The main objective of this study is to evaluate the land-use change and its relationship with its driving factors in the loess hilly region. In this study, a case study was carried out in Pengyang County. We set two land-use demand scenarios (a baseline scenario (scenario 1) and a real land-use requirement scenario (scenario 2)) during year 2001-2005 via assuming the effect of driving factors o...

BACKGROUND This study estimates life expectancy with and without type 2 diabetes for individuals in Lower Saxony, Germany in order to detect a trend in population health. METHODS Morbidity and mortality data derived from German administrative claims data (statutory health insurance, AOK Niedersachsen, N = 2,900,065) were used covering 10 years from 2005 to 2014. Life table analysis was applie...

The weakly coupled WKB system captures high frequency wave dynamics in many applications. For such a system a level set method framework has been recently developed to compute multi-valued solutions to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and evaluate position density accordingly. In this paper we propose two approaches for computing multi-valued quantities related to density, momentum as well as energ...

S51 shown to have subthreshold BPAD with a range of 0.1 to 2.4% with a mean of 1.4 (SD-0.8). There is no nationwide study to evaluate the prevalence rates of BPAD in India. In a country like India, patients have limited resources, poor knowledge about the disorder and treatment; have inadequate access to the health care facilities, which makes treatment of BPAD a challenge. Indian Psychiatric S...

The ability to withstand viral predation is critical for survival of most microbes. Accordingly, a plethora of phage resistance systems has been identified in bacterial genomes (Labrie et al, 2010), including restriction‐modification systems (R‐M) (Tock & Dryden, 2005), abortive infection (Abi) (Chopin et al, 2005), Argonaute‐based interference (Swarts et al, 2014), as well as clustered regular...

Music for voice holds a special place in the opus of Serbian composer Jug Markovic. In all his pieces, Markovic maintains type care vocal part that distinguishes him context art music, and, at same time, puts on international map contemporary composers who work with non-traditional ways. This is reflected intention to diversify performing techniques and styles, detailed instructions regarding t...

BACKGROUND Exploring changes in health inequality and its determinants over time is of policy interest. Accordingly, this study aimed to decompose inequality in neonatal mortality into its contributing factors and then explore changes from 1995-2000 to 2005-2010 in Iran. METHODS Required data were drawn from two Iran's demographic and health survey (DHS) conducted in 2000 and 2010. Normalized...