Towards the end of the 1940s the air’s contamination began in Mexico. It just happened when Mexico starts its industrial growing. During these years the population increased notably. Industrial growing in the 1950s was carried through an urbanization process (Restrepo, 1992). Mexico City was the first because it had industries, services, government offices, culture attractions and higher educat...

We use the Bertelsmann Foundation's Sustainable Government Indicators (SGI) to find out how executive efficiency and consensus capacity influence sustainable policy performance. Although those two concepts are often seen as opposites, we show that this is not case they can actually complement each other: separately well together, an efficient support more However, government a double-edged swor...

withheld at the request of the investigator. Genetic Modifiers of Cardiotoxicity: PILOT Principal Investigator: Christopher Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital Co-Investigator(s): Paul Arpino, PharmD, Massachusetts General Hospital Peter Noseworthy, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital Drug-induced QT prolongation and resultant potentially fatal arrhythmia is a costly impediment ...

This paper seeks to more clearly define and measure the phenomenon of eparticipation, focusing specifically on the question of whether it is simply an extension of existing forms, differing only in mode, or whether it offers a new and qualitatively different form of political engagement. The analysis is timely since despite over a decades‟ worth of research being conducted into the topic of epa...

In a study comprising about 8000 members of Swiss municipal executive boards, it was analyzed to what degree self placements on the left right scale were based on self-guided judgments (=opinions about specific issues) or on party-guided impacts (= ideological standing of respective parties). Using multivariate linear regressions, it was found both couplings were far more pronounced on the left...

An adverse uterine environment is thought to program blood pressure (BP) later in life, most likely due to fetal under-nutrition. This study examines the relationships between adult systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), birth weight, and maternal nutritional status and dietary intake during pregnancy. This study draws on a large sample (n=1632) of Filipino young adul...