BACKGROUND Racial and ethnic minorities generally receive fewer medical interventions than whites, but racial and ethnic patterns in Medicare expenditures and interventions may be quite different at life's end. METHODS Based on a random, stratified sample of Medicare decedents (N = 158 780) in 2001, we used regression to relate differences in age, sex, cause of death, total morbidity burden, ...

1 Institute for Environmental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * now at: Soil Geography/Pedology, Department of Geography, University of Cologne, Germany Received: 26 February 2008 – Accepted: 26 February 2008 – Published: 4 April 2008 Correspondence to: L. Duester ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences U...

Osteoporosis is a metabolic disease that has emerged as a major public health concern due to its delayed diagnosis, lifelong treatment and complicated outcomes. Until now, osteoporosis is still being neglected either considering it as a fated part of aging or disease of the elderly. This neglecting behavior is due to low awareness and low knowledge of disease among the general population. The a...

Believability of characters is an objective in literature, theater, animation, film, and other media. Virtual characters, believable as sharing their ethnic background with users, improve their perception of the character and, sometimes, even their task performance. Social scientists refer to this phenomenon as homophily—humans tend to associate and bond with similar others. Homophily based on ...

This paper addresses the endogeneity of ethnic settlement patterns and conflict, that is, how settlement patterns affect conflict, and how conflict in turn changes the ethnic map. I argue that the application of violence during conflict is driven by the territorial aspirations of ethnic groups. Locations where territorial claims clash should see more violence as groups struggle for control of a...

AimsWe aimed to review insulin dosing recommendations, regulation and its determinants, glycaemic response carbohydrates, the efficacy safety of therapy in different races/ethnicities.MethodsWe searched for articles PubMed Google Scholar databases up 31 March 2021, with following keywords: “ethnicity”, “diabetes”, “insulin”, “history insulin”, “insulin therapy”, “food/rice”, “carbohydrate intak...

Societies are much messier than our theories of them, all the more so in this shadowy period of history when Scotland emerges from 9,500 years or so of prehistoric occupation into a time when documentary sources are still few and the extensive archaeological resource is scarcely yet tapped. Inevitably, if somewhat reluctantly, we are often forced to fall back on studying those physical remains ...