This paper analyzes the relationships between the values and dispersion of residential properties and the environmental-health quality of their locations. It constructs residents’ health-adjusted lifetime-utility function by combining satisfaction from consumption over the lifespan with risk to life from living in an environmentally unhealthy location. It employs this utility function to analyz...


 OBJECTIVES: The iobjective iof ithe istudy iwas ito iestimate iprevalence postpartum idepression iand iits iassociated irisk ifactors iamong imothers.
 METHODOLOGY: This icross-sectional icarried iout iin iDepartment of iObstetrics i& iGynecology,iand iPsychiatry, iKhyber Teaching Hospital iPeshawar 1st April 2018 till 31st March 2019. iA itotal i750 ipost-natal imothers iwere i...

Essential change of the splitting between reflections (200) and (i10) with temperature in the Blue Phase I (BPI) transmission spectrum in an electric field has been observed. The electrostriction coefficient ruin in BPI increases anomalously, while approaching the BPIBPII phase transition temperature. These results show that the phase transition is connected with lattice instability with increa...

INTRODUCTION Diagnoses and medical procedures collected under the French system of information are recorded in a nationwide database, the "PMSI national database", which is accessible for exploitation. Quality of the data in this database is directly related to the quality of coding, which can be of poor quality. Among the proposed methods for the exploitation of health databases, data mining t...

Recent evaluations of the impact of Turkish healthcare reforms on the efficiency of public hospitals suffer from simultaneous structural changes in the healthcare sector as well as from lack of data on some of the key ingredients of the reform. In this note, we analyze the major obstacles in a fair evaluation of the efficiency of public hospitals taking Sulku(2011)’s data envelopment analysis a...

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders.Further,we find that hospitals offering private insurees shorter waiting times as compared to SHI...

It is generally thought that to generate active force in muscle, myosin heads (cross-bridges) that are attached to actin undergo large-scale conformational changes. However, evidence for conformational changes of the attached cross-bridges associated with force generation has been ambiguous. In this study, we took advantage of the recent observation that cross-bridges that are weakly attached t...

The inhibitory effects of Avena sativa L. seed extract were studied on life history and some physiological aspects of Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier; Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). The inhibition of α-amylase activity in vitro by A. sativa proteinaceous extract suggested its potential antimetabolic effect on S. cerealella larvae. Although, chronic ingestion of A. sativa inhibitor (I10: 0.108 mg prot...

The J = 3 − 2 sub-mm line of 12CO has been observed with the Heinrich-Hertz-Telescope (HHT) toward a sample of 28 nearby galaxies, and toward Arp 220. All sources are detected. This is the largest extragalactic sample of CO 3 − 2 spectra published so far. The 3 − 2 line fluxes, I32, are compared to 1 − 0 and 2 − 1 fluxes measured with the IRAM 30m telescope. Model calculations show that the I32...