There is a sharp difference of opinion in the psychiatric literature over whether schizophrenic disorders exist on a continuum with other mental disorders and normality, but this issue has in the past been overshadowed by another controversy—the role of genetic vs. environmental factors in the etiology of schizophrenia. This paper argues that the division of theories of schizophrenia into those...

Title of Document: THE CHALLENGE OF TEEN NUTRITION: AN ECOLOGICAL VIEW OF SOCIOCOGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON URBAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENT DIET QUALITY Margaret Mary Wrobleski, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Assistant Professor, Nancy Atkinson, Department of Public and Community Health The routine food choices that adolescents make impact their nutritional status, health, and their risk...

the objective of this study is to measure the city of tehran’s environmental quality in 2006 (the last census year). primarily, with a comparative analysis of a variety of urban sustainability indicator models, a collection of 54 indicators have been chosen and categorized as indicators of increase or decrease in urban environmental quality in the form of a simple mathematical model. based o...

Recent research in the field of child maltreatment has begun to shed new light on the emergence of health problems in children by emphasizing the responsiveness of developmental processes to children's environmental and biological contexts. Here, I highlight recent trends in the field with an emphasis on the effects of early life stress across multiple levels of developmental domains.

this article presents the findings of an environmental evaluation carried out for the city of tehran . in year 2001 evaluation was based on a mathematical model, the subject of another study prepared for the evaluation of the urban environmental quality of major iranian cities. the model includes qualitative and quantitative features of a city, forming the whole structure of the model. those ch...

there are more than 350 wastewater treatment plants distributed across different parts of oman. some of them produce large quantities of domestic sewage sludge, particularly this study focused on characterizing domestic sludge of six treatment plants that may contain various pollutants, therefore the proper management of domestic sewage sludge is essential.samples of domestic sewage sludge were...

recent studies have shown that firms that have adopted environmental standards and thosethat have obtained official quality certifications achieve higher labour productivity than firms that have notdone so. unlike previous studies, this paper analyzes the combined effect of implementing environmentalgood practices and obtaining quality certifications on apparent labour productivity using a samp...