Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 11 Number 2 1996 © Asia Pacific Press Increasing population density on the main islands of both Tuvalu and Kiribati is generating waste loadings that exceed the assimilative capacity of the natural systems. The resulting pollution is lowering the quality of life and causing ill health. The renewable resources of the atolls are being degraded and their ability to...

Despite decades of field research on greater sage-grouse, range-wide demographic data have yet to be synthesized into a sensitivity analysis to guide management actions. We reviewed range-wide demographic rates for greater sage-grouse from 1938 to 2011 and used data from 50 studies to parameterize a 2-stage, female-based population matrix model. We conducted life-stage simulation analyses to de...

“Simple Models of Influenza Progression within a Heterogeneous Population” targets the important goal of engaging the operations research (OR) community to work on challenging and important problems in infectious disease management and control. Valuable points Larson makes include (1) the importance of developing models with a decision-context in mind, (2) the examination of system-level contro...

Significant declines, and in some cases total collapses, of about 70 % of the worlds exploited fish populations (FAO 1995) are considered among the most threatening global resource problems currently faced. The state of world fisheries indicates that traditional fishery management models and control mechanisms have been largely ineffectual in creating sustainable fisheries (Ludwig & al. 1993; S...

KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Region Augsburg) is a regional research platform for population-based surveys and subsequent follow-up studies in the fields of epidemiology, health economics, and health care research. KORA was established in 1996 to continue and expand the MONICA project in Augsburg, including the Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Registry. The available pool of study ...

Background: This study was done in order to enhance our understanding about molecular and epidemiological features of breast cancer among the Azeri population with special emphasis on the detection of TP53 mutations. We also analyzed the role of the P53codon72 polymorphism (rs1042522) and its role in susceptibility to breast cancer. Methods: ...