The viscosity of the plasma was studied briefly by Fahraeus in his original investigations (1921) into the blood sedimentation rate. In 1940 further studies were made by T'Ang and Wang, who concluded that it gave a more accurate picture of the activity of disease processes than the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. The plasma viscosity technique was independently developed by Whittington and his ...

Sequential regularization methods relate to a combination of stabilization methods and the usual penalty method for differential equations with algebraic equality constraints. This paper extends an earlier work [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 33 (1996), pp. 1921–1940] to nonlinear problems and to differential algebraic equations (DAEs) with an index higher than 2. Rather than having one “winning” method...

Language can be approached from many different vantage points – neuroanatomy, psychology, phonetics, hearing, vision, physics, information theory, formal logic, and so on. Most scientific and linguistic accounts have focused on defining units of analysis, such as the phoneme, the word, and the phrase. Some of the more ingenious, such as Articulation Theory (Fletcher and Galt, 1940; French and S...

1Interestingly, however influential Knight and Mises otherwise have been in shaping their respective schools, neither Knight nor Mises have been entirely successful in convincing their followers of this part of their doctrines. Similarly, while they were skeptical about the use of probability, Knight and Mises were also proponents of “a priori” economic theory, and in this regard, too, neither ...

The history of the University of Szeged dates back to 1581 when István Báthory, the Prince of Transylvania founded a higher education institution in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) which became prestigious in a short time. Due to its professors well-known all around Europe it provided high standard education and also had the right to confer baccalaureate and master’s degrees. Moreover, it was the only ...

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Mortality from Parkinson's disease in England and Wales was re-examined using published government statistics. The 300% increase in the crude mortality rate between 1921 and 1989 was largely attributable to the increase in the elderly population who suffer a higher prevalence of the disease. The dramatic fall in 1940 and rise in 1984 were artefacts caused by changes in certification. Age-specif...

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the looting, burning, and leveling of 35 square blocks a once-thriving Black neighborhood. Not only did this lead to severe economic loss, but massacre also sent warning individuals across country that similar events were possible their communities. We examine consequences for populations United States. find population Tulsa, two decades followed, led de...

Temperature is a limiting factor in the distribution of many animals. The ova of brown trout (Salmo trutta) can develop without excessive mortality at water temperatures between 3 and 15° C. (Gray, 1928), while for adult trout, mortality is high above 20 and complete above 25 C. (Gardner & Leetham, 1914; Audige\ 1921; Gardner, 1926). It is generally assumed that temperature is the most importan...

Recent events highlight the importance of examining the impact of economic downturns on population health. The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most important economic downturn in the U.S. in the twentieth century. We used historical life expectancy and mortality data to examine associations of economic growth with population health for the period 1920-1940. We conducted descriptive analys...