To the Editor: Proteinuria, a marker of kidney disease, is associated strongly with risk of adverse outcomes, including all-cause mortality. Life expectancy, a measure to estimate health status and disease burden at a population level, has not been reported for patients with different levels of proteinuria. This information could help policy makers recognize the health burden caused by proteinu...

to provide reliable information concerning reproductive potential of hippodamia variegata goeze and its prey (aphis fabae), their related life tables were studied under controlled laboratory conditions (at 23?c). the unprocessed data of life tables were analyzed taking the euler-lotka as the basis model. standard error of population growth parameters was calculated using the jackknife re-sampli...

Background: Prostitution and substance abuse are among the crucial social problems in women, which affect the quality of life. However, no study has yet investigated that prostitution and substance abuse affect which dimension(s) of quality of life. The current study aimed to compare different dimensions of quality of life among female sex workers with and without drug abuse. Methods: The rese...

BACKGROUND The increase in life expectancy and the persistence of expectancy gaps between different social groups in the 20th century are well-described in Western developed countries, but less well documented in the newly industrialised countries of Asia. Singapore, a multiethnic island-state, has undergone a demographic and epidemiologic transition concomitant with economic development. We ev...

Several Indonesian life insurance companies recently faced financial problems due to inadequate pricing and idealistic investment expectation. Growing market insurtech implementation might lead worse conditions in the future. The current mortality table return assumption are too ideal, so more conservative assumptions required get a reasonable annual pure premium range. This research estimated ...

سفیدبالک‏ گلخانه Trialeurodes vaporariorum یکی از مهم‌ترین آفات محصولات گلخانه‏ای در سراسر دنیا می‏باشد. این پژوهش، زیست­شناسی و جدول زندگی دوجنسی سن- مرحله آفت روی سه محصول مهم شامل بادمجان، خیار گوجه‏فرنگی دمای 2±25 درجه‏ سلسیوس، رطوبت نسبی 10±65 درصد دوره نوری 16:8 ساعت (تاریکی: روشنایی)‏ مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. میانگین‏ها خطای معیار بر اساس روش بوت‏استراپ با یک‏صد هزار تکرار محاسبه شد. نتایج ...