Complex numerals (e.g., four hundred) have a multiplicative structure (four hundred = 4 x 100). This paper investigates whether children are sensitive to the meaning of the multiplicative structure. We designed a novel word learning paradigm and taught 4to 6-year-old children the meaning of a novel numeral phrase (e.g., ‘one gobi houses’ to mean a group of three houses). We then asked whether t...

Background Unhealthy drug use (UDU), including both illicit drug use and misuse of prescription medications, is high among Americans 12 or older (9.4% past month; 48% lifetime), and is often 50-100% higher among emergency department (ED) patients (Cherpitel & Ye, 2008). While most screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) projects focus on questionnaire screening for UDU, ...

Old Dongola, with a history reaching back to the 5th century AD, was originally capital of Makuria, one three medieval Nubian kingdoms. After collapse its city saw migratory movements and political changes that resulted in emergence new power relations. In 16th 17th centuries, seat local ruler subordinate Funj Sultanate. New communities emerged this setting inhabited until colonial era. This pa...

The city of Yazd has a large number traditional houses. Houses with central courtyards and an Iwan were suitable for establishing thermal comfort conditions. In this research, the effect Iwan's depth ratio adjacent room's openings on condition in residential courtyard buildings evaluated. current research aims to provide optimal model increase sustainable development use such models as contempo...

A study was undertaken to correlate the impact of housing and patterns of house construction on the vector density and transmission of filaria among the inhabitants of these houses. Three different types of houses in ecologically similar hamlets of Hariharpur village in Varanasi were selected for determining the density of Culex quinquefasciatus, the vector of Wuchereria bancrofti and its infec...

BACKGROUND We recently developed HOUSES, an individual housing-based socioeconomic status (SES) measurement for health disparities research. We assessed whether HOUSES was associated with risk of pertussis and pertussis vaccine up-to-date status in children. METHODS The study utilized a previous population-based case-control study cohort assembled during the 2004-2005 pertussis outbreak. We c...

background certain social determinants may influence host susceptibility to tuberculosis (tb) infections, and increase the risk of developing the disease. objectives the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of several host and environmental factors on the risk of tb in northern iranian households. patients and methods this case-control study was conducted for one year between 2010 and 20...