Lancaster County, Pennsylvania uses urban growth areas (UGAs) to prevent the loss of its productive farmland to suburban sprawl. In contrast to other areas that have implemented UGAs, the county government cannot force its municipalities to adopt UGAs, since Pennsylvania reserves all land use regulatory power for its individual municipalities. This paper will explore whether UGAs can be institu...

Marin County Department of Health and Human Services is currently developing a Quality Assurance/Improvement system for Child Welfare Services. To inform the design of this system, this study reviewed systems in place in Solano County Health and Social Services and Napa County Health and Human Services. Specifically, the following questions were addressed to each county: • What is the structure...

County extension agents in Colorado indicated that extension bulletins were the most important type of assistance needed for their clientele in the area of wildlife damage control. County extension agents indicated that pocket gophers, prairie dogs, skunks, and coyotes were the most important of 32 species requiring extension information for their clientele. Introduction Extension wildlife spec...

The study aimed at examining the relationship between quality of social support system and drug use among street children in Starehe Sub-County, Nairobi County Kenya. specific objectives were to: explore psychosocial health This adopted correlational research design. Data collected from 100 children. These sampled using cluster simple random sampling techniques a target population 30,000 Sub-Co...

This article presents a series of multidimensional analysis methods on agricultural factors at county level, performing subsequently a comparison between the results obtained in 2004 and, respectively, in 2008. By applying factor analysis, principal components analysis and hierarchical classes analysis, this article will seek to highlight the main variables that influence the agricultural produ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status may affect healthcare access (higher appendiceal perforation [AP] rates), management (lower laparoscopic appendectomy [LA] rates), and outcomes in patients with appendicitis. This study determines if disparities exist between county and private hospitals. METHODS A review of patients > or = 18 years treated for appendicitis fro...

A scientific definition of the type of mountain area and an exploration of the spatial correlation between different types of mountain areas and regional land use at the county level are important for reasonable land resource utilization and regional sustainable development. Here, a geographic information system was used to analyze digital elevation model data and to define the extent of mounta...

The aim of this paper is to present the post mortem dental evidence and dental health of the victims exhumed throughout the territories of Croatia that was temporarily occupied during the war. A total number of 62,432 teeth out of 1,253 human bodies exhumed from 5 different counties were analyzed. The majority of victims inhabited those areas before 1991. Post mortem dental characteristics were...

The Purpose of this survey was to research the major factors affecting the tendency of greenhouse producers towards organic production in Tabriz County. The statistical research population involves all greenhouse owners in Tabriz county (N=70). The necessary data were collected using questionnaires, after that the validity and reliability of questionnaire was approved by the academic members of...