In this study, touch behavior was monitored via live-feed webcams in 18 bars, spread across 5 continents (North America, South Europe, Australia, and Asia) for 213 hours. Our findings offer support a link between equatorial proximity (measured by latitude) cultural indulgence with more tactile communication. cultures where versus restraint normative, those perceived as females initiated both op...

Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation has been associated with health behaviors and outcomes. However, neighborhood socioeconomic status has been measured inconsistently across studies. It remains unclear whether appropriate socioeconomic indicators vary over geographic areas and geographic levels. The aim of this study is to compare the composite socioeconomic index to six socioeconomic indic...

Western region development is fundamental to the sustainable growth of China. The rapid growth in the East and the backwardness in the West vividly demonstrate its unbalanced regional economic structure. The catching-up of the Western region constitutes a major concern for the long-term sustainable development in terms of economic growth as well as in terms of politic stability. Western region ...

High-latitude plants are often more palatable to herbivores than low-latitude conspecifics. Does increased plant palatability lead to better herbivore performance? Our field and laboratory work investigated (A) whether high-latitude plants have traits indicating that they should be higher-quality foods for herbivores; (B) whether geographic differences in plant quality are more important than l...

While poverty and violence are not limited to one geographic region of the United States, unique demographic and geographic factors pose distinct problems in specific areas. In Escondido, CA, the city council linked poverty and crime to illegal immigration and proposed an ordinance forbidding landlords to rent to illegal immigrants. This article explores that case and examines implications for ...

anopheles fluviatilis complex is known to be a vector of malaria in iran. since mosquitoes of this species cover a wide geographical range in iran, they might have evolved into different separated populations. random amplified polymorphic dna polymerase chain reaction (rapd-pcr) assay was used to differentiate geographic populations of this species. dna was extracted from individual mosquitoes ...

BACKGROUND To compare the distribution of the intrinsic molecular subtypes of breast cancer based on immunohistochemical profile in the five major geographic regions of Brazil, a country of continental dimension, with a wide racial variation of people. METHODS The study was retrospective observational. We classified 5,687 invasive breast cancers by molecular subtype based on immunohistochemic...