Unsustainable debt reduces the productivity of a country. Ten years following its “1960 independence”, Democratic Republic Congo adopted policies that resorted to external finances while world was at peak 1970 Petro-dollar crisis. The decade, in 1980’s, with fall price raw materials, trapped an unsustainable burden cycle stagnated economy and according World Bank data, reduced GDP per Capita. r...

Lead originating from coal burning, gasoline burning, and ore smelting was identified in 210Pb-dated profiles through eight peat bogs distributed over an area of 60,000 km2. The Sphagnum-dominated bogs were located mainly in mountainous regions of the Czech Republic bordering with Germany, Austria, and Poland. Basal peat 14C-dated at 11,000 years BP had a relatively high 206Pb/207Pb ratio (1.19...

Background: Radioiodine treatment in thyroidectomized differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients was introduced the world 1940s and Bangladesh 1980. Long experience of lifelong follow up DTC with proper documentation medical records enriched archive division National Institute Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (NINMAS). Aims: To evaluate response radioiodine at NINMAS analyze outcome ...

The carbon (C) reservoir of wood products in Finnish construction and civil engineering was estimated by three inventories including the years 1980, 1990 and 1995. The inventory method is mainly based on the statistics of Finnish building stock. The use of different construction materials in different parts of buildings is estimated for each building type. Information collected through building...

OBJECTIVES to provide up-to-date information and to analyze recent changes in colorectal cancer mortality trends in Andalusia during the period of 1980-2008 using joinpoint regression models. PATIENTS AND METHODS age- and sex-specific colorectal cancer deaths were taken from the official vital statistics published by the Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía for the years 1980 to 2008. We com...

Seventy-two years ago, Sir Henry Dale discov­ ered that histamine (8-iminazolylethylamine) was a constituent of most mammalian tissues and was a potent agonist on a variety of biological target cells (Dale and Laidlaw, 1910; Dale, 1953). It was suggested that this amine may have a transmitter role in several organs, conveying messages from cells where it was synthesized or stored to adjacent ce...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess social variations and trends in health expectancy over a period of rapid social and economic change. DESIGN Cross sectional survey data on the association between social status--gender, socioeconomic class and ethnic group--and measures of health status at two points in time approximately a decade apart. The Sullivan method of calculating health expectancy was used. ...