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Susan Hughes, PhD

Director, Center for Research on Health and Aging, University of Illinois at Chicago
Verified email at uic.edu
Cited by 6282

Corporate environmental disclosures: are they useful in determining environmental performance?

SB Hughes, A Anderson, S Golden - Journal of accounting and public …, 2001 - Elsevier
Our paper focuses on the environmental disclosures made by 51 United States (US)
manufacturing firms for 1992 and 1993. Content analysis of annual report disclosures, made within …

Expression of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3-1α-hydroxylase in pancreatic islets

R Bland, D Markovic, CE Hills, SV Hughes… - The Journal of steroid …, 2004 - Elsevier
A number of studies have suggested that Vitamin D has a potential role in the development/treatment
of diabetes. These effects may be mediated by circulating levels of 1α,25(OH) 2 D …

Differential regulation of vitamin D receptor and its ligand in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells

M Hewison, L Freeman, SV Hughes… - The Journal of …, 2003 - journals.aai.org
The functions of dendritic cells (DCs) are tightly regulated such that protective immune responses
are elicited and unwanted immune responses are prevented. 1α25-dihydroxyvitamin D …

The Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA): An attempt at a more precise measure of ageism

M Fraboni, R Saltstone, S Hughes - Canadian Journal on Aging/La …, 1990 - cambridge.org
The Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA) is introduced in this study with reports of its factor structure,
internal consistency reliability, and its relationship to The Acceptance of Others Scale, …

Disability in activities of daily living: patterns of change and a hierarchy of disability.

DD Dunlop, SL Hughes… - American journal of …, 1997 - ajph.aphapublications.org
OBJECTIVES: This paper examines longitudinal data over 6 years to evaluate incidence
rates of disability and the pattern of dependency in activities of daily living. METHODS: The …

Getting to the point: evolutionary change in prehistoric weaponry

SS Hughes - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1998 - Springer
The evolution of prehistoric weaponry remains an open question in North American
archaeology. The traditional model argues for an early use of the throwing spear followed by the …

Effectiveness of team-managed home-based primary care: a randomized multicenter trial

SL Hughes, FM Weaver, A Giobbie-Hurder, L Manheim… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
ContextAlthough home-based health care has grown over the past decade, its effectiveness
remains controversial. A prior trial of Veterans Affairs (VA) Team-Managed Home-Based …

Ratings of voice attractiveness predict sexual behavior and body configuration

SM Hughes, F Dispenza, GG Gallup Jr - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2004 - Elsevier
We investigated the relationship between ratings of voice attractiveness and sexually
dimorphic differences in shoulder-to-hip ratios (SHR) and waist-to-hip ratios (WHR), as well as …

Appraisal and caregiving burden in family members caring for patients receiving chemotherapy.

…, MT Oberst, MA McCubbin, SH Hughes - Oncology nursing …, 1991 - europepmc.org
The purposes of this exploratory study of 49 family caregivers of patients receiving
chemotherapy were to describe the time and difficulty associated with caregiving tasks, examine …

Relationship between caregiver burden and health-related quality of life

SL Hughes, A Giobbie-Hurder, FM Weaver… - The …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
This study tested the cross-sectional relationship between caregiver burden and health-related
quality of life (HRQOL) among 1,594 caregivers of veterans identified to qualify for formal …