Page 1. J. Phys. Chem. 1995,99, 13909-13916 13909 Group Contribution-Additivity and Quantum Mecha... more Page 1. J. Phys. Chem. 1995,99, 13909-13916 13909 Group Contribution-Additivity and Quantum Mechanical Models for Predicting the Molar Refractions, Indices of Refraction, and Boiling Points of Fluorochemicals Thao D ...
Objectives.To establish the safety and efficacy of panniculectomy at the time of surgery for beni... more Objectives.To establish the safety and efficacy of panniculectomy at the time of surgery for benign and malignant gynecological disease.Methods.Retrospective review of the course of 57 patients undergoing radical gynecological surgery and panniculectomy between January 1992 and January 1997 at the Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne. Data were collected regarding indication for treatment, operative details, and complications of surgery.Results.Of 57 patients
Delayed gas exchange kinetics in the early recovery period after exercise testing has been report... more Delayed gas exchange kinetics in the early recovery period after exercise testing has been reported in children and adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD). Our objective was to compare early and late phase recovery kinetics in three groups of ACHD-patients. Sixty-seven adults with complex ACHD (33 repaired tetralogy of Fallot, 19 Fontan operations, and 15 transposition complexes) and 10 healthy controls underwent symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing measuring gas-exchange kinetics over a 10 minute recovery period. Changes within the first minute of recovery and late changes, characterized as the time to reach 50% of peak values (T1/2), were compared between groups. Recovery of VO2 in early and late recoveries was significantly delayed in all ACHD-patients compared to controls without significant differences between patient groups. VO2-recovery at 1 min compared between patients and controls was -7.2 ± 4.0 versus -17.0 ± 4.5 ml · kg · min(-1) and T1/2 VO2 was 147 ± 62 versus 66 ± 23 s (p < 0.0001 for both comparisons). Similar changes were observed for VCO2-recovery. Peak VO2 (ml · kg · min(-1)) demonstrated strong correlation with VO2-recovery at 1 min (ml · kg · min(-1), r=0.90) and moderate correlation with T1/2 VO2 (r = -0.70). Gas exchange recovery after exercise testing is prolonged in ACHD-patients, independent of the congenital heart lesion but related to peak aerobic capacity, particularly recovery kinetics within the first minute. Recovery kinetics at 1 min is a useful and easily obtained clinical measure that warrants further study as a prognostic measure.
Youth problems including risky sex, drug use, violence and mental health issues are on the rise i... more Youth problems including risky sex, drug use, violence and mental health issues are on the rise in Vietnam. Mindfulness is proposed as one way to address unskillful responses to stress that give rise to these behavioral and psychosocial issues in Vietnam. This study explores the feasibility of a mindfulness program for adolescents and young adults in a central city in Vietnam. The mindfulness-based intervention was comprised 1-h daily session over 3 weeks that was conducted at two different sites, one with handicapped adolescents/young adults at the Vocational School for Handicapped and the other with at-risk youth at a semi-private high school. Forty-two Vietnamese youth participants and five Vietnamese teachers/facilitators who were trained in the mindfulness program provided personal reflections of their experiences. Analyses of the qualitative data suggest that mindfulness was enthusiastically received and accepted by both youth and teachers. There is strong indication that mind...
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2008
Studies suggest that the process of acculturation for immigrant youth, particularly for second-ge... more Studies suggest that the process of acculturation for immigrant youth, particularly for second-generation youth, is significantly associated with delinquency and violence. This study explored the acculturation-violence link with respect to acculturative dissonance and ethnic identity. The results revealed in a sample of 329 Chinese, Cambodian, Mien/Laotian, and Vietnamese youth that acculturative dissonance was significantly predictive of serious violence, with full mediation through peer delinquency. Ethnic identity was not significantly associated with peer delinquency or serious violence. Although acculturative dissonance and ethnic identity accounted for a small percentage of variance in violence compared with peer delinquency, it cannot be discounted as trivial. Structural equation analyses provided support for both measurement and structural invariance across the four ethnic groups, lending support for cross-cultural comparisons. The results also lend support for the inclusion of cultural factors in youth violence prevention and intervention efforts.
In this study of 329 Cambodian, Chinese, Laotian/Mien, and Vietnamese youth in Oakland, Californi... more In this study of 329 Cambodian, Chinese, Laotian/Mien, and Vietnamese youth in Oakland, California, acculturation factors of individualism-collectivism and acculturative dissonance were examined as risk and protective factors for substance use. Results of structural equation modeling and bootstrapping revealed that peer substance use was a robust mediator between individualism and youth's self-reported substance use, particularly among Vietnamese and males. Peer substance use also significantly mediated the relation between collectivism and substance use for females. As such, there appears to be ethnic and gender group variations in the saliency of cultural/acculturation factors with respect to substance use. Implications for substance use prevention programs for ethnic and immigrant youth are discussed.
... Adolescent development: Pathways and process of risk and resilience. Annual Review of Psychol... more ... Adolescent development: Pathways and process of risk and resilience. Annual Review of Psychology, 46, 265293. ... Jan, LJ (1993). Asian gang problems and social policy solutions: A discussion and review. ... Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 21, 331347. ...
Page 1. J. Phys. Chem. 1995,99, 13909-13916 13909 Group Contribution-Additivity and Quantum Mecha... more Page 1. J. Phys. Chem. 1995,99, 13909-13916 13909 Group Contribution-Additivity and Quantum Mechanical Models for Predicting the Molar Refractions, Indices of Refraction, and Boiling Points of Fluorochemicals Thao D ...
Objectives.To establish the safety and efficacy of panniculectomy at the time of surgery for beni... more Objectives.To establish the safety and efficacy of panniculectomy at the time of surgery for benign and malignant gynecological disease.Methods.Retrospective review of the course of 57 patients undergoing radical gynecological surgery and panniculectomy between January 1992 and January 1997 at the Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne. Data were collected regarding indication for treatment, operative details, and complications of surgery.Results.Of 57 patients
Delayed gas exchange kinetics in the early recovery period after exercise testing has been report... more Delayed gas exchange kinetics in the early recovery period after exercise testing has been reported in children and adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD). Our objective was to compare early and late phase recovery kinetics in three groups of ACHD-patients. Sixty-seven adults with complex ACHD (33 repaired tetralogy of Fallot, 19 Fontan operations, and 15 transposition complexes) and 10 healthy controls underwent symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing measuring gas-exchange kinetics over a 10 minute recovery period. Changes within the first minute of recovery and late changes, characterized as the time to reach 50% of peak values (T1/2), were compared between groups. Recovery of VO2 in early and late recoveries was significantly delayed in all ACHD-patients compared to controls without significant differences between patient groups. VO2-recovery at 1 min compared between patients and controls was -7.2 ± 4.0 versus -17.0 ± 4.5 ml · kg · min(-1) and T1/2 VO2 was 147 ± 62 versus 66 ± 23 s (p < 0.0001 for both comparisons). Similar changes were observed for VCO2-recovery. Peak VO2 (ml · kg · min(-1)) demonstrated strong correlation with VO2-recovery at 1 min (ml · kg · min(-1), r=0.90) and moderate correlation with T1/2 VO2 (r = -0.70). Gas exchange recovery after exercise testing is prolonged in ACHD-patients, independent of the congenital heart lesion but related to peak aerobic capacity, particularly recovery kinetics within the first minute. Recovery kinetics at 1 min is a useful and easily obtained clinical measure that warrants further study as a prognostic measure.
Youth problems including risky sex, drug use, violence and mental health issues are on the rise i... more Youth problems including risky sex, drug use, violence and mental health issues are on the rise in Vietnam. Mindfulness is proposed as one way to address unskillful responses to stress that give rise to these behavioral and psychosocial issues in Vietnam. This study explores the feasibility of a mindfulness program for adolescents and young adults in a central city in Vietnam. The mindfulness-based intervention was comprised 1-h daily session over 3 weeks that was conducted at two different sites, one with handicapped adolescents/young adults at the Vocational School for Handicapped and the other with at-risk youth at a semi-private high school. Forty-two Vietnamese youth participants and five Vietnamese teachers/facilitators who were trained in the mindfulness program provided personal reflections of their experiences. Analyses of the qualitative data suggest that mindfulness was enthusiastically received and accepted by both youth and teachers. There is strong indication that mind...
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2008
Studies suggest that the process of acculturation for immigrant youth, particularly for second-ge... more Studies suggest that the process of acculturation for immigrant youth, particularly for second-generation youth, is significantly associated with delinquency and violence. This study explored the acculturation-violence link with respect to acculturative dissonance and ethnic identity. The results revealed in a sample of 329 Chinese, Cambodian, Mien/Laotian, and Vietnamese youth that acculturative dissonance was significantly predictive of serious violence, with full mediation through peer delinquency. Ethnic identity was not significantly associated with peer delinquency or serious violence. Although acculturative dissonance and ethnic identity accounted for a small percentage of variance in violence compared with peer delinquency, it cannot be discounted as trivial. Structural equation analyses provided support for both measurement and structural invariance across the four ethnic groups, lending support for cross-cultural comparisons. The results also lend support for the inclusion of cultural factors in youth violence prevention and intervention efforts.
In this study of 329 Cambodian, Chinese, Laotian/Mien, and Vietnamese youth in Oakland, Californi... more In this study of 329 Cambodian, Chinese, Laotian/Mien, and Vietnamese youth in Oakland, California, acculturation factors of individualism-collectivism and acculturative dissonance were examined as risk and protective factors for substance use. Results of structural equation modeling and bootstrapping revealed that peer substance use was a robust mediator between individualism and youth's self-reported substance use, particularly among Vietnamese and males. Peer substance use also significantly mediated the relation between collectivism and substance use for females. As such, there appears to be ethnic and gender group variations in the saliency of cultural/acculturation factors with respect to substance use. Implications for substance use prevention programs for ethnic and immigrant youth are discussed.
... Adolescent development: Pathways and process of risk and resilience. Annual Review of Psychol... more ... Adolescent development: Pathways and process of risk and resilience. Annual Review of Psychology, 46, 265293. ... Jan, LJ (1993). Asian gang problems and social policy solutions: A discussion and review. ... Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 21, 331347. ...
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