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A pregnancy lifestyle intervention to prevent gestational diabetes risk factors in overweight Hispanic women: a feasibility randomized controlled trial by Hawkins, M., Hosker, M., Marcus, B. H., Rosal, M. C., Braun, B., Stanek III, E. J., Markenson, G., Chasan-Taber, L.

“…Aims To pilot the feasibility of a prenatal lifestyle intervention to modify physical activity and diet among pregnant overweight and obese Hispanic women,…”
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Bayesian Methods for Nonignorable Dropout in Joint Models in Smoking Cessation Studies by Gaskins, J. T., Daniels, M. J., Marcus, B. H.

“…Inference on data with missingness can be challenging, particularly if the knowledge that a measurement was unobserved provides information about its…”
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Fully Bayesian inference under ignorable missingness in the presence of auxiliary covariates by Daniels, M.J, Wang, C, Marcus, B.H

“…In order to make a missing at random (MAR) or ignorability assumption realistic, auxiliary covariates are often required. However, the auxiliary covariates are…”
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Comparison of Lifestyle and Structured Interventions to Increase Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Randomized Trial by Dunn, Andrea L, Marcus, Bess H, Kampert, James B, Garcia, Melissa E, Kohl III, Harold W, Blair, Steven N

“…CONTEXT Even though the strong association between physical inactivity and ill health is well documented, 60% of the population is inadequately active or…”
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The stages of exercise behavior by MARCUS, B. H, SIMKIN, L. R

“…The stages of change model has shown promise in advancing knowledge about smoking behavior change and other negative addictive behaviors. The model was applied…”
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Using electronic/computer interventions to promote physical activity by Marcus, B H, Ciccolo, J T, Sciamanna, C N

“…The internet has been used as a method to deliver various health interventions (eg, weight management, smoking cessation, increasing physical activity). An…”
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Six-month physical activity and fitness changes in Project Active, a randomized trial by DUNN, A. L, GARCIA, M. E, MARCUS, B. H, KAMPERT, J. B, KOHL, H. W, BLAIR, S. N

“…Project Active is a randomized clinical trial (N = 235) comparing a lifestyle physical activity program with a structured exercise program in changing physical…”
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Self-efficacy and the stages of exercise behavior change by Marcus, B H, Selby, V C, Niaura, R S, Rossi, J S

“…This study examined the application of constructs concerning stage of readiness to change and self-efficacy to exercise. We developed two scales to measure…”
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Concavity of the Mutual Information Rate for Input-Restricted Memoryless Channels at High SNR by Guangyue Han, Marcus, B. H.

“…We consider a memoryless channel with an input Markov process supported on a mixing finite-type constraint. We continue the development of asymptotics for the…”
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Assessing Motivational Readiness and Decision Making for Exercise by Marcus, Bess H, Rakowski, William, Rossi, Joseph S

“…Motivational and cognitive processes of behavior change with respect to the area of exercise adoption were investigated. A total of 778 men and women,…”
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Sparsity Inducing Prior Distributions for Correlation Matrices of Longitudinal Data by Gaskins, J. T., Daniels, M. J., Marcus, B. H.

“…For longitudinal data, the modeling of a correlation matrix  R can be a difficult statistical task due to both the positive definite and the unit diagonal…”
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Exercise effects on withdrawal and mood among women attempting smoking cessation by Bock, Beth C, Marcus, Bess H, King, Teresa K, Borrelli, Belinda, Roberts, Mary R

“…This study investigated both acute and longer term (“chronic”) effects of vigorous exercise training on affect, nicotine withdrawal, and cigarette craving…”
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The stages and processes of exercise adoption and maintenance in a worksite sample by Marcus, B H, Rossi, J S, Selby, V C, Niaura, R S, Abrams, D B

“…We applied the model of the stages and processes of change to exercise adoption and maintenance. This model has shown promise in advancing theory and treatment…”
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The Impact of Depression on Smoking Cessation in Women by Borrelli, Belinda, Bock, Beth, King, Teresa, Pinto, Bernardine, Marcus, Bess H.

“…Cigarette smoking poses unique, but preventable health risks to women. Identification of barriers to womens’ quitting is essential to tailor interventions…”
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Using the stages of change model to increase the adoption of physical activity among community participants by Marcus, B H, Banspach, S W, Lefebvre, R C, Rossi, J S, Carleton, R A, Abrams, D B

“…This study examined the use of the stages of change model to design an exercise intervention for community volunteers. The "Imagine Action" campaign was a…”
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A Multisite Field Test of the Acceptability of Physical Activity Counseling in Primary Care: Project PACE by Long, Barbara J., Calfas, Karen J., Wooten, Wilma, Sallis, James F., Patrick, Kevin, Goldstein, Michael, Marcus, Bess H., Schwenk, Thomas L., Chenoweth, James, Carter, Richard, Torres, Trissa, Palinkas, Lawrence A., Heath, Gregory

“…Primary health-care providers have been encouraged to counsel their patients about regular physical activity, but there are significant barriers to effective…”
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Exercise and Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: A Statement From the Council on Clinical Cardiology (Subcommittee on Exercise, Rehabilitation, and Prevention) and the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism (Subcommittee on Physical Activity) by Thompson, Paul D, Buchner, David, Piña, Ileana L, Balady, Gary J, Williams, Mark A, Marcus, Bess H, Berra, Kathy, Blair, Steven N, Costa, Fernando, Franklin, Barry, Fletcher, Gerald F, Gordon, Neil F, Pate, Russell R, Rodriguez, Beatriz L, Yancey, Antronette K, Wenger, Nanette K

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Exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: A statement from the council on clinical cardiology (subcommittee on exercise, rehabilitation, and prevention) and the council on nutrition, physical activity, and metabolism (subcommittee on physical activity) by THOMPSON, Paul D, BUCHNER, David, FLETCHER, Gerald F, GORDON, Neil F, PATE, Russell R, RODRIGUEZ, Beatriz L, YANCEY, Antronette K, WENGER, Nanette K, PINA, Ileana L, BALADY, Gary J, WILLIAMS, Mark A, MARCUS, Bess H, BERRA, Kathy, BLAIR, Steven N, COSTA, Fernando, FRANKLIN, Barry

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Body image evaluations in women smokers by King, Teresa K, Matacin, Mala, Marcus, Bess H, Bock, Beth C, Tripolone, Janice

“…While body image has been found to be an important predictor for several health behaviors (abnormal dieting, weight regain, exercise), only one study to date…”
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Finite-state modulation codes for data storage by Marcus, B.H., Siegel, P.H., Wolf, J.K.

“…The authors provide a self-contained exposition of modulation code design methods based upon the state splitting algorithm. They review the necessary…”
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