conclusions fear of neighborhood violence is a contributing factor to increased risk of obesity for female african american youth who live in disadvantaged areas. this finding has implications for prevention of obesity among african american women who are at highest risk for obesity in the united states. initiatives that enhance neighborhood safety are critical strategies for obesity prevention...

This paper investigates the role of family background and neighborhood conditions over the life course, particularly during childhood, in influencing health later in life, with a focus on the case of hypertension. Most of the black-white difference in life expectancy stem from racial differences in mortality rates prior to age 65. Thus, understanding sources of racial health disparities require...

In this paper, we study some properties of the near SR-compactnessin L-topological spaces, where L is a fuzzy lattice. The near SR-compactness isa kind of compactness between Lowen’s fuzzy compactness and SR-compactness,and it preserves desirable properties of compactness in general topologicalspaces.

Abstract Although mountainous regions remained relatively isolated and almost untouched by the Ottoman rule, labor migration connected inhabitants of these to socioeconomic political processes in Empire beyond. Kruševo, a highland village located present-day North Macedonia, provides an excellent case for understanding connections. This paper presents systematic evidence from archives document ...

OBJECTIVE To examine neighborhood effects on academic achievement of children with extremely low birth weight (ELBW <1000 g) and normal birth weight (NBW) controls. METHODS The study included 183 8-year-old children with ELBW born during 1992-1995 and 176 sociodemographically similar NBW controls. Academic achievement was measured via The Woodcock-Johnson III Academic Skills Cluster. RESULT...

PURPOSE To examine whether neighborhood deprivation increases the odds of hospital registration for childhood and adolescent epilepsy, after accounting for family- and individual-level sociodemographic characteristics. METHODS An open cohort of all children aged 2-17 years was followed between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2010. Children's residential addresses were geocoded and classified...

Asthma currently accounts for around 9 million office visits and around 1.9 million visits to emergency departments each year, and is the leading cause of child disability in the US. Asthma has a known socio-economic gradient, striking poor children with greater frequency than wealthier children. Racial differences in asthma prevalence and morbidity seem to persist after attempts to control for...

Remote monitoring and gathering information are the main objectives behind deploying Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Besides WSN issues due to communication and computation restricted resources (low energy, limited memory computational speed and bandwidth), securing sensor networks is one of the major challenges these networks have to face. In particular, the security of sensors localization i...