BACKGROUND Tobacco related cancers (TRC) account for major share of all cancers and updated of incidence data are helpful in policy changes. The aim was to present an update of TRCs on age-adjusted incidence data and corresponding lifetime risk of developing TRC for different regions of the country. METHODS The data for this study were obtained from published reports of 25 population-based ca...

We determined the centroid moment tensor (CMT) solutions of earthquakes that occurred along the North Anatolian fault (NAF) beneath the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, using data obtained from Turkey’s broadband seismograph network. The CMT solution of the 2014 Aegean Sea earthquake (Mw 6.9) represents a strike-slip fault, consistent with the geometry of the NAF, and the source-time function...

In the framework of the ChArMEx (the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment; http://charmex.lsce.ipsl.fr/) program, the seasonal variability of the aerosol optical, microphysical and radiative properties derived from AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network; http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/) is examined in two regional background insular sites in the western Mediterranean Basin: Ersa (Corsica Island, ...

Human settlement and migrations along sides of Bay-of-Bengal have played a vital role in shaping the genetic landscape of Bangladesh, Eastern India and Southeast Asia. Bangladesh and Northeast India form the vital land bridge between the South and Southeast Asia. To reconstruct the population history of this region and to see whether this diverse region geographically acted as a corridor or bar...

BACKGROUND Circulatory system diseases are the first cause of death in Brazil. OBJECTIVE To analyze the evolution of mortality caused by heart failure, by ischemic heart diseases and by ill-defined causes, as well as their possible relations, in Brazil and in the geoeconomic regions of the country (North, Northeast, Center-West, South and Southeast), from 1996 to 2011. METHODS Data were obt...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of obesity and overweight among children and adolescents from Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil. METHODS Data was collected form Life Pattern Research conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 1997. A sample of 3,317 children and 3,943 adolescents was studied according age groups. Overweight (adolescents) and obesity (...

This paper reports on Suzaku results concerning the northeast shell of RCW 86. With both spatial and spectral analyses, we separated the X-rays into three distinct components: low (kTe ∼0.3 keV) and high (kTe ∼1.8 keV) temperature plasmas and a non-thermal component, and discovered that their spatial distributions are different from each other. The low-temperature plasma is dominated at the eas...

The moose is Minnesota’s largest wild animal. In December 2012 moose were proposed as a species of special concern under Minnesota law due to their population decline (Baker, 2012). Time series analysis of the northeast Minnesota moose population estimates conducted by Lenarz (2012) found a significant decline between 2005 and 2012. Moose habitat lacks highly specific requirements, depending mo...

plex networks are pervasive in social and physical sciences. Three recent global-scale contagions that have received attention in the media as well as academic circles are (1) current and past financial contagions (Desai 2003),1 (2) failure of the coupled infrastructure system caused by power-grid failure, for example, the Northeast blackout of 2003,2 and (3) potential pandemics caused by influ...

Canada is by no means inundated by scholarship surrounding the history of people with mental health problems or intellectual disabilities. Despite the existence of some fi ne essays and treatises on narrower topics, as the Editors of this excellent collection opine, “there have been very few attempts at national synthesis.”1 Worse still, from the perspective of the potential of research to fost...