In the United States today, we know a great deal about the burden of high blood pressure (BP) and the inadequacy of its prevention and control at the national level.1 The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), created through authorizing legislation of the National Health Survey Act of 1956, collects directly measured and selfreported data relevant to biological risk factors...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the associations between misperception of body weight and sociodemographic factors such as food stamp participation status, income, education, and race/ethnicity. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 1999-2004 and multivariate logistic regression are used to estimate how sociodemographic factors are associated with (...

OBJECTIVES To examine health care access disparities with regard to health status and presence of functional limitations, a common measure of disability and multimorbidity, after controlling for individual's race/ethnicity, insurance status and income in the U.S. using the latest survey data. METHODS Using data from the 2009 Family Core component of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)...

This paper presents an account of a project jointly undertaken from 2001 to 2003 by UCLA and the Ocean Institute (Dana Point, California) to create an interactive virtual reality exhibit about archaeological objects found at Port Royal, Jamaica. The intended users of the exhibit were schoolchildren and other visitors to the Ocean Institute. The goal of the project was to facilitate learning thr...

ACRE is an Agro-eConomic model for agricultural pRoduction on rEgional level. Based on an extension of Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) this model was developed as a decision tool for politics with respect to questions of global change scenarios. The validity of the theoretical approach as well as the algorithms has been tested by calculations with empirical data. Currently, ACRE is appl...

The concept of "presence" is a major part of the discourse of VR. Creating a sense of presence can be crucial to the effectiveness of museum exhibits and VR presentations. Sound can play various roles in technology-based presentations, by creating or enhancing a sense of presence, and providing a continuity of experience. This paper discusses these points and how presence and sonic identificati...

Low-income children are in worse health than other children are. This paper explores the extent to which insults to health and activity limitations are responsible. In the most recent National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data, low-income children are more likely than other children to have virtually every measured chronic or acute condition and are more likely to be limited by these conditio...

Redwood National Park is comprised of large areas of overstocked stands resulting from harvest of the old-growth stands in the late 1940s to the 1970s. The Holter Ridge Thinning Study was initiated in 1978 to address this problem and examine the effects that thinning to varying spacing would have on forest development. Densities following thinning in 1979 ranged from 150 to 790 stems/acre with ...

A mid-infrared atlas of the Galactic Plane (MIGA) has been constructed to provide a mid-infrared data set for the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, a Canadian-lead international project to map all of the major components of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way at a common resolution of approximately 1 ′. The atlas is based on HIRES processing of IRAS 12 and 25 µm data. Details of the MIGA pro...