OBJECTIVE To investigate relations between labour market income inequality and mortality in North American metropolitan areas. METHODS An ecological cross sectional study of relations between income inequality and working age (25-64 years) mortality in 53 Canadian (1991) and 282 US (1990) metropolitan areas using four measures of income inequality. Two labour market income concepts were used:...

Bacterial indicators and bacteriophages suggested as potential indicators of water quality were determined by public laboratories in water from springs, household water wells, and rural and metropolitan water supplies in north-eastern Spain. Indicator bacteria were detected more frequently than bacteriophages in springs, household water wells and rural water supplies. In contrast, positive bact...

BACKGROUND Asthma remains a leading cause of illness, where primary care can assist to reduce hospitalisations through prevention, controlling acute episodes, and overall management of asthma. In Victoria, Asthma hospitalisations were as high as 3.1 hospitalisations per 1000 population in 1993-94. The primary aims of this study are to: determine if changes in asthma hospitalisations have occurr...

The aim of this deliverable is to provide the software that implements, on the Linux operating system, the functions required to set up a MobileMAN. Specifically, in addition to the revised version of the software modules already delivered in D11 -i) CORE watchdog mechanism, ii) ad hoc routing framework, iii) p2p Pastry platform, and iv) VoIP and whiteboard applications -we now also deliver: th...

The objective of this research to develop quantitative measures that capture various aspects of underlying network structure, using aggregate level travel data from fifty metropolitan areas across the U.S. The influence of these measures on system performance is then tested using statistical regression models. The results corroborate that the quantitative measures of network structure affect th...

Atlanta indicators suggest that cocaine continues to dominate the local drug market, which is becoming more diverse. Information on cocaine’s prevalence is mixed. According to treatment admissions and emergency department (ED) mentions, cocaine prevalence is declining, which is also supported by arrestee data and ethnographic research. According to the DEA, cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetami...

n The poor are more suburbanized in metropolitan areas with greater employment decentralization. Overall, the poor are generally less likely to live in suburbs than the non-poor (55.8 percent versus 70.9 percent). Metropolitan areas with both high suburbanization of poverty and job sprawl are somewhat larger and lie mostly in the South and West, including Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle,...