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Depression measures' cross cultural reliability and validity through a factor analysis; however, no study to date has specifically investigated which measure is the most reliable and valid for the Latino population. This study will examine the internal consistency, convergent validity and construct validity for the Self-Rating Depression Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. A questionnaire packet was distributed to 300 participants who self identify as Latina o. Data was entered and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Findings will provide important information for practitioners in the mental health fields regarding the proper assessment of depression for Latina o college students. Additionally, the study will provide directives for future research in the area of measure validation for student populations. Lateral Morphometric Images in Facial Beauty Koohyar Karimi Mentor: Brian Wong Quantitative approaches in defining facial beauty rely on correlating subjective grading of facial beauty with linear and angular dimensions of the human face. Morphing software creates a composite image from two facial images by superimposing user-defined registry points. Currently, research has focused exclusively on analysis of frontal facial images. Lateral facial landmarks critical to specifying registry points are unknown. First, this study identifies the critical facial landmarks used as registry points to produce lateral facial morphs. Second, the developed method was implemented in a pilot investigation aimed at verifying whether this approach can create successive generations of morphs. To create synthetic lateral facial images, we used morphing software to assign approximately 200 registry points to distinct facial landmarks of lateral images. Each registry point that identified a facial feature of one image was paired with the corresponding feature of the other image. Images in the top 50th percentile were randomly morphed to produce the next "attractive" generation. Likewise, those in the bottom 50th percentile were morphed to produce a new generation of "unattractive" offspring. This process was repeated for five generations. Each generation was posted on an Internet-based rating Web site for one week. The scores were statistically analyzed to determine if the offspring faces maintained scores similar to those of their parents. The proposed registry point selection process produced synthetic morphed images that yielded clear contours on all facial features. Furthermore, the average beauty scores of offspring generations consistently maintained their categorical placement in either attractive or unattractive lateral images and triamcinolone. INH MEDS 8.8 ; In the past 3 months, what medications did take by inhaler? [MARK ALL THAT APPLY. PROBE: Any other medications?] Brand Name Advair Aerobid Albuterol Alupent Atrovent Azmacort Beclomethasone dipropionate Beclovent Bitolterol Brethaire Budeaonide Combivent Cromolyn Flovent Flovent Rotadisk Flunisolide Fluticasone Intal Ipratropium Bromide Maxair Metaproteronol Nedocromil Pirbuterol Proventil Pulmicort Turbuhaler Salmeterol Serevent Terbutaline Tilade Tornalate Triamcinolone acetonide Vanceril Ventolin Other, Please Specify Type not shown in CATI ; Corticosteroids beta 2 agonist beta 2 agonist Anticholinergic Corticosteroids Corticosteroids Corticosteroids beta 2 agonist beta 2 agonist Corticosteroids Anti-inflammatories inhaled corticosteroid inhaled corticosteroid Corticosteroids inhaled corticosteroid Anti-inflammatories Anticholinergic beta 2 agonist beta 2 agonist Anti-inflammatories beta 2 agonist beta 2 agonist Corticosteroids beta 2 agonist LONG LASTING ; beta 2 agonist LONG LASTING ; beta 2 agonist Anti-inflammatories beta 2 agonist Corticosteroids Corticosteroids beta 2 agonist [SKIP TO OTH I1]. Table 5.2. K-means clustering based on stratum corneum solvent partitioning. MNA is methyl nicotinate, SLS is sodium lauryl sulphate and PG is propylene glycol and diphenhydramine.

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