Psychogenic fever is one of the most common psychosomatic diseases. In Japan, psychogenic fever has generally been reported to occur in adolescents, with a peak seen at age 13. However, in our department we have encountered many adults with psychogenic fever. Therefore, we investigated all outpatients who visited the Psychosomatic Department of the University of Occupational and Environmental H...

the literature on language teaching and learning has mostly accentuated motivation as one of the crucial factors influencing learners, but demotivating factors can be of crucial importance as well. in this vein, considering a grounded theory approach, this study has tried to investigate the demotivating factors influencing iranian university students of non-english majors utilizing an interview...

background: prehypertension frequently progresses into hypertension and is related to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. we studied the prevalence of prehypertension and their determinants by gender and age. methods: the study used nationally representative data from 11,754 participants aged 20–91 years collected between 2010–2012 korea national health and nutrition examination survey...

During the first three years of life, children acquire knowledge about their own gender and the gendered nature of their environment. At the same time, sex-related behavioral differences emerge. How are we to understand the processes by which bodily differentiation, behavioral differentiation and gendered knowledge intertwine to produce male and female, masculine and feminine? In this article, ...

Possible differences between men and women in age-related patterns of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to challenge were examined to test the hypothesis that women show greater age-related increase in HPA axis reactivity to challenge. Twenty-six younger subjects, 9 men and 17 women, ages 22-26 and 14 older subjects, 7 men and 7 women, ages 67-88 participated in the study. Patt...

Breeze et al. report that living in a deprived area is associated with poor quality of life in a large population-based sample of older adults living in the UK. 1 Their paper adds to a large body of work reporting associations between area socioeconomic characteristics or area deprivation and a variety of health outcomes. 2 The focus on the elderly population is especially interesting because, ...

An analysis of notifications of tuberculosis in the City of Birmingham during the three-year period 1960-62 related to the population data from the Census of 1961 showed important differences between the notification rates of groups defined by their place of birth, and also differences in the age distributions of notification rates between these groups (Springett, 1964). A survey of notificatio...

The models of this paper attempt to account for the age, sex, and marital status distributions of human populations. A marriage market develops around preferences for mates of different ages, and we study this market as changes in age distributions change the availability of mates. Unless we know how to relate marriages to the exposed population, we cannot even calculate rates that will tell us...

The models of this paper attempt to account for the age, sex, and marital status distributions of human populations. A marriage market develops around preferences for mates of different ages, and we study this market as changes in age distributions change the availability of mates. Unless we know how to relate marriages to the exposed population, we cannot even calculate rates that will tell us...

Maternal age is the most important nongenetic factor influencing the twinning rate. Every study of the effect of other factors should consider the age distribution of the mothers. Besides standardizing techniques, the age-specific twinning rates are analyzed. Especially, the slope of the regression line is considered when the age-specific twinning rates are regressed against maternal age. How w...