Background Children are the age group most vulnerable to burn injuries. Socioeconomic factors and living environment, including poor conditions faced by refugees, may contribute occurrence of burns.
 Objectives To compare socioeconomic status potentially contributing injury, characteristics, access medical treatment, integrated preventive measures between children Turkish families Syrian r...

OBJECTIVE To describe the living conditions and sociability among people with severe mental disorders living in slums. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study was carried out among adults living in slums in the central region of Santos, Southeastern Brazil, conducted in 2004-2006. Ethnographic observations were made in four slum properties, and in-depth semi-structured interviews were c...

Hypertension usually coexists with other chronic conditions and can cause disability in relation to activities of daily living. We examined the association between the number and categories of comorbid conditions and disability affecting activities of daily living in hypertension patients.The data were collected from the 2013 follow-up survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Stud...

There are currently 35 available nonredundant molecular structures of class-13 -amylases (EC 3.2.1.1), mostly from microbial organisms living under a wide range of environmental conditions. One of the most recent additions has been the first -amylase structure of a hyperthermophilic archaeon [Linden et al. , J. Biol. Chem. 2003, 278, 9875 ± 9884] . The structure has been used for comparative an...

An ecological study was conducted in order to analyze differences in mortality rates among adolescents by gender and living conditions strata in Recife from1998 to 2004. The average mortality coefficient for violence during this period was calculated by gender for the city and by living conditions strata. This analysis demonstrated a higher risk of death by violence for male adolescents in Stra...

Background: Hypobaric hypoxia results in weight loss in obese individuals, and exercise training is advocated for the treatment of obesity and its related metabolic dysfunctions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of hypoxic living and exercise training on obesity and adipose tissue leptin/leptin receptor in dietary-induced obese rats. Methods: One hundred and thirty high-...

1. Pulmonary arterial hypertension was demonstrated in a series of rats that had been kept for 24-31 days in an environment of compressed air, having a barometric pressure of 3040 mm. Hg. The partial pressure of oxygen was 635 mm. Hg, which is equivalent to an 83.6 per cent oxygen mixture at normal barometric pressure. 2. Sclerosing changes in the pulmonary arterioles have been observed which p...

We present the first in vivo study of diatoms using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Three chain-forming, benthic freshwater species -Eunotia sudetica, Navicula seminulum and a yet unidentified species - are directly imaged while growing on glass slides. Using the AFM, we imaged the topography of the diatom frustules at the nanometre range scale and we determined the thickness of the organic case...