baseline study

• Efficacy and safety of azelaic acid (AzA) gel 15% in the treatment of post-inflammatory hyper pigmentation and acne: A 16-week, baseline-controlled study.

ABSTRACT Although there are few differences in the incidence and pathophysiology of acne across various races and ethnicities, there is some evidenc...

• Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 6, June 2011

• 2 USC 1551 - Sec. 1551. Baseline study of costs and benefits

• U.S. Code - Title 2: The Congress

• 42 USC 14012 - Sec. 14012. National baseline study on campus sexual assault

• US Code - Title 42: The Public Health and Welfare

• Notice of Submission for OMB Review; Institute of Education Sciences; Study of Promising Features of Teacher Preparation Programs; Phase 1-Recruitment

This Information Collection Request (ICR) seeks clearance to select teacher preparation programs, and recruit districts and schools, collect student rosters, and administer a baseline student achievement test for an experimental study of the effect on student learning of teachers who have experienced certain types of clinical practice features within university-based preparation programs.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 19267, March 30, 2012
• Notices
• Education Department

• Valuing New Media Spaces: Are Cable Network News Crawls Cross-Promotional Agents?

A comparative content analysis of CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC examined the extent to which the cable news networks utilize their news crawls or "tickers" for promotional purposes. Situated in economic, branding, and promotional theory, the study revealed that two out of three cable networks utilized their news tickers for some overt self-promotion, but used them infrequently as synergistic promotional tools for their parent companies, indicating journalistic integrity within this news space for the present time. The study also provides baseline information on the nature of cable news tickers.

• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
• Vol. 85 Nbr. 4, December 2008

• In Important Economic Indicator: Improvement

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The results of a new baseline study on leadership in central Ohio uncovered an immediate opportunity to change the local economic landscape and make the area more business-friendly by increasing the numbers of women in key leadership positions. According to The Central Ohio Leadership Census (COL-Census) conducted by The Leadership Collaborative (The Institute on Women, Otterbein University, and WELD-Women for Economic and Leadership Development), the most striking gap in gender parity is in public companies, although the opportunity to improve financial results exists across the cross-section of public and private companies, governmental entities, academic institutions and non-profit organizations listed in the study. Research by Harvard an...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 20, 2011

• Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB: Study of Public Housing Agencies' Engagement With Homeless Households

The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal. HUD is sponsoring this research effort to explore and document how public housing agencies (PHAs) currently serve and interact with homeless households. The goal of the study is to establish a baseline level of PHAs' current engagement in serving homeless households and to better understand the current opportunities provided by PHAs that either have an explicit preference for homeless households or that target assistance to homeless households in other ways.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 3786, January 25, 2012
• Notices
• Housing and Urban Development Department

• When 'Access to Antiretroviral Treatment for All' Is Not Enough

To evaluate the effect of active case management and incentives on compliance with scheduled study visits as compared to compliance with visits to monitor antiretroviral therapy (ART) and viral control for 6 months in a cohort of 144 HIV-drug users on ART in Miami. A prospective 6-month study to compare participant compliance with research visits using active case management, incentives, and close follow-up, versus their compliance with routine healthcare visits to monitor ART and viral load during the same time period. Attendance at research visits and routine healthcare visits was recorded, and CD4 cell count and viral load were measured at baseline and 6-months. Active case management included monthly scheduled visits to assess compliance with nutritional supplementation study protoc...

• Public Administration and Management
• Vol. 12 Nbr. 3, July 2007

• An open-label study of the safety and efficacy of sertaconazole nitrate in the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis.

... end points included percent change from baseline to week 4 in sum individual scores of erythema, sc...

• Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 8, August 2011

• Does the Presence of a Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial Affect Staff Practices Related to Smoking?

This study investigated whether organizational changes occurred when nicotine treatments were tested in specialty care clinics. Two intervention clinics (one drug treatment and one HIV-care) participated in clinical trials for nicotine treatment. Three clinics (two drug and one HIV-care) were control clinics. Staff in the intervention clinics (n=57) and in the control clinics (n=62) were surveyed at baseline and 18 months later. Staff surveys concerned nicotine-related knowledge, beliefs about treating smoking, self-efficacy in delivering such treatment, nicotine related practices, and barriers to providing nicotine treatment. Mean scale scores at 18 months were no different in clinics participating in the clinical trials from the control group for any of the five scales (knowledge, pra...

• Journal of Drug Issues
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 2, April 2009