Despite its efficacy, screening mammography is not widely utilized due to various factors. The Health Belief Model (HBM) has previously been used as one conceptualization of relevant patient attitudes. No psychometrically validated measure of these variables has previously been utilized, however, nor have prospective studies of women all of whom have been referred by their physicians for mammography been reported. The research reported here addressed both of those issues. A psychometrically validated measure of the HBM variables, perceived susceptibility, barriers, and benefits, was used, along with age, education, ethnicity, and family breast cancer history to predict mammography utilization in a prospective study of hospital employees. Being white, perceiving fewer benefits of and barriers to mammography, and having a family history of breast cancer were predictive of noncompliance. The avoidant behavior of employees with a family history of breast cancer must be addressed in attempts to increase mammography utilization. In addition, results of the study imply the need for full discussion with women referred for mammography of all issues related to its use, both its benefits and possible barriers.

Abstract. Let X be a (not necessarily reduced) complex analytic space, and let F be a germ of an analytic space. The locus of points q in X at which the germ Xq is complex analytically isomorphic to F is studied. If it is nonempty it is shown to be a locally closed submanifold of X, and X is locally a Cartesian product along this submanifold. This is used to define what amounts to a coarse partial ordering of singularities. This partial ordering is used to show that there is an essentially unique way to completely decompose an arbitrary reduced singularity as a cartesian product of lower dimensional singularities. This generalizes a result previously known only for irreducible singularities. 0. Introduction. Let X be a complex analytic space. For q E X, Xq will denote the germ of X at q. In this paper I will study the isosingular loci defined by Definition 0.1. Forp G X let lso{X,p) = {qEX\Xq = Xp).(¡a here and elsewhere will mean complex analytically isomorphic.) It will be shown that:Theorem 0.2. For any p E X, lso{X,p) is a {possibly 0-dimensional) complex submanifold of some open subset of X. Moreover, for any q E Iso (A", p) there is an open neighbornood U of q, and an analytic space Y such that U at Y X {U n lso{X,p)). (X is the cartesian product in the category of analytic spaces.)This result is used to introduce what is, in effect, a partial ordering of complex analytic singularities in terms of their complexity. This, in turn, is used to study the ways in which a germ of an analytic space may be written as the cartesian product of other germs of analytic spaces. Let F be a germ of an analytic space ( V not the reduced point). By a decomposition of V of length

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Abstract. Let X be a (not necessarily reduced) complex analytic space, and let F be a germ of an analytic space. The locus of points q in X at which the germ Xq is complex analytically isomorphic to F is studied. If it is nonempty it is shown to be a locally closed submanifold of X, and X is locally a Cartesian product along this submanifold. This is used to define what amounts to a coarse partial ordering of singularities. This partial ordering is used to show that there is an essentially unique way to completely decompose an arbitrary reduced singularity as a cartesian product of lower dimensional singularities. This generalizes a result previously known only for irreducible singularities.