The literature linking socioeconomic status and health has been accumulating for over a century (Antonovsky 1967). For much of this time, the focus has been on an individual’s social status or societal position as reflected either by their education, occupation, income or wealth acting as a fundamental determinant of health by influencing many different intermediate factors (Adler, Boyce et al....

FROM time to time in post-mortem reports, a small tumour of the posterior pituitary stalk, called a choristoma, is an incidental finding. Looking through the reports of the Pathology Department of Queen's University, it was possible to find thirty cases of choristoma over the past twenty years. The tumour was first noticed by Boyce and Beadle in 1893, but was called "Choristoma" by Sternberg in...

Acknowledgements We are grateful to Maria Claudia Lopez and members of the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia who provided outstanding support for our work in the field. At each site, the experiments would not have been possible without the assistance of local community leaders that helped the research team develop credibility with local commu...

We present versions of the Frank-Wolfe method for linearly constrained convex programs, in which consecutive search directions are made conjugate. Preliminary computational studies in a MATLAB environment applying pure Frank-Wolfe, Conjugate direction Frank-Wolfe (CFW), Bi-conjugate Frank-Wolfe (BFW) and ”PARTANized” Frank-Wolfe methods to some classical Traffic Assignment Problems show that CF...

The present paper demonstrates that the Hart-Smith constitutive model and the more recent Arruda and Boyce eight chains and Gent constitutive models are closely related. The ability of these three models to predict both small and large strain responses of rubbers is highlighted and equations that relate their material parameters are established. INTRODUCTION Elastomers exhibit a very complex me...

Small superimposed radial oscillations for a class of damaged limited elastic, incompressible, isotropic and homogeneous thick-walled circular cylindrical tube are examined. Both the damage function considered elastic depend only on first invariant $$ I_{1} $$ left Cauchy–Green deformation tensor. The present work puts some light in context surgical procedure angioplasty, used especially to tr...