Background: The choice of poisoning agent depends on a number of factors like the geographic area, socioeconomic status, educational status and easy availability of a specific kind of poison. Thereby, the sound knowledge of the type and clinical picture of the poison is very important for its proper diagnosis and prompt treatment on emergency basis. To assess the types of poisoning agents used ...

BACKGROUND Based on death certificate data, the Texas Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics calculates age adjusted all-cause mortality rates for each Texas county yearly. In 1998 the calculated rates for two adjacent Texas counties was disparate. These counties contain one city (Amarillo) and are identical in size. This study examined the accuracy of recorded county of residence for ...

The wolf spider, Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz), varies foraging patch residence time in the presence of different sensory cues from prey, even without food rewards. This study examines the influence and interaction of hunger state, age and sex on the use of different types of sensory information to determine foraging patch sampling duration. In a series of two-chambered artificial foraging patches...

today, urbanization (living at apartments) phenomenon as the most common type of residence of cities has been changed so that mainly reflects the chaos in this area. too much attention paid to economic indicators compromised the balance in the housing sector and created a new type of buildings. the occurred changes indicate ignoring cultural characteristics, less attention paid to cultural conc...

Abstract This study examines the design process of Tange residence based on sketches and photographs kept by Akira Tarashima, who was in charge designing residence. The classifies them according to area size from Type A F. Observing front longer direction, it is observed that 32 shaku, 40 50 60 shaku were under consideration, after which F became 54 shaku. confirms various considered room alloc...

conclusions the findings point to a relationship between neighborhood characteristics and obesity only in the azeri turks. however, educational level was more important than neighborhood quality in predicting the risk of obesity results three common neighborhood environments were identified: 1) modern-affluent, 2) central-high access and 3) marginal. these three factors explained 73.2% of the t...

background: domestic violence is a risk factor for a wide range of health problems. this study investigated the prevalence of domestic violence and its related factors among women who attending health centers in four cities of khuzestan provinces. methods: in a descriptive-analytical study, 1820 women aged between 14-56 years who referred to health centers of ahwaz, abadan, dezful and andymeshk...