In the coffee zone of town La Unión- Nariño, native or introduced trees are associated with productive systems farms, mainly because they provide shade for crops, where particular aspects such as species biodiversity and silvicultural management unknown. With aim knowing woody common use cultural importance, a semi structured survey was applied to 100 growers who were selected at random aleator...

purpose: the objective of this study was to identify possible risk factors associated with primary open-angle glaucoma (poag). methods: a case-control study included patients seen at rasoul-akram hospital ophthalmology clinic. cases were consecutive patients with confirmed unilateral or bilateral poag presented during the study period. controls were a random sample of all other patients aged 30...

The epidemiology of female sexual dysfunctions is still not well known. The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) is a short questionnaire specially designed to assess female sexual response. This study aimed to evaluate the cross-cultural equivalence of the Portuguese version of the FSFI. The cross-cultural adaptation involved five steps: translation, back-translation, formal equivalence assessm...

AIM The aim of this study was to interpret and validate a French version of the Oswestry disability index (ODI), using a cross-cultural validation method. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire was assessed in order to ensure the psychometric characteristics. METHOD The cross-cultural validation was carried out according to Beaton's methodology. The study was conducted with 41 pati...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

background: general and abdominal obesity are major global health problems. this cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the association between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (ssbs) and body mass index and waist circumference status in 5852 iranian adults within the framework of the tehran lipid and glucose study (tlgs). methods: intakes of ssbs including carbonated drinks an...