An investigation of the effects of a school-based intervention on feelings of personal expressiveness in multi-problem adolescent youth

This study was conducted to determine the effects of the Changing Lives Program intervention on troubled adolescents\u27 feelings of personal expressiveness, believed to be one domain of positive identity development. Forty-three intervention and twenty nonintervention comparison control participants were given a battery of pre-, post-, and follow-up assessments including the Personally Expressive Questionnaire (Waterman, 1995), which was used to derive participants\u27 feelings of personal expressiveness scores. Using Repeated Measures Analysis of Multivariate Analysis (RMANOVA), a significant four-way interaction of Time X Condition X Gender X Ethnicity was found relative to the Control, Roy\u27s Ɵ = .166, F(2,47) = 3.899, p \u3c .027 indicating that intervention participants\u27 feelings of personal expressiveness did increase significantly relative to the control group. Furthermore, the results suggest differential outcomes based on ethnicity, suggesting the need for future study with respect to specificity of effects and mechanisms of identity formation in differing ethnic subgroups

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Patersonia rosea (Iridaceae, Patersonioideae) a new species from the New South Wales central and lower north coast regions

Patersonia rosea Branwhite sp. nov. is described and illustrated, and notes provided on distribution, conservation status and habitat. Morphological differences that distinguish it from similar species of Patersonia are discussed and molecular data indicating relationships presente

Method and apparatus for assessing cardiovascular risk

The method for assessing risk of an adverse clinical event includes detecting a physiologic signal in the subject and determining from the physiologic signal a sequence of intervals corresponding to time intervals between heart beats. The long-time structure of fluctuations in the intervals over a time period of more than fifteen minutes is analyzed to assess risk of an adverse clinical event. In a preferred embodiment, the physiologic signal is an electrocardiogram and the time period is at least fifteen minutes. A preferred method for analyzing the long-time structure variability in the intervals includes computing the power spectrum and fitting the power spectrum to a power law dependence on frequency over a selected frequency range such as 10.sup.-4 to 10.sup.-2 Hz. Characteristics of the long-time structure fluctuations in the intervals is used to assess risk of an adverse clinical event

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'Bewegung und Gesundheit - Gesundheit durch Bewegung. Fitneß. Well-Being. Bis in alle deutsche Provinz. Auf Krankenschein. Oft freilich trügt der Schein: Bewegung macht so wenig gesund wie Gesundheit schön ist. Das versprechen Bilder, Chiffren letztlich für Glückserwartungen. Als Bumerangeffekt herauskommen könnte durchaus als neue Gesundheitsbewegung ein Leerstellen besetzender saluto-genetischer Totalitarismus. Und alles könnte suchthaft um-schlagen: Aus Lauf würde Wahn ... Entsprechend deute ich beanspruchte Gesundheit durch neue Bewegungskultur und Fitneß-Ästhetik: Als gesellschaftliche Zwangsveranstaltung, die im neuen Deutschland das protestantisch-asketische Moment verstärkt und letztlich - immer risikobehaftet - aktuelle Lebens-Lust einschränkt. Und weil auch aktive Jogger und Walker und Wogger gelegentlich 'vor der Zeit' sterblich sind, betone ich, wenngleich fragend-betont, das 'dionysische' Moment unserer conditio humana.' (Autorenreferat