INTRODUCTION In the Netherlands, as in other Western countries, ethnic minority elderly are more often in poorer health than the indigenous population. The expectation is that this health disadvantage results in more frequent use of health care services. METHODS We studied registered data on the proportion of health care receivers, frequency of use, and health care costs collected by a major ...

a total of 1695 blood samples collected from ten ethnically distinct populations of iran (turks and kurds of rezaieh, lurs, aabolis, baluchis, turks and kurds of shrvan, zoroastrians, tehranis, and kermanis) were examined for six polymorphic red cell enzyme systems, namely red cell acid phosphatase (ap), adenylate kinase (ak), phosphoglucomutase (pgm1), esteraxe d (esd), adenosine deaminase (ad...

The use of information technology in the field cultural heritage makes it possible to involve more and people promotion heritage, fostering social, cultural, economic community growth. This work stems from interest using Virtual Reality (VR) creating a tour city Bari that tells its evolution over years. To this end, low-cost VR360 application has been developed which, by means cardboard, allows...

in islamic architecture, the architect always tried to decorate the internal and external areas in different ways. one type of these decorations is called brick working, which was current in pre-ilkhanid, ilkhanid period, and after this period. this decoration was used in two ways. in ilkhanid period, the architect used a type of brick which was exactly formed in favorite shapes before baking. ...