This study aimed at investigating the relationship between the use of unprescribed licit and illicit drugs and problematic drinking with reported depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviour in a nationwide general population sample of 4291 respondents aged 12 to 64. Depressive symptoms were detected by the use of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). A higher proportio...

The Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D) is one of the five most frequently used measures of depressive experiences. Previous research has suggested that the scale may consist of two separate factors of happiness and depression, respectively. However, recent methodological research has demonstrated that standard factor analysis cannot be used in this situation to demonstrat...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases estimates of total non-farm business payroll employment changes every month. These estimates have significant impact on US economic policy and financial market decision makers. However these estimates are produced based only on "preliminary" Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey results, final estimates are release two months later. In thi...

This article examined the relationship between levels of acculturation and depression among pregnant Latina women. Among child bearing Latinas, higher acculturation has been found to be significantly associated with increased mental health problems (Acevado, 2000). The purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between acculturation levels and the prevalence of elevated depressive symp...

Professor Holger Schmid-Schönbein, born on April 6, 1937 in Tübingen, Germany, passed away on December 12, 2017 after a full and creative life. He was an internationally appreciated physiologist and had gained particular merits in the dissemination of Clinical Hemorheology not only in Germany. His perpetual efforts to link clinical physiology with clinical practice significantly improved our un...

This paper investigates differences in employment figures gathered from unemployment-insurance tax filings under the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) and employment figures reported through the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey. Since these two Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) programs both collect monthly employment from an establishment for the same reference period, t...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the risk relationship between depressive symptomatology and suicidal ideation for young adolescent males and females. METHOD A large cohort of students in their first year of high school completed the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and the Adolescent Suicide Questionnaire. The risk relationship between depressive symptomatology and su...

Congenital esophageal stenosis (CES) is a rare clinical entity that is often not diagnosed until months or sometimes many years after birth. Delayed treatment may lead to poor prognosis. Here we report one surgical procedure for curing delayed severe CES. The esophageal stenosis was resected and the gastric conduit was used to replace esophagus. The type of operation completely solved the patie...

OBJECTIVES Religion plays an important role in the lives of people in the United States. We examined the prevalence of religiosity among Hispanic/Latinos in four regions of the United States and looked at its correlation to depression and anxiety symptoms. DESIGN The population-based Hispanic Community Health Study/ Study of Latinos enrolled a cohort of Hispanic/Latino adults (N = 16,415) age...

We characterize three classes of demand systems, all of which are defined non-parametrically: homothetic demand systems with a single aggregator (HSA), those with direct implicit additivity (HDIA), and those with indirect implicit additivity (HIIA). In HSA, all the cross-price effects are captured by one price aggregator, while in HDIA and in HIIA, they are captured by two price aggregators. Ea...