AIMS To examine trends in patterns of cannabis use and related harm in the Australian population between 1993 and 2007. DESIGN Analysis of prospectively collected data from: (1) the National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS) and Australian Secondary Student Alcohol and Drug Survey (ASSADS); (2) the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD); and (3) the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment ...

Herein we add first country records to Panama’s microcaddisfly fauna (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae), one genus— Orthotrichia Eaton, 1873—and 12 species— Alisotrichia latipalpis Flint, 1991; Hydroptila constricta Bueno-Soria, 1984; Metrichia decora Bueno-Soria & Holzenthal, 2003; malada (Flint, 1991); Neotrichia amplector Keth, 2004; armata Botosanea...

Maternal mortality in Bangladesh was 320 per 100,000 live births between the years of 1998 and 2000. Utilization of maternal health services remains low in the low-resource countries like Bangladesh. This study attempts to evaluate the levels, patterns, and trends of utilization of antenatal care (ANC) services in Bangladesh. This is a descriptive study based on national surveys of Bangladesh D...

The Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) is located in rural Burkina Faso and has existed since 1992. Currently, it has about 78,000 inhabitants. It is a member of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries (INDEPTH), a global network of members who conducts longitudinal health and demographic evaluation of...

Results Results showed that there were socio-economic changes in household on average 11% per year in the middle quintile. There were association between socio-economic increase and the decrease of stunting prevalence (P = 0.000; OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.251-2.017). Most of the decrease in rates of stunting among children occurred in the wealthiest fifth. In 1997 the likelihood of stunting increase...

Widening inequalities in mean Body Mass Index (BMI) between social and economic groups are well documented. However, whether changes in mean BMI are followed by changes in dispersion (or variance) and whether these inequalities are also occurring within social groups or across individuals remain understudied. In addition, a substantial body of literature exists on the global increase in mean BM...

1 Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, P.O.Box 5746, Tehran 19395, Iran. 2 Department of Physics, Alzahra University, Tehran 19834, Iran 3 Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O.Box 9161, Tehran 11365, Iran. 4 Department of Physics, Tehran University, North-Kargar Ave. Tehran, Iran. 5 Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, P.O.Box 159, Ga...

The social embeddedness of entrepreneurs has been a theme in contemporary debates on entrepreneurship for some time (Waldinger e.a. 1990, Portes & Sennebrenner 1993, Granovetter 1995, Rath & Kloosterman 2000, Kloosterman & Rath 2001, Lin 2001). Due to the rapidly increasing influence of China on the global economy, understanding the embeddedness of the emerging class of Chinese entrepreneurs ha...

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