BACKGROUND Children with parents who smoke are often exposed to high levels of environmental tobacco smoke, and children with asthma are particularly susceptible to the detrimental effects of passive smoking. Data were collected from parents who smoke and from their asthmatic children. The families are currently taking part in a randomised controlled trial to test an intervention designed to re...

Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities, that cumulates in ”stocks” affecting agents’ welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to peer effects, and the stock of passive smoke increases the marginal risks of bad health, decreasin...

We examine the periphrastic passive construction in Latin, in which a part of the verb paradigm is expressed by an auxiliary/copular verb ‘to be’ with the perfective passive participle, with the syntax of a predicative adjective construction. Building in part on the treatment sketched by Börjars, Vincent and Chapman (1997) and other recent work in Lexical Functional Grammar (Frank and Zaenen, 1...

background: the effect of smoking cigarettes is followed by diverse effects on ovaries and developing follicles but the effect of passive smoking on ovarian function is unknown. on the other hand, the ovarian response to induction is a very important step in assisted reproduction. the aim of this study is to compare ovarian response in passive smokers and non-passive smokers in an assisted repr...

Abstract—The harmonic distortion of voltage is important in relation to power quality due to the interaction between the large diffusion of non-linear and time-varying single-phase and three-phase loads with power supply systems. However, harmonic distortion levels can be reduced by improving the design of polluting loads or by applying arrangements and adding filters. The application of passiv...

OBJECTIVES This review sought to determine whether passive smoking in the workplace has roughly the same association with heart disease as passive smoking at home and to update a previous 1994 review on the effects of home-based passive exposure on the heart. BACKGROUND To predict the effects of passive smoking at work on heart disease, public agencies have had to assume that workplace exposu...

OBJECTIVES The association between birth weight and exposure to benzene, work stress, and other occupational and environmental hazards was investigated. METHODS In a large petrochemical industry, 792 pregnant workers were enrolled and followed up through delivery between May 1996 and December 1998. Exposure to benzene and other solvents was assessed by an industrial hygienist based on each wo...

Children seem to be relatively delayed in their comprehension of the verbal be-passive English, compared acquisition other constructions object-movement such as wh-questions and unaccusatives. Prior work has found that children’s performance on these passives can affected by verb’s lexical semantics. Through a meta-analysis experimental studies assessing English-speaking age for be- passive, we...

Adamantinomatous craniopharyngiomas (ACP) are clinically relevant tumours that are associated with high morbidity, poor quality of life and occasional mortality. Human and mouse studies have provided important insights into the biology of these aggressive tumours, and we are starting to understand why, how and when these tumours develop in humans. Mutations in β-catenin that result in the over-...

The proliferation of the wild discharge contributes to the contamination of surfaces and the ground waters by the leachate. This effluent is product of the degradation and the biochemical transformation of the fermentable matter. The subject of this study is to determinate the physicochemical parameters of leachate generated by municipal solid waste in Mostaganem city (western of Algeria). Thes...