O ver the centuries, physicians have conceptualized cancer in many ways. Hippocrates viewed it as a malfunction of black bile. In India it was treated as an imbalance of Ayurvedic principles of dosha. Modern medicine has viewed cancer in terms of genetic mutations. Now some researchers are saying we should step back and view cancer through the lens of evolution and ecology to better understand ...

One of the many gifts from Alan to Set-theoretic Topology is the use of elementarity. For a while this was even known as “Dow’s method of elementary submodels”. But Alan would be, was, and still is the first to protest that the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem predates him by a few decades. We have for the longest time been familiar with recursive constructions where often beforehand a sequence of situ...

S Balasegaram, J M Watson, A M C Rose, A Charlett, A J Nunn, A Rushdy, J Leese, L P Ormerod, on behalf of the Public Health Laboratory Service/British Thoracic Society/Department of Health Collaborative Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market. We suggest some simple measures of the middle—the size and income shares of households around the median (75/125%)—and their income status relative to wealthier counterparts. Our results point to genuine distributional stress for middle-income households, as well as public perception...

Strengthening impact assessment: a call for integration and focus Angus Morrison-Saunders, Jenny Pope, Jill A.E. Gunn, Alan Bond & Francois Retief a School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA6150, Australia b School of Geo and Spatial Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa c Integral Sustain...

What is the link between monetary policy and equality? The Bank of England gives occasional briefing sessions to Members of Parliament. At those sessions our main message to the MPs is that when they arrive at the summit of their careers and enter the Cabinet, they will not wish to spend their time dealing with a macroeconomic crisis. Rather, they should devote time in the Cabinet to the discus...

This study provides a detailed analysis of the existing problems with nuclear safeguards and material accounting in Russia by comparing the existing situation both to U.S. methods and to the system of controls that existed in the Soviet era. It also examines recent U.S. efforts under the Nunn-Lugar initiative to improve safeguards and the system of material accounting and control. Finally, it c...

Adam N. Stulberg is Assistant Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he was as a consultant at RAND and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies(CNS). He has written several articles and monographs on the strategic implications of Russian regionalism, as well as on energy security issues in the fo...

Introduction The MapStats for Kids project, supported by FedStats, is focused on developing a range of dynamic geographic and statistical online learning activities for middle school children (see URL above). FedStats is a cross-agency Internet portal designed to help all Americans find statistical summaries to support personal or business decisions, enable research on a myriad of topics, and p...