OBJECTIVES Racial differences in self-rated health at older ages are well documented. African Americans consistently report poorer health, even when education, income, and other health status indicators are controlled. The extent to which neighborhood-level characteristics mediate this association remains largely unexplored. We ask whether neighborhood social and economic resources help to expl...

background: the study was conducted to estimate and compare the validity and performance of two screening methods for uri­nary schistosomiasis: the interview - reporting blood in urine- and detecting microhematuria by reagent strip. methods:  in year 2003, 515 schoolchildren from five schools in abyan and taiz governorates in yemen, were in-terviewed by healtworker for hematuria, and then urine...

This research studies the potential impact of climate change on future trend and changes of two well known drought indicators namely RDI and SPI in Yazd meteorological station, in central part of Iran. For this purpose, data of HadCM3 model that were resulted from GCM-runs based on the IPCC-SRES scenarios of A2 and B2 were acquired and analyzed for projection of daily Tmin, Tmax and precipitati...

Ecosystem functioning and community structure are recognized as key components of ecosystem integrity, but comprehensive, standardized studies the responses both structural functional indicators to different types anthropogenic pressures remain rare. Consequently, we lack an empirical basis for (i) identifying when monitoring alone misses important changes in functioning, (ii) recommending sets...

This paper presents a multi scale color coding technique which enhances the visualization of scalar fields along integration lines in vector fields. In particular, this multi scale technique enables one to see detailed variations in selected small ranges of the scalar field while at the same time allowing one to observe the entire range of values of the scalar field. This type of visualization,...