Politics and administration in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1955-1964

This thesis purports to describe the political and administrative system of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic as it was from 1955 to 1964. The first two sections are concerned mainly with central party and governmental institutions - one with the governmental machinery proper, and the second with formally extra bureaucratic institutions. The relationship between these two parts is discussed. The third section puts some flesh on the institutional skeleton. The political elite of the republic is identified and career patterns of leading personnel are traced; a case study throws light on the policy making process in agriculture; a chapter on industry shows that republican leadership can get out of step when factional struggle is rife at USSR level; finally, an attempt is made to probe the politics of the rapid turnover of top leaders during the decade studied. Since this is the Kazakh Republic an analysis is made of how power is shared between the main national groups before conclusions on the structure of the system are presented

An Analysis of an Alternate-Year Walleye Fry Stocking Program in the Cedar River in Iowa

Year-class analysis of walleye, Stizostedion v. vitreum (Mitchill), taken by anglers in a portion of the Cedar River in Iowa indicated that alternate-year stocking of 3,500 fry per mile of river did not influence year-class abundance. Despite the short duration of the project, 1951-1958, a reasonably direct relationship between spring floods and spring air temperatures and year-class abundance was evident. Disparity in year-class abundance between samples taken 5 miles apart and within 3 months of each other, but by different methods (angling and chemical kill), indicates either a sampling selectivity or a relative discreteness or stability of portions of an assumed homogeneous population of river walleyes, or both

The social disorganization of eating: a neglected determinant of the Australian epidemic of overweight/obesity

Background: Over the last 150 years, advanced economies have seen the burden of disease shift to non-communicable diseases. The risk factors for these diseases are often co-morbidities associated with unhealthy weight. The prevalence of overweight/obesity among adults in the advanced countries of the English-speaking world is currently more than two-thirds of the adult population. However, while much attention has concentrated on changes in diet that might have provoked this rapid increase in unhealthy weight, changes in patterns of eating have received little attention.Methods: This article examines a sequence of large-scale, time use surveys in urban Australia stretching from 1974 to 2006. The earliest survey in 1974 (conducted by the Cities Commission) was limited to respondents aged between 18 and 69 years, while the later surveys (by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) included all adult (15 years of age or over) living private dwellings. Since time use surveys capture every activity in a day, they contain much information about mealtimes and the patterns of eating. This includes duration of eating, number of eating occasions and the timing of eating. Inferential statistics were used to test the statistical significance of these changes and the size of the effects.Results: The eating patterns of urban Australian adults have changed significantly over a 32-year period and the magnitude of this change is non-trivial. Total average eating time as main activity has diminished by about a third, as have eating occasions, affecting particularly luncheon and evening meals. However, there is evidence that eating as secondary activity that accompanies another activity is now almost as frequent as eating at mealtimes. Moreover, participants seem not to report it.Conclusions: Contemporary urban Australians are spending less time in organized shared meals. These changes have occurred the over same period during which there has been a public health concern about the prevalence of unhealthy weight. Preliminary indications are that societies that emphasize eating as a commensal, shared activity through maintaining definite, generous lunch breaks and prioritizing eating at mealtimes, achieve better public health outcomes. This has implications for a strategy of health promotion, but to be sure of this we need to study countries with these more socially organized eating patterns

Body fatness and cancer - viewpoint of the IARC working group

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Revisiting the symptom iceberg in today's primary care: results from a UK population survey

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Body fatness and cancer - viewpoint of the IARC working group

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