The resulting picture of the self is a multilayered nexus of relations with psychic-historical and somatic-organic strata.
Reviewing this body of Chinese-language literature, Guo observes that in contemporary China, 'class' is considered as a historical revolutionary instrument, whereas stratum is widely adopted as a more appropriate sociological concept to describe and analyse actual social structures.
We considered five distinct historical periods for which CD4 stratum-specific diagnosis rates are estimated: (1) 1980–1983, during which the first AIDS cases were diagnosed; (2) 1984–1995, when serological testing for HIV became widely available; (3) 1996–1999, the start of the era of combination antiretroviral treatment; (4) 2000–2004; and (5) 2005–2012.
In bivariate analyses, both LS and MWB varied significantly by current and historical smoking behaviours across all deprivation strata (Tables 1 & 2).
The ratio of program cost to DALYs averted with ART treatment in each BMI stratum was calculated using the historical survival and retention rates, which provided the willingness to pay (WTP) value.
A cautious approach would therefore be to treat these results as exploratory and look for further opportunities to confirm them in other settings, perhaps using historical benchmarking data derived from a comparable population (matched within strata) and corrected for secular trends.
Paleontology is mutually interdependent with stratigraphy and historical geology because fossils constitute a major means by which sedimentary strata are identified and correlated with one another.
Conducting such trend analyses among specific age cohort strata would also provide insights into the effects of historical programs and policies among the various social mobility groups.
Camden Town, however, with its enduringly seedy air and historical rock associations continues to be a spiritual home for a certain strata of pub-based music.
Scholem was determined to uncover the more exalted strata of a suppressed tradition, partly to complete and clarify the historical record, and partly to disclose arcane and majestic imaginative constructs, themselves marvels of the human intellect.
