BACKGROUND Evidence for the effects of marital status and marital status change on physical health is equivocal. METHOD Structural equation models examined whether marital status predicted physical health. Six groups were examined simultaneously: married (M); widowed (W); divorced (D); never married (NM); newly widowed (NW); and newly divorced (ND). There were four annual measures (T1-T4). Bo...

We wish to thank Professor John Dunning for his comments and continuous encouragement. We also thank three anonymous referees for their very insightful and helpful comments on earlier drafts. The work described in this paper was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Project No. CUHK4052/99H). This study examined several h...

We present the extraction and processing of the IUE Low Dispersion spectra within the framework of the ESA " IUE Newly Extracted Spectra " (INES) System. Weak points of SWET, the optimal extraction implementation to produce the NEWSIPS output products (extracted spectra) are discussed, and the procedures implemented in INES to solve these problems are outlined. The more relevant modifications a...

hodgkin lymphoma (hl) accounts for about 10% of all childhood cancers. five-year survival rates with modern therapies are now approaching >90-95% as a consequence of its significant sensitivity to both chemotherapy and radiation. the current challenge is to determine how much therapy is needed to improve survival and how to adapt treatment to the patient to prevent these long term toxicities. t...

Available online 2 October 2013 This paper is concerned with the innovation financing policies for entrepreneurial development of Singapore and Taiwan, the first tier countries/newly industrializing economies (NIEs) in Asia. In particular, the study focuses on the venture capital and capital market funding policies. The study has shown that the government intervention model is successful in Sin...

Throughout the OECD, the operations of labour markets in the 1970s and 1980s have produced outcomes unfavourable to labour in general and unskilled labour in particular. In the US, this has been reflected in declining real wages, with a slight increase in the unemployment rate. In other countries, it has been reflected in a slowdown in real wages growth and a severe increase in unemployment. At...

newly industrializing economies (NIEs) is vast, rich, and highly contentious. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the literature on industrial pollution management in these economies. (These NIEs include China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan1, Thailand, and Singapore.) To begin with, there are relatively few studies of industrial pollution management in the East Asia...

Since the realization over a decade ago (Owen et aI., 1967) that the brain of the human adult can function, apparently normally, when up to two­ thirds of the substrates supplied are ketone bodies rather than glucose, consideration of substrate utili­ zation has to take into account which substrates are being used, as well as how much of each is being used. These questions have particular relev...

In this article, we propose an axiomatic system for fuzzy “cardinality” measures (referred to as fuzzy c-measures for short) assigning to each finite fuzzy set a generalized cardinal that expresses the number of elements that the fuzzy set contains. The system generalizes an axiomatic system introduced by J. Casasnovas and J. Torrens (2003). We show that each fuzzy c-measure is determined by tw...

BACKGROUND Perinatal stress may programme overweight and obesity. We examined whether maternal pre- and post-natal bereavement was associated with overweight and obesity in young men. METHODS A cohort study was conducted including 119,908 men born from 1976 to 1993 and examined for military service between 2006 and 2011. Among them, 4,813 conscripts were born to mothers bereaved by death of a...