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Cultivating black technology entrepreneurs through HBCU engineering & business programs

Computer and Information Science and Engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion Program AND Program Evaluation

Abbey A, Addae IY, Singh RP.
GSID: pIDzH3CwIUwJ
IY Addae, RP Singh, A Abbey - Journal of Entrepreneurship …, 2014 - researchgate.net

In today's society, the black community is suffering from high unemployment rates and low levels of entrepreneurial activity. The phenomenon of technology entrepreneurship has dominated the discussion as a solution to business creation and job growth. As a result,...

The Role of Domain-General Cognitive Abilities and Decimal Labels in At-Risk Fourth-Grade Students' Decimal Magnitude Understanding.

Learning and individual differences

Malone AS, Loehr AM, Fuchs LS.
PMID: 28890634
Learn Individ Differ. 2017 Aug;58:90-96. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2017.05.007. Epub 2017 May 28.

The purpose of the study was to determine whether individual differences in at-risk 4

Cancer incidence attributable to excess body weight in Alberta in 2012.

CMAJ open

Brenner DR, Poirier AE, Grundy A, Khandwala F, McFadden A, Friedenreich CM.
PMID: 28455439
CMAJ Open. 2017 Apr 28;5(2):E330-E336. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20160039.

BACKGROUND: Excess body weight has been consistently associated with colorectal, breast, endometrial, esophageal, gall bladder, pancreatic and kidney cancers. The objective of this analysis was to estimate the proportion of total and site-specific cancers attributable to excess body weight...

Career identity in the veterinary profession.

The Veterinary record

Page-Jones S, Abbey G.
PMID: 25564471
Vet Rec. 2015 Apr 25;176(17):433. doi: 10.1136/vr.102784. Epub 2015 Jan 06.

This research investigates vet and vet nurse career identity through the qualitative methodology of narrative enquiry. It derives learning and understanding from these empirical data to assist the veterinary profession to adjust to the changing industry landscape. Through a...

Gender differences in risk behaviors among high school youth.

Global advances in health and medicine

Croisant SA, Haque Laz T, Rahman M, Berenson AB.
PMID: 24416689
Glob Adv Health Med. 2013 Sep;2(5):16-22. doi: 10.7453/gahmj.2013.045.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) demonstrates that American youth engage in a wide variety of risky behaviors.(1) The frequency and type of these behaviors often differ by a number...

Investigating what works to support family carers of people with dementia: a rapid realist review.

Journal of public health (Oxford, England)

Parkinson M, Carr SM, Rushmer R, Abley C.
PMID: 27679663
J Public Health (Oxf). 2017 Dec 01;39(4):e290-e301. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdw100.

INTRODUCTION: Advances in longevity and medicine mean that many more people in the UK survive life-threatening diseases but are instead susceptible to life-limiting diseases such as dementia. Within the next 10 years those affected by dementia in the UK...

Cross-Sectional Predictors of Sexual Assault Perpetration in a Community Sample of Single African American and Caucasian Men.

Aggressive behavior

Abbey A, Parkhill MR, BeShears R, Clinton-Sherrod AM, Zawacki T.
PMID: 26435555
Aggress Behav. 2006 Feb;32(1):54-67. doi: 10.1002/ab.20107. Epub 2005 Oct 03.

Computer-assisted self-interviews were completed with a random sample of 163 unmarried Caucasian and African American men in a large metropolitan area. Almost a quarter (24.5%) of these men acknowledged committing an act since the age of 14 that met...

TU-E-217BCD-03: Characterization of Anatomical Noise in Mammography, Tomosynthesis and Breast CT.

Medical physics

Boone J, Chen L, Nosratieh A, Abbey C, Lindfors K, Aminololama-Shakeri S, Seibert J.
PMID: 28518664
Med Phys. 2012 Jun;39(6):3914. doi: 10.1118/1.4735975.

PURPOSE: The role of breast density in cancer detection has been well characterized, and newer modalities such as breast tomosynthesis and breast CT (bCT) were developed to improve cancer detection in the dense breast by reducing anatomical complexity. Anatomical...

Lifestyle changes and prevention of metabolic syndrome in the Heart of New Ulm Project.

Preventive medicine reports

VanWormer JJ, Boucher JL, Sidebottom AC, Sillah A, Knickelbine T.
PMID: 28377851
Prev Med Rep. 2017 Mar 29;6:242-245. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.03.018. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Prior research has shown that unhealthy lifestyles increase the risk for developing a number of chronic diseases, but there are few studies examining how lifestyle changes impact metabolic syndrome. This study analyzed the association between two-year changes in key...

Fifty Shades of African Lightness: A Bio-psychosocial Review of the Global Phenomenon of Skin Lightening Practices.

Journal of public health in Africa

Jacobs M, Levine S, Abney K, Davids L.
PMID: 28299156
J Public Health Afr. 2016 Dec 31;7(2):552. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2016.552. eCollection 2016 Dec 31.

Skin-lightening is an aesthetic practice of global concern. By adopting a biopsycho-social approach, we consider the interplay between the biological, psychological and social factors that underpin the circulation and consumption of skin lighteners in South Africa. This paper reflects...

Sexual assault and alcohol consumption: what do we know about their relationship and what types of research are still needed?.

Aggression and violent behavior

Abbey A, Zawacki T, Buck PO, Clinton AM, McAuslan P.
PMID: 26500424
Aggress Violent Behav. 2004 May;9(3):271-303. doi: 10.1016/S1359-1789(03)00011-9.

Approximately half of all sexual assaults are associated with either the perpetrator's alcohol consumption, the victim's alcohol consumption, or both. Although the emphasis of this review is on alcohol-involved sexual assaults, their unique aspects can only be evaluated by...

Broadband chirality-coded meta-aperture for photon-spin resolving.

Nature communications

Du L, Kou SS, Balaur E, Cadusch JJ, Roberts A, Abbey B, Yuan XC, Tang D, Lin J.
PMID: 26628047
Nat Commun. 2015 Dec 02;6:10051. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10051.

The behaviour of light transmitted through an individual subwavelength aperture becomes counterintuitive in the presence of surrounding 'decoration', a phenomenon known as the extraordinary optical transmission. Despite being polarization-sensitive, such an individual nano-aperture, however, often cannot differentiate between the...

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