OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between primary health care utilization and extended health insurance coverage under the Seguro Popular (SP) among Mexican indigenous people. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the Mexican National Nutrition Survey 2012 (n = 194,758). Quasi-experimental matching methods and nonlinear regression probit models were used to ...

In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its history are anecdotal rather than scientific in nature. To rectify this, we investigate the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010. Using music information retrieval and text-mining tools, ...

Louis Lewin, better known for his popular works on poisons, wrote the first book on Side Effects of Drugs ("Nebenwirkungen der Arzneimitiel") in 1881. In the introduction to the 3rd edition (1899) he postulated: "As valuable as reports on side or after-effects of drugs per se may be, as much the practitioner may benefit from instructions as to how to avoid and treat such effects for his patient...

This study dealt with the Jurisprudential issues that consist of three parts according to Shafi’is in Al-Bayan book by Al-Omrani (dead 558 AH) Taharah and its impact on fatwas contemporaries, a comparative study, because Imam (may Allah have mercy him) was an ascetic pious Imam, benevolent scholar, well-known for his jurisprudence principles, speech grammar. He born Yemen, they called him Sheik...

despite the passage of 9 centuries of elaborative metaphor mentioning in persian rhetoric, the antecedents’ sayings already look repetitive and it is considered as one of metaphor tools in the most up-to-date points of view. criticizing the reports of experts and analyzing 13 different structures, a new research has been carried out in present essay. it finally ends with its aesthetic applicati...

From the perspective of probability theory, this study makes a mathematical model proverbs themselves or background stories reflected by them, carries out experiments and analyses, fully excavating philosophical, scientific, cultural connotations contained in proverbs, reveals relationship between “mathematics,” “philosophy,” “culture.” With interpretation common sayings show their charm tradit...