A longitudinal study of the relationship between education and age of onset, rate of progression and cerebral lesion burden in a series of autopsy-confirmed demented patients with clinical and 6-monthly psychometric follow-up and autopsy was carried out. The study was conducted at the London Health Sciences Centre University Campus of the University of Western Ontario on 87 patients with pathol...

Previous research has shown that the association between education and health is partly mediated by working conditions. So far, most studies fail to take into account working careers and instead focus on working conditions at one point in time. This study examines the extent to which current and lifetime exposure to working conditions differ between educational groups, and whether taking into a...

INTRODUCTION This study records the prevalence and patterns of breastfeeding in Singaporean Chinese mothers who gave birth between 2000 and 2008. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Strabismus, Amblyopia and Refractive Error in Singaporean Children (STARS) study is a population-based survey conducted in South-Western Singapore. Disproportionate random sampling by 6-month age groups of Chinese children ...

In the U.S. college-educated women earn approximately 30 percent less than their non-Hispanic white male counterparts. We conduct an empirical examination of this wage disparity for four groups of women-non-Hispanic white, black, Hispanic, and Asian-using the National Survey of College Graduates, a large data set that provides unusually detailed information on higher-level education. Nonparamet...

The generic problem addressed by this proposal is that good design of information systems and business processes (IS&BP) is considered difficult to teach. This problem is felt in the discipline at large, and has consequences for the professionalism of IS&BP-architects. In our opinion, causes can be identified in the lack of integration between business processes and information systems and in t...

entrepreneurship is very important in order to creating jobs for the unemployed and educated youth. as regards educated youth have fewer tendencies to self-employment and investment in this context. therefore this study was performed with the objective investigating personality skills of entrepreneurial of rural youth and suggest solutions for strengthen these skills in gonbad-e-kavous county. ...

Education has been the main focus of Malaysia. Way back before independent from the colonial, a group of elite Malays stressed the importance of education. Up to present moment, the nation is still considering education to be placed as the primary concern of the elected government. Education has been perceived as allocating a vital role in the development of Malaysia. Thus the nation’s socio-po...

This study informs policy makers and third-party payers of the prevalence and characteristics of the severely to profoundly hearing-impaired population in the United States. Nationally representative data were used for estimations in consultation with an expert advisory panel. The prevalence of severe to profound hearing impairment among the US population ranges from 464,000 to 738,000, with 54...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The decline in cardiovascular mortality in Denmark during the 1980s has been greatest in the highest socioeconomic groups of the population. This study examines whether the increased social inequality in cardiovascular mortality has been accompanied by a different trend in cardiovascular risk factors in different educational groups. DESIGN Data from three cross sectional WHO M...