To elucidate the socioeconomic factors influencing lead exposure in elementary school children by gender, 108 children (56 male, 52 female), aged 6-7 years, were randomly selected from 39 elementary state schools in Serpong, Banten, Indonesia. Their parents were interviewed to obtain information on sociodemographic characteristics. Their blood lead (BPb) levels were measured by atomic absorptio...

OBJECTIVES This study will examine explanatory variables including socioeconomic inequalities related to mental stress at both the individual and regional level. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional multistage sampling process was used to obtain participants. Data on mental stress and individual socioeconomic status were gathered via face to face interview. Regional variables were retrieved from a n...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the contribution of school neighborhood socioeconomic advantage to the association between school-district physical education policy compliance in California public schools and Latino students' physical fitness. METHODS Cross-sectional Fitnessgram data for public-school students were linked with school- and district-level information, district-level physical educatio...

I briefly review the source of the so-called intrinsic ambiguity and show how the combination of “golden” and “silver” channel at the Neutrino Factory can solve the problem, in the absence of other sources of degeneracies. I then relaxed the hypothesis θ23 = 45◦ and show how the different dependence of the two channels on θ23 can help in solving the intrinsic and θ23-octant ambiguity at the sam...

by Rebecca Q. Eng, RN, BSN Washington State University April 2009 Chair: Ruth Bindler Childhood obesity has become epidemic in industrialized countries with increasing numbers of children considered overweight or obese. The heightened levels of obesity and obesity--related illness among children and adults have led to growing concern and governmental demand for preventative measures. Lower soci...

this study is concerned with understanding the impact of demographic changes, socioeconomic inequalities, and the availability of health factors on life expectancy (le) in the low and lower middle income countries.the cross-country data were collected from 91 countries from the united nations agencies in 2012. le is the response variable with demographics (total fertility rate, and adolescent f...