Background: Social class tends to be downplayed in modern societies and is now rarely studied, but the argument can made that social still strongly present sociologically psychologically important. Purpose:The purpose of this paper re-examine nature western society distinguish it from concept socio-economic status, or SES, also subjectively perceived class. Method: The method consists a broad l...

OBJECTIVE A number of studies have documented that acculturation to western society is related to an increase in blood pressure (BP). Although there is evidence that higher socioeconomic status appears related to better cardiovascular health, increasing acculturation to western society appears related to worse cardiovascular health. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to investigate the assoc...

Background Western Australia recently hosted Australia’s inaugural national rare diseases symposium, entitled Awakening Australia to Rare Diseases: Global perspectives on establishing a coordinated approach to a national plan http://www.raredisease.com.au in the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia from the 17th-20th of April 2011. The Office of Population Health Genomics (OPHG), Departmen...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is aiding the transition of society into information society and ultimately knowledge society. Embedded within ICT are the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of the society in which the ICT solutions are developed, currently predominantly the Western culture. The proliferation of ICT is therefore inadvertedly leading to more Westernization of...

The five hundred fifty-second meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois on Friday and Saturday, November 28-29, 1958. There were about 125 registrants at the meeting, 110 of whom were members of the Society. At the invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Western Sectional Meeting Professor Roger Lyndon of the University ...