An important and largely unstudied aspect of the apparent relation between residential crowding and mental health is the potential role of environmental design to moderate this relation. An epidemiological investigation reveals that the type of housing children inhabit alters mental health correlates of residential crowding. Third and fourth grade Austrian children (n=1,236) from small towns an...

Pressure-less consolidation of transparent alumina requires several hours dwelling at high temperature (1600 °C) under a strongly reducing atmosphere (hydrogen). Here, we report on the ultrafast translucent ceramics 1360 °C. Transparency was promoted by synergistic effects initial green density (62.7%) and rapid sintering using Ultra-fast High-temperature Sintering (UHS) technique. The proposed...

Adaptive radiations could often occur in discrete stages. For instance, the species flock of ∼1000 species of Lake Malawi cichlid fishes might have only diverged once between rocky and sandy environments during the initial stage of their diversification. All further diversification within the rock-dwelling (mbuna) or sand-dwelling (utaka) cichlids would have occurred during a subsequent second ...

[Purpose] This study was conducted to compare the correlation between social interaction and activities of daily living (ADL) between community-dwelling and long-term care facility stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] The Subjects were 65 chronic stroke patients (32 facility-residing, 33 community-dwelling). The Evaluation Social Interaction (ESI) tool was used to evaluate social interaction...

OBJECTIVE To study the association of the butyrylcholinesterase K variant (BChE-K) and the plasma BChE activity with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in Thai community-dwelling patients. METHODS One hundred patients diagnosed with MCI and 100 control subjects were recruited from the community-dwelling setting in Bangkok, Thailand. The genotype and allele distributions of the BChE-K were determ...

BACKGROUND Weather is a potentially important determinant of physical activity. Little work has been done examining the relationship between weather and physical activity, and potential modifiers of any relationship in older people. We therefore examined the relationship between weather and physical activity in a cohort of older community-dwelling people. METHODS We analysed prospectively col...

INTRODUCTION The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) is a widely used screening instrument in neuropsychological assessment and is a brief, individually administered measure. The present study aims to assess the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the RBANS in community-dwelling elderly. MATERIAL AND METHODS All subjects come from the comm...

Australia’s household sector appears to hold a greater proportion of its wealth in dwellings than do households in other countries. Average dwelling prices in Australia also appear to be high relative to household income, but dwellings in Australia are not noticeably higher in quality than those in comparable countries. This concentration of wealth in housing also does not seem attributable to ...