A model to predict demand for publicly dispatched emergency ambulance service in Los Angeles County is constructed using 1970 census tract and land usage data and 1973 population and utilization data. Although data were not available for many communities within the county, results indicate that the mode, which uses four ...

Abstract In the late 1940's a similar problem occurred in the work of three sociologists, working in three countries, on three similar sets of data. Natalie Rogoff, David Glass and G6sta Carlsson all faced the problem of making sense of data on intergenerational occupational mobility. A matrix of frequencies of ...

The psychiatric inpatient population from Salford was analysed in five successive annual censuses, from 1 January 1968 to 1 January 1972. Short-stay and medium-stay patients (under one year) remained constant. Long-stay patients reduced only slowly, and the length of stay increased. Over 200 patients (60%) had been in for 20 ...

Rapid, inexpensive methods of monitoring land use change can greatly facilitate the planning of urban fringe development by use of synoptic remotely sensed imagery and urban growth theory. The urbanization of Walnut Valley, California from 1953-71 prompted land use change from intensive von Thunen market-oriented patterns to extensive, disinvested, production-factor-minimized ...

Barefoot College is a collection of community-based schools that began in 1972 with the philosophy that solutions to rural problems lie within the community. It addresses problems of drinking water, income generation, electricity and power, health centers, housing, social awareness and conservation of ecological systems in rural communities through its ...

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000.

Thesis (Psy. D.)--Wheaton College, 2005.

The clinical, laboratory, and radiological findings in a group of 107 non-pregnant bacteriuric women and 88 controls have been compared. A previous history of urinary tract infection was more commonly obtained from the bacteriuric women. The means of the diastolic blood pressures, serum ureas, and erythrocyte sedimentation rates were significantly ...

An investigation carried out under WHO auspices in a small area of South India in 1950-55, and which covered a population of approximately 60 000, has not only shed light on various aspects of tuberculosis epidemiology, but has also served as an exercise in the practical conduct of a control ...

The findings from an epidemiological survey of bacillary dysentery in three villages in south-west Serbia are reported. Factors in the transmission of infection-in particular, living conditions and standards of hygiene-are discussed, and an attempt is made to assess the value of various popular remedies, such as herbal decoctions, and the ...

"This volumen and its companion - Urban redevelopment: Problems and practices - are the chief products of the urban redevelopment study"