Population: 13 781 respondents from the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS; n = 6780; 21–54 years old, noninstitutionalised individuals) and the Mental Health Supplement of the Ontario Health Survey (OHS; n = 7001; 19–64 years old; province-wide survey), categorised into three groups based on lifetime alcohol consumption: alcohol abstainers, moderate drinkers, and problem drinkers. Abstainers rep...

INTRODUCTION Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disease caused by a decrease in the bone mineral density. It is a major public health threat as it weakens bones, especially those in the wrist, spine, or hip, and causes them to break easily. AIM The study aimed to find how strictly postmenopausal women with osteoporosis adhere to a long-term therapy with bisphosphonates. PATIENTS AND METHODS T...

offices of the Wessex Council on Alcoholism, 14 Brunswick Place, Southampton, a group of people meet to discuss the difficulties they encounter in fighting an insidious disease that is threatening to ruin their lives?alcoholism. Any non-alcoholics attending would undoubtedly be surprised by the questions asked by these anxious and often apprehensive addicts. Questions that range from a middle-a...

We consider the problem of implementing general sharedmemory objects on top of write-once bits, which can be changed from 0 to 1 but not back again. In a sequential setting, write-once memory (WOM) codes have been developed that allow simulating memory that support multiple writes, even of large values, setting an average of 1 + o(1) write-once bits per write. We show that similar space efficie...

This is a special conference for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and for me personally. The role of monetary aggregates in monetary policy was intensely controversial when I joined the staff of the Board of Governors in May 1969. I was immediately asked to join the staff of the newly formed FOMC Committee on the Directive. Governor Sherman Maisel chaired that committee; the other two member...

JEDICKE WILL WRITE ONCE REMAINDER OF PAPER IS COMPLETE. Subject headings: Near-Earth Objects; Asteroids, Dynamics