BACKGROUND Racial disparities in birth outcomes persist in North Carolina and the United States. We examined patterns of birth outcomes and womens health measures in North Carolina by race and age to portray the largest disparities. We wanted to see if our data were consistent with the "weathering hypothesis," which holds that the health of African American women may begin to deteriorate in ear...

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

As environmental awareness grows, the world is increasingly focused on living a low-carbon, energy-sustainable lifestyle. At same time, with global outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, online concerts are growing rapidly to maintain social distance between people and keep isolated lives rich. Therefore, this survey, we focus music scene, which has flourished during epidemic, compares various indicator...

Today, when the development of country and society is inextricably linked with culture, demand population for modern buildings cultural entertainment purposes extremely high. The conducted indicative assessment foreign domestic experience in designing complexes showed dynamics from monofunctionality to multifunctionality. To form a new perspective on design concert halls, methods have been stud...

Bouncing is one of the most common human crowd activities on civil infrastructures such as sports stadiums and concert halls, where audience tends to make their bodies jump up down celebrate or participate in sport musical events. Dynamic loads are thus generated exerted structures, giving unpleasant structural vibration, which may affect functionality structure even lead a panic crowd. Althoug...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and analyze the discourse of students living in university residence halls regarding socialization processes and drug consumption. METHODS This was qualitative research among 20 undergraduate students living in university residence halls in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2003. Residence halls were taken to be socialization spaces for young people that enable the pr...