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Spatial analysis of the relationship between mortality from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease and drinking water hardness
2004
Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Reproduced with permission from Environmental Health Perspectives. Previously published scientific papers have reported a negative correlation between drinking water hardness and cardiovascular mortality. Some ecologic and case-control studies suggest the protective effect of calcium and magnesium concentration in drinking water. In this article we present an analysis of this protective relationship in 538 municipalities of Comunidad Valenciana (Spain) from 1991-1998. We used the Spanish version of the Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) developed under the European Environment and Health Information System (EUROHEIS) research project. The strateg…
Entrepreneurial choices depend on trust : Some global evidence
2022
Interpersonal trust and people’s trust in institutions are important components of social capital, which has been shown to have not only innate social value but also diverse direct and indirect positive social and economic impacts. Using data for an economically and globally diverse group of countries, we examine empirically how changes in interpersonal trust and trust in institutions affect entrepreneurship over time. Our findings suggest that (1) enhancing either type of trust leads to more entrepreneurial activity and (2) an increase in interpersonal trust causes a structural change in the composition of the TEA-type entrepreneurship. Increased trust reduces the share of relatively lower…
Demonstration of endogenous lectins in synovial tissue.
1991
We have recently shown that synoviocytes and extracellular matrices exhibit distinct patterns of carbohydrate expression. Their biological relevance is however not known. The purpose of the present study was to find out whether human synovial tissue would also show a specific receptor pattern for complex sugar molecules. Endogenous lectins were displayed by means of biotinylated neoglycoproteins and sulfated polysaccharides in paraffin-embedded material or cryosections. In addition to certain carbohydrate components that are known to be constituents of the carbohydrate part of cellular glycoconjugates, our panel included heparin and fucoidan, a sulfated fucose. Binding sites were shown usin…
Religion and Social Integration in France
2013
On some measures, France has the most integrated (and secularised) Muslim population in Europe. For example, attitude research shows that French Muslims share values closer to those of their non-Muslim neighbours than in other European countries (Connor 2010 391). While official sources of data are limited as the French government does not collect statistics organised by religion, ethnicity or any other form of collective identity, a number of private and international surveys have been carried out. Thus, the European Values Survey (2002–6 data) shows that rates of religious observance for Muslims in France are closer to those amongst the majority population than in either Britain or the Ne…
Spectral analysis of the Neumann-Poincaré operator and characterization of the stress concentration in anti-plane elasticity
2012
When holes or hard elastic inclusions are closely located, stress which is the gradient of the solution to the anti-plane elasticity equation can be arbitrarily large as the distance between two inclusions tends to zero. It is important to precisely characterize the blow-up of the gradient of such an equation. In this paper we show that the blow-up of the gradient can be characterized by a singular function defined by the single layer potential of an eigenfunction corresponding to the eigenvalue 1/2 of a Neumann–Poincare type operator defined on the boundaries of the inclusions. By comparing the singular function with the one corresponding to two disks osculating to the inclusions, we quant…
Abdominale, perineale und vaginale sonographische Diagnose der Zervikalinsuffizienz
2008
In patients with cervical incompetence, the diagnostic efficiency of abdominal, perineal and vaginal sonography was compared. 73 patients, who were divided into three groups, were examined: Group A (n = 50) control group, Group B (n = 11) normal pregnancies, Group C (n = 12) pregnancies with demonstrated cervical incompetence. According to our results, using vaginal sonography, only the incompetent pregnancies showed significant shortening of the cervical length. Characteristic scans were also obtained (membrane herniation) which were useful in diagnosis and control in the performance of cerclage.
Erfasst der FBT lokale visuelle Informationsverarbeitung bei Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen?
2010
Fragestellung: Der kognitive Phänotyp von Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen (ASS) ist unter anderem durch eine Neigung zu lokaler Informationsverarbeitung (schwacher zentraler Kohärenz) gekennzeichnet. Es wurde untersucht, ob der Fragmentierte Bilder Test (FBT) diese Präferenz zu erfassen vermag. Methodik: Die FBT-Leistungen 15 autistischer, 16 depressiver und 16 schizophrener Patienten sowie von 16 typisch entwickelten Kontrollpersonen wurden verglichen. Mit dem Embedded Figures Test (EFT) und dem Mosaiktest (MT) wurden ebenfalls validierte Tests lokaler Informationsverarbeitung erhoben. Ergebnisse: Patienten mit ASS zeigten eine Präferenz für lokale Informationsverarbeitung, d. h. Beeinträchti…
Sonographic size of uterus and ovaries in pre- and postmenopausal women
1996
Uterine and ovarian size were measured in 765 pre- and postmenopausal women by transvaginal ultrasound. Of these, 263 (premenopausal, n = 155; postmenopausal, n = 108) were found to have neither uterine nor ovarian pathological findings. According to parity, premenopausal women were separated into three groups: nullipara, primipara and multipara. Postmenopausal women were separated into two groups according to years since menopause: 5 years since menopause. In the premenopausal group, a parity-related enlargement in uterine size was observed between nulliparous and parous women. After the menopause, a significant reduction in uterine size and in the corpus-cervix ratio was observed. The red…
Psychometrische Güte der Selbst- und Fremdbeurteilungsinstrumente ADHS-SB und Wender-Reimherr-Interview bei Senioren mit Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hype…
2016
Zusammenfassung Ziel der Studie und Methodik Die Anwendbarkeit der etablierten ADHS-Verfahren für Erwachsene, ADHS-SB und Wender-Reimherr-Interview, im Senium wurde an einer Stichprobe von 324 Personen im Alter zwischen 60 und 99 Jahren überprüft. Ergebnisse Die beiden Verfahren weisen für den Einsatz bei SeniorInnen eine geringere psychometrische Güte auf im Vergleich zur Anwendung bei Erwachsenen im jungen und mittleren Lebensalter. Es zeigt sich eine hohe Korrelation beider Verfahren mit der klinischen Beurteilung der Experten bei Personen im Seniorenalter. Schlussfolgerung Als Ergänzung zur ausführlichen klinischen Exploration können die ADHS-SB und das WRI auch im Senium als valide Dia…
Aktive Muskeldehntestung der ischiocruralen Muskulatur: Referenzwerte und Einflussfaktoren
2013
Einleitung: Eine verminderte Dehnfahigkeit der ischiocruralen Muskulatur fuhrt zu einem erhohten Verletzungsrisiko. Ziel ist deshalb die Herstellung einer muskularen Balance. Der Active-Knee-Extension-Test (AKE) uberpruft die Dehnfahigkeit der ischiocruralen Muskulatur. Da die bislang verfugbaren „Referenzwerte“ einem Kollektiv von wenigen mannlichen Probanden entstammen, ist deren Aussagekraft nur eingeschrankt verwertbar. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist daher die Erhebung von Referenzwerten an einem grosen gemischtgeschlechtlichen Probandenkollektiv gesunder Fitnesssportler sowie die Ermittlung von Einflussfaktoren auf die aktive Dehnfahigkeit der ischiocruralen Muskulatur. Material und …