This paper reports data describing development projects for new buildings according to construction costs in North-East Italy. A survey was carried out on local companies undertaking new residential development projects in two Italian regions (Veneto and Lombardy). The aim of this survey was to record new real estate construction projects, collecting both technical and socio-economic cost featu...

Censuses have traditionally been a key source of localised information on the state of a nation's health. Many countries are now adopting alternative approaches to the traditional census, placing such information at risk. The purpose of this paper is to inform debate about whether existing social surveys could provide an adequate 'base' for alternative model-based small area estimates of health...

OBJECTIVE To compare health resource utilization in patients with diabetes between the U.S. and Canada. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We combined measures of health care utilization, personal, demographic, health status, functional status, and comorbid conditions from the current National Health Interview Survey (U.S.) and the National Public Health Survey (Canada). A binary logistic regression...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to measure the level of quality of work life (QWL) among hospital employees in Iran. Additionally, it aimed to identify the factors that are critical to employees' QWL. It also aimed to test a theoretical model of the relationship between employees' QWL and their intention to leave the organization. METHODS A survey study was conducted based on a sampl...

The June 1982 supplement to the Current Population Survey obtained information from women concerning their childbearing to date as well as their future birth expectations. This report presents data based on this survey as well as showing trends in out-of-wedlock childbearing for women since 1947. The lifetime birth expectations of women aged 18 to 24 years are the same as for that same age gr...

Promoting interprofessional education (IPE) and practice is a priority in academic health centres; however, implementation of IPE can be challenging. Recognizing the need for faculty development in teaching, and specifically IPE, the University of California, Davis Schools of Health launched the Interprofessional Teaching Scholars Program (ITSP) in 2014. Two cohorts of 11 faculty scholars each ...

BACKGROUND Choice of food is an imperative aspect of quality of life for residents in Residential Aged Care Homes (RACHs), where overall choice and control is diminished upon entering a home to receive care. The purpose of this study was to examine the current strategies of menu planning in a range of RACHs in Australia, and whether this facilitated appropriate levels of choice for residents re...

There is no doubt humans are the supreme creators of the built environment and this, argues Mike Hansell, the author of a new book on animal structures, tempts us into anthropomorphism when we admire the efforts of many other animal species. “But, if asked to explain the basis of our admiration, we are confused. Is it because such a simple creature is able to make something so complicated, or i...

Astrometric surveys are a basic tool for galactic astronomy: they provide the only distance determination without assumption about the observed object as well as two components of the space velocity. A large number of stars, observed in a systematic way, yield to an unbiased sampling of the Galaxy and, for the most accurate surveys, of the brightest parts of Local Group galaxies, at larger and ...

I review some of the current efforts to create unbiased samples of galaxy clusters. Readers are referred elsewhere for general wide area sky surveys and redshift surveys, and for Sunyaev-Zeldovich, radio, infrared and submm surveys, some of which were not designed to search primarily for clusters. My focus will be on optical and X-ray samples and on high redshift clusters. Clusters of galaxies ...