Religion's relationships with weight perception and weight control behavior were examined using data (3032 adults aged 25-74) from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. Religion was conceptualized as denomination, religious attendance/practice, religious social support, religious commitment, religious application, and religious identity. Weight perception was conceptu...

Abstract We investigate the impact of farmers’ egocentric information network on technical efficiency and its distribution in network, using observational data 600 farmers from northern Ghana. exploit community detection algorithms to endogenously identify homogeneous communities with known structures account for spatial heterogeneity, a stochastic frontier model that controls social selection ...

Alcohol availability has been linked to drunk driving, but research has not examined whether this relationship is the same for first-time and repeat offenses. We examined the relationship between the business hours of alcohol outlets licensed to serve alcohol for on-premises consumption and misdemeanor-level (first offense) and felony-level drunk driving (repeat offense) charges in New York Sta...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of administrative sanctions introduced as part of a new law for drinking drivers in British Columbia, Canada. The new law, known as immediate roadside prohibitions (IRP), aimed to increase the efficiency of police and courts for processing drinking drivers, thereby increasing the certainty of their being apprehended and punished. Ho...

In [4], nests were classified up to similarity simply in terms of order type and dimension. However the proof given there and exposited in [6] appears to rely on first classifying the compact perturbations of the nest algebras. This, in turn, required reliance on some difficult results on derivations of C*-algebras and in particular on the theorem of Johnson and Parrott [7]. However a careful e...

The rate of disability is increase day by day all over the world .There are various type of Disabilities but the deaf persons are on second number among all types of disabilities.. In most of the countries disabled persons are supposed to be social liability on their family and in the society as awhile. Now days in developing countries it is difficult for normal persons to get suitable jobs. Wh...