Identification of maltreatment type in children with disabilities using the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)

This study was a retrospective design and used secondary data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), provided by the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect Family Life Development Center administered by Cornell University. The dataset contained information for the year 2005 on children from birth to 18 years of age. Child abuse and neglect for disabled children, was evaluated in-depth in the present study. Descriptive and statistical analysis was performed using the children with and without disabilities. It was found that children with disabilities have a lower rate of substantiation that likely indicates the interference of reporting due to their handicap. The results of this research demonstrate the important need to teach professionals and laypersons alike on how to recognize and substantiate abuse among disabled children.^

Correlation of blood type with thrombosis in pancreatic cancer patients

Objective: The study aimed to identify the risk factors involved in initiating thromboembolism (TE) in pancreatic cancer (PC) patients, with focus on ABO blood type. ^ Methods and Patients: There were 35.7% confirmed cases of TE and 64.3% cases remained free of TE (n=687). There were 12.7% only Pulmonary embolism (PE), 9% only Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), 53.5% only other sites, 3.3% combined PE and DVT, 8.6% combined PE and other sites, 9.8% combined DVT and other sites, and 3.3% all three combined cases. ^ Results: The risk factors for thrombosis identified by multivariate logistic regression were: history of previous anti-thrombotic treatment, tumor site in pancreatic body or tail, large tumor size, maximum glucose category more than 126 and 200 mg/dL. ^ The factors with worse overall survival by multivariate Cox regression and Kaplan Meier analyses were: locally advanced or metastatic stage, worsening performance status, high CA 19-9 levels, and HbA1C levels more than 6 %, at diagnosis. ^ There were 29.1% and 39.1% of the patients with thrombosis in the O and non-O blood type groups respectively. Both Non-O blood type (P=0.02) and the A, B and AB blood types (P= 0.007) were associated with thrombosis as compared to O type. The odds of thrombosis were nearly half in O blood type patients as compared to non-O blood type [OR-0.54 (95% C.I.- 0.37-0.79), P<0.001]. ^ Conclusion: A better understanding of the TE and PC relationship and involved risk factors may provide insights on tumor biology and patient response to prophylactic anticoagulation therapy.^

Theory and empirics of Markusen type multinationals

Research on multinational firms’ activity has been conducted widely since late 1980s. The literature is differentiated into three types: horizontal FDI, vertical FDI, and three-country FDI, represented by export platform FDI. There are other methods of differentiation of the literature by approach, for example, the pure theory approach represented by Krugman and Melitz and the numerical simulation approach represented by Markusen. This paper surveys Markusen type literature by firm type. There is little literature focused on intermediate goods trade, although intermediate goods trade is considered to be strongly related to the production patterns of MNEs. In this paper, we introduce a model to explicitly treat intermediate goods trade and present simulation analysis for empirical estimation.

Influence of substrate type and orientation on the morphology and optical properties of selective area growth of GaN and InGaN nanocolumns

A relevant issue concerning optoelectronic devices based on III-nitrides is the presence of strong polarization fields that may reduce efficiency.

Vector spaces of entire functions of unbounded type

Let E be an infinite dimensional complex Banach space. We prove the existence of an infinitely generated algebra, an infinite dimensional closed subspace and a dense subspace of entire functions on E whose non-zero elements are functions of unbounded type. We also show that the τδ topology on the space of all holomorphic functions cannot be obtained as a countable inductive limit of Fr´echet spaces. RESUMEN. Sea E un espacio de Banach complejo de dimensión infinita y sea H(E) el espacio de funciones holomorfas definidas en E. En el artículo se demuestra la existencia de un álgebra infinitamente generada en H(E), un subespacio vectorial en H(E) cerrado de dimensión infinita y un subespacio denso en H(E) cuyos elementos no nulos son funciones de tipo no acotado. También se demuestra que el espacio de funciones holomorfas con la topología ? no es un límite inductivo numberable de espacios de Fréchet.

On real analytic functions of unbounded type

In this paper we prove several results on the existence of analytic functions on an infinite dimensional real Banach space which are bounded on some given collection of open sets and unbounded on others. In addition, we also obtain results on the density of some subsets of the space of all analytic functions for natural locally convex topologies on this space. RESUMEN. Los autores demuestran varios resultados de existencia de funciones analíticas en espacios de Banach reales de dimensión infinita que están acotadas en un colección de subconjuntos abiertos y no acotadas en los conjuntos de otra colección. Además, se demuestra la densidad de ciertos subconjuntos de funciones analíticas para varias topologías localmente convexas.