Life expectancy is a useful indicator of mortality for policy-makers, though its calculation for small populations is problematic. In the UK, two technical reports, one from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), and the other from the South East Public Health Observatory (SEPHO), were commissioned to investigate life table methods applied to small populations. As a result, the ONS published ...

1 Jomo was an Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations system responsible for economic research during 2005-2015.; Chowdhury (Chief, Multi-Stakeholder Engagement & Outreach, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); Sharma (Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); Platz (Economic Affairs Officer, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); correspo...

209 Labanotation is widely known symbolic language for recording and describing human movement. Through the use of interactive computer graphics a Laban score can be described to the computer and a simulation of the movement viewed on a CRT in terms of a simple computer graphics model of a human form. The Laban score is entered by means of an acoustical tablet with visual feedback of the score ...

In their paper “Groundwater Contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India,” Chowdhury et al. (1) address arsenic contamination in groundwater from two countries in Asia. Although arsenic contamination is a serious concern for the entire world, Chowdhury et al. bring out the proportion of people at risk in these areas by measuring arsenic levels using various biochemical parameters, but the...

The FTM-West (“Fuel Treatment Market” model for U.S. West) is a dynamic partial market equilibrium model of regional softwood timber and wood product markets, designed to project future market impacts of expanded fuel treatment programs that remove trees to reduce fire hazard on forestlands in the U.S. West. The model solves sequentially the annual equilibria in wood markets over a historical p...

BACKGROUND The United Nations (UN) produces population projections for all countries every two years. These are used by international organizations, governments, the private sector and researchers for policy planning, for monitoring development goals, as inputs to economic and environmental models, and for social and health research. The UN is considering producing fully probabilistic populatio...

Global warming may pose a greater risk to species with unique thermal requirements during each life stage than species with a similar thermal requirement throughout all life stages. The risk to the former is higher because their unique thermal ranges may become geographically or temporally discontiguous. Additionally, modeling global warming’s effects on these species is challenging due to thei...

During late summer and autumn 2000, a West Nile fever outbreak in southern France resulted in 76 equine clinical cases; 21 horses died. We report the results of a large serosurvey of all equines within a 10-km radius of laboratory-confirmed cases. Blood samples were obtained from 5,107 equines, distributed in groups of 1 to 91 animals. West Nile virus immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibodies were found...

In their paper on Wilf-equivalence for singleton classes, Backelin, West, and Xin introduced a transformation φ∗, defined by an iterative process and operating on (all) full rook placements on Ferrers boards. Bousquet-Mélou and Steingrı́msson proved the analogue of the main result of Backelin, West, and Xin in the context of involutions, and in so doing they needed to prove that φ∗ commutes with...