This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the importance of metropolitan area government structure on socioeconomic inequality in approximately 70 metropolitan areas in the United States. This study particularly focuses on meaningful classification of metropolitan areas according to their government structure and its possible relationship to measures of inequality, such as the Gini coeffici...

Throughout Western Europe, metropolitan governance is back on the agenda: since the early 1990s, new forms of city-suburban cooperation, regional coordination , region-wide spatial planning and metropolitan institutional reform have been promoted in major city-regions. In contrast to the forms of metropolitan gov-ernance that prevailed during the Fordist-Keynesian period, which emphasized admin...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between metropolitan and non-metropolitan hospitals after adjustment for patients' severity; to examine the role of the use of effective cardiac medications in the possible mortality difference between these types of hospital. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING 47 acute public hospitals in metrop...

Growing Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Patients with Hematologic Disorders at a Japanese Tertiary Care Center; an outbreak investigation and review of the literature Yasuaki Tagashira, MD; Yasuji Kozai, MD PhD; Hitomi Yamasa, CNIC; Masako Sakurada, MLT; Tetsuya Kashiyama, MD; Hitoshi Honda, MD; Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, ...

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1943. 8 Czerniawski AM. From average to ideal: the evolution of the height and weight table in the united states, 1836-1943. Social Sci History 2007;31:273–96. 9 James M. The Metropolitan Life: A Study in Business Growth. New York: The Viking Press, 1947. 10 Dublin L, Lotka AJ. Twenty-Five Years of Health Progre...

This study investigates the disproportionate impact of mortality among United States troops in Iraq on rural communities. We advance scholarly research and popular accounts that suggest a non-metropolitan disadvantage by disaggregating the risk of mortality according to the metropolitan status of their home county and by examining potential sources of variation, including enlistment, rank and r...

This paper uses a typology of local metropolitan development to exam ine population redistribution trends in the US over the past three decades. Theories of system ic maturation and urban life-cyc les are discussed and evaluated. Analysis of population and inter-county migration data reveals that localise d deconcentration has become an increasin gly common sub-process of metropolitan isation ,...

Introduction Continued urban sprawl combined with slowed-down or failed attempts of local government reform has resulted in a growing divergence between functional and institutional urban spaces in most industrialised countries. Today, cities in the (weberian) sense of territorially integrated socioeconomic entities no longer exist. The urban phenomenon is better described by the notion of metr...

Objective: To study the effect of age on auditory threshold shift among children in two schools for the deaf. Result: Pure tone audiogram showed 6-8 dB threshold shift in the metropolitan group of 234 children and 4 dB in the non-metropolitan group of 151 children. In metropolitan school one hundred and forty-seven (62.8%) were found to be hearing aid users and 42 (28%) were in non-metropolitan...

A. MOISAN, E. GRILLON, E. L. BARBIER, F. DE FRAIPONT, C. REMY, M-J. RICHARD, and O. DETANTE INSERM U836 / Joseph Fourier University (Functional and Metabolic Imaging), Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences (GIN), Grenoble, France, Metropolitan, INSERM U823 / Joseph Fourier University, Albert Bonniot Institute, Grenoble, France, Metropolitan, Cell and Tissue Therapy Unit, University Hospital, Gren...