Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Residential Choice
completely from the question of why households decide to live within a particular jurisdiction. Although we have no satisfactory thleory of urban local government, economists ha...
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HUMAN MATERNAL BEHAVIOR AT THE FIRST CONTACT WITH HER YOUNG
To explore and eamine maternal behavior in human mothers at the first postnatal contact with their young, we quantitatively analyzed photographs taken every second during the fi...
Nosocomial infections among patients with COVID-19, SARS and MERS: a rapid review and meta-analysis
The proportion of nosocomial infection in patients with COVID-19 was 44% in the early outbreak. Patients attending hospitals should take personal protection. Medical staff shoul...
CONCENTRIC HYALIN INTRANEURONAL INCLUSIONS OF LEWY TYPE IN THE BRAINS OF ELDERLY PERSONS (50 INCIDENTAL CASES): RELATIONSHIP TO PARKINSONISM
A bstract The significance of the intracytoplasmic hyalin neuronal inclusions first described by Lewy over fifty years ago is discussed on the basis of an analysis of 50 autopsy...
Assessment of radiologic tests: control of bias and other design considerations.
The assessment of new radiologic tests can be seriously hampered by the presence of systematic bias. Biases can arise from incomplete verification of the sample population; omis...
The six-minute walking test in children with cystic fibrosis: Reliability and validity
There is a need to judge general exercise tolerance in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) under normal daily activity conditions and -when more extensive testing is required-in ...
Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy in the Treatment of Influenza: An Updated Cochrane Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Objectives: Corticosteroids may be beneficial in sepsis, but uncertainty remains over their effects in severe influenza. This systematic review updates the current evidence rega...
Family Influences on Alcohol Abuse and Other Problem Behaviors Among Black and White Adolescents in a General Population Sample
There is a lack of systematic research on family influences on the development of drinking patterns of Black and White adolescents. These issues are examined in an ongoing longi...
On Operationalizing the Concept of Commitment
In this study of 318 school teachers and 395 hospital employed nurses, commitment to profession or organization is operationalized as the willingness to leave each system when o...
Morbidity and school absence caused by asthma and wheezing illness.
A survey in the London Borough of Croydon was conducted among an entire school cohort, aged about 9 years, to describe the current morbidity from wheezing illness, its relation ...