OBJECTIVE To identify host and environment characteristics associated with poison exposure among preschool children in Thailand. SETTING A matched case-control study in 20 public hospitals in Khon Kaen province. METHODS Cases comprised 100 consecutive preschool children attending hospital between September 1997 and February 1999 because of reported exposure to a poison. Controls were three ...

Lung cancer screening is a relatively new screening option. Inequalities related to screening behavior have been documented in other types of cancer screening. Because stage at presentation drives mortality in lung cancer, it is critical to understand factors that influence screening behavior in lung cancer screening in order to intervene. However, we must first understand where disparities exi...

Leisure is an important part of the daily activities urban residents. A relatively dense flow people will be generated between residential areas and supermarkets, as well highly popular park facilities. These flows can reflect characteristics residents’ leisure spatial residence–leisure functions, opposed to static facilities places; it a new perspective for study structure. Network studies on ...

Since the late 1950s, land reclamation from lakes has been a common human disturbance to ecosystems in China. It has greatly diminished the lake area, and altered natural ecological succession. However, little is known about its impact on the carbon (C) cycle. We conducted an experiment to examine the variations of chemical properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and C mineralization under...

AIM The aim was to assess the pharmacokinetic (PK) interaction of curcumin and glibenclamide (GL) in diabetic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sprague-Dawley rats induced with diabetes were divided into 2 groups of six rats in each. Group I: GL (6 mg/kg po once daily) treatment in diabetic rats and group 2: Curcumin (50 mg/Kg po once daily) + GL (dose as above) in diabetic rats. Blood samples were...

The pharmacokinetic characteristics of cefepime were determined after first dose (n = 35) and again under steady-state conditions (n = 31) with a group of 37 infants and children. In eight subjects, a cefepime dose given by intramuscular injection was substituted for an intravenous dose, and disposition characteristics were studied again. Study subjects ranged in age from 2.1 months to 16.4 yea...

The institutionalization of e-marketing strategies, their adoption, and implementation hinges on the customers' perceptions critical success factors that literature identifies in terms an online competitive advantage, shopping infrastructure development, customer relationship, risk. To assess factors, a sample 300 customers fast-moving consumer goods retailers throughout provinces Zimbabwe part...

BACKGROUND The well-established connection between HIV risk behavior and place of residence points to the importance of geographic clustering in the potential transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). METHODS To investigate the geospatial distribution of prevalent sexually transmitted infections and sexual behaviors in a sample of 18-24 year-old sexually active men ...

BACKGROUND International studies examining the association between the incidence of childhood cancer and characteristics of the area in which the patient lives have generally reported inconsistent patterns. Area-based differentials in childhood cancer throughout Australia have not been previously published at a national level. PROCEDURE Population-based information from the Australian Paediat...

This research investigated the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and male contraceptive uptake in Kenya. A survey of 572 randomly selected respondents participated study. The study assessed respondents’ profiles such as location residence, age, marital status, polygyny, family size, education attainment, working status income level. age ranged from 18 to 60 years. Chi-square re...