Cervical Cancer Screening: The Complex Interplay of Medical Infrastructure, Society, and Culture ANNEKATHRYN GOODMAN, NAWAL NOUR Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Divisions of Gynecologic Oncology and Women’s Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Global Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, ...

The Beveridge-Nelson decomposition defines the trend component in terms of the eventual forecast function, as the value the series would take if it were on its long-run path. The paper introduces the multistep Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, which arises when the forecast function is obtained by the direct autoregressive approach, which optimizes the predictive ability of the AR model at foreca...

Given a rational point on a curve in a rational isogeny class, a natural question concerns the field of definition of its pre-images. The multiplication by m endomorphism is a powerful and much-used tool. The pre-images for this map are found by factorizing a monic polynomial of degree m. For m = 2, Everest and King gave examples where the existence of a quadratic factor coincided with the exis...

In this paper we investigate colorings of sets avoiding similarly colored subsets. If S is an arbitrary colored set and T is a "xed family of bijections of S to itself, then two subsets A; B ⊆ S are said to be colored similarly with respect to T, if there exists a transformation t ∈T mapping A onto B, and preserving a coloring of A. This general setting covers some well-known topics such as non...

Let X be a convex curve in the plane (say, the unit circle), and let S be a family of planar convex bodies, such that every two of them meet at a point of X. Then S has a transversal N ⊂ R of size at most 1.75 · 10. Suppose instead that S only satisfies the following “(p, 2)-condition”: Among every p elements of S there are two that meet at a common point of X. Then S has a transversal of size ...

A nonlinear model for biological and physical dynamical interactions in a laminar flow field being upwelled into the mixed layer Robinson(1999) (Fig 1, below) has been extended to turbulent flow (Goodman and Robinson, 2007). The approach of the Goodman and Robinson theory has been to develop a probability density function (pdf) for the turbulent displacement field and use that to calculate the ...

Nelson algebras were first studied by Rasiowa and BiałynickiBirula [1] under the name N-lattices or quasi-pseudo-Boolean algebras. Later, in investigations by Monteiro and Brignole [3, 4], and [2] the name “Nelson algebras” was adopted – which is now commonly used to show the correspondence with Nelson’s paper [14] on constructive logic with strong negation. By a Nelson algebra we mean an abstr...

Jonathan K. Nelson & Richard J. Zeckhauser: The Patron's Payoff is published by Princeton University Press and copyrighted, © 2008, by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher, ...

A Monte Carlo simulation for bioprospecting the endemic New Zealand terrestrial flora for 1 antibiotic drug leads 2 Eric J Buenz 3 Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Correspondence to: 19 20 Eric J Buenz 21 Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology 22 322 Hardy Street 23 Nelson, 7120 24 New Zealand 25 26 Email: Eric.Buenz@nmit...

Morris Goodman was a revolutionary. Together with a mere handful of like-minded scientists, Morris established himself as a leader in the molecular phylogenetic revolution of the 1960s. The effects of this revolution are most evident in this journal, which he founded in 1992. Happily for lemur biologists, one of Morris Goodman's primary interests was in reconstructing the phylogeny of the prima...