Chairman: 1989-93 D. E. Wells (UK); Secretaly: 1989-93 D. G. Westmoreland (USA); Titular Members: K. Biemann (USA; 1989-91); W. H. Gries (FRG; 1989-91); M. J.-F. Leroy (France; 1989-93); M. W. Linscheid (FRG; 1991-93); M. Morita (Japan; 1989-93); M. J. Pellin (USA; 1991-93); B. Ya. Spivakov (Russia; 1989-93); Associate Members: S . Caroli (Italy; 1991-93); W. P. Cofino (Netherlands; 1989-93); R...

A fluorescence antibody test with monoclonal antibodies was used to determine the subgroup (A or B) of respiratory syncytial virus from infants hospitalized in Caen, France, over eight consecutive epidemics from 1982 to 1990. From 1982 to 1985, 27 (30%) out of 90 frozen nasal slides were classified as subgroup A strains and 63 (70%) were classified as subgroup B. B strains predominated over A i...

PURPOSE To identify trends in patient satisfaction adjusted for sociodemographic factors and health status from 1989-2003. METHODS Five repeated cross-sectional surveys were used. The study sample included 290,534 household members 20 years of age and over from the five survey periods of 1989, 1992, 1995, 1999, and 2003. Satisfaction was measured using a five-point scale, ranging from "very s...

In developed countries, time trends in the incidence of colorectal cancer differ markedly from trends in mortality. This study sought to explain simultaneously changes in both colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. Data on first admissions, interventions and outcome from the national hospital registry over the period 1978-1989 and data on mortality from Statistics Netherlands over the same ...

Chairman: 1989-91 F. Ingman (Sweden); 1991-93 W. E. van der Linden (Netherlands); ViceChairman: 1989-91 R. E. van Grieken (Belgium); Secretary: 1989-91 W. E. van der Linden (Netherlands); Co-Secretary: 1989-91 C. L. Graham (UK); Secretary: 1991-93 C. L. Graham (UK); Titular Members: L. A. Cume (USA; 1989-93); St. Glab (Poland; 1989-93); W. Horwitz (USA; 1989-93); D. L. Massart (Belgium; 1989-93...

Survey evidence through the early 1990s generally suggests a reduction in disability in the elderly population of the United States. Because the evidence is not fully consistent, several authors have speculated about whether disability declines will continue. This paper reports results from the 1999 National Long-Term Care Survey on disability trends from 1982 through 1999. It is found that dis...

PURPOSE This study assessed the current teaching and utilization of the hand over mouth technique in advanced educational programs in pediatric dentistry and compared these results to previous surveys. METHODS A survey, identical to those used in 1979 and 1989, was sent to pediatric dentistry program directors. Descriptive and comparative statistics evaluated the use of HOM, HOMAR, and restra...

Set pair analysis is a new intelligent algorithm for dealing with complex uncertain problems, and it widely used in environmental science because of its concise structure scalability results. However, still unclear about the development stage distribution set specific application key areas. Therefore, based on method bibliometrics, this paper studies development, challenges over past 32 years (...

In their groundbreaking paper, Bartholdi, Tovey and Trick [1989] argued that many well-known voting rules, such as Plurality, Borda, Copeland and Maximin are easy to manipulate. An important assumption made in that paper is that the manipulator’s goal is to ensure that his preferred candidate is among the candidates with the maximum score, or, equivalently, that ties are broken in favor of the ...

This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average urban children have 0.29 hig...