This chapter shows the importance of comparing corpora that are really comparable. The chapter conceives of texts as exemplars of situated genres and acknowledges that the rhetorical and discourse configuration of texts vary as a function of the contextual factors in which texts are situated. It argues that corpora may be considered equivalent (or similar to the maximum degree) across cultures ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to investigate associations between contextual characteristics and unmet healthcare needs in South Korea after accounting for individual factors. METHODS The present study used data from the 2012 Korean Community Health Survey (KCHS) of 228 902 adults residing within 253 municipal districts in South Korea. A multilevel analysis was conducted to invest...

Background Over the past decades, ample empirical evidence has been collected about the factors linked to internalizing problems during adolescence. However, there is a lack of research that use holistic approaches to study the joint analysis of a series of contextual and personal variables considered to be related to internalizing problems. Objective This cross sectional study analyzes the rel...

OBJECTIVE This paper explores the impact of contextual variables at the neighborhood level on a health marker in the city of Hermosillo, Mexico and discusses the importance of collaboration between planners and health professional to minimize the negative effect of contextual factors on urban health. MATERIALS AND METHODS Few studies in Mexico have assessed health outcomes at the intra-urban ...

In this paper, several important issues related to visual motion analysis are addressed with a focus on the type of motion information to be estimated and the way contextual information is expressed and exploited. Assumptions (i.e., data models) must be formulated to relate the observed image intensities with motion, and other constraints (i.e., motion models) must be added to solve problems li...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and severity of dental caries in Brazilian children and the association with individual and contextual factors. METHODS Data were taken from the Brazilian Oral Health Survey (SBBrasil 2010) a sample of 7,247 12-year-olds. The data were collected using clinical examinations and interviews. The dependent variables were the prevalence of dental caries (decaye...