OBJECTIVES Both the public perceptions, and most published epidemiologic studies, rely on the assumption that the distance of a particular residence from a base station or a broadcast transmitter is an appropriate surrogate for exposure to radiofrequency fields, although complex propagation characteristics affect the beams from antennas. The main goal of this study was to characterise the distr...

fleas are the most common and important external parasites worldwide and also serves as vectors of various pathogens for humans and animals. the study aimed to determine the prevalence of pulex irritants in sheep herds and residential areas of villages in kurdsitan province, iran. a total of 2,900 sheep were randomly selected from 48 flocks and 630 residential areas of 18 villages from november...

A case control study was conducted where cases were children younger than 5 years (diseased between 1980 and 2003) registered at the german childhood cancer registry (GCCR). Population-based matched controls (1:3) were selected from the corresponding registrar's office. Residential proximity to the nearest nuclear power plant was determined for each subject individually (with a precision of abo...

The article analyzes to which extent residential proximity from an emergency hospital affects the probability of surviving an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The critical time aspect in AMI treatment provides an ideal application for evaluating this proximity-outcome hypothesis. Previous studies have encountered empirical difficulties relating to potential endogenous health-based spatial sor...

We resum the leading ultrasoft logs of the singlet and octet static QCD potentials within potential NRQCD. We then obtain the complete three-loop renormalization group improvement of the singlet QCD static potential. The discrepancies between the perturbative evaluation and the lattice results at short distances are slightly reduced. Preprint submitted to Elsevier Preprint 2 March 2008 Recently...

This article examines whether perceived neighborhood ethnic diversity is associated with a range of social outcomes in a postindustrial city undergoing regeneration. The research included a survey in 3 types of deprived area in Glasgow: those undergoing regeneration, those directly adjoining regeneration areas, and those further removed from regeneration areas. In areas undergoing regeneration,...

Context. According to Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, there is an increase of 19% in residential burglary crimes in Sweden over the last decade and only 5% of the total crimes reported were actually solved by the law enforcement agencies. In order to solve these cases quickly and efficiently, the law enforcement agencies has to look into the possible linked serial crimes. Many st...

The objective of this study is to investigate the determinants of mean trip distance traveled by different mode types. The study uses data from the Hamilton CMA in Canada, and multilevel models to investigate demographic aging factors, gender differentials, and neighbourhood attributes on distance traveled. The results of the study validate previous findings regarding the decline in distance tr...

This pilot study investigates how considering accessibility could help to model prices of residential real estate more accurately. We introduce two novelties from the price modeling point of view (1) defining accessibility as travel time by public transport, in addition to geographic distance, and (2) considering dynamic points of interest from check-ins into social networks, in addition to fix...

To each association scheme G and to each field R, there is associated naturally an associative algebra, the so-called adjacency algebra RG of G over R. It is well-known that RG is semisimple if R has characteristic 0. However, little is known if R has positive characteristic. In the present paper, we focus on this case. We describe the algebra RG if G is a Hamming scheme (and R a field of posit...