Social determinants of health (SDH) are an important public health policy discourse and the concept and scope of SDH is debated within and outside of the public health field. This article concerns itself with the visibility of people with disabilities in existing SDH discourses. It employed a frequency analysis of Google and Google Scholar search hits obtained with the phrase "social determinan...

Background and aims: Health literacy (HL) can affect individual health, health communication anderror in taking medicine. The aim of this study was to determine the level of HL and associated factorsamong Iranian adults.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 240 participants over 18 years of age referring to health centersin Hamadan, west of Iran in 2015 were selected b...

The paper applies survival analysis to identify the determinants of terrorist group duration. Our sample includes 367 terrorist organizations that operated during 1970–2007. Consistent with the theory, determinants of these groups’ survival include their tactics, size, ideological basis, region of operation, and base-country characteristics. Cross-sectional and panel estimates are provided. Ter...

Every country has a desire to balance its population growth according to its socioeconomic conditions. Three major components affecting population growth are fertility, mortality and migration, and among these components, fertility plays the most important role. A number of factors such as social, cultural, economic, health and other environmental factors directly determine fertility. Davis and...

helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) plays an important role in the development of peptic and duodenal ulcerations as well as gastric cancer. several studies have shown a strong association between specific genotypes of h. pylori and gastrointestinal tract diseases. the vaca and caga genes, which are the putative virulence factors of the bacterium, are important determinants of h. pylori-related dis...

Dodgson’s method of computing determinants was recently revisited in a paper that appeared in the College Math Journal. The method is attractive, but fails if an interior entry of an intermediate matrix has the value zero. This paper reviews the structure of Dodgson’s method and introduces a generalization, called a “double-crossing” method, that provides a workaround to the failure for many in...

In a recent paper we have presented a method to evaluate certain Hankel determinants as almost products; i.e. as a sum of a small number of products. The technique to find the explicit form of the almost product relies on differential-convolution equations and trace calculations. In the trace calculations a number of intermediate nonlinear terms involving determinants occur, but only to cancel ...

The present paper is concerned with the attractiveness of countries to direct foreign investments, that is, the host country characteristics that attract direct foreign investment (FDI). It focuses on two types of national characteristics— those that attract inflows of all foreign investment (intermediate products), including FDI, that is, mobility factors; and those that influence the modality...

An immunocytochemical approach was used to localize myosin with respect to individual fibers in rat skeletal muscle. Transverse cryostat sections of rat diaphragm, a fast-twitch muscle, were exposed to fluorescein-labeled immunoglobulin against purified chicken pectoralis myosin. Fluorescence microscopy revealed a differential response among fiber types, identified on the basis of mitochondrial...