Since Paul Radin's pioneering work early in this century, life histories have become
standbys in American ethnography. Ethnog-raphers collect them, Crashing Thunder (Radin …

This paper describes the conceptual foundation underlying the development of the Family
Routines Inventory, a new instrument designed to measure the extent of predictability or …

Background Population and study design heterogeneity has confounded previous meta-
analyses, leading to uncertainty about effectiveness and safety of elective high-frequency …

Background Surgery is increasingly used as treatment for refractory focal epilepsy; however,
few rigorous reports of long-term outcome exist. We did this study to identify long-term …

Anthropology is a complex, wide-ranging, and ever-changing field. This clear, coherent, and
well-crafted book is a revised version of a very successful text first published in 1986 …

OBJECTIVE--To investigate the effects of smoking, alcohol, and caffeine consumption and
socio-economic factors and psychosocial stress on birth weight. DESIGN--Prospective …

Objective: To examine the relation between preterm birth and socioeconomic and
psychological factors, smoking, and alcohol and caffeine consumption. Design: Prospective …

Background There remains uncertainty concerning the safety and efficacy of high-frequency
oscillatory ventilation as compared with those of conventional ventilation for the respiratory …

Quantitative health impact assessment has become increasingly important in the
development of air quality policy. For such analysis it is important to have accurate …

Background Laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC) and robot-assisted radical cystectomy
(RARC) are increasingly popular, but high-level evidence for these techniques remains …