This study summarizes the State policy with respect to the determination of need in the Federal-State program of AFDC. The areas discussed are the individual State definitions of need, the content of need standard, the types of persons included in the payment, the amount of income and resources allowed recipient families, the method of determining need, and a comparison of State food allowances...

In the field of occupational hygiene, researchers have been working on developing appropriate methods to estimate human exposure to pesticides in order to assess the risk and therefore to take the due decisions to improve the pesticide management process and reduce the health risks. This paper evaluates dermal exposure models to find the most appropriate. Eight models (i.e., COSHH, DERM, DREAM, ...

background: hearing loss (hl) is the most frequent neurosensory impairment. hl is highly heterogeneous defect. this disorder affects 1 out of 500 newborns. this study aimed to determine the role of dfnb2 locus and frequency of myo7a gene mutations in a population from west of iran. methods: thirty families investigated in shahrekord university of medical sciences in 2014, genetic linkage analys...

Although the average population density of a city is an extremely simple indicator, it is often used as a determinant factor for describing various aspects of urban phenomena. On the other hand, a plethora of different measures that aim at characterizing the urban form have been introduced in the literature, often with the risk of redundancy. Here, we argue that two measures are enough to captu...

According to the World Health Organization, in recent years there has been an increase problems physical, mental and social environment of urban residents. These are related obstacles a healthy lifestyle, lack physical activity. We analyze increased attention this topic by planners, architects other governing bodies due global pandemic. In article, we consider design health landscapes for diffe...