It is known that health is determined by physical, mental, social, and spiritual factors. During the last decades there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies showing positive associations between spirituality-religiosity and health. The most important works in that area began it be deeds in the 1980 decade and are increasing worldwide. Scientific literature have recorded tha...

Seventeen years ago we reported the public health success of reduced lead exposure of mothers in Glasgow, achieved between 1977 and 1980 by increasing the pH of the water supply from 6.3 to 9.0 with lime to reduce plumbosolvency.A further reduction in plumbosolvency has now been made by addition of orthophosphate to the water supply. We report here on striking changes in maternal blood lead con...

BACKGROUND Melanoma incidence and mortality rates have increased over the past 30 years in the Caucasian population. In Brazil, data on non-capital cities are scarce, making epidemiological stu dies necessary. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the incidence of and classify cutaneous melanomas in Blumenau from 1980 to 2009. METHOD Data from 1002 histopathological examinations of individuals from Blumen...

"For the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music." With this appraisal the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published in 1980, begins its magisterial article on Beethoven. More than a decade later one might not apply this statement to the Teuton...

Ectopic pregnancy continues to be an important health problem worldwide. Between the early 1970’s and the late 1980’s/early 1990’s there was a considerable increase in the incidence of ectopic pregnancies. Recent evidence, however, suggests that within the last decade the incidence may have been falling. In developed countries close to 90% or more of ectopic pregnancies are diagnosed unruptured...

Introduction The number of persons with gender incongruence referred to health care is increasing, but national data on the incidence are lacking. aim this study was quantify development in individuals over time and estimate Denmark. Material methods Historical descriptive cohort study. Individuals older than 18 years legal sex-change their person registration were achieved from Statistics Denm...

The design of electronic Embedded Systems relies on a number of different engineering disciplines. As the domain becomes ever more important, both in theoretical challenges and in industrial relevance, it has drawn a considerable attention in recent years, with a number of proposals for formalisms, languages and models to help support the design flow. In this article we shall describe Synchrono...

Joël Scherk (1946–1980) was an important early contributor to the development of string theory. Together with various collaborators, he made numerous profound and influential contributions to the subject throughout the decade of the 1970s. On the occasion of a conference at the École Normale Supérieure in 2000 that was dedicated to the memory of Joël Scherk I gave a talk entitled “Reminiscences...

The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) is a model of information processing and persuasion. Ever since its introduction in the 1980’s, ELM has been frequently cited by scholars from both cognitive/social psychology and consumer research. This paper reviews the application of ELM to consumer research over the past decade, with the focus on studies conducted in advertising contexts, effects on br...

This paper explores national origin differences in the welfare recipiency of immigrants to the United States. We develop an economic model of immigration which generates implications about how welfare utilization should vary according to characteristics of the country of origin. The empirical analysis reveals that a few source country characteristics explain over two-thirds of the variance of w...