Many workers believe that the association between serum cholesterol concentration and ischaemic heart disease is one of cause and effect and it is reported that a 10 % decrease in serum cholesterol is associated with a 27 % reduction in the risk of ischaemic heart disease (Law et al. 1994b) achieved after 5 or more years (Law et al. 1994a). The chief dietary determinants of plasma total cholest...

Leadership has been identified as one of the critical factors in the successful development of e-government projects especially so in developing countries. Unfortunately, empirical studies linking the outcome of egovernment projects and the role of leadership are very limited. Moreover, these studies did not comprehensively discuss the role of leadership in implementing e-government projects in...

We start 2010 with the sad task of publishing the last paper by Jerry Morris, who died in October 2009 in his 100th year (Figures 1 and 2). As has previously been highlighted in the IJE, Jerry was a major figure in establishing the methodology of chronic disease epidemiology and bringing socio-economic inequalities in health to centre stage of post-World War II public health policy. Jerry playe...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in pre-microRNA (miRNA) may alter miRNA expression levels or processing and contribute to susceptibility in a wide range of diseases. The present study aimed to evaluate the possible association between rs2910164 and rs3746444 of the pre-miRNA (hsamir-146a and hsa-mir-499) polymorphisms and susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in an Iranian population. Thi...

Until recently, most European, North American and Australasian epidemiologists knew Latin America as a region of the world that produced both great football teams and hazardous military dictatorships (although the North Americans may not have known much about the football teams). In addition, it was a region that we had to fly over the top of in order to meet each other in New York, London or S...

Dementia is a major growing global public health problem.1Prince M.J. Wimo A. Guerchet M. Ali G.-C. Wu Y.-T. Prina A.M. World Alzheimer Report 2015. The Global Impact of Dementia: an analysis prevalence, incidence, cost and trends. Alzheimer's Disease International, London2015Google Scholar disease (AD) risk thought to be raised in the presence relatively few environmental genetic factors that ...

In recent years, flash memory has been widely used in embedded systems, portable devices, and high-performance storage products due to its non-volatility, shock resistance, low power consumption, and high performance natures. To reduce the product cost, multi-level-cell flash memory (MLC) has been proposed; compared with the traditional single-level-cell flash memory (SLC) that only stores one ...