic review of the empirical literature about how patients and staff in inpatient psychiatric settings perceive violence prevention found that important themes related to patient factors, care staff factors, and organizational and environmental factors remain.
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TL;DR: Results indicated that the performance of most mature students, whether qualified or not, was above average, with the qualified group securing the best results of any of the four groups, and there were indications that under-performance among the unqualified group extended beyond the 17-21 age range.
Abstract: With the increasing academic expectations in the United Kingdom arising from the demands of the recently-introduced Diploma in Higher Education/ Registration course (Project 2000) and with fairly substantial proportions of both unqualified (DC test) and mature entrants being admitted onto the course, a study was carried out into the relationship between entry age, entry qualifications and academic performance on the common foundation programme, which lasts for the first 18 months of the course The entry data and common foundation programme results of each student from the first three intakes, 258 in total, were reviewed A different subject design was used for the study m which students were placed into one of four groups, according to entry age and entry qualifications, which were (a) 17-21 conventional entry requirements met, (b) 22 + conventional entry requirements met, (c) 17-21 unqualified (DC test entrant), and (d) 22 + unqualified (DC test entrant) Results indicated that the performance of most mature students, whether qualified or not, was above average, with the qualified group securing the best results of any of the four groups Among the 17-21 age group, while the qualified performed as expected, the unqualified performed the worst of any of the four groups, registering both a high discontinuation rate and low overall mean scores for the programme No improvement in the relative performance of the 17-21 unqualified group was noted over the three cohorts and there were indications that under-performance among the unqualified group extended beyond the 17-21 age range In terms of recruitment, results could indicate a need for a change m policy, with evidence of proven academic ability being required from all younger applicants If continued recruitment of unqualified younger students is planned, then a more vigorously targeted policy of academic support and guidance for these students will be required Without this, it seems likely that poor performance and high wastage among this group will continue
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TL;DR: In the context of concerns about unhealthy diets, obesity and chronic diseases in Europe and around the world, the food industry is making a growing number of pledges to be ‘part of the solution’, and industry leaders are suggesting that ‘only through new and innovative public–private sector partnerships can the authors truly make a difference’.
Abstract: In the context of concerns about unhealthy diets, obesity and chronic diseases in Europe and around the world, the food industry is making a growing number of pledges to be ‘part of the solution’. Governments, too, are looking for ways to promote healthy eating at the population-level.
Emerging in this environment are initiatives that bring together the food industry and institutions of the state, increasingly described as ‘partnerships’ or ‘public–private partnerships’.
By working together, so the rationale goes, public and private sector bodies can more effectively achieve shared goals than could have been achieved alone, reach consensus about needed action, pool expertise, ideas, skills and resources, reach a broader range of populations, and reduce the costs of regulation.1 Although some academics, professionals and policy-makers have concerns or are cautious about these initiatives,2 partnerships have seemingly become de rigueur . The public health commissioner of the European Union (EU) said in 2006: ‘You cannot legislate on what people eat. You have to form public–private partnerships. We are all… part of the problem and are all part of the solution.’ First Lady Michelle Obama describes her anti-obesity initiative, ‘Let’s Move’, as a ‘public–private partnership that, for the first time, sets national goals to end childhood obesity in a generation’. At the global level, the World Health Organization’s 2008–13 Action Plan for Non-Communicable Diseases explicitly calls for the involvement of the private sector as one of the international ‘partners’. Industry leaders, meanwhile, are suggesting that ‘only through new and innovative public–private sector partnerships can we truly make a difference’.3
As public health officials nod their heads in support of ‘partnerships’ with the food industry, what are they actually talking about? For when we start looking more closely at existing examples, we see ‘partnership’ means a whole lot of things. Take …
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the distribution of lambda(max) values in one family of marine teleosts, the lanternfish (Myctophidae), and show that the visual pigments of myctophids instead seem better placed for the visualisation of bioluminescence.
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TL;DR: In New Zealand pathological gambling appears to have a lifetime prevalence approximately half that of drug abuse/dependence, suggesting that prevalence has increased in recent years and providing a baseline for further study.
Abstract: BACKGROUND Legalized gambling has proliferated recently in many countries and is a public health issue because of the association between gambling participation and the prevalence of pathological gambling. Relatively little is known about the epidemiology of this disorder or the characteristics of pathological gamblers living in the community. This paper summarizes the major findings of a national prevalence survey of pathological gambling conducted in New Zealand; the first national survey to have been conducted to date, and compares them with the results of studies undertaken in the US and Canada. METHODS A national adult sample of 4053 people was interviewed by telephone to determine involvement in gambling activities. The interview included the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) for pathological gambling. RESULTS Of the sample, 2.7% (+/- 0.5%) scored as probable pathological gamblers and a further 4.2% (+/- 0.6%) scored as problem gamblers. These prevalence rates are higher than those reported in previous studies using the SOGS. Ethnicity, age, gender, employment status, having a parent who had gambling problems and regular participation in continuous forms of gambling were major risk factors. CONCLUSIONS In New Zealand pathological gambling appears to have a lifetime prevalence approximately half that of drug abuse/dependence. The findings suggest that prevalence has increased in recent years and provide a baseline for further study. The risk factors identified give a focus for future research into aetiology, prevention and treatment.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Simon Baron-Cohen | 172 | 773 | 118071 |
Pete Smith | 156 | 2464 | 138819 |
Martin N. Rossor | 128 | 670 | 95743 |
Mark D. Griffiths | 124 | 1238 | 61335 |
Richard G. Brown | 83 | 217 | 26205 |
Brendon Stubbs | 81 | 754 | 28180 |
Stuart N. Lane | 76 | 337 | 15788 |
Paul W. Burgess | 69 | 156 | 21038 |
Thomas Dietz | 68 | 203 | 37313 |
Huseyin Sehitoglu | 67 | 324 | 14378 |
Susan Golombok | 67 | 215 | 12856 |
David S.G. Thomas | 63 | 228 | 14796 |
Stephen Morris | 63 | 443 | 16484 |
Stephen Robertson | 61 | 197 | 23363 |
Michael J. Morgan | 60 | 266 | 12211 |