OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of job demand, job control and job strain on total mortality among white-collar and blue-collar employees working in the public sector. DESIGN 28-year prospective population-based follow-up. SETTING Several municipals in Finland. PARTICIPANTS 5731 public sector employees from the Finnish Longitudinal Study on Municipal Employees Study aged 44-58 years ...

Seafood/fish intake has been regarded as a protective factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), while smoking is a strong risk factor. To examine whether associations between smoking and risk of CHD are modified by seafood/fish intake, we studied 72,012 Japanese men and women aged 45-74 years who completed 2 food frequency questionnaires, 5 years apart, during the period 1995-2009. After 878,163...

The goal of this study was to describe HIV risk behaviors, perceptions, testing, and prevention exposure among urban American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). Interviewers administered a questionnaire to participants recruited through anonymous peer-referral sampling. Chi-square tests and multiple logistic regression were used to compare HIV testing by perception of risk and risk behavior st...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates are high among women from Appalachia, yet data do not exist on human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence among these women. We examined the prevalence of genital HPV among Appalachian women and identified correlates of HPV detection. METHODS We report data from a case-control study conducted between January 2006 and December 2008 as part of...

conclusions the results showed that the prevalence of cigarette smoking in adolescents was high, and the theory of planned behavior (tpb) components were significant predictors of cigarette smoking. it seems that interventions targeting adolescents’ smoking habits might benefit using the tpb model. patients and methods this was a cross-sectional study involving male adolescent students (high sc...

In this paper we describe, a powerful post-synthesis approach called reclocking, for performance improvement by minimizing the total execution time. By back annotating the wire delays of designs created by a high level synthesis system, and then finding an optimal clockwidth, we resynthesize the controller to improve performance without altering the datapath. Reclocking is versatile and can be ...