STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare the health status and factors influencing the health of populations that had previously lived under different political systems. DESIGN Cross sectional health and social survey using postal interviews. The relation between self reported health and psychosocial factors (stressful life events, social support, education, health promoting life style and health endangeri...

The Adonis ladybird, Hippodamia variegataGoeze (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) is known as an important predator of the Common pistachio psylla, Agonoscena pistaciae Burckhardt & Lauterer (Hemiptera: Psyllidae). Despite using the selective pesticides to manage the pests in the pistachio orchards, these chemicals have influenced non-target organisms like predators and parasitoids. ...

Methods for the computation of invariants and symmetries of nonlinear evolution, wave, and lattice equations are presented. The algorithms are based on dimensional analysis, and can be implemented in any symbolic language, such as Mathematica. Invariants and symmetries are shown for several well-known equations. Our Mathematica package allows one to automatically compute invariants and symmetri...

Mortality estimates for many populations are derived using model life tables, which describe typical age patterns of human mortality. We propose a new system of model life tables as a means of improving the quality and transparency of such estimates. A flexible two-dimensional model was fitted to a collection of life tables from the Human Mortality Database. The model can be used to estimate fu...

The co-layer method as an efficient way for neurotrophic factor release by transplanted genetically modified neuronal progenitor cells in a rat model of Parkinson's disease Analysis of morphological and functional integration THESIS Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of (2012) The co-layer method as an efficient way to genetically modify mesencephalic progenitor...

A method is presented for estimating age-specific mortality based on minimal information: a model life table and an estimate of longevity. This approach uses expected patterns of mammalian survivorship to define a general model of agespecific mortality rates. One such model life table is based on data for northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinu.r) using Siler’s ( 1979) 5-parameter competing risk...

-the cowpea aphid, aphis craccivora koch, is an important pest of robinia pseudoacacia frisia. life table parameters of a. craccivora were determined under natural (16- 33ºc and 32-89% rh, respectively) and laboratory (25 ± 1ºc, rh of 70 ± 5% and a photoperiod of 16:8 h (l: d) conditions. the data were analyzed using the age-stage, two-sex life table theory. each experiment was replicated 45 ti...

life table parameters of aphis pomi degeer (hemiptera: aphididae) were determined on two host plants: apple (malus pumila l.) and flowering quince (chaenomeles japonica lindl.). this study was carried out under laboratory conditions (25 ± 1 ºc and rh of 70 ± 5 % and a photoperiod of 16: 8 h (l: d). the survivorship from first instar nymphs to adult was very close in m. pumila and c. japonica. t...

\ the Gomez scale (Table 1). r--Sen-and Sengupta "{Ronomic . 1 Political Weekly, vol. 18, Anr . Number 855-864, 1983) provide silT data on the nutritional status from \ villages of West .8engal (Table 2). r .-Oifferences are more markedmKl in spite of a better economic level i eating that boys have benefited f better income levels. The authors 0 study also point out that the exter discriminatio...

the upper 95% confidence limits for the predicted average years of life lost (YLL) per capita were inadvertently changed to negative numbers. The corrected table is presented below. Table 3. Estimated impact, by region, of coal-fired power stations on PM emissions and YLL over the lifetime of a cohort of adults > 30 years of age: GAINS model versus AR model.