OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyse changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity between 1986 and 2000 in Portuguese conscripts, and to examine the role of place of residence and educational level. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS Data sets from the cross-sectional annual surveys of all 18-year-old Portuguese males born between 1966 and 1981 and examined between...

BACKGROUND An important event in many young people's lives is moving out of the parental home. This event is often operationalized as the distance between parents and their children, i.e., parent-child proximity. METHODS The present study (N = 1,451) analyzed correlates of parent-child proximity through the lens of human value theory (Schwartz, Advances in experimental social psychology, 1992...

A study on a few selected socio-biological determinants of birth weight was conducted at a rural project hospital in Haryana. Records of 2292 singleton live births over a period of two years (1985-1987) were analysed, by bivariate and multivariate methods. The mean birth weight of the infants was 2715 g (S.D. 453). Mean birth weight of male infants was 92 g more than female infants. Literacy le...

A mean residence time (MRT) is an important pharmacokinetic parameter. To the author's knowledge, however, a physiologically based structure of MRT (thereafter MRT structure) has not been published so far. Primarily this is because MRT structures cannot be identified by traditional pharmacokinetic methods used for the determination of MRT. Therefore, tools from the theory of linear dynamic syst...

Intercomparisons of hillslopes and catchments in different hydrogeomorphic settings are rare. Those comparison studies that have been completed have focused largely on bulk outflow and chemistry. Here, we present a new functional intercomparison of two well studied hillslopes: one in New Zealand at Maimai and one in Japan at Fudoji. Slope angle, slope length, soil depth, climate and vegetation ...

OBJECTIVE This study considers whether rural status or living in a particular region of the United States has effects on mental and physical health. The analyses examine whether there are independent and interactive effects of rural status and region of residence on health, beyond individual level factors related to poverty. METHODS Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models are used to e...

â â â  today, domicile is not only considered as the shelter but also is the security and capital resource among the inhabitants of a city. this problem which has an important role in cites formation caused many problems in view point of social indices. for example , the substructure area becomes smaller , room shortage in a residential building, per capita shortage of a person area in a house ...