OBJECTIVES To identify consumer information needs about paracetamol, the most commonly used analgesic and antipyretic worldwide. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of medicines questions from the public. SETTING Australian consumer medicines call centre. PARTICIPANTS Callers to National Prescribing Service Medicines Line between September 2002 and June 2010 (n=123 217). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES...

Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) occurs on both sides of the north Atlantic and has traditionally been grouped into 5 spawning components, some of which were thought to be isolated natal homing stocks. Previous studies have provided no evidence for cross Atlantic migration and no or weak support for isolated spawning components within either side of the North Atlantic. We question the de-fa...

A. In [6], M. E. Gurtin and R. C. MacCamy investigated a non-linear agestructured population dynamical model, which served as one of the basic non-linear population dynamical models in the last three decades. They described a characteristic equation but they did not use it to discuss stability of equilibria of the system in certain special cases. In a recent paper [4] M. Farkas deduced a...

OBJECTIVE Tooth decay is one of the most common oral infections observed in skeletal assemblages. Sex differentials in caries frequency are commonly examined, with most studies finding that females tend to have a higher frequency of carious lesions (caries) compared to males. Less research has examined differences in caries between males and females with respect to age in past populations. Find...

OBJECTIVE To study the demographic characteristics of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and changes in incidence over time. METHODS Prospective collection of neurophysiological and clinical data on all patients presenting to the subregional department of clinical neurophysiology in Canterbury, UK, from 1992 to 2001 and to the electromyography clinic in St Luke's Hospital, Huddersfield, UK,...

We present first results from an HST/ACS imaging survey of stars and star clusters in five nearby spiral galaxies. This contribution concentrates on NGC 1313, a highly distorted late-type barred spiral. We compare the field star and cluster formation histories in our three ACS pointings for this galaxy. In one pointing, both the cluster and field star age distributions show clear evidence for a...

OBJECTIVE We tested the a priori hypothesis that older participants differ in rates of decline on cognitive outcomes compared with younger participants, and examined the potential effect of age distributions on individual clinical trial outcomes. METHODS From a meta-database of 18 studies from the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, we in...