Publications by authors named "M H Pinsonneault"
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- Parenting programs can effectively prevent and reduce behavior issues in young children, but many parents initially refuse to participate in such programs, posing a challenge for researchers and clinicians.
- A study examined the reasons behind parents' refusal to engage in a randomized control trial for the ÉQUIPE parenting program, focusing on sociodemographic, child, and parent characteristics.
- Results indicated that lower perceived parental efficacy and poorer relationship quality were linked to higher refusal rates, while parents who accepted participation tended to have higher efficacy levels and were more likely to have girls.
This study investigated the transactional relations between vocabulary and disruptive behaviors (DB; physical aggression and opposition/rule breaking/theft and vandalism), during the transition to formal schooling, using a community sample of 572 children. Cross-lagged panel model analyses were used to examine bidirectional relationships, comparing physical aggression to non-aggressive DB. Transactional associations between vocabulary and DB were observed, coinciding with school entry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Antimicrobial misuse leading to drug resistance is a growing concern for clinicians. Improving antimicrobial stewardship programmes through development of new tools could be part of the solution.
Aim: To evaluate antimicrobial use in hospitalized patients after implementation of an antimicrobial checklist for ward-based clinical pharmacists.
A knowledge of stellar ages is crucial for our understanding of many astrophysical phenomena, and yet ages can be difficult to determine. As they become older, stars lose mass and angular momentum, resulting in an observed slowdown in surface rotation. The technique of 'gyrochronology' uses the rotation period of a star to calculate its age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn addition to its search for extrasolar planets, the NASA Kepler mission provides exquisite data on stellar oscillations. We report the detections of oscillations in 500 solar-type stars in the Kepler field of view, an ensemble that is large enough to allow statistical studies of intrinsic stellar properties (such as mass, radius, and age) and to test theories of stellar evolution. We find that the distribution of observed masses of these stars shows intriguing differences to predictions from models of synthetic stellar populations in the Galaxy.
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