Throughout Western Europe, metropolitan governance is back on the agenda: since the early 1990s, new forms of city-suburban cooperation, regional coordination , region-wide spatial planning and metropolitan institutional reform have been promoted in major city-regions. In contrast to the forms of metropolitan gov-ernance that prevailed during the Fordist-Keynesian period, which emphasized admin...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between metropolitan and non-metropolitan hospitals after adjustment for patients' severity; to examine the role of the use of effective cardiac medications in the possible mortality difference between these types of hospital. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING 47 acute public hospitals in metrop...

Growing Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Patients with Hematologic Disorders at a Japanese Tertiary Care Center; an outbreak investigation and review of the literature Yasuaki Tagashira, MD; Yasuji Kozai, MD PhD; Hitomi Yamasa, CNIC; Masako Sakurada, MLT; Tetsuya Kashiyama, MD; Hitoshi Honda, MD; Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, ...

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1943. 8 Czerniawski AM. From average to ideal: the evolution of the height and weight table in the united states, 1836-1943. Social Sci History 2007;31:273–96. 9 James M. The Metropolitan Life: A Study in Business Growth. New York: The Viking Press, 1947. 10 Dublin L, Lotka AJ. Twenty-Five Years of Health Progre...

1Clinical Microbiology Research Centre, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received : 10/10/02; accepted: 21/09/03 ABSTRACT An outbreak of measles due to secondary vaccine failure prompted this investigation into the prevalence of measles antibody in children. We studied 608 children in 7 different age groups: 6, 9, 14 and 18 months and 6, 10 and 15 years. ...

In this research, using technique for order-preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) index, drought phenomenon is determined and ranked. For this purpose, using 5 atmospheric elements including temperature, wind, precipitation days, annual precipitation, precipitation concentration index (PCI), droughts occurred in Shiraz station for 20-year statistical period (1983-2003) have been d...

BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to know the identity of Leishmania species responsible of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Fars Province, southern Iran. METHODS Five counties of Shiraz, Firouz Abad, Ghir-Karzin, Farashband and Larestan were prospected. Forty-four patients exhibiting cutaneous lesions were selected. Samples collected on skin lesions were examined both microscopically (aft...

We carried out a cross-sectional survey in Shiraz to determine the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 1 444 individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We also determined the risk factors for this coinfection. Demographic and behavioural data were obtained using a standard questionnaire. The prevalence of HIV-HCV coinfection was 78.4% (95% CI: 76.3-80.5). Intravenous dru...

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (B.D., M.v.K.); Institute of Plant Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-University, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany (B.D., M.v.K.); Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences “From Complex Traits Towards Synthetic Modules,” 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany (B.D., M.v.K.); Università degli Studi di Milano-DiSAA, 20133 Milan, Italy (E.T., G.V., L.R...

Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi 1,* ID , Payam Hooshmand 2, Navid Bagheri 3, HamidReza KhakRah 4 ID and Majid Dousti 5 1 Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Energy Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Korea 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj 6616935391, Iran; [email protected] 3 Department of Energy Engineerin...