The aim of our study was to examine sex-specific associations between different aspects of socioeconomic status (SES) (educational level, occupational status, income) and lung function in a general adult population. In the Hordaland County Cohort Study, 1,644 subjects aged 26-82 yrs at baseline answered questionnaires and performed post-bronchodilator spirometry both in 1996-1997 and in 2003-20...

AIM To explore the association(s) between demographic factors, socioeconomic status (SES), social capital, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and mental health among residents of Tehran, Iran. METHODS The pooled data (n=31519) were extracted from a population-based survey Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool-2 (Urban HEART-2) conducted in Tehran in 2011. Mental health, social...

Staphylococcus aureus is an important bacterial pathogen that produces a range of Staphylococcal Enterotoxins (SEs) which cause gastroenteritis and superantigen activation of T cells, the mechanism of which is not well understood. The ability to rapidly detect and quantify SEs is very important in order to learn the causes of staphylococcal outbreaks and to stop similar outbreaks in the future....

Average differences in children’s language abilities by socioeconomic status (SES) emerge early in development and predict academic achievement. Previous research has focused on coarse-grained outcome measures such as vocabulary size, but less is known about the extent to which SES differences exist in children’s strategies for comprehension and learning. We measured children’s (N = ) compreh...

OBJECTIVE The inverse association between socioeconomic status (SES) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is well documented. Aortic stiffness assessed by aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a strong predictor of CVD events. However, no previous study has examined the effect of SES on arterial stiffening over time. The present study examines this association, using several measures of SES, and...

Nous proposons dans cet article d’étudier les spécificités du transfert des patients schizophrènes groupes thérapeutiques. soutiendrons un premier temps que lors de la mise en groupe schizophrènes, investissements psychiques sont indifférenciés. second l’expérience permet au patient schizophrène faire progressivement d’une pr&#...

SELF-HEALING CIRCUITS USING STATISTICAL ELEMENT SELECTION by Gokce Keskin Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Professor Lawrence T. Pileggi, Chair Process variations in advanced CMOS process nodes limit the benefits of scaling for analog designs. In the presence of increasing random intra-die variations, mismatch becomes a significant design ch...

PURPOSE The aim of study is to investigate role of co-surfactant in self-emulsification through rheological analysis of intermediate liquid crystalline (LC) phase formed during self-emulsification. METHODS To mixture of Captex 200P (C200) and tween 80 (T80) (SES Plain), either medium hydrocarbon chain co-surfactant (Capmul MCM (CMCM): SES C) or long hydrocarbon chain co-surfactant (Peceol (P)...