In general cantons regulate and control the Swiss health service system; patient flows within and between cantons are thereby partially disregarded. This paper develops an alternative spatial model, based upon the construction of orthopedic hospital service areas (HSAOs), and introduces indices for the analysis of patient streams in order to identify areas, irrespective of canton, with diverse characteristics, importance, needs, or demands. HSAOs were constructed using orthopedic discharge data. Patient streams between the HSAOs were analysed by calculating three indices: the localization index (% local residents discharged locally), the netindex (the ratio of discharges of nonlocal incoming residents to outgoing local residents), and the market share index (% of local resident discharges of all discharges in local hospitals). The 85 orthopedic HSAOs show a median localization index of 60.8%, a market share index of 75.1%, and 30% of HSAOs have a positive netindex. Insurance class of bed, admission type

Both off-sale alcohol outlets per square mile and off-sale outlets per person demonstrate strong geographic associations with homicide rates among urban residential census tracts in New Orleans. These findings suggest that communities faced with high rates of assaultive violence might consider polic …

This paper uses spatial data of cases of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) to examine neighborhood-level influences on small-area variations in IPVAW risk in a police district of the city of Valencia (Spain). To analyze area variations in IPVAW risk and its association with neighborhood-level explanatory variables we use a Bayesian spatial random-effects modeling approach, as well as disease mapping methods to represent risk probabilities in each area. Analyses show that IPVAW cases are more likely in areas of high immigrant concentration, high public disorder and crime, and high physical disorder. Results also show a spatial component indicating remaining variability attributable to spatially structured random effects. Bayesian spatial modeling offers a new perspective to identify IPVAW high and low risk areas, and provides a new avenue for the design of better-informed prevention and intervention strategies.

This study developed a method for measuring change in socio-economic equity in health care utilisation using small-area level administrative data. Our method provides more detailed information on utilisation than survey data but only examines socio-economic differences between neighbourhoods rather than individuals. The context was the English NHS from 2001 to 2008, a period of accelerated expenditure growth and pro-competition reform. Hospital records for all adults receiving non-emergency hospital care in the English NHS from 2001 to 2008 were aggregated to 32,482 English small areas with mean population about 1500 and combined with other small-area administrative data. Regression models of utilisation were used to examine year-on-year change in the small-area association between deprivation and utilisation, allowing for population size, age-sex composition and disease prevalence including (from 2003 to 2008) cancer, chronic kidney disease, coronary heart disease, diabetes, epilepsy, ...

Jeffrey B. Gould is professor of Maternal and Child Health in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. At the time of the study, Beate Herrchen was assistant researcher, Tanya Pham was student research assistant and Stephan Bera was research assistant in the Maternal and Child Health Program. Claire Brindis is director of the Center for Reproductive Health Policy Research, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco. The project described in this article was initiated by the California State Office of Family Planning, made possible by a grant from the California Wellness Foundation and performed under subcontract to the Center for Health Training. The authors are indebted to Robert Natti for his many years of encouragement, to Richard Yoder for project management and project area review, to Bobbie Wunsch for facilitating regional meetings, and to Dixie Chan, Jane Boggess and Nancy Snyder for organizing regional meetings and identifying ...

Significant efforts have been undertaken in medicine to identify hospital and primary care service areas (eg, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care) using patient origin information. Similar research in dentistry is nonexistent. The goal of this dissertation was to develop and refine methods of defining dentist service areas (DSAs) using dental insurance claims. These service areas were then used as spatial units of analysis in studies that examined relationships between utilization of oral health services, dentist workforce supply, and service area characteristics. Enrollment and claims data were obtained from the Iowa Medicaid program for children and adolescents ages 3-18 years during calendar years 2008 through 2010. The first study described rates of treatment by orthodontists in children ages 6-18 years. Orthodontic DSAs were identified by small area analysis in order to examine regional variability in utilization. The overall rate of utilization was approximately 3%; 19 DSAs were delineated.

Background Several European studies have found significant small area variation in the risk of childhood onset (type 1) diabetes (T1D) which has been interpreted as evidence for contextual determinants of T1D. However, this conclusion may be fallacious since the limited number of newborn infants and the low risk for T1D is a source of spurious variability not properly handled by usual statistical methods. This study investigates the existence of contextual effects in the genesis of T1D, compares conclusions in previous reports with results obtained in a multilevel regression framework and highlights analysis of variance as a useful approach in public health.. Methods All singletons born in Sweden between 1987 and 1991 were identified in the Medical Birth Registry (n=560 766) and followed for diabetes until age 14 using the Hospital Discharge Registry. Area variation in the cumulative incidence of T1D was estimated by different statistical methods including multilevel logistic ...

Springer. 17(4): pp. 421-428 (PMID 16596294).. Blakey K, Feltbower RG, Parslow RC, James PW, Gomez PB, et al. Is fluoride a risk factor for bone cancer? Small area analysis of osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma diagnosed among 0-49 year olds in Great Britain, 1980-2005. (2014, February ...

Selection of individual variables for any measure should be based on the theoretical fit with the concept we are interested in measuring, such as material deprivation, and on the particular context of a country. Most deprivation measures include domains relating to income, employment, socioeconomic status or class (often based on job type), education, housing and ownership of specific goods or items. Some measures also include domains relating to access to various services (schools, shops, doctors) or information on the environment (street lighting, crime rates).. There are strong theoretical grounds to include each of the listed domains in deprivation measures. For example, low-income and unemployment reflect deprivation as they limit material resources, while low levels of education disadvantage people in accessing many resources, such as better jobs or services. Sound theoretical mechanisms also connect these domains to health, for example, income curbs access to factors (eg, food, housing, ...

Different indicators of morbidity for chronic disease may not necessarily be available at a disaggregated spatial scale (e.g., for small areas with populations under 10 thousand). Instead certain indicators may only be available at a more highly aggregated spatial scale; for example, deaths may be recorded for small areas, but disease prevalence only at a considerably higher spatial scale. Nevertheless prevalence estimates at small area level are important for assessing health need. An instance is provided by England where deaths and hospital admissions for coronary heart disease are available for small areas known as wards, but prevalence is only available for relatively large health authority areas. To estimate CHD prevalence at small area level in such a situation, a shared random effect method is proposed that pools information regarding spatial morbidity contrasts over different indicators (deaths, hospitalizations, prevalence). The shared random effect approach also incorporates differences

Downloadable (with restrictions)! This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data suggest that state-level hospitalization rates vary from 65 to 165 percent of the national mean. Ambulatory doctor visits range from 90 to 120 percent of the national mean. Interestingly, in the former GDR states, doctor visit rates are significantly below the national mean, while hospitalization rates lie above the national mean. The significant state-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents health status, their health behavior as well as supply-side state-level factors.

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The Executive Summary presents an overview of the findings from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys Disparity Study. It summarizes the key statistical findings from the Prime Contractor Utilization Analysis, Subcontractor Utilization Analysis, Market Area Analysis, Prime and Subcontractor Availability Analysis, Regression Analysis and Disparity Analysis. The Executive Summary also provides a brief review of the Anecdotal Analysis and presents the Race and Gender-Neutral Recommendations. ...

Principal Investigator：Takashi Shinohara, Project Period (FY)：2015-11-06 - 2018-03-31, Research Category：Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Project Area：Analyses and regulation of germline epigenome

Principal Investigator：福井 宣規, Project Period (FY)：2012-06-28 - 2017-03-31, Research Category：Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Project Area：Analysis and synthesis of multi-dimensional immune organ network

The study focused on the movement processes in the squander, which might be inadequately acknowledged. It might be argued that the upper part of the squander mass moved downward by way of a sliding course of action, Whilst the distal aspect shown a flow movement, related like a debris avalanche. Surprisingly, this statement is just not consistent with the interpretations of formers experiments (Desk 1). 50 % of the gatherings described during the literature had been Plainly described as slides (e.g. at Kettleman in California, Istanbul, Coroña, Jakarta). Other occasions were referred to as waste flows comparable to debris flows (e.g. at Bogota, Durban, Manila and maybe Belo Horizonte). Having said that, the interpretations of the previous scientific tests were being only determined by visual observations by eyewitnesses, whereas the techniques we used merged each eyewitness accounts in addition to a area analysis of the internal structure on the squander deposits ...

Jonah,. Just to add a little to your Military Guys response to the decoy and concealment issue, the Serbs werent the only ones learning lessons in the air war over Serbia.. I tried a little experiment with two sergeants, a TACSAT radio and a frequency to one of the JSTARS crews. We found what we were looking for (self-propelled rocket launchers and towed artillery on the Kosovo/Albanian border no one could pinpoint) using good old teamwork. We radioed the coordinates of the holes they were hiding in to the CAOC (Combined Air Operations Center) in Vicenza and would have had a pretty good go of it. By the way, they were firing the tubes (conventional arty) at night then pulling them back into house cellars before daybreak.. The bad news was, some (not in the CAOC) wanted to do more target area analysis that completely negated what was our on-the-fly solution to the attack pilots Holy Grail: true time-critical targeting (see it and shoot it within minutes).. End of experiment.. We could have ...

Introduction: The main objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of PRF, DFDBA and combination of both in periapical defects healing.. Materials and Methods: 24 patients, aged between 20 - 40 years, were screened for bilateral periapical lesions of maxillary lesions below 2 cm in dimension in the radiograph and were included in the study. The patients were divided into 3 Groups with 8 in each, group 1: One lesion taken as control, another lesion treated with PRF, group 2: One lesion taken as control, another lesion treated with DFDBA, group 3: One lesion taken as control another lesion treated with combination of DFDBA and PRF. Patients recalled after 3 months and 6 months for clinical and radiographic evaluation followed by Morphometric area analysis (MA).. Results: On comparing percentage in bone formation from baseline to 6 months in Test vs Control showed more percentage change with Group 3 test containing both PRF and DFDBA.. Conclusion: Group III containing combination of PRF and ...

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HORIBA offers instruments for particle size, particle shape, zeta potential, and surface area analysis. Measurable particle size range is from below 1 nanometer to 30 millimeters, at concentrations ranging from 1 ppm to 50 vol% with shape determination available starting at 1 micrometer. A range of analytical techniques are employed including laser diffraction (Mie Theory), dynamic light scattering, nanotracking analysis (NTA) and dynamic and static image analysis (for measuring both particle size and shape information). ...

During Rutherford cable production the wires are plastically deformed and their initially round shape is distorted. Using X-ray absorption tomography we have determined the 3D shape of an unreacted Nb3Sn 11 T dipole Rutherford cable, and of a reacted and impregnated Nb3Sn cable double stack. State-of-theart image processing was applied to correct for tomographic artefacts caused by the large cable aspect ratio, for the segmentation of the individual wires and subelement bundles inside the wires, and for the calculation of the wire cross sectional area and shape variations. The 11 T dipole cable cross section oscillates by 2% with a frequency of 1.24 mm (1/80 of the transposition pitch length of the 40 wire cable). A comparatively stronger cross sectional area variation is observed in the individual wires at the thin edge of the keystoned cable where the wire aspect ratio is largest ...

1 shows the geographical distribution. of London users in relation to the BCH Zone. In comparison with residents and workers in the BCH Zone (Table 2), registered users were more likely to be male (69.6% versus 48.7%), less likely to live in LSOAs with income deprivation scores in the most deprived fifth (15.9% versus 22.7%) and more likely to live in LSOAs with income deprivation Ibrutinib datasheet scores in the least deprived fifth (26.4% versus 20.4%). The ethnic diversity of registered users areas was slightly greater than the average for residents and workers in the BCH Zone (mean percentage of populations who were non-White British 36.1% versus 34.3%), and the prevalence of commuter cycling in registered users areas was higher than the average for the home areas. of BCH Zone residents and workers (mean percentage of population commuting by cycling 3.4% versus 2.6%). All comparisons were statistically significant at the p , 0.001 level. Among those who did register for the scheme, ...

Traditional survey methods for obtaining nationwide small-area estimates (SAEs) of childhood obesity are costly. This study applied a geocoded national health survey in a multilevel modeling framework to estimate prevalence of childhood obesity at the census block-group level.

The Census of Population and Housing is the largest statistical collection undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and one of the most important. Its objective is to accurately measure the number and key characteristics of people in Australia on Census Night, and the dwellings in which they live. This information provides a reliable basis for the estimation of the population of each of the states, territories and local government areas, primarily for electoral purposes and the distribution of government funds. The Census also provides the characteristics of the Australian population and its housing within small geographic areas and for small population groups. This information supports the planning, administration, policy development and evaluation activities of governments and other users ...

Data for the Middletown Area Studies were collected every year from 1978 to 1998. The purpose of these studies was to assess the views and lifestyles of citizens on a diverse range of subjects. The major topics included questions on life satisfaction, education, income, family, religion, and politics. The 1998 study was designed to assess the nature of congregations, the unchurched, and caregiving in Middletown.

Data for the Middletown Area Studies were collected every year from 1978 to 1998. The purpose of these studies was to assess the views and lifestyles of citizens on a diverse range of subjects. The major topics included questions on life satisfaction, education, income, family, religion, and politics. The 1998 study was designed to assess the nature of congregations, the unchurched, and caregiving in Middletown.

Evaluation of long-term effectiveness of population-based breast cancer service screening program in a small geographic area may suffer from self-selection bias and small samples. Under a prospective cohort design with exposed and non-exposed groups classified by whether women attended the screen up …

Lian M, Schootman M, Doubeni CA, Park Y, Major JM, Stone RA, Laiyemo AO, Hollenbeck AR, Graubard BI, Schatzkin A. Geographic variation in colorectal cancer survival and the role of small-area socioeconomic deprivation: a multilevel survival analysis of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Cohort. Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Oct 1; 174(7):828-38 ...

Jessica Godwin, a graduate student in the Department of Statistics, has an MA in Statistics and is interested in statistical problems with applications in demography and the social sciences. As part of her fellowship, Jessica will be studying spatial and temporal variation in health outcomes in a global health setting. She will be combining large amounts of surveyed health data (millions of monthly records in each survey year) with covariate information on a fine spatial gird, and to subsequently smooth with space-time Gaussian process (GP) models. She will also be producing global small area estimates of under-five mortality, addressing statistical issues that inevitably arise when fitting a model to different data, and working on interpreting and synthesizing the findings. This research would bring demography research on small area estimates of health and under five mortality up to the standards of the state of the art in spatial estimation, along with allowing for the inclusion of covariates. ...

Broad Band Light (BBL), also called Pulsed Light, is another great way to boost collagen production without downtime. We recommend treatments every 6-12 months. These sessions also reduce the appearance of blood vessels and brown spots which makes them a popular yearly winter treatment.. Ultherapy is the newest addition to collagen stimulation in the skin. Originally meant for deep tissue tightening, we have found that their newest superficial treatment tip is very effective at promoting collagen directly in the skin. Treatments produce some hive-like redness for a few days and so we usually recommend treating small areas at a time. Treatments can be done 2-3 times a year.. The ultimate collagen stimulator is a low density, Deep Mixto treatment. This requires more time in the office and more downtime due to redness. We recommend they be performed for the full face every 2-3 years or on small areas as needed.. Combinations of any of the above methods help keep it fresh. Remember that the exact ...

There will be 3 two hours seminars in the first half of the semester, a library-tour, and 1 two hour seminar at the end of the semester, 10 hours in all. Students are entitled to some individual guidance from the teacher during the semester.. Mandatory course-work: In order to submit the final paper, all students must present their work in the group presentations session held at the third seminar. You must attend at least 3 out of 5 seminars. Additional absences must be justified by documentation to the exam coordinator. Read more about guidelines relating to compulsory activities.. ...

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Affiliation：京都大学,総合博物館,教授, Research Field：系統・分類,Biodiversity/Systematics,自然史科学,Area studies,環境保全, Keywords：分類,日華植物区系,植物相,分子系統,ボルネオ,植物地理,多様性,熱帯雨林,混交フタバガキ林,ヒマラヤ, # of Research Projects：14, # of Research Products：5

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Imagine, if you will, that all the hipsters and rockers from your town emigrated, founding their own indie-rock town somewhere else, and youll have a rough approximation of what SXSW is like. Unlike its New York counterpart, CMJ, SXSW is concentrated into one relatively small area of Austin, so it has the feeling…

The main goal of this paper is to Investigate how to estimate sampling design variances of modelbased and model-assisted small area estimators in a complex survey sampling setup. For this purpose the Spanish Labour Force ...

2. As of a year or two ago, Boosts coupling was *nothing like* ACEs. A friend of mine was working for a company that built refactoring software that could graph dependencies. When they threw the technology at ACE, it quickly became known as the blob: because everything was linked to everything else, you couldnt make out the individual edges in the graph. All you could see was a big black mass. When we did the same with Boost, there were a few small areas that could be improved, but for the most part the dependencies were hierarchical and non-cyclic. I dont know what has happened with ACE recently (things may have improved), but Boost has maintained the practices that resulted in that low coupling ...

Most doctors would advise against using any creams except on a very small area, such as a finger, as these often delay healing and can hide a problem...

أَوَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُمْ آيَةً أَن يَعْلَمَهُ عُلَمَاءُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ(الشعراء: 197کیا ان کیلئے یہ نشانی نہ ہوئی کہ اس قرآن /نبی کو بنی اسرائیل کے علماء پہچانتے ہیں) نیویارک کے ایک یہودی گھرانے کی عالمہ فاضلہ خاتون جو اپنی ایک کتاب میں لکھتی ہے کہ اسکا خاندان گورا (اشکنازی) یہودی نہیں بلکہ مشرقی (بنی اسرائیلی) ہے۔ جب یہ خاتون تن تنہا سات سمندر پار کرکے (ھجرۃ الی اللہ ورسولہ) لاہور آئی تو ایک کنواری لڑکی تھی! خدا کی یہ نشانی اور قرآن و محمد صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کی صداقت پر ایک منہ بولتی برہان، ایک عظیم مصنفہ، مہاجرہ، نیویارک کی ماڈرن زندگی کو خیرباد کہہ کر ...

Self-poisoning is one of the most common methods of suicide worldwide. The intentional ingestion of pesticides is the main contributor to such deaths and in many parts of rural Asia pesticide self-poisoning is a major public health problem. To inform the development of preventive measures in these settings, this study investigates small-area variation in self-poisoning incidence and its association with area-based socioeconomic and agricultural factors. Ecological analysis of intentional self-poisoning in a rural area (population 267,613) of Sri Lanka in 2002. The geographic distribution of cases was mapped to place of residence. Using administrative division (GN), median population size 1416, as unit of analysis, associations with socioeconomic and agricultural indicators were explored using negative binomial regression models. The overall incidence of intentional self-poisoning in the study area was 315 per 100,000 (range: 0 - 2168 per 100,000 across GNs). Socioeconomic disadvantage, as indexed by

A catchment area (CA) is the geographic area and population from which a cancer center draws patients. Defining a CA allows a cancer center to describe its primary patient population and assess how well it meets the needs of cancer patients within the CA. A CA definition is required for cancer centers applying for National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center status. In this research, we constructed both diagnosis and diagnosis/treatment CAs for the Massey Cancer Center (MCC) at Virginia Commonwealth University. We constructed diagnosis CAs for all cancers based on Virginia state cancer registry data and Bayesian hierarchical logistic regression models. We constructed a diagnosis/treatment CA using billing data from MCC and a Bayesian hierarchical Poisson regression model. To define CAs, we used exceedance probabilities for county random effects to assess unusual spatial clustering of patients diagnosed or treated at MCC after adjusting for important demographic covariates. We used the MCC

Almeida SP, Casimiro E, Calheiros J. 2010. Effects of apparent temperature on daily mortality in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal. Environ Health 9:12, doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-12.. Barnett AG, Tong S, Clements A. 2010. What measure of temperature is the best predictor of mortality? Environ Res 110(6):604-611.. Barsi J, Barker JL, Schott JR. 2003. An atmospheric correction parameter calculator for a single thermal band earth-sensing instrument. In: Proceedings of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 21-25 July 2003, Centre de Congres Pierre Baudis, Toulouse, France. Toulouse, France:IEEE, 3014-3016.. Basu R. 2009. High ambient temperature and mortality: a review of epidemiologic studies from 2001 to 2008. Environ Health 8:40, doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-8-40.. Bell N, Hayes MV. 2012. The Vancouver Area Neighbourhood Deprivation Index (VANDIX): a census-based tool for assessing small-area variations in health status. Can J Public Health 103(8 suppl 2):S28-S32.. Bell N, Schuurman N, Oliver L, Hayes ...

Pentaclethra macroloba is a dominant tropical canopy tree found throughout Central America and Amazonia. The annual mortality rate of P. macroloba seedlings is 60% in the tropical wet forest at the La Selva OTS biological station in Costa Rica. A possible cause of this dramatic mortality rate is insect herbivory, which can reduce seed production, plant growth, and survivorship, as well as cause leaf abscission. During the summer of 2009, new leaves of P. macroloba seedlings were selectively herbivorized by geometridae caterpillars to remove 25% of leaf material. Rachis growth rates were calculated over a 15-day period to compare differences between controlled and herbivorized leaves. In addition, 115 P. macroloba seedlings were tagged and photographed for leaf area analysis. This data is a part of an ongoing census of P. macroloba that aims to determine factors that contribute to the high mortality in seedlings that are 50 cm to 2 m in height. At the same time, I also collected and reared ...

Abstract : Triphenylmethane is a synthetic dye used as antimicrobial agent and for the chemical visualization inthin layer chromatography of higher fatty acids, fatty alcohols, and aliphatic amines. The present study was anattempt to investigate the impact of biofield treatment on physical, thermal and spectroscopical charecteristics oftriphenylmethane. The study was performed in two groups i.e., control and treatment. The treatment group subjectedto Mr. Trivedis biofield treatment. The control and treated groups of triphenylmethane samples were characterizedusing X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface area analyzer, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetricanalysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, and gas chromatographymassspectrometry (GC-MS). XRD study revealed decreases in average crystallite size (14.22%) of treatedtriphenylmethane as compared to control sample. Surface area analysis showed a slight increase (0.42%) in ...

Abstract : Acrylamide (AM) and 2-chloroacetamide (CA) are widely used in diverse applications such as biomedical, drug delivery, waste water treatment, and heavy metal ion removal. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of biofield treatment on physical and thermal properties of amide group containing compounds (AM and CA). The study was performed in two groups (control and treated). The control group remained as untreated, and biofield treatment was given to treated group. The control and treated compounds were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and surface area analysis. XRD of treated AM showed decrease in intensity of peaks as compared to control sample. However, the treated AM showed increase in volume of unit cell (0.16%) and molecular weight (0.16%) as compared to control. The crystallite size was decreased by 33.34% in treated AM as compared to control Whereas, the XRD diffractogram of ...

1. The effective volume of distribution of labelled glycerol was studied in conscious young adult rabbits provided with in-dwelling cannulae in the femoral blood vessels. This could be estimated after sampling arterial blood throughout an intravenous infusion of [2-3H]glycerol. The volume was calculated by using an algebraic method of graphical area analysis over 100 min of equilibration, and is symbolized 100V e or 100V e%. It occupied 34.1 +/- 2.2% (mean +/- S.E.M.; n = 13) of the body weight. The pool of endogenous glycerol occupying this space is distinguished in the present paper by calling it the transit pool, symbolized 100Me. 2. The median time of transit of glycerol through this pool was approx. 6 min in these conscious rabbits with normal (less than 0.2 mM) blood glycerol concentrations. 3. The metabolism of glycerol was also studied in rabbits while anaesthetized with urethane or while conscious. On average, half of the change in glycerol concentration that occurred on overnight ...

The study of selective metal oxide-based binary/ternary systems has received increasing interest in recent years due to the possibility of producing efficient new ceramic materials for relative humidity (RH) detection, given the superior properties of the mixed compounds in comparison with pristine ones. The aim of this work was focused on preparation and characterization of non-doped and Nb|sub|2|/sub|O|sub|5|/sub|-doped TiO|sub|2|/sub| : WO|sub|3|/sub| pair (in the pellet form) and evaluation of corresponding humidity-dependent electrical properties. The microstructure of the samples was analyzed from scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction patterns, Raman spectra, BET surface area analysis, and porosimetry. The electrical characterization was obtained from impedance spectroscopy (100 Hz to 40 MHz) in the 10–100% RH range. The results showed that adequate doping levels of Nb|sub|2|/sub|O|sub|5|/sub| introduce important advantages due to the atomic

The catalytic conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons of gasoline range has been studied over HZSM-5, ZnO/HZSM-5, CuO/HZSM-5 and CuO/ZnO/HZSM-5. The selectivity of methanol conversion to hydrocarbon has been found to be a function of CuO/ZnO/HZSM-5 concentration. A comparison has been done to study the conversion and yield of different metal oxides doped on the catalyst. The catalysts were prepared by means of impregnation technique followed by heat treatment at 550 °C for 5 h. The copper and zinc oxide loading over HZSM-5 (Si/Al = 45) catalyst were 7 wt.% each. These catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction and surface area analysis. The performances of the catalysts were evaluated by conducting experiments in a fixed bed reactor (i.d.: 19 mm) made of stainless steel. Experiments were conducted at 1 atm and 400 °C at constant flow rate of methanol. The major products were ethylene, propylene, dimethyl ether, toluene, ethyl benzene, ethyl toluene, trimethyl benzene and tetra ...

We observed small-area variation in computed tomography scan use for inpatients in New York State, even after controlling for relevant patient and hospital characteristics.

This report presents small area poverty maps and measures for Kenya at unprecedented levels of geographic detail. The resulting database greatly advances our understanding of where the poorest of Kenya are located. The approach uses a recently developed statistical technique to combine detailed information on household expenditures from a sample of survey data with complete geographic coverage provided by the 1999 Kenya Population and Housing Census (click here for technical details). This enabled researchers to estimate reliable measures of well-being for very small geographic areas (divisions and locations as well as provinces and districts) using statistical simulation techniques.. The new and detailed poverty measures presented in this report can be used to help design and implement pro-poor development strategies that are both effective and inclusive. The poverty maps themselves provide information rather than answers. When combined with socio-economic, environmental and other information, ...

This report presents small area poverty maps and measures for Kenya at unprecedented levels of geographic detail. The resulting database greatly advances our understanding of where the poorest of Kenya are located. The approach uses a recently developed statistical technique to combine detailed information on household expenditures from a sample of survey data with complete geographic coverage provided by the 1999 Kenya Population and Housing Census (click here for technical details). This enabled researchers to estimate reliable measures of well-being for very small geographic areas (divisions and locations as well as provinces and districts) using statistical simulation techniques.. The new and detailed poverty measures presented in this report can be used to help design and implement pro-poor development strategies that are both effective and inclusive. The poverty maps themselves provide information rather than answers. When combined with socio-economic, environmental and other information, ...

Spatial visualization of HIV surveillance data could improve the planning of programs to address the HIV epidemic. The objectives of the study were to describe the characteristics and the spatial distribution of newly diagnosed HIV infection in Catalonia and to identify factors associated with HIV infection rates. Surveillance data from the national registry were presented in the form of descriptive and ring maps and used to study the spatial distribution of new HIV diagnoses in Catalonia (2012-2016) and associated risk factors at the small area level (ABS, acronym for

We study the conditions under which discontinuous mechanical properties of a collapsible tube can induce transcritical flows, i.e. the transition through the critical state where the speed index (analogous to the Mach or the Froude numbers for compressible and free surface flows, respectively) is one. Such a critical transition may strongly modify the flow properties, cause a significant reduction in the crosssectional area of the tube, and limit the flow. General relationships are obtained for a short segment using a one-dimensional model under steady flow conditions. Marginal curves delimiting the transcritical regions are identified in terms of the speed index and the cross-sectional area ratio. Since there are many examples of such flows in physiology and medicine, we also analyse the specific case of prosthesis (graft or stent) implantation in blood vessels. We then compute transcritical conditions for the case of stiffness and reference area variations, considering a collapsible tube ...

The Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program provides statistics on the total number of people in poverty, the number of children younger than age 5 in poverty (for states only), the number of children ages 5 to 17 in families in poverty, the number younger than age 18 in poverty and median household income. At the school district level, estimates are available for the total population, the number of children ages 5 to 17 and the number of children ages 5 to 17 in families in poverty.. This release includes publication of 2013 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE): An Overview, which presents income and poverty trends and explains the sources and approach. Also available is an interactive data and mapping tool, allowing access to statistics for every county and school district by selecting the geographic area. More information can be obtained from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates main page.. The estimates combine the latest data from the American Community Survey with ...

The annual incidence of injury admissions coded for maltreatment syndrome declined in infants and in 1-3 year olds, while admissions coded for maltreatment-related features increased in all age groups. The combined incidence of these categories remained stable and represents 1.5-6.4% of all acute injury admissions in children under 5 years old. There was wide variation between hospitals in recording of maltreatment-specific and maltreatment-related codes, which was not explained by age, deprivation indices or case load. Compared with a national trauma registry, maltreatment-specific codes or assault were recorded less frequently in HES.. These analyses are based on a standardised approach to data recording, which made it possible to assess variation across NHS hospitals in England over several years. A weakness of the study is the lack of information on the extent to which codes specifically for maltreatment syndrome or for maltreatment-related features reflect real clinical concern or action by ...

Many of these trends will have immediate implications for public spending, nonprofit planning, and business decisionmaking. Other trends are reshaping the composition of our population and households in ways that will continue to unfold for decades to come.. The census is our best-and only-source of accurate population and housing counts for the nation, states, and small geographic areas, enabling communities, government, businesses, and nonprofit organizations to adapt to the challenges ahead.. References. 1National Archives, The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription, accessed at www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript, on Feb. 22, 2019.. 2Marisa Hotchkiss and Jessica Phelan, Uses of Census Bureau Data in Federal Funds Distribution (Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017).. ...

The GIGA was founded in 1964 as the German Overseas Institute (Deutsches Übersee-Institut) by the City of Hamburg and the Hamburg business community. It was initially the umbrella organisation for the Institute of Asian Affairs, the German Orient Institute, the Institute of Latin American Affairs and the Institute of African Affairs.. In the first decade of this century the German Overseas Institute underwent a transformation that saw the previously relatively autonomous regional institutes united as the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies/Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien in 2007. Only the German Orient Institute did not take part in the fusion. However, the GIGA had already hired many of its employees.[5]. The GIGA collaborates with numerous renowned universities, research institutes and expert associations around the world. It is represented on the boards of various academic networks, particularly those related to Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle ...

By MARK SAMUELIAN AND ALEX R. PIQUERO. Much has been made about Miami Beachs spring break experience, especially in 2021, and residents are outraged. Even though we are amid a pandemic with curfews, that did not stop thousands of people from converging on our region to take a break from their lives - many attracted by an anything-goes perception.. The problem, of course, was not just the much larger crowds concentrated in a very small geographic area. It was also the chaotic scenes, fights, stampedes, arrests and crimes that emerged. Indeed, during the period February 3-April 5, 2021 there were over 1,300 arrests in Miami Beach with 58% made in the entertainment-heavy Art Deco Cultural District. Most people do not come to Miami Beach with nefarious intentions, so blaming people is not the solution. As lessons from criminological research shows, we can address crime by altering the situation.. One of those solutions involves stopping the sale of alcohol earlier, such as the 2 a.m. proposal by ...

Vividata contains information on Canadian consumer behaviour, media consumption and opinions.. Simply Analytics contains demographic and psychographic information on large and small geographic areas in Canada.. Media Technology Monitor contains information on Canadians media consumption. Passport, IBISWorld, and Marketline contain company and industry reports.. Statista contains a huge variety of charts, statistics, and other information. Business Source Complete contains PESTLE analysis in its Country Profiles. ...

Take a second, visit YouTube and check out the top 10 plays of Sidney Crosbys career.. Youre all but guaranteed to see No. 87s one-handed backhand beauty against the Buffalo Sabres, his puck-handling clinic against Jason Spezza, his falling-down goal against the Montreal Canadiens and his stick-handling dismantlement of the Edmonton Oilers. Theres a common ingredient between these four moments: The two-time Olympic gold medallist and IIHF Triple Gold Club member got the job done with barely any room to operate.. You have to be able to make plays in pretty small areas, Crosby says. The more you practice in small spaces, the better off you are. With the mandate that Novice games must be played on half-ice starting this fall - many member branches have already adopted the format over the past several seasons - seven- and eight-year-old players will play in games that will align with the small-area nature of professional hockey. Jesse Joslin has seen the benefits of dividing the playing ...

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Specialising in environmental epidemiology, small area health statistics and large-scale population collections, Majid Ezzati discusses research activities routinely combine concepts ...

Trans-Regional Studies is an emergent scholarly borderland that engages regional/area studies while focusing on global intersections. It considers the connections among world regions as well as the spaces of in-between, including global flows as well as frictions (Cooper 2014, Tsing 2005). Trans-Regional Studies advances an innovative re-interrogation of the organization of regional/area studies as a way to generate knowledge about the world (Masao and Harootunian, 2004; Stevens, et al 2018). It recognizes the limitations of traditional area studies approaches (Schafer 2014) while seeking to strengthen and deepen area-specialized knowledge through the study of local, national and global phenomena that cross boundaries. Following the lead of new scholarship in comparative social science (Arjomand 2014), our premise is that the study of globality requires an understanding of wide-scale connection that is critically informed by place-based historical experience. ...

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Dermaplaning is used to treat deep acne scars with a hand-held instrument called a dermatome. The dermatome resembles an electric razor and has an oscillating blade that moves back and forth to evenly skim off the surface layers of skin that surround the craters, or other facial defects.. Both dermabrasion and dermaplaning can be performed on small areas of skin, or on the entire face. They can be used alone, or in conjunction with other procedures. Neither treatment, however, will remove all scars and flaws, or prevent aging.. ...

The NZDep is an area-based measure of socioeconomic deprivation in New Zealand [1]. It measures the level of deprivation for people in each small area. It is based on nine Census variables.. NZDep can be displayed as deciles or quintiles. Each NZDep quintile contains about 20 percent of small areas (meshblocks or census area units) in New Zealand.. ...

Reports, documents, and correspondence relating to the feasibility of constructing a canal across the Florida peninsula. Topics include the Florida Defenders of the Environment, the Cross Florida Barge Canal, the Florida Canal Authority, and the Corps of Engineers. Also included is a manuscript, Plant Life in Florida, and correspondence dated 1940 to 1969.. ...

Authors: Tang, Shaojie , Yang, Yi , Tang, Xiangyang Article Type: Research Article Abstract: Purposes: Interior tomography problem can be solved using the so-called differentiated backprojection-projection onto convex sets (DBP-POCS) method, which requires a priori knowledge within a small area interior to the region of interest (ROI) to be imaged. In theory, the small area wherein the a priori knowledge is required can be in any shape, but most of the existing implementations carry out the Hilbert filtering either horizontally or vertically, leading to a vertical or horizontal strip that …may be across a large area in the object. In this work, we implement a practical DBP-POCS method with radial Hilbert filtering and thus the small area with the a priori knowledge can be roughly round (e.g., a sinus or ventricles among other anatomic cavities in human or animal body). We also conduct an experimental evaluation to verify the performance of this practical implementation. Methods: We ...

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I was raised in Port Townsend. I know the entirety of the town like the back of my hand and I have immense pride to say I am from Port Townsend, Washington. I want the town I grew up in to … more ...

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Affiliation：京都大学,アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科,准教授, Research Field：Hygiene and public health,Eating habits, studies on eating habits,Area studies,Environmental policy and social systems,Public health/Health science, Keywords：オセアニア,人類生態学,肥満,感染症,マラリア,ソロモン諸島,移住,小スンダ列島,尿中Na/K比,在来暦法, # of Research Projects：9, # of Research Products：53, Ongoing Project：インドネシアにおける個人主義化がストレスとうつ病発症に及ぼす影響の分子疫学研究

As Oxfords most international college and home to seven regional area studies centres, St Antonys College is well-placed for a cross-centre discussion on the issue of vaccine diplomacy as an... Read more ...

As Oxfords most international college and home to seven regional area studies centres, St Antonys College is well-placed for a cross-centre discussion on the issue of vaccine diplomacy as an... Read more ...

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Robust small area estimation under semi-parametric mixed models (pages 126-141). Jon N. K. Rao, Sanjoy K. Sinha and Laura Dumitrescu. Version of Record online: 26 NOV 2013 , DOI: 10.1002/cjs.11199. ...

In the present era, the population is increasing rapidly and place of living is becoming short due to the density of areas. So, it is necessary to know the ideas that help the people to use the spare areas in their regular life. Moreover, the wall storage assists the small rooms to feel like a big one. So, if you are living in a small area, you can adopt these simple ideas to make your room big. Some easy yet interesting ideas for the wall storage are:. ...

My girl had almost an identical issue with her tail, and the hair was really sparse, but just in a small area like that. I could never really find anything specific wrong with it, so I just kept an eye on it. It never got worse, but it never went away, either---so finally I used an anti-bacterial/antifungal spray from the pet supply store, just spritzing a little on like once or twice a day, (as I remembered), for only about a week or so. I didnt think it was doing anything, so I gave up. Lo & behold, the fur very slowly started growing back, and now her tail is all full and fluffy again, (but it did take quite a while ...

I developed a very mild case of adult acne about 6 months prior to getting pregnant. I never had a problem with acne before, but was not particularly concerned because it was pretty light and limited to one small area on my face. I am now

Renders all enemies in a small area unable to move for a short period of time. It does not affect the combat capabilities of the enemies.