Recent protest movements brought attention to the one percent, a segment of the population that is critical to understanding inequality and social mobility but that attracts relatively little research attention. In this article, I survey current research on the one percent in the United States. I distinguish income from wealth and show that both are very concentrated but that the concentration ...

two slug species (parmacella ibera and agriolimax agresteris) from parmacelidae and ‎limacidae families were found dominant injuries slugs in nursery and field conditions during ‎2001-2003. different methods of control under field condition in grakheil station of sari vicinity ‎studied. the experiment conducted in complete randomized block design with eight treatments and ‎four replications. ea...

Individual non-minor injuries (Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) > or = 2) to the head that occurred to belted and unbelted drivers and front seat passengers on the stuck side of impacted vehicles were examined. Injury type, injury combination, collision severity in relation to type of injury as well as contact sources were assessed. Forty-eight percent of injuries were moderate in severity (AIS 2...

BACKGROUND Acute lung injury is a critical illness syndrome consisting of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure with bilateral pulmonary infiltrates that are not attributed to left atrial hypertension. Despite recent advances in our understanding of the mechanism and treatment of acute lung injury, its incidence and outcomes in the United States have been unclear. METHODS We conducted a prospec...

OBJECTIVE A 2009 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that midsize SUVs with stronger roofs, as measured in quasi-static tests, had lower risk of ejection and lower risk of injury for nonejected drivers. The objective of the present study was to determine whether a similar association exists for other vehicle groups. METHODS Twelve small passenger cars were evaluated acco...

BACKGROUND Written materials used in pediatric public health settings often exceed the reading skills of caretakers. OBJECTIVE To compare a pictorial anticipatory guidance (PAG) sheet requiring limited reading skills to a TIPP (The Injury Prevention Program) sheet for providing injury prevention information to low-income urban families. DESIGN AND SETTING A convenience sample of families wi...

according to the national institutes of health and the center for disease and prevention, it is estimated that 65 to 80 percent of the human infectious are caused by biofilms. antibiotics and drainage of purulent discharge are the main treatment measures. but in chronic infections sometimes these findings are not easy to recognize. biofilm is an extracellular polymeric conglomeration generally ...