Analysis ofthe births that occurred in England and Wales during 1970-6 showed that they followed a seven-day cycle, being concentrated from Tuesdays to Fridays and least numerous on Sundays. This pattern became increasingly pronounced during the period examined. Relatively few births occurred on bank holidays, especially Christmas Day and Boxing Day. In general perinatal mortality was higher am...

PURPOSE To investigate and compare the trends in incidence and mortality of penile cancer between Australia, England and Wales, and the US, and provide hypotheses for these trends. METHODS Cancer registry data from 1982 to 2005 inclusive were obtained from Australia, England and Wales, and the United States. From these data, age-specific, -standardised and mortality:incidence ratios were calc...

BACKGROUND There are no modern cross-cultural comparative studies of the frequency and clinical presentation of catatonia in a Western country and India using standardized rating instruments and diagnostic criteria. METHOD A total of 104 consecutively admitted patients in Wales and in India were screened for catatonic features using the same standardized rating instrument by the same psychiat...

-The 1970-72 cancer mortality of Polish migrants to England and Wales is compared with the cancer mortality prevailing in England and Wales and in Poland. Small numbers limit the analyses to the most frequent cancer sites only. The main findings are: (a) Compared with mortality rates in both their country of birth and of adoption, Polish migrants displayed intermediate values for cancers of the...

Ben Freedman1,2; Gregory Y. H. Lip3,4 1Heart Research Institute, Charles Perkins Centre, and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 2Department of Cardiology and Anzac Research Institute, Concord Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, Australia; 3University of Birmingham Institute of Cardiovascular Science, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK; 4Aalborg Thrombosi...

ly represented by a connectionist network and still maintain their plausibility as simulations of natural language. As analogies of human Reprint requests may be sent to Fiona Lyddy, Department of Psychology, University of Wales Institute, Llandaff Campus, Cardiff CF5 2YB, Wales.

Harshini Mudaliar, Carol Pollock, Muralikrishna Gangadharan Komala, Steven Chadban, Huiling Wu, and Usha Panchapakesan Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia; and Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Collaborative Transplant Research Group, University of Sydney, New South...

Peter Eden Information Security Research group School of Computing and Mathematics Department of Computing, Engineering and Science University of South Wales Pontypridd, CF371DL UK [email protected] Andrew Blyth Information Security Research group School of Computing and Mathematics Department of Computing, Engineering and Science University of South Wales Pontypridd, CF371DL UK andre...

peter b. best, james p. glass, peter g. ryan and merel l. dalebout Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic, Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Ne...

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