Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger?These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It is Dowling's controversial thesis that women succumb to societal pressures to appear weak in order to seem more "feminine."The Frailty Myth presents new evidence that girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, their strength and aerobic powers have started to decline unless the girls are exercising vigorously--and most aren't. By sixteen, they have already lost bone density and turned themselves into prime candidates for osteoporosis. They have also been deprived of motor stimulation that is essential for brain growth.Yet as breakthroughs among elite women athletes grow more and more astounding, it begins to appear that strength and physical skill--for all women--is only a matter of learning and training. Men don't have a monopoly on physical prowess; when women and men are matched in size and level of training, the strength gap closes. In some areas, women are actually equipped to outperform men, due partly to differences in body structure, and partly to the newly discovered strengthening benefits of estrogen.Drawing on extensive research in motor development, performance assessment, sports physi-ology, and endocrinology, Dowling presents an astonishing picture of the new physical woman. And she creates a powerful argument that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves--physically.

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Product DetailsOriginal Title:Frailty/Saw (Double Feature)Actors: Bill Paxton - Cary ElwesDirector: n/aCondition: USEDFormat: DVDFormat Size: WidescreenRuntime: 202 minsLanguage: EnglishDiscs: 2Region code: Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories)Rating: RGenre: HorrorRelease Year: 2007Your browser does not support iframes.

Readers will find in the pages of this book a treatment of the statistical analysis of clustered survival data. Such data are encountered in many scientific disciplines including human and veterinary medicine, biology, epidemiology, public health and demography. A typical example is the time to death in cancer patients, with patients clustered in hospitals. Frailty models provide a powerful tool to analyze clustered survival data. In this book different methods based on the frailty model are described and it is demonstrated how they can be used to analyze clustered survival data. All programs used for these examples are available on the Springer website.

Double Feature includes: "Saw" - Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back or die trying. "Frailty" - The Meiks brothers, twelve-year-old Fenton and nine-year-old Adam, enjoy an idyllic relationship with their father, a kind and sensitive man still recovering from the death of his beloved wife. When their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who has entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons" who pose as ordinary men and women, the boy's faith in their father is tested. With an axe and a list of names believed to be from God, Fenton and Adam are forced to help their father rid the world of "evil," but can they?. Frailty: "Anatomy of a Scene" courtesy of Sundance Channel, The making of Frailty, Deleted scenes, Director commentary, Production commentary, Writer commentary, Still photo presentation, Trailer, Saw: Audio commentary, Music video, Making of the music video, "Sawed Off" minifeaturette, Trailers and TV spots, Saw promotional art gallery. Subtitles: English & Spanish.

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Product DetailsOriginal Title:FrailtyActors: Bill Paxton - Jeremy Sumpter - Luke Askew - Matt O'Leary - Matthew McConaughey - Powers BootheDirector: Bill PaxtonCondition: USEDFormat: DVDFormat Size: WidescreenRuntime: 100 minsLanguage: EnglishDiscs: 1Region code: Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories)Rating: UnratedGenre: HorrorSubgenre: ThrillerRelease Year: 2002Your browser does not support iframes.

When designing and analyzing a medical study, researchers focusing on survival data must take into account the heterogeneity of the study population: due to uncontrollable variation, some members change states more rapidly than others. Survival data measures the time to a certain event or change of state. For example, the event may be death, occurrence of disease, time to an epileptic seizure, or time from response until disease relapse. Frailty is a convenient method to introduce unobserved proportionality factors that modify the hazard functions of an individual. In spite of several new research developments on the topic, there are very few books devoted to frailty models. Modeling Survival Data Using Frailty Models covers recent advances in methodology and applications of frailty models, and presents survival analysis and frailty models ranging from fundamental to advanced. Eight data on survival times with covariates sets are discussed, and analysis is carried out using the R statistical package. This book covers: Basic concepts in survival analysis, shared frailty models and bivariate frailty models Parametric distributions and their corresponding regression models Nonparametric Kaplan–Meier estimation and Cox's proportional hazard model The concept of frailty and important frailty models Different estimation procedures such as EM and modified EM algorithms Logrank tests and CUSUM of chi-square tests for testing frailty Shared frailty models in different bivariate exponential and bivariate Weibull distributions Frailty models based on Lévy processes Different estimation procedures in bivariate frailty models Correlated gamma frailty, lognormal and power variance function frailty models Additive frailty models Identifiability of bivariate frailty and correlated frailty models The problem of analyzing time to event data arises in a number of applied fields, such as medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics, and demography. Although the statistical tools presented in this book are applicable to all these disciplines, this book focuses on frailty in biological and medical statistics, and is designed to prepare students and professionals for experimental design and analysis.

Readers will find in the pages of this book a treatment of the statistical analysis of clustered survival data. Such data are encountered in many scientific disciplines including human and veterinary medicine, biology, epidemiology, public health and demography. A typical example is the time to death in cancer patients, with patients clustered in hospitals. Frailty models provide a powerful tool to analyze clustered survival data. In this book different methods based on the frailty model are described and it is demonstrated how they can be used to analyze clustered survival data. All programs used for these examples are available on the Springer website.

Years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God’s Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death. Convinced that he knows the killer’s identity, Fenton Meiks shows up at FBI Headquarters, intent on putting an end to the murderous rampage and relieving his conscience of his family’s sinister secrets.

Years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God’s Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death. Convinced that he knows the killer’s identity, Fenton Meiks shows up at FBI Headquarters, intent on putting an end to the murderous rampage and relieving his conscience of his family’s sinister secrets.

Free Worldwide Delivery : Jane and the Barque of Frailty : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780553584080 : 0553584081 : 03 Nov 2007 : In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. Shes been named the prime suspect in a high-society murder investigation.

Frailty Poster (11 x 17 Inches - 28cm x 44cm) (2002) Style A reproduction poster print CAST: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Luke Askew, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter, Derk Cheetwood, Missy (Melissa) Crider, Alan Davidson, Cynthia Ettinger, Vincent Chase, Levi Kreis; DIRECTED BY: Bill Paxton; WRITTEN BY: Brent Hanley; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Bill Butler; MUSIC BY: Brian Tyler; SOUND: Susumu Tokunow; MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Joel High; EDITING: Arnold Glassman; ART DIRECTION: Nelson Coates, Kevin Cozen; COSTUMES: April Ferry. PRODUCER: David Kirschner, David Blocker, Corey Sienega, Cinerenta-Cinebeta, American Entertainment Company, Cinedelta, Lion's Gate Films.

Readers will find in the pages of this book a treatment of the statistical analysis of clustered survival data. Such data are encountered in many scientific disciplines including human and veterinary medicine, biology, epidemiology, public health and demography. A typical example is the time to death in cancer patients, with patients clustered in hospitals. Frailty models provide a powerful tool to analyze clustered survival data. In this book different methods based on the frailty model are described and it is demonstrated how they can be used to analyze clustered survival data. All programs used for these examples are available on the Springer website.

Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger?These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It is Dowling's controversial thesis that women succumb to societal pressures to appear weak in order to seem more "feminine."The Frailty Myth presents new evidence that girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, their strength and aerobic powers have started to decline unless the girls are exercising vigorously--and most aren't. By sixteen, they have already lost bone density and turned themselves into prime candidates for osteoporosis. They have also been deprived of motor stimulation that is essential for brain growth.Yet as breakthroughs among elite women athletes grow more and more astounding, it begins to appear that strength and physical skill--for all women--is only a matter of learning and training. Men don't have a monopoly on physical prowess; when women and men are matched in size and level of training, the strength gap closes. In some areas, women are actually equipped to outperform men, due partly to differences in body structure, and partly to the newly discovered strengthening benefits of estrogen.Drawing on extensive research in motor development, performance assessment, sports physi-ology, and endocrinology, Dowling presents an astonishing picture of the new physical woman. And she creates a powerful argument that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves--physically.

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our liquid modern society must tie whatever bonds they can to engage with others, using their own wits, skill and dedication. But none of these bonds are guaranteed to last. Moreover, they must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. The uncanny frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires, and the conflicting desires to tighten the bonds yet keep them loose, are the principal themes of this important new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology and in the social sciences and humanities generally, and it will appeal to anyone interested in the changing nature of human relationships.

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our liquid modern society must tie whatever bonds they can to engage with others, using their own wits, skill and dedication. But none of these bonds are guaranteed to last. Moreover, they must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. The uncanny frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires, and the conflicting desires to tighten the bonds yet keep them loose, are the principal themes of this important new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology and in the social sciences and humanities generally, and it will appeal to anyone interested in the changing nature of human relationships.

This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant.

SAW/FRAILTY - DVD Movie

Release Date: 2010-12-07, Audio CD, METAL MIN2

This is a collection of nineteen poems, written from the heart, that reveal the frailties of life and love. If you have ever loved and lost, you will find yourself in these poems. Painful yet liberating, they capture not only the essence of loss, but the necessity to move on.

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Mayhem and madness reign in this zestful account of the lives and loves of the outrageous Pentecosts.