Can Differences in Nations' Rule of Law be Explained by Religion?

Differences in Coronary Mortalit Can Be Explained

Background. For decades, the coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rate has been four or more times higher in Finland than in France despite comparable intakes of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat. A potential answer to this paradox is provided by this study of 40 countries and the analyses of other nutrients in the diets besides cholesterol and saturated fat. Medhds and Resuls. CHD death ...

Original contribution Can gender differences in the prevalence of mental disorders be explained by sociodemographic factors?

Background and aims: Epidemiological studies throughout the world consistently reported higher rates of depression and anxiety disorders in women, whereas men consistently show higher rates of substance and antisocial disorders. The present study examined factors potentially contributing to these gender differences using general population data. Methods: The sample was drawn from population reg...

Can Price Dispersion in Online Markets be Explained by Differences in e-Tailer Service Quality?

It has been hypothesized that the online medium and the Internet lower search costs and that electronic markets are more competitive than conventional markets. This suggests that price dispersion--the distribution of prices of an item indicated by measures such as range and standard deviation—of an item with the same measured characteristics across sellers of the item at a given point in time f...

Religion in Taiwan How can religion without texts be transmitted ?

How much in the Universe can be explained by geometry ?

The paper uses geometrical arguments to derive equations with relevance for cosmology; 5-dimensional spacetime is assumed because it has been shown in other works to provide a setting for significant unification of different areas of physics. Monogenic functions, which zero the vector derivative are shown to effectively model electrodynamics and relativistic dynamics if one allows for space cur...