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infections in adolescent women occurred in women who claim to be virgin. Two possible conclusions arise from this observation …: adolescent women misreport sexual status or non-sexual risk is more relevant than previously asserted. This paper uses a … adolescent women in the considered sub-sample correctly report sexual activity, 70% of HIV infections cannot be attributed to …
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This article discusses concept and measurement of online friendship in an Indonesian context. Online friendship is considered to be superficial due to the lack of face-to-face interaction and emotional intimacy. Based on grounded theory research, online friendship consists of five dimensions:...
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This article investigates how adolescent Internet addiction is assessed by parents based on children's Internet use …
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Health information on the Internet is popular for both adults and adolescents. Providing this information in an enjoyable manner during school may provide an alternative to teacher-led education. However, there are advantages and disadvantages of ‘edutainment'. The objective of this study was...
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Background: An important issue in prediction modeling of multivariate data is the measure of dependence structure. The use of Pearson's correlation as a dependence measure has several pitfalls and hence application of regression prediction models based on this correlation may not be an...
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OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in socio-economic differentials in all-cause mortality in Sydney over a 25-year period (1970-94). METHODS: Five measures of single indicators (two for occupation, two for education and one for income) and a composite measure of socio-economic disadvantage based on...
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I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and …
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marijuana use to sanctions and thereby demonstrate the efficacy of school-imposed penalties as a deterrent to adolescent drug …
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Recent psychological research has investigated how people assess the probability of an indicative conditional. Most people give the conditional probability of q given p as the probability of if p then q. Asking about the probability of an indicative conditional, one is in effect asking about its...
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