BACKGROUND Individuals who make a living through agriculture and animal husbandry are faced with a variety of physical and psychological health risks. In many international studies, it has been shown that these risks can result in disease. The purpose of this study is to summarize the health risks faced by Turkish agricultural workers. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study used a nonrandom, conven...

In a static environment, optional participation and a local agglomeration of cooperators are found to be beneficial for the occurrence and maintenance of cooperation. In the optional public goods game, the rock-scissors-paper cycles of different strategies yield oscillatory cooperation but not stable cooperation. In this paper, by incorporating population density and individual mobility into th...

every three hours night and day, continued until temperature was normal for a week or more, and then given three times a day till convalescence fully established. To assist digestion, pepsine was given. pepsini porci, B. P., or Morison's gr. iii every two hours night and day with food. The majority of the cases did very well on this, so far as getting rid of the fever, &c., was concerned, but i...

BACKGROUND A simple but countable electronic device has been developed to gain reliable information on elderly patients' perceived well-being. The device has been tested and proven to be technically functional and countable. It was now tested in two care homes for the elderly and two private homes to evaluate if it provided solid information about the well-being of elderly persons. This report ...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether well-known predictors of mortality change their predictive power over time, being reduced or even reversed in the old-old. DESIGN A multidimensional survey of the Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study conducted from 1989 to 1992 with follow-up of mortality after 6, 8, 10, and 12 years since 1989. SETTING Israel. PARTICIPANTS Participants (N=1,369) were...

In this article, the authors propose an original analysis of the cardiac frequency after training. The study of rapid diminution (alactic oxygen debt) and of plateau (lactic debt in oxygen) make possible adjustment of the training. The variations observed in young swimmers during their sporting season and note a tangible improvement of the two components for recovery.