Energy expenditure during egg laying is equal for early and late breeding free-living female great tits In many bird populations, variation in the timing of reproduction exists but it is not obvious how this variation is maintained as timing has substantial f... LT Marvelde,SL Webber,MME Visse...
Other less dominant fragmentation mechanisms for plastics are chemical degradation, through oxidation and hydrolysis, when atmospheric pollutants and agrochemicals interact with polymers, changing the macromolecular properties; and biodegradation, occurring through the action of living micro-organisms (Lucas et ...
A common suggestion people have made to help meregain my financial independenceis to move to a cheaper area of the country or the world to save money. I've resisted relocating so far because I believe the excitement of living in a big city is worth the cost. I've lived in big cities ...
Patients also responded to questions on socio-demographic characteristics (age, education level, employment status, classification of residence, number of children aged < 17 living in the same household, net monthly household income, and health insurance use), symptoms experienced during the last ...
Table 2 Poisson regressions on number of health knowledge categories and sources, IRR (95% CI) Full size table EMFP not living in Pearl River Delta had likelihood to obtain more health knowledge categories (IRR = 1.06, 95% CI 1.01–1.11) and sources (IRR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.09–...
of children living in urban areas was obtained from the 2020 Population Census of China [30]. Population data are provided in the Additional file1: Tables S1, S2. According to the WHO influenza vaccination guidelines, children with underlying medical conditions, such as chronic respiratory disease...
Influenza vaccination of elderly people living in the community was cost-effective from a societal perspective but did not cut publicly funded medical costs or total medical costs. 2. For the oldest group (≥75 years) living in the community, influenza vaccination can cut publicly funded medical ...
easily extracted from its ores, prehistoric people in the Near East were aware of it. Galena is a principal ore of lead which often bears silver. Interest in silver helped initiate widespread extraction and use of lead in ancient Rome. Lead production declined after the fall of Rome and did...
Specifically, we used multivariable linear models for each outcome where a binary variable representing living in an expansion state was interacted with nativity and year indicator variables for all years except the year immediately before expansion (2013 for states in our main analyses). If the ...
These disease processes are known to severely affect essential activities of daily living, quality of life, work, and social interactions.9-11 All of these factors can lead to considerable direct and indirect costs for the individuals experiencing it. The current landscape in assessing the economic...