Community Context, Land Use, and First Birth

Watershed impacts of climate and land use changes depend on magnitude and land use context

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN, USA Center for Integrated Forest Science, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, USA Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, USDA Forest Se...

Land-use modelling in a transnational context

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Comparison between Water Birth and Land Birth in terms of Fetal and Neonatal Outcomes

Introduction: Although warm water is used for labor pain reduction, there is controversy regarding the potential complications of water birth. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate fetal and neonatal complications of water birth versus those observed in conventional modes of delivery. Methods:This clinical randomized trial was performed on 200 pregnant women at Mashhad Omolbanin Hosp...

Promoting active community environments through land use and transportation planning.

PURPOSE To examine the role of land use and transportation plans as policy instruments for promoting active community environments. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using multilevel models to examine whether active community environment scores were associated with leisure and transportation-related physical activity (PA) and whether associations varied by household income. SETTING 67 North C...