An investigation of 150 adult Bengalee Hindu male jute mill workcrs in Belur, a suburb of Kolkata, West Bengat, Jndia, was conducted to study the relationship between ccntral obesity and blood pressure. In accordance with their waist circumference rneasurcment, the subjeets were dividcd into two categories: centrally non-obcse (CNO) and centrally obcse (CO). The participants were classified as ...

It is important to know how urban areas change for monitoring the evolution of demographics, lifestyles, and economic trends. The objective of this paper is to present a method for determining the occurrence of building change between two dates. The information on buildings for the first date comes from digital cartography and for the second date comes from spatial imagery and LIDAR data. A Sup...

CONTEXT More and more Chinese adolescents are engaging in premarital sexual activity. As a result, the numbers of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Chinese young adults have increased markedly. METHODS A comprehensive sex education program, including information on abstinence, contraception and healthy sexual behaviors, was carried out in a suburb of Shang...

the prevalence of eimeria spp. infection and the intensity of fecal oocysts were determined in 250 sheep in malayer suburb of iran using flotation and sporulation techniques. the overall prevalence was 23.23% in which the young male sheep had the highest prevalence (37.61%) with the highest intensity (63.58%). there were no significant difference in the prevalence between male (27.9%) and femal...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was determination of the level of water contamination in fountains in Toruń, Poland. METHODS The studies were conducted at monthly intervals from May - September 2009, and consisted in the determination of the number of heterotrophic bacteria capable of growing at a temperature of 22 and 37°C (PN-ISO 6222), as well as the number of coliform bacteria (PN-75/C-04...

THE EFFECTS OF RESIDENTIAL MINIMUM LOT SIZE ZONING ON LAND DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF OAKLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Brian P. Foley Considerable theoretical and empirical debate has addressed the effects of minimum lot size zoning regulations on the development of land. The direction of this relationship certainly has relevance for policy. Previous studies have used econometric techniques to estimat...