We performed a descriptive study of tuberculosis cases detected by the Epidemiological Surveillance System in the Balearic Islands in the triennium 2005-2007. Our goal was to characterize underreported cases in sociodemographic terms and their contact with primary care. Overall, underreporting of tuberculosis was approximately 20%. Significant factors in multivariate analysis were social margin...

BACKGROUND The emergence of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) has been associated with changes in the relationship between people and forests, leading to the view that forest ecosystems increase infection risk and subsequent proposal that deforestation could reduce re-emergence of this disease. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We analyzed county-level incidence rates of ACL in Costa Rica (...

In recent years the role of social networks, and of social capital, in shaping migrants’ lived experiences and particularly, their employment opportunity has increasingly come to be recognised. However, very little of this research has adopted a relational understanding of the migrant experience, taking the influence of non-migrants’ own networks on migrants as an important factor in influencin...

The burden of diabesity is increasing rapidly in Mexico (1). Culturally based diets with low glycemic index and glycemic load might be a low-cost approach for a population with a high index of socioeconomic marginality. Mixed meals are the usual manner of food intake, and they are different among regions of Mexico. Consumption of nopales (prickly pear cactus pads) in middle and low socioeconomi...

We analyze the causal impact of competition on managerial quality and hospital performance. To address the endogeneity of market structure we analyze the English public hospital sector where entry and exit are controlled by the central government. Because closing hospitals in areas where the governing party is expecting a tight election race (“marginals”) is rare due to the fear of electoral de...

We construct a diffusive, bi-stable cellular automata model to elucidate the physical mechanisms underlying observed edge localized mode (ELM) mitigation by supersonic molecular beam injection (SMBI). The extended cellular automata model reproduces key qualitative features of ELM mitigation experiments, most significantly the increase in frequency of grain ejection events (ELMs), and the decrea...

Recent theoretical advances offer an exact, first-principles theory of jamming criticality in infinite dimension as well as universal scaling relations between critical exponents in all dimensions. For packings of frictionless spheres near the jamming transition, these advances predict that nontrivial power-law exponents characterize the critical distribution of (i) small interparticle gaps and...

OBJECTIVE Five theoretical hypotheses about the impact of spina bifida (SB) on parents' social adjustment in the parent-child, the marital and the family-level relationship were tested. METHODS PsycInfo, Medline and reference lists were searched. This yielded 27 eligible reports. Effect sizes (Hedges' d) were computed to estimate the impact of SB. RESULTS Overall, the effects of SB were sma...

It is appropriate to assess the 1980 Mariel Cuban migratory experience as we approach the 25 year-mark of these immigrant’s first arrival in the United States. Marielitos, as they are commonly known, have contributed greatly to the cultural and economic development of South Florida. Their contributions extend to the arts, literature, academic, and entrepreneurial domains. Yet, despite their man...

I respond to a recently published article in Ecology and Society, namely “Can the center hold? Boundary actors marginality community-based natural resource management network” (Snorek Bolger 2022). provide additional information for three dimensions of this article: (1) historical context regarding different varied roots contemporary marginalization peoples along !Khuiseb River, (2) positioning...