... submitting their data using a PC and a modem provided by the agency The respondents are representative of the Finnish population The survey was conducted during two consecutive weekends inthe spring ... Finnish origin and is an essential part of the Greek Catholic Easter celebration Turkey meat has been available in Finland mainly during the past decade Meat balls are very familiar to the Finns, ... refer to the X2 (df=2) tests in which the earlier tasting vs not tasting were compared inthe three FNG groups c Finnish Easter pudding d Finnish specialty cheese e Eastern Finnish Easter pudding...
... itself instead of that of the products, when they are asked how bored they are with the studied productsInthe present study, neither the boredom ratings increased nor the hedonic ratings decreased ... missing values inthe data of the elderly Inthe case of intake, there was also missing data from the young The number of subjects used in analyses of the intakes was 53 (out of 58) for the young ... appetite, andthe risk of developing anorexia of aging increases However, anorexia amongthe aged is more common in institutionalized persons Unexplained losses in food intake and body weight occurring...
... though receiving training in Tajik The respondent with a technical profession is currently working inthe cultural centre inthe village In examining the role of travel and guests for this generation, ... Yamg, intermarriage with the Wakhi also became common inthe second generation; this increased inthe third generation The introduction of Wakhi wives resulted inthe language of the home changing ... neighbours and other people inthe community and as unimportant for religion and gaining information As indicated above, Wakhi is not the only language used inthe home One of the factors determining...
... geriatric care, assisted living and long-term care, designs for housing, built environment and transportation, and promotion of ‘active ageing’ Population ageing in Singapore is rapid and unprecedented ... assessment after years and years Cross-sectional data from the baseline interviews and examination are used to describe the health and psychosocial status and service usage of the elderly in this presentation ... accounted mostly for reported poor quality of life Inthe face of impaired physical and mental functioning, perceived social handicap stands inthe way of realizing quality of life Success in improving...
... each domain For the elderly domain there were selected 15,750 households inthe four areas, 1,600 individuals (200 of each gender in each area) The present study included two domains: men and women ... functional capacity and 487 Rev Saỳde Pỳblica 2011;45(3):485-93 well-being especially amongthe elderly Besides, they help maintaining their autonomy and independence, allowing an active aging, which ... Nevertheless, the categories studied were sufcient to detect the associations The importance of this study is reinforcing the ndings of the international researches about this theme, increasing information...
... information including childhood health and living conditions, the U.S migration history, and about parents Parental information includes educational attainment of both mothers and fathers In addition ... siblings born alive to the sample individuals’ mothers andthe number of siblings alive at the time of the interview Figure presents the distribution of the number of siblings estimated from the ... current and past smoking and drinking status, and own- and spouse’s living experience inthe United States as well as the number of years worked Since the survey-based data measure not actual incidence...
... for drinking is seen inthe comparatively higher rates of consumption in retirement communities In these settings, it is themost socially outgoing who arethe heaviest drinkers, drinking increases ... changes in drinking among those who increased their use as well These people cited retirement as giving them more time to drink, and noted the influence of heavier drinking social networks The specific ... to drink heavily; the more socially gregarious were boththe heaviest drinkers andthe persons most likely to have increased drinking since moving to the community Other studies have used clinical...
... and Interior health regions are collecting data about the types of injuries, the gender and age of the person injured and what they were doing at the time of the injury This will help understand ... process, that it links the burden of injury with risk factors andthe conditions of injury and then brings inthe evidence for the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions and prevention programs ... to determine which falls may have occurred within the acute care setting as all institutional settings are clustered together Furthermore, since most of the research conducted among institutionalized...
... whether live bacteria, which had preloaded the metal ion during overnight growth, could transport arginine into the cell during the assay and convert the arginine to ornithine via arginase The ... The amino acid residues involved in metal binding in H pylori arginase are currently under investigation Interestingly, it has been observed that arginases with alkaline isoelectric points bind ... metal barely present inthe control strain (pBS) or inthe strain carrying disrupted arginase (pBS-rocF::aphA3) (Fig 2A) These findings indicated that, unlike urease, the H pylori arginase gene...
... for declining health disparities in old age remain largely speculative at this point, they suggest interesting questions and hypotheses surrounding generous income supports in old age Themost significant ... powerful new rationale for maintaining and strengthening existing income support policies as well as creating new ones: enhancing the quantity and quality of life and health inthe United States Currently, ... however, income has diminishing returns with increases in income having themost positive impact on health for the poorest individuals and still substantial but diminishing effects up to around the...
... bathing or showering, dressing, eating, getting in or out of bed or a chair, walking, and using the toilet Institutionalized persons were those living in a long-term care facility, defined inthe ... long-term care, including a decrease in informal care, an increase in formal paid care, and an increase inthe number of assisted-living facilities.29,30 It is unclear how these changes may affect the ... of the baby-boom generation into Medicare andthe projected depletion of the Medicare trust fund by 20295 have raised interest inthe effects of trends in longevity and health on Medicare and...
... conditions when there is congruency between what is expected of them by others of significance and what they may expect of themselves» (p.283) In general, the theoretical starting point f or the authors ... presented emphasizing the importance of the interaction among environmental and personal factors predicting health and satisfaction in residential setting for the elderly Physical and architectural ... etc.) considered relevant in facilities for the elderly Inthe process of developing the SERA, the psychometric properties of all instruments included were studied, andthe results support SERA’s...
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... the marginal land (in this case, the scrubland) When Cornelius arrived, the grassland became the marginal land, meadows became yet more attractive relative to the marginal land, and so the landlords ... of the negotiating table and on the other side is a landlord who owns a single prime coffee-bar site By playing them off against each other, the landlord should be able to dictate the terms and ... that rents on meadowland are set by the difference between the productivity of meadowland andthe productivity of the marginal land Ban farming on that marginal land, andthe rent on meadows will...
... what arethe main sources of medical stress, screen the level of depression, and find their relationship between depression andthe main source of stress amongthe first year students by using the ... from interactions between persons and their environment that are perceived as straining or exceeding their adaptive capacities and threatening their well-being The element of perception indicated ... smoking/drinking, and others Potential personal consequences Parents' marital status is a nominal variable about marital status of parents' students including live together, separated, divorce and...
... IFI genes [10], and confirms the involvement of interferon in SLE Since the immune system is regulated by an elaborate network, interactions amongthe downregulated genes andthe upregulated genes ... in SLE Interactions between IFN and one of TNF, IFN, or E2 had a suggested involvement inthe pathogenesis of SLE Competing interests 10 11 The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... determined from the linear region of the amplification plot and were normalized by subtracting the Ct value of GAPDH (generating a Ct value) The response to the cytokines or E2 was determined...
... IFI genes [10], and confirms the involvement of interferon in SLE Since the immune system is regulated by an elaborate network, interactions amongthe downregulated genes andthe upregulated genes ... in SLE Interactions between IFN and one of TNF, IFN, or E2 had a suggested involvement inthe pathogenesis of SLE Competing interests 10 11 The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... determined from the linear region of the amplification plot and were normalized by subtracting the Ct value of GAPDH (generating a Ct value) The response to the cytokines or E2 was determined...
... literature and revision of the manuscript TAA participated in data collection during the preliminary and main survey andin drafting the manuscript Both authors read and approved the final manuscript ... projects to raise pangolins in captivity for the consumptive uses as well as re-introducing them into the wild This may reduce the pressure on pangolin populations inthe wild The conservation of ... All respondents opined that all the pangolins they utilised, notwithstanding the point of procurement, came ultimately from populations inthe wild This agrees with the findings of Marshall (1998)...
... establish routine screening programs for HIV, HBV and HCV among ODUs in methadone care inthe Netherlands Expanding annual screening programs and strengthening coverage will enable improved care for ... that the antibody tests for HBV and HCV indicate exposure to the virus, but cannot determine if ongoing infections are present Findings In total, 2566 ODUs were registered in methadone care in ... declined in much of the Netherlands, in association with a decline in injecting [10,22] In 2008, IDU was considered to be themost likely transmission route for 5% of all registered HIV cases in...
... prevalent inthe general Uygur population inboth South and North Xinjiang Interestingly, the infection rate of KSHV in these two geographical areas did not correlate well with KS incidence Perhaps ... facilitate the transmission of KSHV infection, in line with with previous reports linking KSHV to rural settings in Italy and Sicily [31–33] Interestingly, we also identified drinking could increase the ... mean that these studies did not take other variables into account Inthe current cross-sectional study, the seroprevalence of KSHV amongthe general Uygur population inthe southern and northern...