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Article: Reports outline rehabilitation research study results from University of Memphis.
- Article from:
- AIDS Weekly
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "The purpose of this cross-cultural research is to examine prototypical perspectives about disability groups in the United States and Russia by extending the research on disability prototypes that was conducted by McCaughey and Strohmer."
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