Dietary intake in an urban African population in South Africa, with special reference to the nutrition transition

An assessment of the nutritional status of a representative sample of an urban African population has not previously been conducted, nor the extent to which the traditional diet has been abandoned for a western diet. To meet this end, a cross-sectional analytic study was carried out on a representative sample (N=1146) of the urban African population, aged 3 - 64 years in 1990. Particular attention was paid to specific at-risk groups viz. preschoolers (aged 3 - 6 years; N=163), adolescents (aged 15 - 18 years; N=119) and adults (19 - 44 years; N=649). The interrelationships of dietary intake with socio-economic status, demographic indicators as well as measures of urban exposure were also examined. A further aim was to determine the extent to which this rapidly urbanising population ' s macronutrient profile had shifted from a traditional towards a western atherogenic dietary pattern. This analytic study was nested in a community-based descriptive survey on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. A multi-staged, proportional sampling strategy was used. Quotas were used in the final stage of sampling, based on the age/sex distribution of a 1988 census conducted by the local authorities. Dietary data were collected by means of the 24-hour recall method, by Xhosa -speaking registered nurses who had received intensive training. Anthropometric measurements were taken, and blood samples were drawn according to standard procedures. Socio-demographic questions elicited information on the physical environment and facilities, educational level and employment status. Information was also elicited regarding urban exposure relating to lifetime migration history, thus incorporating retrospective temporality into the study des ign. From these data, an index of urban exposure was established by calculating the percentage of life spent in an urban environment. Univariate analyses of dietary, anthropometric and biochemical vitamin status were used for the descriptive components of the study of the three specific at-risk age categories. Bivariate analyses examined the effects of selected proxies of socio-economic status, and urban exposure on dietary intake. Finally, multiple linear regressions were performed on the preschoolers (N=163) and adult sample, aged 15 - 64 years (N=983) incorporating additional indicators of socio-economic status as predictors, and dietary intake data as outcome measures. Correspondence analysis further explored the relationships between dietary atherogenicity (using the Keys score) and other risk factors for degenerative disease

Mexican-American Spanish in its societal and cultural contexts

Natural and Literary Spanish Discourse / Rosaura Sanchez -- Teacher and student language behavior in contrasting bilingual contexts / M. Beatriz Arias -- An ethnography of a fourth-grade bilingual classroom: Patterns of English and Spanish / Sheila M. Shannon -- The sociolinguistics status of a U.S.-Mexico border Calo / Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia -- Research needs in Chicano Spanish for health care / Margarita Kay -- Mental health services: Language and acculturation with Mexican-American populations / Sandra L. Johansson, Harmon Hosch, Antonio Juarez, Larry Meyer -- Domain-related lexical borrowing in the English and Spanish of South Texas / George K. Green, Lino Garcia Jr. -- Restandardization of Spanish in the Hispanic press / Sally E. Said -- Folk process in Chicano poetry / Theresa Melendez Hayes -- Linguistic insecurity in New Mexico: A pilot study / Shaw Nicholas Gynan -- Sociocultural contexts of Texas Spanish: Personal encounters / Chester C. Christian Jr. -- Perceptions of Spanish-English code-switching in Juarez, Mexico / Margarita Hidalgo -- Decisions of correctness in New Mexico Spanish / Merryl Kravitz -- Language use and perceived discrimination: The case of Spanish speakers at UNM / John J. Bergen, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry -- The processual role of language in Bilingual classrooms: Language use and mass media orientations among Mexican American children / Adalberto Aguirre Jr. -- Translation: The forgotten fifth language skill / George K. Green -- Communication and education trends along the U.S.-Mexico border / Dennis J. Bixler-Marquez -- Native language education: The key to English literacy skills / L. Antonio Gonzalez -- Contributors.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/rgrgll/1001/thumbnail.jp

SIMULATING SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA USING DISCONTINUOUS SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHODS

We introduce a discontinuous spectral element method for simulating seismic wave in 2- dimensional elastic media. The methods combine the flexibility of a discontinuous finite element method with the accuracy of a spectral method. The elastodynamic equations are discretized using high-degree of Lagrange interpolants and integration over an element is accomplished based upon the Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre integration rule. This combination of discretization and integration results in a diagonal mass matrix and the use of discontinuous finite element method makes the calculation can be done locally in each element. Thus, the algorithm is simplified drastically. We validated the results of one-dimensional problem by comparing them with finite-difference time-domain method and exact solution. The comparisons show excellent agreement