Table 1. Faculty Salaries for Fiscal Year 2003 Median % Change From Previous Survey Minimum Maximum No. of Faculty Chairperson All Schools Medical Public Medical Private Other Female Professor All Schools Medical Public Medical Private Other Female Associate Professor All Schools Medical Public Medical Private Other Female Assistant Professor All Schools Medical Public Medical Private Other Fem...

The Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) can be used to obtain U.S. adult current smoking prevalence estimates for the recent past. In this paper, we use the TUS-CPS to evaluate current smoking prevalence rates and trends by race/ethnicity and gender for the period 1992 to 2003. The TUS-CPS adult sample size of approximately 240,000/year allows accurate estimates of...

fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis are endemic parasitic diseases in middle east especially iran, which making significant economic problems. this retrospective survey has been done to evaluate contamination rate of slaughtered animals with fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis at meisam abattoir, in tehran, iran. in this survey, prevalence rate of fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis in slaughtered animals in ...

the purpose of this study was to survey impacts of drought on socio-economic conditions of guilan paddy farmers. besides recognizing these impacts, it ranked them according to the viewpoint of the paddy farmers. it was of the descriptive- correlation type. questionnaire was the main tool of this study. to determine the validity of questionnaire used of comments of panel experts and reliability ...

BACKGROUND We assessed change in household catastrophic health care expenditures (CHE) and inequality in facing such expenditures in south-west Tehran. METHODS A cluster-sampled survey was conducted in 2003 using the World Health Survey questionnaire. We repeated the survey on the same sample in 2008 (635 and 603 households, respectively). We estimated the proportion of households facing CHE ...

Economic conditions are placing unprecedented pressures on universities and funding agencies. For young scholars, this translates into fewer postdoctoral and faculty lines. For highly experienced senior scholars, it emerges as fewer opportunities for new programs of research and collaborations, and this in turn limits the options available to senior scientists for training young scientists. Res...

In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's army invaded Kuwait and consequently the United Nations imposed economic sanctions on Iraq. In 1991, an international military alliance expelled the Iraqi army from Kuwait during a short war. Nevertheless, the economic sanctions remained in place-their removal required that Iraq should destroy its weapons of mass destruction. Subsequent years saw reports of acut...