Three hundred and sixty-four workers employed in an accumulator factory had at least three bloodpressure determinations during I962 in a study of the relation between lead exposure and the incidence of hypertension. In this group 46 workers were found to have hypertension; the expected incidence was 5I. Two hundred and seventy-three of the total group, all over 35 years, had been employed for a...

The purpose of this paper is to consider the long-term results of the iris clip lens in senile aphakia. It is not intended to discuss the many different forms of intraocular lens implants. Ophthalmic surgeons are well aware of the discouraging shortand long-term failure rate when contact lenses are used to correct aphakia, and this has stimulated renewed interest in intraocular lens implants in...

Val-->Ala mutations within the effective transmembrane segment of a model single-spanning membrane protein, the 50-residue major coat (gene VIII) protein of bacteriophage M13, are shown to have sequence-dependent impacts on stabilization of membrane-embedded helical dimeric structures. Randomized mutagenesis performed on the coat protein hydrophobic segment 21-39 (YIGYAWAMV-VVIVGATIGI) produced...

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Poverty and the Assessment of Educational Poverty in Iran1   E. Aboonoori, Ph.D. * A.A. Saalem, Ph.D. ** J. Arab Yaarmohammadi ***   A multidimensional approach to measuring poverty facilitates the assessment of educational poverty as one of its several dimensions. Utilizing this approach, the overall poverty in Iran in the years of 2005 ...

This paper shows that growth and income distribution dynamics are closely linked through occupation, financial intermediation, and education. We use the micro data from Thailand for 1976-1996. The compositional changes across these characteristics account for half of the Thai inequality increase and forty percent of the Thai growth and poverty reduction. Financial deepening and educational expa...

This paper develops a m ethodology to m easure the im pact of price changes on poverty m easured by an entire class of additive separable poverty m easures. This im pact is captured by m eans of price elasticity of poverty. The total effect of changes in price on poverty is explained in term s of tw o com ponents. The first com ponent is the incom e effect of the change in price and the second ...

To assess the impact of tax-bene…t policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-bene…t structure (rules, rates, etc.), changes in nominal levels of market incomes and tax-bene…t parameters (bene…t amounts, tax bands, etc.), ...