STUDY OBJECTIVE This study investigates the spatial pattern of tumours in Europe to check the feasibility of a large scale ecological epidemiology approach to cancer in Europe. SETTING The tumour types relative frequencies and cancer incidence (for men and women) reported in the European cancer registries were investigated by exploratory data analysis techniques. Socioeconomical descriptors o...

We present a sufficient condition for robust permanence of ecological (or Kolmogorov) differential equations based on average Liapunov functions. Via the minimax theorem we rederive Schreiber’s sufficient condition [S. Schreiber, J. Differential Equations, 162 (2000), pp. 400–426] in terms of Liapunov exponents and give various generalizations. Then we study robustness of permanence criteria ag...

OBJECTIVE Orientation Week is a series of events at the beginning of the university year that introduces incoming students to university life. It is also the period of the academic year when students consume more alcohol than at any other time. Recently, we demonstrated that alcohol consumption during Orientation Week was related to alcohol consumption during the academic year. The aim of the p...

Periodic travelling waves are an important solution form in oscillatory reaction–diffusion equations. I have shown previously that such waves arise naturally near a boundary at which a Dirichlet condition is applied. This result has applications in ecology, providing a potential explanation for the periodic waves seen in a number of natural populations. However, in ecological applications the D...