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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Education•Houston, Texas, United States•
About: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is a education organization based out in Houston, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 27309 authors who have published 42520 publications receiving 2151596 citations. The organization is also known as: UTHealth & The UT Health Science Center at Houston.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Cancer, Stroke, Health care
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TL;DR: High novelty-seeking and low harm avoidance lead to early onset of substance use in boys, and the stability of the prediction between ages 6 and 10 years suggests that the kindergarten assessments may be used for preventive efforts at school entry instead of waiting until early adolescence.
Abstract: Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the usefulness of personality dimensions measured at ages 6 and 10 years in predicting early onset of cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, and other drug use in boys. In addition, the stability of the prediction between the measurements at ages 6 and 10 years was investigated. Methods: Data from a large longitudinal study of boys were used to assess the relation between childhood personality and the onset of substance use from 10 to 15 years of age. Childhood personalities were assessed by teachers' ratings of behaviors. Self-reports of smoking cigarettes, getting drunk, and using other drugs provided the measurement of substance use. Discrete-time survival analysis was used for the statistical analyses. Results: High novelty-seeking and low harm avoidance significantly predict early onset of substance use (eg, cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs), but reward dependence was unrelated to any of the outcomes studied. The results also indicated that either set of predictors (ie, the personality dimensions measured at ages 6 and 10 years) could be used to predict onset of cigarette smoking, getting drunk, and other drug use, because the power of prediction was similar between the measurements at ages 6 and 10 years. Conclusions: High novelty-seeking and low harm avoidance lead to early onset of substance use in boys. The stability of the prediction between ages 6 and 10 years suggests that the kindergarten assessments may be used for preventive efforts at school entry instead of waiting until early adolescence.
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TL;DR: The implementation of a standardized curriculum and staff development program increased children's MVPA in existing school PE classes in four geographic and ethnically diverse communities, meeting the established Year 2000 objective of 50.
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TL;DR: SPARX as mentioned in this paper is a new image processing environment with a particular emphasis on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) structure determination, which includes a graphical user interface that provides a complete graphical programming environment with an extensive library of Python scripts that perform specific TEM-related computational tasks, and a core library of fundamental C++ image processing functions.
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TL;DR: Data from clinical studies suggesting that induction of frontal cortex gamma oscillations during tasks that engage cognitive or complex perceptual functions is attenuated in schizophrenia is reviewed.
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TL;DR: This article identified new regions showing association with pulmonary function in or near MFAP2, TGFB2, HDAC4, RARB, MECOM (also known as EVI1), SPATA9, ARMC2, NCR3, ZKSCAN3, CDC123, C10orf11, LRP1, CCDC38, MMP15, CFDP1 and KCNE2.
Abstract: Pulmonary function measures reflect respiratory health and are used in the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We tested genome-wide association with forced expiratory volume in 1 second and the ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second to forced vital capacity in 48,201 individuals of European ancestry with follow up of the top associations in up to an additional 46,411 individuals. We identified new regions showing association (combined P < 5 × 10(-8)) with pulmonary function in or near MFAP2, TGFB2, HDAC4, RARB, MECOM (also known as EVI1), SPATA9, ARMC2, NCR3, ZKSCAN3, CDC123, C10orf11, LRP1, CCDC38, MMP15, CFDP1 and KCNE2. Identification of these 16 new loci may provide insight into the molecular mechanisms regulating pulmonary function and into molecular targets for future therapy to alleviate reduced lung function.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Paul M. Ridker | 233 | 1242 | 245097 |
Eugene Braunwald | 230 | 1711 | 264576 |
Eric N. Olson | 206 | 814 | 144586 |
Hagop M. Kantarjian | 204 | 3708 | 210208 |
André G. Uitterlinden | 199 | 1229 | 156747 |
Gordon B. Mills | 187 | 1273 | 186451 |
Eric Boerwinkle | 183 | 1321 | 170971 |
Bruce M. Psaty | 181 | 1205 | 138244 |
Aaron R. Folsom | 181 | 1118 | 134044 |
Daniel R. Weinberger | 177 | 879 | 128450 |
Bharat B. Aggarwal | 175 | 706 | 116213 |
Richard A. Gibbs | 172 | 889 | 249708 |
Russel J. Reiter | 169 | 1646 | 121010 |
James F. Sallis | 169 | 825 | 144836 |
Steven N. Blair | 165 | 879 | 132929 |