Consequently, it is these developing nations that presently face the bulk of different socio-environmental-economic issues that arise out of city expansion and peri-urban growth, as highlighted by the recent literature. Figure 4. Country- and region-wise distribution of the reviewed documents on ...
High Lp(a) level is known to increase the risk of atherosclerotic events such as cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease (CVD)[6]. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has recently been considered as a risk factor for atherosclerosis and CVD[7, 8]. Given its key function in the pathophysiologic mechani...
1954). Imbalance of Ashe is caused by “one’s actions, such as by not being true to one’s roles in life,”“causing physical or emotional harm to others,” or by engaging “negative things… such as abortion or suicide” (p. 1954). For instance, Odessa’s choice of addiction, soc...
OUD is defined as a problematic use leading to significant impairment. This severe and chronic disorder associates with a life expectancy decreased by more than 10 years due to somatic and psychiatric comorbidities. Over the last 2 decades, western countries have faced an increase in death by ...
The CNS body schema in adults is defined as a"...system of sensory-motor processes that continually regulate posture and movement - processes that function without reflective awareness or the necessity of perpetual monitoring."[127]. This control involves the posterior parietal cortex which participat...
A generalized Newling function to the 4th degree is used as a regionalizing technique to analyze population density data from the 1969 national census of Kenya in order to identify the spatial structure of Nairobi Kenyas primate city. On the premise that the colonial regions of Nairobi encouraged...
such as moose. Wolves also defend their dens as a group against larger predators, such as bears. Finally, allelomimetic behavior is highly developed among most primate groups, where it has the principal function of providing warning against predators,as though combined defensive behavior is also ...
Is Substance Use Disorder Recovery Associated with Positive Employment Outcomes? As noted earlier and shown in Table1, most adults in the U.S. with alcohol or illicit drug use disorders are employed, and a relatively small proportion, yet substantial number of individuals in the workforce report ...
Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook, which can be summarized briefly as follows: that there exists an external world, whose properties are independent of any individual human being and indeed of humanity as a whole; that these properties are encoded in ``eternal'' physical ...
This is particularly so for city size distributions where arbitrary subdivisions of countries and cities are often used and where there is some evidence that systems that are developing independently, as for example for cities within a well-defined political or economic jurisdiction, are then ...