bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Golden goose or wild goose? The hunt for the green consumer
Authors: Peattie Ken 
Published: August 2002

AbstractThe green consumer has been the central character in the development of green marketing, as businesses attempt to understand and respond to external pressures to improve their environmental performance. Marketing practitioners and academics are attempting to identify and understand green consumers and their needs, and to develop market offerings that meet these needs. So far there is little consensus about the identity and nature of green consumers, except that they have been something of a disappointment to the marketers who have pursued them. These difficulties perhaps reflect the folly of trying to understand green consumption and green marketing by viewing it as simply a variation on conventional marketing. This article proposes some different ways of looking at green consumption and green marketing, which have the potential to prevent the hunt for the green consumer from deteriorating into a wild goose chase. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Reactions to youth crime: perceptions of accountability and competency*
Authors: Ghetti Simona , Redlich Allison D. 
Published: August 2002

AbstractRecent changes in juvenile justice policies have stimulated debate among legal professionals and social scientists. As such, public opinion concerning juvenile offenders is an important and timely topic for empirical study. In the present study, respondents read a scenario about a juvenile who committed a crime, and then decided on a sentence and rated perceptions of the juvenile's accountability and legal competence. Four between‐subject factors were manipulated: age of the defendant (11 versus 14 versus 17 years), type of crime (shooting versus arson), crime outcome (victim injured versus died), and time delay between the instigating incident and the crime (immediately versus one day). The type and outcome of the crime were major motivating factors in sentencing decisions and perceptions of legal competence, and, although younger offenders were seen as less accountable and less competent than older offenders, sentence allocation and attitudes towards punishment were not significantly affected by offender age. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A matter of life or death: special considerations and heightened practice standards in capital sentencing evaluations
Authors: Cunningham Mark D. , Reidy Thomas J. 
Published: August 2002

AbstractMental health evaluations at capital sentencing represent a complex and specialized arena of practice. The moral culpability focus of capital sentencing is distinct from guilt‐phase considerations of criminal responsibility, and has a specialized literature. Capital violence risk assessment is uniquely oriented to a prison context, relying on past adjustment to incarceration, as well as group statistical data specific to capital offenders and other inmate groups. Personality testing is a more complex consideration in capital sentencing evaluations. The implications of interviewing the defendant, as well as the parameters and documentation of an interview, make full disclosure and informed consent of particular importance. Defense‐ and prosecution‐retained experts are subject to specific ethical vulnerabilities. These are examined in this paper through the lens of current professional standards. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Aberrant muscle between the temporalis and the lateral pterygoid muscles: M. pterygoideus proprius (Henle)
Authors: Akita Keiichi , Shimokawa Takashi , Sato Tatsuo 
Published: August 2002

AbstractDuring examination of the positional relationships between the lateral pterygoid and the temporalis muscles and the innervating nerves, an aberrant muscle was observed in three of 66 head halves. The aberrant muscle originated from the medial surface of the anteromedial muscle bundle of the temporalis (Shimokawa et al. 1998, Surg. Radiol. Anat. 20:329–334) and inserted into the inferolateral surface of the lower head of the lateral pterygoid. Due to its location, origin and insertion this aberrant muscle slip is considered to correspond to the pterygoideus proprius described by Henle (1858, Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen). Based on the innervation findings, the present aberrant muscle might be considered as a remnant muscle bundle between the anteromedial muscle bundle of the temporalis and the lateral pterygoid during differentiation of the lateral masticatory muscle anlage. Clin. Anat. 14:288–291, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Children's response to the medical visit for allegations of sexual abuse: maternal perceptions and predicting variables
Authors: Allard‐Dansereau Claire , Hébert Martine , Tremblay Caroline , Bernard‐Bonnin Anne‐Claude 
Published: August 2002

AbstractThis study examined maternal perceptions of their child's response to the medical evaluation for alleged sexual abuse. A total of 50 mothers were interviewed 6 months after a visit to a Child Protection Clinic for a medical evaluation of alleged sexual abuse. The mothers answered a questionnaire on their child's reactions to the medical visit. More than 60% of children were perceived as being reassured about physical integrity. The degree of psychological distress was independent of perpetrator's identity and severity of the abuse. Mothers considered that a hypothetical second visit would generate in their child a level of anxiety that increased with perceived intensity of fear of the examination and decreased with perceived kindness of the physician. These results suggest that the physician's behaviour during the medical evaluation for alleged sexual abuse has an influence on the child's degree of distress that is independent of type and severity of abuse. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Worker skill and client outcome in child protection
Authors: Trotter Chris 
Published: August 2002

AbstractThe research in child protection and in work with other involuntary clients suggests that the use of certain skills by child protection workers is likely to be related to positive client outcomes. In particular, effective practice involves: helping clients and client families to understand the role of the child protection worker; working through a problem‐solving process which focuses on the client's rather than the worker's definitions of problems; reinforcing the client's pro‐social expression and actions; making appropriate use of confrontation; and using these skills within a collaborative client/worker relationship. This study attempts to identify the extent to which child protection workers make use of these skills and how these skills relate to client outcomes. Data were sought through 50 interviews with child protection workers and 282 interviews with family members. The child protection workers provided information about 247 client families. It was clear that when workers used the skills, their clients had better outcomes—the workers believed their clients showed better progress, the clients were more satisfied with the outcomes and the cases were more likely to have been closed 16 months later. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Abusive relationships, care and control conflicts and insecure attachments
Authors: Reder Peter , Duncan Sylvia 
Published: August 2002

AbstractMany studies of adults who are violent to others or abuse their children suggest long‐standing interpersonal difficulties that can be traced back to severe adverse experiences in childhood. Different models have been proposed to understand these difficulties, including attachment theory. However, attachment concepts tend to be used loosely and we suggest that the notion of ‘unresolved care and control conflicts’ is a more practically useful framework, which also has parallels in attachment theory and offers pointers for risk assessment. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Percutaneous coronary intervention with bivalirudin anticoagulation, immediate sheath removal, and early ambulation: A feasibility study with implications for day‐stay procedures
Authors: Ormiston John A. , Shaw Bronwyn L. , Panther Monique J. , Ruygrok Peter N. , Devlin Gerard P. , Stewart Ralph A.H. , Webster Mark W.I. 
Published: August 2002

AbstractWe assessed the feasibility and safety of a strategy of transfemoral percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with bivalirudin anticoagulation, immediate sheath removal, early ambulation, and, where possible, same‐day discharge in 100 consecutive patients. Ambulation was achieved by 2 hr 30 min in 85% of patients and same‐day discharge in 26%. PCI was angiographically successful in 97%. In hospital, there were no deaths or Q‐wave myocardial infarctions. One patient suffered a non–Q‐wave infarction, another in‐hospital surgical revascularization and one required blood transfusion for rectal bleeding. Femoral access site hematoma > 5 cm diameter occurred in two patients. In addition, by 1 month there had been one death (at 10 days) and one pseudoaneurysm treated nonsurgically. In this preliminary study, the strategy of bivalirudin bolus anticoagulation, immediate sheath removal, and 2‐hr ambulation after PCI appeared safe, with same‐day discharge possible in 26% of unselected patients with stable or unstable angina. Cathet Cardiovasc Intervent 2002;55:289–293. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Use of fenoldopam to prevent radiocontrast nephropathy in high‐risk patients
Authors: Madyoon Hooman , Croushore Linda , Weaver Douglas , Mathur Vandana 
Published: August 2002

AbstractWe evaluated the ability of fenoldopam, a newly available renal vasodilator, to prevent radiocontrast nephropathy in high‐risk patients undergoing interventional diagnostic and therapeutic angiographic procedures. We reviewed the results from 46 consecutive procedures in patients with serum creatinine ≥ 1.5 mg/dL if diabetic and ≥ 1.7 mg/dL if nondiabetic. We compared our results to a previously published cohort of similarly at‐risk patients. The incidence of radiocontrast nephropathy, defined as an increase in serum creatinine of ≥ 25% at 48 hr following the procedure, was 13% in the group treated with fenoldopam, compared to an expected 38%. The percentage change in serum creatinine at 48 hr was +16% vs. +118%, respectively, in the two groups. In this preliminary experience, the use of fenoldopam in high‐risk patients appears to minimize the likelihood of radioncontrast nephropathy. Cathet Cardiovasc Intervent 2001;53:341–345. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Synthesis and circular dichroism studies of N,N‐bis(2‐quinolylmethyl)amino acid Cu(II) complexes: Determination of absolute configuration and enantiomeric excess by the exciton coupling method
Authors: Holmes Andrea E. , Zahn Steffen , Canary James W. 
Published: August 2002

AbstractWe report a method to determine the absolute configuration of α‐amino acids by exciton coupled circular dichroism (ECCD). Naturally occurring amino acids were successfully derivatized with 2‐bromomethylquinoline. Complexation of these conformationally flexible ligands with Cu(II) salts yielded defined propeller‐like structures. The direction of the twist (i.e., the relative orientation of the chromophores to each other) is governed by the asymmetric amino acid carbon center. The transition moments of the chromophores couple and yield a bisignate circular dichroism spectrum, the sign of which corresponds to the absolute configuration of the chiral center of the amino acid. Enantiomeric excess (e.e.) of amino acid derivatives is linearly related to the differential extinction coefficient Δε and can be assessed easily utilizing a standard curve. This efficient, sensitive technique requires low analyte concentrations, offers several advantages over established methods, and could be applied in medicinal, pharmaceutical, or chemical retail and manufacturing industry. Chirality 14:471–477, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Quantitative analysis of chiral compounds from unresolved peaks in capillary electrophoresis using multivariate calibration with experimental design and artificial neural networks
Authors: Dohnal Vlastimil , Li Hua , Farková Marta , Havel Josef 
Published: August 2002

AbstractQuantitation of optical isomers can be achieved even from incompletely resolved peaks with a multivariate calibration applying a combination of experimental design and artificial neural networks (ANN). Using the proposed approach, method development can be more efficient and analysis time shortened while quantitation of optical isomers with acceptable precision (±1–3%) can be achieved. Chirality 14:509–518, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
A Phase II study of gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with metastatic pancreatic carcinoma
Authors: Ryan David P. , Kulke Matthew H. , Fuchs Charles S. , Grossbard Michael L. , Grossman Steven R. , Morgan Jeffrey A. , Earle Craig C. , Shivdasani Ramesh , Kim Haesook , Mayer Robert J. , Clark Jeffrey W. 
Published: August 2002

AbstractBACKGROUNDPatients with metastatic pancreatic carcinoma have a poor survival. Chemotherapy with gemcitabine is the standard first‐line treatment. In a Phase II trial at one academic cancer center, the clinical safety and activity of combining gemcitabine and docetaxel were assessed.METHODSPatients with previously untreated, advanced pancreatic carcinoma were eligible. Bidimensionally measurable disease or evaluable disease with an elevated tumor marker, good performance status, and adequate organ function were required. Patients received docetaxel 60 mg/m2 on Day 1 and gemcitabine 600 mg/m2 on Days 1, 8, and 15 every 28 days. Ciprofloxacin was administered on Days 8–18. Dose attenuations were made as indicated for toxicity. Patients were restaged radiographically after every two cycles.RESULTSThirty‐four patients were enrolled, and 33 patients were evaluable for response. There were 23 men and 10 women among the evaluable patients. The median age was 63 years, and all patients had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1. Three patients had received prior chemoradiation for postresection adjuvant therapy. One hundred forty‐six cycles of chemotherapy were administered, and 5 cycles (3%) in 4 patients (12%) were complicated by febrile neutropenia. Twenty percent and 11% of patients on Day 8 and Day 15 doses of gemcitabine, respectively, were omitted for toxicity. The objective response rate was 18%, and the median survival was 8.9 months (95% confidence interval, 5.2–11.2 months). The 1‐year survival rate was 29%.CONCLUSIONSThe combination of gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with advanced pancreatic carcinoma is well tolerated and is associated with moderate activity despite aggressive dose reduction. Whether combination regimens are more effective than single agents in the treatment of patients with pancreatic carcinoma awaits evaluation in randomized studies. Cancer 2002;94:97–103. © 2002 American Cancer Society.
High‐dose‐rate versus low‐dose‐rate intracavitary therapy for carcinoma of the uterine cervix
Authors: Hareyama Masato , Sakata Koh‐ichi , Oouchi Atushi , Nagakura Hisayasu , Shido Mitsuo , Someya Masanori , Koito Kazumitsu 
Published: August 2002

AbstractBACKGROUNDThis was a prospective randomized clinical trial undertaken at our institution to compare low‐dose‐rate (LDR) intracavitary radiation therapy versus high‐dose‐rate (HDR) intracavitary radiation therapy for the treatment of cervical carcinoma.METHODSFrom January 1984 to December 1997, a total of 132 patients with Stage II or IIIB of invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix were entered into this randomized study. Treatment arm by HDR or LDR was allocated according to the month of each patient's birth. External irradiation consisted of whole pelvis irradiation and pelvic irradiation. Doses of external irradiation for both groups were identical. The authors used 0.588 as the conversion factor of total intracavitary dose from LDR to HDR.RESULTSThe 5‐year disease specific survival rates of Stage II and III patients treated with HDR were 69% and 51% whereas those with LDR were 87% and 60%, respectively. The 5‐year pelvic recurrence free survival rates of Stage II and III patients treated with HDR were 89% and 73% whereas those with LDR were 100% and 70%, respectively. There was no significant difference in disease specific survival or pelvic recurrence free survival rates between HDR and LDR. The actuarial complication rate (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Grade 3, 4, or 5) at 5 years was 10% in the HDR group and 13% in the LDR group, and the difference between the HDR and LDR groups was not statistically significant.CONCLUSIONSThe pelvic control or actuarial complication rates were comparable between HDR and LDR treatment. The difference between the disease specific survival rates for HDR and LDR was not statistically significant for Stage II or III, although in Stage II, patients treated with LDR appeared to have a better survival rate than those treated with HDR. Cancer 2002;94:117–24. © 2002 American Cancer Society.
Persistence of myeloma protein for more than one year after radiotherapy is an adverse prognostic factor in solitary plasmacytoma of bone
Authors: Wilder Richard B. , Ha Chul S. , Cox James D. , Weber Donna , Delasalle Kay , Alexanian Raymond 
Published: August 2002

AbstractBACKGROUNDPrognostic factors for solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB), whether measured before or after radiotherapy (RT), have not been established. The authors analyzed multiple factors for myeloma‐free survival (MFS) and cause‐specific survival (CSS) in SPB patients treated with RT alone.METHODSBetween 1965 and 2000, 60 patients with carefully staged SPB were treated with RT alone at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Patient ages ranged from 29–77 years (median, 54 years), and 75% of patients had a myeloma (M) protein in the blood and/or urine. No patients showed other lesions on skeletal survey or, in recent years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine; marrow aspirate was normal in all patients. Radiotherapy to the solitary lesion was given to a total dose of 30–70 Gy (median, 46 Gy). The authors analyzed the impact of multiple factors on MFS and CSS, including resolution v. persistence of M protein after RT, secretory v. nonsecretory disease at diagnosis, presence v. absence of an associated soft tissue mass on computed tomography or MRI scan, magnitude of serum M protein elevation at diagnosis, age, spinal v. nonspinal location, Karnofsky performance status, total RT dose, and tumor size.RESULTSMedian follow‐up was 7.8 years (range, 1.0–25.5 years). On multivariate analysis, persistence of M protein more than one year after RT was the only independent adverse prognostic factor for MFS (P = 0.005) and CSS (P = 0.04). Most patients with M protein that persisted for more than one year after RT were diagnosed with multiple myeloma within 2.2 years of treatment.CONCLUSIONSPatients with M protein that persists for more than one year after RT should be monitored frequently and considered for standard chemotherapy followed by intensive consolidation therapy when they either develop symptoms or show an increasing M protein level. Cancer 2002;94:1532–7. © 2002 American Cancer Society.DOI 10.1002/cncr.10366
pT1 clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Authors: Cheville John C. , Zincke Horst , Lohse Christine M. , Sebo Thomas J. , Riehle Darren , Weaver Amy L. , Blute Michael L. 
Published: August 2002

AbstractBACKGROUNDThe majority of patients with pT1 clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are cured with nephrectomy. However, a few patients will die of RCC. In several studies, MIB‐1 proliferative activity was identified as an independent predictor of survival in patients with RCC. The objective of the current study was to examine MIB‐1 proliferative activity in a large series of patients with pT1 clear cell RCC who were treated uniformly with radical nephrectomy, and to examine the association between proliferative activity and cancer specific survival in a multivariate model incorporating tumor size, nuclear grade, and tumor necrosis.METHODS Patients with solitary pT1 clear cell RCC who underwent radical nephrectomy between 1970–1997 were eligible for the current study. For each of the 40 patients who died of RCC, a stratified random sample of at least 3 year‐matched patients who still were alive or had died of other causes at the time of last follow‐up was selected. Patient age at nephrectomy, patient gender, tumor size, nuclear grade, and tumor necrosis were evaluated, and the MIB‐1 proliferative activity was assessed using digital image analysis. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards models were fit to assess the features associated with cancer specific survival. The associations between MIB‐1 proliferative activity and pathologic features were assessed using the Wilcoxon rank sum test.RESULTS The mean MIB‐1 value for those patients who died of clear cell RCC was 6.5% compared with 3.6% for those patients who died of other causes or were still alive at the time of last follow‐up. Patients whose tumor had an MIB‐1 proliferative activity ≥ 5.0% were more than twice as likely to die of RCC than patients whose tumors had a MIB‐1 activity < 5% (P = 0.02). However, after adjusting for tumor size, nuclear grade, and necrosis, MIB‐1 proliferative activity was not found to be associated significantly with cancer specific survival. There was a significant association between MIB‐1 proliferative activity and tumor size, nuclear grade, and necrosis.CONCLUSIONS After adjusting for tumor size, nuclear grade, and necrosis, MIB‐1 proliferative activity was not found to be an independent predictor of outcome in patients with pT1 clear cell RCC who were treated with radical nephrectomy. There was a significant association between MIB‐1 and other well established pathologic prognostic features of pT1 clear cell RCC. Cancer 2002;94:2180–4. © 2002 American Cancer Society.DOI 10.1002/cncr.10433
Viral load is a significant prognostic factor for hepatitis B virus‐associated hepatocellular carcinoma
Authors: Ohkubo Kazuaki , Kato Yuji , Ichikawa Tatsuki , Kajiya Yuji , Takeda Yoshio , Higashi Shinnichirou , Hamasaki Keisuke , Nakao Kazuhiko , Nakata Keisuke , Eguchi Katsumi 
Published: August 2002

AbstractBACKGROUNDHepatitis B virus (HBV) is closely linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The objective of the current study was to identify the factors involved in the prognosis of patients with HBV‐associated HCC using multivariate analysis.METHODSThe current study included 74 patients with HBV‐associated HCC who were admitted to Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan, between 1983–1998. Of these, 13 patients underwent surgical tumor resection; 43 patients received nonsurgical treatment with transcatheter arterial embolization, percutaneous ethanol injection, or both; and 18 patients were followed without any active treatment. The significance of the patient's age; gender; history of blood transfusion; alcohol use; serum levels of alanine aminotransferase, α‐fetoprotein, and HBV‐DNA; number and size of liver tumors; clinical stage; and histologic diagnosis of HCC as prognostic factors was evaluated using univariate and multivariate analyses.RESULTSThe 3‐year, 5‐year, and 10‐year postdiagnosis cumulative survival rates were 36%, 21%, and 17%, respectively. Multivariate analysis identified the level of serum HBV‐DNA and tumor size at diagnosis as independent and significant prognostic factors (P = 0.0022 and P = 0.0106, respectively). In addition, a low level of viremia was found to be associated with longer survival (P = 0.0057) even in patients who were negative for the hepatitis B e antigen.CONCLUSIONSThe results of the current study suggest that viral load is a useful prognostic marker for HBV‐related HCC and that HCC patients with a less favorable course appear either to clear the virus poorly or to have a greater level of virus production. Cancer 2002;94:2663–8. © 2002 American Cancer Society.DOI 10.1002/cncr.10557