Attached is the first of two reports on results of the study whose objective is to assess the relative values of explanatory variables on the prediction of census omission and erroneous enumeration based on the data collected for the Ethnographic Evaluation of the Behavioral Causes of Census Undercount for the 1990 Decennial Census. This report focuses on the result of an explanatory data analy...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this research was to understand factors that affect future practice intentions of physicians who practise in rural and underserviced areas. The following 2 research questions are answered: "How many physicians in Northwestern Ontario intend to leave their practice in 5 years?" and "What is the association between professional, personal/family and community factors in physi...

Since Kulowski (1936) drew attention to the more benign forms of the disease, pyogenic infection of the spine has been discussed on a number of occasions. Further accounts must inevitably cover much familiar ground. In this review we have paid most attention to any new feature to emerge and to those aspects that appear to us to merit special consideration. Details made familiar by past descript...

Falls represent a substantial risk in the elderly. Previous studies have found that a focus on the outcome or effect of the movement (external focus of attention) leads to improved balance performance, whereas a focus on the movement execution itself (internal focus of attention) impairs balance performance in elderly. A shift toward more conscious, explicit forms of motor control occurs when e...

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarize the current state of scholarship in their specialized fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Ro...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the language outcomes of 7-year-old children with and without a history of late language emergence at 24 months. METHOD One hundred twenty-eight children with a history of late language emergence (LLE) at 24 months and 109 children with a history of normal language emergence (NLE) at 24 months participated in direct behavioral assessment of mul...

Whereas the tools to determine the eigenvalues of the eight-vertex transfer matrix T are well known there has been until recently incomplete knowledge about the eigenvectors of T . We describe the construction of eigenvectors of T corresponding to degenerate eigenvalues and discuss the related hidden elliptic symmetry.

Quantitative estimation of some constituents 0 blood has become a common practice in ^ ^nical medicine. In order to have a definite ea of the extent of the severity of the patholgical condition, standard values for the constituents estimated in normal human* blood are jssential. The values usually found in the textbooks refer to the Westerners, worked out by the *wkers of the West {e.g. Folin, ...

dent of the United St.ates, dances to raise funds for the organisation were held on his birthday, 30th January, in all parts of the country. An annual fund-raising appeal is conducted during the first weeks in January yearly called "The March of Dimes." Some seventy million individuals subscribe to this fund and in the current year the voluntary subscriptions totalled thirty million dollars. Du...