BACKGROUND Although children both at the upper and lower tail of the body mass index (BMI) distribution are at greater health risk, relatively little is known about the development of thinness prevalence rates in developed countries over time. We studied trends in childhood thinness and assessed changes in the BMI distribution since the onset of the obesity epidemic. METHODS Growth data from ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), published in 1980, has led to a dead end, the DSM-V. Following the allegory of Sleeping Beauty, the DSM-III put European psychiatry to sleep; it now must wake up to create a 21st century psychiatric language for descriptive psychopathology and psychiatric nosology. Four topics are reviewed. First, the review of descriptive psy...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to examine and describe the portrayal of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in mass print media magazines. DESIGN The sample included all 37 articles found in magazines with circulation rates of greater than 1 million published in the United States and Canada from 1980 to 2005. The analysis was quantitative and qualitative and included in...

The landscape of software engineering research has changed significantly from one year to the next in line with industrial needs and trends. Therefore, today’s literature on a rich multidisciplinary content that includes large number studies; however, not many them demonstrate holistic view field. From this perspective, study aimed reveal reflects topics, trends, trajectories by analyzin...

Purpose: The objective of this study was to divulges into understanding the inter-state disparities across sixteen major Indian states in registered manufacturing sector by analyzing it’s pattern and traversing over years initiating from 1980-1981 2015-2016. Theoretical framework: economic development is not only unusual, but also rare, when one compares it paths followed other developing devel...

The water-energy balance of many mid-latitude watersheds has been changing in recent decades due to global warming. These changes manifest themselves over both long timescales (e.g., hydrologic drought) and short agricultural may be ameliorated or exacerbated by vegetative response. We apply a Budyko framework assess short-term response long-term trends water heat stress (HS) across North Ameri...