Background: Although literacy is increasingly considered to play a role in socioeconomic inequalities in health, its contribution to the explanation of educational differences in health has remained unexplored. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of self-rated literacy to educational differences in health. Methods: Data was collected from the Healthy Foundation and Lifesty...

Background: Available evidence in Ghana shows the implementation of tuberculosis (TB) control activities efforts since the beginning of the 1900s. In spite of that, TB continues to be one of the common diseases in the country. In 1994, local and international policy windows opened for renewed strategies for the control of TB. This paper explores some of the approaches which have been in place s...

S Effects of Fluoride on Immune System Function. Sheila L M Gibson, Scotland Cancer Incidence And Mortality In Workers Exposed To Fluoride. P Grandjean et a/, Denmark Clastogenic Adivrty of Sodium Fluoride In Great Ape Cells. K Kishi and T Ishida, Japan Serum Fluoride As An Indicator of Occupational Hydrofluoric Acid Exposure. K Kono el a/, Japan Comparison of the Effect of Sodium Fluoride and ...

Plant symptoms caused by Pseudomonas syringae ...................................................1 Severity of Pseudomonas syringae ............................................................... ...2 Predisposing factors increase severity ........................................3 (Wounding, Plant Dormancy, Soil factors, Dual infections) ............... 3 Classification of Pseudomonas syringae ...

Digital libraries and other large archives of electronically retrievable and manipulable material are becoming widespread in both commercial and scientific arenas. Advances in networking technologies have led to a greater proliferation of wide-area distributed data warehousing. This presents particular challenges associated with distributed data management. We review the available tools and tec...

Hitherto, morphological changes seen in mitochondria obtained from samples of skeletal muscle in a variety of neuromuscular disorders have not been correlated with functional abnormalities and so have not been considered significant for the pathogenesis of these conditions. But more recently, investigators from Cornell University have linked these same ultrastructural features to a primary bioc...

Archives are an extremely valuable part of our cultural heritage since they represent the trace of the activities of a physical or juridical person in the course of their business. Despite their importance, the models and technologies that have been developed over the past two decades in the Digital Library (DL) field have not been specifically tailored to archives. This is especially true when...