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    survey portion that was given out are given in table 1. A correlations test was used in order to identify if there were any statistically significant correlations between any of the variables that data was gathered for, and there was in fact a significance between the two questions of if you could spend a whole day in an art museum would that make you feel happy or sad, and then intrigued or more bored (r (27) =.419, p=.025). There was also a slight, but still statistically insignificant, correlation

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    Introduction: Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is a term first coined in 1985 by Walter G. Rosen concerning the number of species in a particular habitat and revolved around the idea that diversity cannot solely be understood through numbers (Maclaurin and Sterelny, 2012). However, before 1985 biodiversity was related to concepts of “genetic diversity and ecological diversity”. This allowed to further define ecological diversity with species richness as “the number of species in a community

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    The Role Of a Nurse Practitioner In Acute Care Seynor Massalee Kennedy South University Effects of Music Therapy on Reducing Pain in the Terminally Ill Reducing pain among terminally ill persons is a nursing phenomenon of great importance. In this evidence based paper, terminally ill refers to patients with cancer that have six months or less to live and patients that are in hospice or undergoing palliative care. Pain, weakness, decreased intake of food and fluid, and altered

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    Cox proportional hazards models, adjusting for age and gender, were used to compare rates of revision. All tests were two-tailed at the 5% level of significance. Statistical analysis was performed using SAS software version 9.3 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC). A sub analysis was also performed comparing the CPR of the 1st revision by different time periods. Results: The 10 year cumulative percent revision of a

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    Background: There have been studies investigating the effect of probiotic yoghurt on blood lipids. However the results are conflicting. Also, there have been few studies involving probiotic cheese. Purpose: The goal of this trial was to compare the consumption effect of probiotic yoghurt with probiotic cheese on blood lipids. Methods: 180 subjects aged 18 – 65, with <6 mmol/l total cholesterol were participated in a 2-month trial. Subjects were assigned into three 60-person groups; probiotic cheese

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    A STUDY ON THE MENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF GYM GOING AND NON GOING STUDENTS *Zamirullah Khan, *Shailendra Pratap Singh & ** Naseem Ahmed Abstract: The significance of various forms of physical activity and exercise for the enhancement of health in general and mental health in particular is so distinct. Keeping this in mind the present study aims to compare “mental health status” of gym going (GG) and non gym going (NGG) students. Fifty students (25 GG and 25 NGG) of

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    112 55 2283 % within Gender 67.4% 25.3% 4.9% 2.4% 100.0% Chi-Square Tests Value df Asymptotic Significance (2-sided) Pearson Chi-Square 10.196a 3 .017 Likelihood Ratio 10.322 3 .016 Linear-by-Linear Association 8.576 1 .003 N of Valid Cases 2283 a. 0 cells (0.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 23.42. 2Ci) In the cross tabulation there seems to be a statistical association between the variables. In the “all or almost all of the time” category the percentage

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    When looking at the graph, there is statistical significance in some of the areas and not in others. All data was calculated at a 95% confidence level. The difference from Group A to Group B is only 0.2538 seconds, but when the data is compared to each other, the probability (P-Value) is 0.000287. This is a significant difference between the two. From Group B to Group C, there is a 0.01 second decrease in time, which has a P-Value of 0.4698. This is not a statistical difference and leaves room for this

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    between plasma percentages for Ice-vest and control pre-test results. Related-Samples Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test showed no significant difference between plasma percentages for ice-vest and control post-test results (p<0.344). Discussion The significances from figures 1-5 would suggest that the Ice-vests caused no significant physiological changes (p<0.05). However these results are inconclusive as the results are not representative of the male population with only 6 participants and no repeats

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    A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO. 1 INTRODUCTION 1.3 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY 1.3.1 Objectives of the study 1.3.2 Need of the study 1.3.3 Scope of the study

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