BACKGROUND Airborne mouse allergen has not previously been measured in inner-city homes, and its relationship to settled dust mouse allergen levels is unknown. OBJECTIVE To quantify airborne and settled dust Mus m 1 levels in homes of inner-city patients with asthma and to identify risk factors for mouse allergen exposure. METHODS One hundred inner-city school-age children with asthma in Ba...

the present paper aims for the most part to prove the fact that religious and spiritual places and above all, mosques play major roles within islamic urban areas. they are in fact the basis of civil infrastructures. a historical analysis focusing on where mosques stand in islamic urban areas reveals that mosques have always been the center of development and growth and that they must be studied...

of the horse-shoe to which the city of Bombay may be likened. Year after year protests have arisen as to this method of disposal, but with the true Oriental apathy which seems to characterize most of the public departments in Bombay, the matter has been allowed to drag along, and even now is not entirely settled. Two years and a half ago we were informed by a high official in the Bombay Municip...

The author traces the development of low-incoming housing zones in the city of Nairobi (Kenya), which were initially shaped by the exclusive urban policies of the British Colonial Government, and further influenced by minimum standards codes established after Independence. Using a random sample of 1,480 heads of households, the author examines zones of entry into the city, with a view to identi...

BACKGROUND The developing countries are experiencing epidemiological transition and hypertension has emerged as a major threat to health in these countries. Understanding people's perceptions is important for any prevention and control activities and lay explanatory models (EMs) provide an opportunity to gain insights into the people's perceptions. This qualitative study is taken up with an obj...

Charles Phillips was born in Liege at the beginning of the XIXth century. In that city, he studied medicine and, later, lectured, during a few years, initially, at the School of Medicine, and, later, at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Having trained in several European centres, he settled in Paris where he soon became a well-known urologist. Remarkably intelligent and inventive, he was also ...

When people recurrently interact in familiar settings, social conventions may develop so that people tend to disregard alternatives outside the conventional norm. For rational players to usually restrict attention to a block of conventional strategies, no player should prefer to deviate from the block when others are likely to act rationally and conventionally inside it. We explore concepts tha...