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T R Knapp

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The prestige value of books and journal articles.

This article has provided two formulas for the prestige rating (PR) of scholarly publications: 1. The a priori formula PR = 4 BS + 2 BDF + 1.5 BDS + RAS + 0.5 NAS + 0.8 RADF + 0.6 RADS + 0.3 NADF + 0.15 NADS + 0.6 RATF + 0.4 RATS + 0.2 RATT + 0.2 NATF + 0.1 NATS + 0.05 NATT; 2. The empirical formula PR = 0.77 The second formula is not recommended.

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Do people with cancer postpone death to celebrate special occasions?

Several researchers have claimed that a connection exists between deathdays and birthdays or other special occasions. Some people, especially women, appear to postpone death until after their birthdays or other special occasions to celebrate these events one more time. The purpose of this retrospective study was to determine if a deathday-birthday or deathday-Christmas connection was evident in cancer-related deaths. Data were obtained from the Rochester (New York) Regional Tumor Registry (N = 2566), the New York State Cancer Registry (N = 50,562), and the Ohio State Department of Health (N = 73,907) for three samples of individuals who died from cancer. Only a few deathday-birthday connections were evident. However, these connections were not replicated across states and years.

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A methodological critique of the 'ideal weight' concept.

This article raises several objections to the procedures that were employed to determine ideal (optimal, desirable) weights in the 1959 and 1979 Build and Blood Pressure studies, the Framingham (Mass) study, and the recent study of the relationship between weight and mortality carried out by the American Cancer Society. The new height-weight tables based on the 1979 Build and Blood Pressure study are also criticized. The article concludes with the recommendation that the concept of ideal weight be abandoned and that attention be devoted to the morbidity and mortality experience of "outliers" (the very thin and the very obese).

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