background: for psychiatric disorders, comorbidity is a rule rather than exception. thus it is particularly important to study additive and multiplicative effects of multiple mental disorders on suicidal behaviors. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the ethnic differences in multiplicative effects of mental disorders on suicidal ideation among black adults in the united states...

We employ a policy assemblage, mobilities, and mutations framework to analyze the geographies that constitute reflect educational circulation at regional or supranational level in trans-regional regimes and/or quasi-federal polities such as European Union (EU) Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Recognizing policies are mobile fragmentary fashion they re/dis/assembled specific ways, places, purposes...

background: this study was aimed to investigate the main and buffering effects of positive religious coping on the association between the number of chronic medical conditions and major depressive disorder (mdd) among african americans, caribbean blacks and non‑hispanic whites. methods: this cross‑sectional study used data from the national survey of american life, 2001 and 2003. this study enr...

Reactive routing protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks usually discover routes by disseminating control packets across the entire network; this technique is known as brute-force flooding. This paper presents NARD, which stands for neighbor-assisted route discovery protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. In NARD, a source node floods a limited portion of the network searching not only for the destin...

There are many types of tourism on offer in the world market, with tourism types being as diverse as the kind of experience that the visitor demands. Destinations characteristically engage in tourism models that cater to the needs and wants of the tourist market they attract. However, research and experience have shown that different tourism models affect the local people of a destination in di...

Abstract In light of increasing environmental stress and its likely implications for migration patterns, we conduct a cross-country individual-level analysis the impact self-reported exposure to on people's intentions their destination choice. We simultaneously model migrate domestically internationally 90 countries worldwide in 2010. find that increases probability intend both coming year. abs...

background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...

the purpose of this study is to develop a brand equity model for isfahan as a tourism destination. the statistical population of this study consists of the inbound tourists who have traveled to isfahan in november 2013. a sample of 200 tourists has been selected from this population. a self-administrated questionnaire has been used for collecting the research data. in order to analyze the resea...

Imported malaria has been an increasing problem in several Western countries in the last 2 decades. To calculate the risk factors of age, sex, and travel destination in Swedish travelers, we used data from the routine reporting system for malaria (mixture of patients with and without adequate prophylaxis), a database on travel patterns, and in-flight or visa data on Swedish travelers of 1997 to...