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    Fine particulate matter and risk of preterm birth in Connecticut in 2000-2006: A longitudinal study by Pereira, Gavin, Belanger, K., Ebisu, K., Bell, M.

    Published 2014
    “…From 271,204 births, we selected 29,175 women who had vaginal singleton livebirths at least twice in Connecticut in 2000-2006 (n = 61,688 births). Analyses matched pregnancies to the same woman. …”
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    Sources of fine particulate matter and risk of preterm birth in connecticut, 2000-2006: A longitudinal study by Pereira, Gavin, Bell, M., Lee, H., Koutrakis, P., Belanger, K.

    Published 2014
    “…We procured 4,085 daily samples of PM2.5 on Teflon filters from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection for six cities in Connecticut. …”
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    Investigating the Impact of Maternal Residential Mobility on Identifying Critical Windows of Susceptibility to Ambient Air Pollution during Pregnancy by Warren, J., Son, J., Pereira, Gavin, Leaderer, B., Bell, M.

    Published 2018
    “…We utilized data sets from 4 Connecticut birth cohorts (1988-2008) that included information on all residential addresses between conception and delivery for each woman. …”
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    D.H. Lawrence, Rananim and Gilbert Cannan’s Windmills by Harrison, Andrew

    Published 2018
    “…Lawrence have long recognized the significance of his various schemes to establish small utopian communities in locations such as Florida, the Andes, Palestine, Connecticut, and New Mexico. Recent accounts have, however, sought to distinguish the so-called ‘Rananim’ fantasy which Lawrence created with his wife and a select group of friends over Christmas and New Year 1914–1915 from his later schemes for communitarian living. …”
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    Changing drug users' risk environments: Peer health advocates as multi-level Community Change Agents by Weeks, M., Convey, M., Dickson-Gomez, J., Li, Jianghong, Radda, K., Martinez, M., Robles, E.

    Published 2009
    “…The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP), conducted with heroin and cocaine/crack users in Hartford, Connecticut, exemplified this intervention design and illustrated the multi-level effect on drug users' risk and harm reduction at the individual level, the social network level, and the larger community level. …”
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    Overlooked Threats to Respondent Driven Sampling Estimators: Peer Recruitment Reality, Degree Measures, and Random Selection Assumption by Li, Jianghong, Valente, T., Shin, H., Weeks, M., Zelenev, A., Moothi, G., Mosher, H., Heimer, R., Robles, E., Palmer, G., Obidoa, C.

    Published 2017
    “…© 2017 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Intensive sociometric network data were collected from a typical respondent driven sample (RDS) of 528 people who inject drugs residing in Hartford, Connecticut in 2012–2013. This rich dataset enabled us to analyze a large number of unobserved network nodes and ties for the purpose of assessing common assumptions underlying RDS estimators. …”
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    Excursion by Bender, Stuart, Broderick, M.

    Published 2014
    “…Between the period of Bender’s completion and publication of his dissertation by Cambridge Scholars Press, two major mass shootings occurred in the USA: Aurora Texas and Sandy Hook Connecticut. We observed familiar tropes played out in the media coverage of these events that invoked “vicarious trauma” and “empty empathy” (Kaplan & Wang 2004) but little else. …”
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    Outcomes of a peer HIV prevention program with injection drug and crack users: The risk avoidance partnership by Weeks, M., Li, Jianghong, Dickson-Gomez, J., Convey, M., Martinez, M., Radda, K., Clair, S.

    Published 2009
    “…The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) Project conducted in Hartford, Connecticut, tested a program to train active drug injectors and crack cocaine users as "Peer Health Advocates" (PHAs) to deliver a modular HIV, hepatitis, and STI prevention intervention to hard-to-reach drug users in their networks and others in the city. …”
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    Residential mobility of pregnant women and implications for assessment of spatially-varying environmental exposures by Bell, M., Banerjee, G., Pereira, Gavin

    Published 2018
    “…We investigated moving patterns in pregnant women (n = 10,116) in linked cohorts focused on Connecticut and Massachusetts, U.S., 1988–2008. Moving patterns were assessed by race/ethnicity, age, marital status, education, working status, population density, parity, income, and season of birth. …”
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    Multilevel social influences on female condom use and adoption among women in the urban United States by Weeks, M., Li, Jianghong, Coman, E., Abbott, M., Sylla, L., Corbett, M., Dickson-Gomez, J.

    Published 2010
    “…We conducted a behavioral and attitudinal survey with 461 primarily African American and Latina (especially Puerto Rican) women in Hartford, Connecticut, to measure factors on the individual, partner relationship, peer, and community levels influencing their initial and continued use of FC (using the prototype FC1) for disease prevention. …”
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    Particulate air pollution, fetal growth and gestational length: The influence of residential mobility in pregnancy. by Pereira, Gavin, Bracken, M., Bell, M.

    Published 2016
    “…METHODS: This was a retrospective study using four pregnancy cohorts of women recruited in Connecticut, USA (N=10,025). We ascertained associations with PM10 exposure calculated using first recorded maternal address, last recorded address, and full address histories. …”
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    Hubungan antara amalan kepemimpinan distributif pengetua dan kepemimpinan guru di sekolah menengah by Harun, Azhar, Basri, Ramli, Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah, Asimiran, Soaib

    Published 2016
    “…Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah tinjauan melalui soal selidik yang mengabungkan dua soal seldik iaitu Distributed Leadership Readiness Scale (DLRS) oleh Bahagian Pendidikan Connecticut State (CSDE) dan Teacher Leadership School Survey (TLSS) oleh Katzenmeyer dan Moller (2001). …”
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    Development of gallium-doped mesoporous bioactive glass as hemostatic agent / Sara Pourshahrestani by Sara , Pourshahrestani

    Published 2017
    “…Crewe, United Kingdom) and QuikClot Advanced Clotting Sponge PlusTM (ACS+, Z-Medica, Wallingford. Connecticut, USA). The results showed that the inclusion of 1 mol% Ga2O3 content into the MBG system not only resulted in better textural properties (i.e. surface area and pore volume) compared with Ga-free MBG and other substituted glasses, but also increased the release of silicon and calcium ions and degradation rates. …”
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