The communication which I venture to bring before you this evening has three objectives in view. First, to examine the statement frequently made and supported by statistics, that puerperal mortality is as high to-day as it was seventy years ago; second, to question the opinion, also widely held, that the bulk of this mortality is the result of instrumental and other interference with the course...

Objective: Previous quantitative research has suggested that there is a link between housing, the urban environment, and mental health. However, methodological and design issues make it difficult to disentangle the relative influence of dwelling specific and wider urban environmental influences on individual mental health. The aim of this study was to explore the link between the dwelling, the ...

Due to data and methodology constraints, there is a lack of good quality-controlled residential price indices publicly available in China. New home sales account for quite a large share of total home sales in Chinese cities (87% in 2010). As a result, the standard repeat sales approach cannot be employed, as a new housing units only appears once on the market. The hedonic method may be more sui...

This study analyzed housing types called “jūtaku katashiki” and these supplied numbers to each estate clarify the characteristics of design by type planning “kata keikaku” wooden row houses projects for rent Dojunkai Foundation. The findings are as follows: 1) 15. 2) earlier period were designed estate. latter standardized two-unit two-story four-unit (separate households on 1st 2nd floors), "k...

The notion of a ripple effect in the housing market implies stationarity in regional:national house price ratios. The central aim of this study is to investigate whether the ripple effect exists in Taiwan’s regional house price ratio by implementing the Breuer et al. (2001) Panel SURADF unit root tests, which can improve upon the less efficient estimations of conventional unit root tests. The P...

BACKGROUND Four trials of interventions designed to prevent early childhood caries are using community-engagement strategies to improve recruitment of low-income, racial/ethnic minority participants. The trials are being implemented by 3 centers funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and known as the Early Childhood Caries Collaborating Centers (EC4): the Center fo...

The focus of the present work was on the association between commuting (business and private), life satisfaction, stress, and (over-) use of the Internet. Considering that digital devices are omnipresent in buses and trains, no study has yet investigated if commuting contributes to the development of Internet addiction. Overall, N = 5039 participants (N = 3477 females, age M = 26.79, SD = 10.68...

The capacity of LiDAR and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide plant height estimates as a high-throughput plant phenotyping trait was explored. An experiment over wheat genotypes conducted under well watered and water stress modalities was conducted. Frequent LiDAR measurements were performed along the growth cycle using a phénomobile unmanned ground vehicle. UAV equipped with a high res...

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It is well accepted that criminal records impose collateral consequences on offenders. Generations of researchers have studied the obstacles offenders face when they apply for employment. More recently, researchers have also examined the effects of criminal records on access to public housing, student financial aid, welfare benefits, and voting rights. An axiom of these policies is that individ...