Cartoons help measure hostile assumptions, risk of aggression in urban girls
...onally use written descriptions of provocative but ambiguous situations, such as apparent social snubs, in surveying children to assess "hostile attributional bias," in which a person interprets another's behavior as representing an intended act of hostility. "We know that children who are more likely to inter...Updated sleep apnea screening recommended for commercial drivers
...CMV screening and treatment procedures for OSA are ambiguous and not reflective of the latest advancements in the diagnosis and management of OSA," said Nancy Collop, MD, FCCP, Sleep Institute, American College of Chest Physicians. "Conflicting approaches to screening and management of OSA have left drivers un...Treating medically unexplained symptoms
...mplaints is definitely not stomach flu.'' Two were ambiguous but highly unlikely--''we don't think that you have bowel cancer; this is very unlikely.'' The researchers then assessed how well the participants remembered the likelihood that any given explanation was responsible for the patient's symptoms, the mi...Men infer sexual interest before women do
...opposite gender, men were more likely to interpret ambiguous or friendly behavior as indicating sexual interest. "The findings suggest that men generally think in more sexual terms than women," the authors explain. Within their brief conversation, partners introduced themselves and talked about college expe...CVD's impact varies according to age, gender, other factors
...e after having a heart attack. Lack of awareness, ambiguous heart attack signs and symptoms, and social isolation may all contribute to the delays, Roger said. "Also, women and older patients are less likely to participate in secondary prevention programs after a heart attack," Roger said. "Further reduction...Condom use needs to be heavily promoted if Bush's emergency plan for AIDS relief is to work
...requirements. However, these guidelines are often ambiguous and some of the OGAC's implementing partners are confused about which population groups can be targeted with information about condoms. This ambiguity has led to ridiculous situations, outlined in the GAO report, where workers are unsure whether they...Scent of fear impacts cognitive performance
..." Chen said. When processing word pairs that were ambiguous in threat content, such as one neutral word paired with a threatening word or a pair of neutral words, subjects in the fear condition were 15 to 16 percent slower in responding than those in the neutral sweat condition, and this difference was statis...Envisat making first direct measurements of ocean surface velocities
...' previously observed and an improved flagging of ambiguous data, as well as a decreased average deviation between the data and wave forecasting system of the European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasting (ECMWF). Reprocessing of the entire ASAR Wave Mode archive is now being undertaken at the Centre ERS d'Arc...New study establishes criteria to detect ovarian cancer in asymptomatic postmenopausal women
... ovarian cancer, as well as save women who receive ambiguous results from invasive surgery when there is no real malignancy." "These new guidelines are a significant step forward in the fight against women's cancers," explained Dr. Partridge. "We hope this will encourage further efforts to validate and refi...People use separate brain mechanisms to make ambiguous and risky choices
...man brain are activated when people are faced with ambiguous choices versus choices involving only risk, Duke U... odds that they would win the gambles, but for the ambiguous choices, subjects were not given this information. The participants were rewarded with a cash payout...Chronic arthritis pain and the disappointment of u-opioid therapy
...xperimental studies of m-opioid therapy have shown ambiguous results. The recent discovery of a natural morphine-like compound in joints called endomorphin 1 could circumvent these therapeutic drawbacks due to its greater selectivity for the u-opioid receptor. Endomorphin 1 has the potential, therefore, to be ...New book explains age-old mystery of geometrical illusions
... because light streaming into the eye carries only ambiguous information about the environment. "The basic prob...mmense question of how we perceive the confusingly ambiguous visual world around us....Women missing out in heart treatment more needed in clinical trials
...nclusion. Late diagnosis due to different and more ambiguous symptoms was another reason and, for women of child-bearing age, the risks of damaging a foetus if a woman became pregnant, led to exclusion. Dr Stangl's call for increasing the numbers of women in heart trials is backed in an editorial also publishe...Research into the role of friendship among gay and lesbians
... Dr Brian De Vries. DeVries says friends occupy an ambiguous position in North American society, particularly when it comes to those who care for one another but who are not formally or legally related. This ambiguity, he says, is often exacerbated in the case of gay men and lesbians, especially among the old...3 questions may provide good clues to smoke exposure
... of a young child's environment. Questions can be ambiguous or misunderstood by the child's caregiver, or the caregiver may be consciously or unconsciously less than accurate with their answers. A report, however, in the May 2 issue of JAMA's Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine says that three signif...Direct-to-consumer advertising may influence physicians' prescribing decisions
... appropriately to patients' requests in clinically ambiguous circumstances."...