Catching up the Europeans in preventing heart disease Mortality from cardiovascular disease in the United Kingdom compares poorly with other countries in Western Europe; Northern Ireland and Scotland have particularly high rates.' The results of the prospective phase of the British Regional Heart Study provide an opportunity to review current knowledge of cardiovascular risk factors based on da...

Comment The World Cancer Declaration: is the world catching up? In 2008, at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) World Cancer Congress, cancer leaders approved and issued the World Cancer Declaration, 1 demonstrating their desire to see cancer eliminated as a life-threatening disease for future generations. The declaration presented 11 targets which, if achieved by 2020, would esta...

Bayesian model averaging, model selection and their approximations such as BIC are generally statistically consistent, but sometimes achieve slower rates of convergence than other methods such as AIC and leave-one-out cross-validation. On the other hand, these other methods can be inconsistent. We identify the catch-up phenomenon as a novel explanation for the slow convergence of Bayesian metho...

some 1q21–22 was identified as the location of a major and Radiology vulnerability locus for familial schizophrenia with suffi-University of North Carolina School of Medicine cient power to permit positional cloning of the underlying gene(s) (Brzustowicz et al., 2000). Environmental factors (including exposure to infectious , autoimmune, toxic, or traumatic insults and stress Introduction durin...

It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you to our annual Conference on European Economic Integration. The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has been hosting this event for many years, offering a forum for lively debates between distinguished panelists from national and international institutions, politics, banking and academia. I am glad that such a sizeable number of participants and spea...

4 Non-technical summary 5 7 2 10 2.1 Sectors and aggregation 10 2.2 Relative prices 11 2.3 Real exchange rate and sectoral productivity shocks 12 2.4 Nominal rigidity and aggregate supply 14 3 Autonomous monetary policy 15 4 The currency union 17 4.1 Determination of union-wide output and prices 18 4.2 Currency union’s welfare 19 4.3 Reference member state’s welfare 20 5 Relative performance an...

BACKGROUND The United States has been the country with the highest body mass indexes (BMIs; in kg/m(2)) at higher centiles, but research that compares the United States with other nations is lacking. OBJECTIVE To present a picture of global obesity and examine the shifts in BMI in children, I examined BMI data for men and women at the upper ends of the BMI distributions in Australia, China, t...

Early inMay, six weeks after the first case of Ebola virus disease had been confirmed in west Africa and rapidly spread into three of the poorest countries in the world, the director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, declared a public health emergency of international concern. It is “an extraordinary event and a public health risk to other states for which a coordinated r...