OBJECTIVES We evaluated the combined impact of community-level environmental and socioeconomic factors on the risk of campylobacteriosis. METHODS We obtained Campylobacter case data (2002-2010; n = 3694) from the Maryland Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. We obtained community-level socioeconomic and environmental data from the 2000 US Census and the 2007 US Census of Agricultur...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether retail prices for prescription drugs are higher in poorer areas. DATA SOURCES The MyFloridarx.com website, which provides retail prescription prices at Florida pharmacies, and median ZIP code income from the 2000 Census. STUDY DESIGN We compared mean pharmacy prices for each of the four study drugs across ZIP code income groups. Pharmacies were classified as e...

The spines and bloom of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruit are two important quality traits related to fruit market value. However, until now, none of the genes involved in the formation of cucumber fruit spines and bloom trichomes has been identified. Here, the characterization of trichome development in wild-type (WT) cucumber and a spontaneous mutant, glabrous 1 (csgl1) controlled by a sing...

The process of recognizing the postal codes or zip codes in a handwritten address can be aided by many sources of external knowledge. Ci ty and state names are obvious examples that can be used in conjunction w i t h a city-state-zip directory to provide evidence about digits in a zip code. This paper describes an extension of this methodology that uses knowledge about legal street names and su...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) in developed countries has historically been associated with poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES). In the past quarter century, TB in the United States has changed from primarily a disease of native-born to primarily a disease of foreign-born persons, who accounted for more than 60% of newly-diagnosed TB cases in 2010. The purpose of this study was to assess t...

1 Electrical Engineering Post Graduate Program, Av. Augusto Correa 01 Zip code 66075-110 Belém – Pará – Brasil, + 55 91 3201-7634, [email protected] 2 Electrical Engineering Post Graduate Program, Av. Augusto Correa 01 Zip code 66075-110 Belém – Pará – Brasil, + 55 91 3201-7634, [email protected] 2 Faculty of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Av. Augusto Correa 01 Zip code 66075-...

1 Entrepreneurship Academy, Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College No.2 of Xueyuan Rd., Yiwu, Zhejiang province, zip code: 322000 2 School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, No.111 of Northbound Section 1, Second Ring Rd., Chengdu, Sichuan province, zip code: 610031 3 Sichuan Vocational and Technical College of Communications No.111 of Northbound Section 1, Second Rin...

Exposure to environmental pollutants may contribute to the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). We determined the ZIP codes containing or abutting each of the approximately 900 hazardous waste sites in New York and identified the major contaminants in each. Three categories of ZIP codes were then distinguished: those containing or abutting sites contaminated with persistent organic poll...