We examine whether any trends in monthly temperatures are the same through-out the year for various lengthy series. The data concern the world, the northern and southern hemispheres, and about three centuries of data for the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. For the empirical exercise, we rely on new and accurate tests which have been recently developed. These tests do not have standard distr...

Previous studies have concluded that thoroughbred racehorse speed is improving very slowly, if at all, despite heritable variation for performance and putatively intensive selective breeding. This has led to the suggestion that racehorses have reached a selection limit. However, previous studies have been limited, focusing only on the winning times of a few elite races run over middle and long ...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 16 March 2009 190 6 312315 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Public health the media, with comments such as “. . . the weight of new mothers and babies rockets to record levels . . .”, “Fatter babies mean more c-sections” and “Babies are being born bigger than ever . .”. Increases in birthweight have been reported overseas. In...

This paper describes next generation vehicular network standard comparison among North America, Europe and Japan and provides harmonization proposal for Japanese DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication). The basic DSRC standards are in IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.) and in ETSI (European Telecommunication Standard Institute). The IEEE and the ETSI have regular m...