50 years of asthma: UK trends from 1955 to 2004

50 years of asthma: UK trends from 1955 to 2004.

Trends in asthma indicators from population surveys (prevalence) and routine statistics (primary care, prescriptions, hospital admissions and mortality) in the UK were reviewed from 1955 to 2004. The prevalence of asthma increased in children by 2 to 3-fold, but may have flattened or even fallen recently. Current trends in adult prevalence are flat. The prevalence of a life-time diagnosis of as...

50 Years Late: Repeating Miller-nicely 1955

Portions of the procedure and analysis of the wide-band noise masking experiment in Miller-Nicely’s 1955 JASA paper (MN55) was repeated and a new set of data was collected in 2005. This classic paper is a commonly referenced work in which confusion matrices were collected for a set of consonant-vowels (CVs). From an analysis of the original results, they made conclusions about the robustness of...

2004 survey of physicians 50 to 65 years old.

From DNA to Genomes in 50 Years

quate to express the impact that these advances have Even in their wildest dreams, it seems unlikely that back had on science as we now know it. The Royal Society in 1953 Watson and Crick could have imagined how far meeting in London showcased the current status of DNA DNA science would develop in 50 years. We’ve come research. David Sherratt and Steve West organized a all the way from their in...

Dynamic Spatiotemporal Trends of Dengue Transmission in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1955–2004

BACKGROUND Dengue fever (DF) is one of the most important emerging arboviral human diseases. Globally, DF incidence has increased by 30-fold over the last fifty years, and the geographic range of the virus and its vectors has expanded. The disease is now endemic in more than 120 countries in tropical and subtropical parts of the world. This study examines the spatiotemporal trends of DF transmi...