A new peer-reviewed study in England shows that children have an increased danger of getting cancer if they live within three to five kilometers (2 to 3 miles) of certain kinds of industrial facilities.[1] The study, by E.G. Knox and E.A. Gilman, finds that the danger is greatest within a few hundred yards of pollution sources and tapers off with distance. The incidence of childhood cancers per...

This paper explores the life insurance holdings from a general equilibrium perspective. Drawing on the data explored in Chambers, Schlagenhauf, and Young (2003), we calibrate an overlapping generations lifecycle economy with incomplete asset markets to match facts regarding the uncertainty of income and demographics. We then explore the implications for life insurance demand. We find that the a...

Most of the methods described for the determination of acetoin and biacetyl are based on the original Lemoigne-van Niel procedure (1, 2), which depends upon the formation of insoluble nickel dimethylglyoxime when biacetyl is treated with hydroxylamine in the presence of a nickel salt; acetoin is similarly determined after oxidation to biacetyl by heating with ferric chloride. In a recent modifi...

1 Two important problems Clustering of disease: PART 1  Development of Space-time models  Modelling vs Testing  Hidden process models  Example from Scotland  Future directions Relative risk change detection: PART 2  What is meant by surveillance  Statistical aspects of surveillance  Bayesian models space-time risk estimation  discussion 2 Clustering of disease What is a cluster ?  No ...

P in hatchability have been studied by a large number of workers including Pearl, Dunn, Hutt, Jull, Warren, Waters, Byerly and Dove as well as many others, reported in Jull's Poultry Breeding, 1932. Under uniform conditions of incubation, the greater proportion of evidence indicates that the genetic makeup of the female and of her mate largely determine the percentage of fertile eggs that will ...

We present new cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy results from the combined analysis of the three flights of the first Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM1). This balloon-borne bolometric instrument measured about 10 square degrees of sky at half-degree resolution in 4 frequency bands from 5.2 cm to 20 cm with a high signal-to-noise ratio. Here we present an overview of our anal...

Babak A. Kachoei, Ronald J. Knox, Didier Uthuza, Simon Levy, Leonard K. Kaczmarek, and Neil S. Magoski 1 Department of Physiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada; and Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02118, USA present address: Department of Lead Discovery & Prof...

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Gaming and simulation may be two of the most powerful tools available to those who design online instruction because they engage and challenge the learner in a very personal way. In order to succeed in simulation and gaming, the learner must work at a higher cognitive level than the recognition and recall that often succeeds in the traditional classroom. Instead, the learner must become immerse...

Today, many types of libraries provide interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery services. With a developing increase in the need for these services, even libraries that typically have not provided them in the past have evolved to accommodate their users. Author Emily Knox states in the preface that " interlibrary loan and document delivery services are critical to today's library service "...