She testified that she had been on her way to deliver some clothes shed collected from her home to a church, when she spotted immigration enforcement vehicles and tried to warn friends and neighbors of their presence by honking her horn and shouting La Migra. Martinez said the Border Patrol agent swerved twice into her lane and that, after she stopped her car, it seemed time stopped. Initially she thought the sensations in her arms and legs were from being hit by pepper balls
Modern wicks are usually made of cotton, but in the past silica, ceramic and even steel mesh have been used
The internal consistency of the FTND was evaluated and compared with that of the FTQ in four studies, all of which showed that of the FTND to be superior.(6,21,23,24) However, studies in which the FTND was compared with other instruments for the evaluation of nicotine dependence, such as the Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale (MNWS) and the Tiffany Questionnaire for Smoking Urges (T-QSU), found the internal consistency of the FTND to be inferior.(22,32,34) In two different studies, it was found that FTND questions 2 and 3 add no relevant information, suggesting that the removal of these questions would increase the internal consistency of the FTND.(3,8) In one study, the overall score on the FTND was found to present an alpha of 0.67, the internal consistency being adequate ( = 0.70) for factor 1, whereas that of factor 2 (items 3 and 5) was extremely low ( = 0.40), possibly due to the small number of items in the last factor.(7) In the present meta-analysis, twelve studies involving factorial analysis of the FTND were identified
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Distributions of Psychological Stress in the United States in Probability Samples from 1983, 2006, and 20091
