this study was undertaken in order to ascertain the carrier rate of group a hemolytic streptococci in the throats of pupils in selected schools of tehran, and to evaluate the role of socio-economical factors on carrier state. during the period of six months, 7020 children and adolescents, aged 10 to 17, were studied. these pupils were visited at their schools and their socio-economical level wa...

this is a descriptive field study. the aim of this study was to find personal, familial and socio-economical characteristics of children under five years old, and relationships between these characteristics with acute respiratory infection. the sample was 60 children with acute respiratory infection. data gathered by a questionair include 44 question about personal, familial and socio-economica...

Geographically distributed and time-phased ecological and socio-economical indices are treated as source data for the analysis, carried out for taking reasoned management decision. Analysis complexity, related to multi-dimensional data is overcome thanks to using group methods of data handling (GMDH). This work shows the results of Ukraine's regions cluster analysis by the totality of ecologica...

This paper describes a combined remote sensing-GIS-logistic regression approach of merging extracted information from Landsat images with georeferenced biophysical and socio-economic datasets in the detection and analysis of the driving forces of forest cover change in Agusan del Norte (ADN) in Mindanao Island, Philippines, a province where forest resource use have been historically extensive. ...