OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to investigate the cause-specific patterns of unintentional injury mortality among 15-44-year-olds in various income-based country groups, and to analyze which specific causes contribute the most to the unintentional injury mortality in each country group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional data on the five most common causes of unintentional inj...

Bacterial natural products are a diverse and valuable group of small molecules, and genome sequencing indicates that the vast majority remain undiscovered. The prediction of natural product structures from biosynthetic assembly lines can facilitate their discovery, but highly automated, accurate, and integrated systems are required to mine the broad spectrum of sequenced bacterial genomes. Here...

Anyone who has studied elementary economics has encountered the idea that a society's output may be either "guns" or "butter" and that, once all resources are employed, having more of one entails having less of the other. This categorization of output is only a metaphor to make more concrete the concepts of production possibility and opportunity cost. I propose, however, to take the categorizat...

and expansion since the late 1970s, accompanied by rapid and widespread urbanization. During the early 1980s, 18% of China’s population lived in cities, but this rose to 39% by 2003, while the number of cities increased from 190 to 660 (including about 170 cities with a population greater than 1 million) over the same time period. From 1980 to 2003, the contribution of Chinese cities to gross n...

The National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) were revised with the release of the 2004 estimates. The largest revision was the incorporation of a more comprehensive measure of investment in medical sector capital. The revision raised total health expenditures' share of gross domestic product (GDP) from 15.4 to 15.8 percent in 2003. The improved measure encompasses investment in moveable equi...

How important have emerging and developing markets become in the global economy? According to Goldman Sachs, the combined gross national product (GNP) of the 15 leading emerging markets will overtake that of the leading developed economies (G7) by 2024 (Van Agtmael, 2009). General Motors and Coca-Cola have identified Asia, Russia, and Brazil as the regions where the majority of their growth wil...

THE MAJOR ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF 1982 was a dramatic reduction of inflation to its lowest rate in a decade. The 4.6 percent increase in the gross national product (GNP) implicit price deflator between the fourth quarters of 1981 and 1982 was less than half the 10.2 percent rate of increase between the fourth quarters of 1979 and 1980. This decline in inflation has moderated the earlier widespr...

This paper opens by expressing disappointment in the disparities between published estimations of the effectiveness of foreign aid to developing countries and effectiveness data which arise from the application of complex econometric methods. The new dilemmas for aid policy include the fact that aid increasingly devoted to human development at the expense of productive activity is unlikely to ...

Previous studies have shown that corrosion is very costly and has a major impact on the economies of industrial nations. A 1975 benchmark study by Battelle-NBS pointed out the severe impact on the U.S. economy. The estimates based on the Battelle-NBS study are that the cost of corrosion in the United States alone was approximately $70 billion, which was 4.2 percent of the gross national product...

A. WHAT IS INFLATION Inflation is one of the most frequently used terms in economic discussions, yet the concept is variously misconstrued. There are various schools of thought on inflation, but there is a consensus among economists that inflation is a continuous rise in the prices. Simply put, inflation depicts an economic situation where there is a general rise in the prices of goods and serv...