A burial ground or graveyard is an integral part of any city. According to Max Weber, the city in the Occident was a unitary urban community, and that a common burial ground was one of the prerequisites for it. In the Orient, such an urban community never existed since the prerequisites for this...

Background: Annually, more than 379 000 motorcycle occupants across the world die in motor-vehicle collisions-84% of these fatalities occurred in Low- and Middle-Income countries. Recent studies suggest that the Uber's four-wheeler ride-sharing service (UberCAR) may reduce traffic fatalities....

Based on over a thousand interviews and survey data from more than 55,000 families spanning five continents, this work is an account of how the conditions of work threaten children, women and men, and the infirm. It addresses problems faced by working families in industrialized and developing...

PURPOSE: To replicate a prior study that found greater adolescent marijuana use in states that have passed medical marijuana laws, and extend this analysis by accounting for confounding by unmeasured state characteristics and measurement error. METHODS: We obtained state-level estimates of...