Current Mortality Releases

1 Current Mortality Rates on

Results from the USDA:APHIS:VS National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) Dairy 2002 survey reported that approximately 5% of dairy cows die, on-farm, across the country each year. This is a very high death rate compared with that of beef cows or feedlot animals, where annual death rates were estimated at 1 to1.5%. In the NAHMS survey unknown reasons accounted for the largest percentage (...

Responsible Data Releases

Data releases to the public should ensure the privacy of individuals involved in the data. Several privacy mechanisms have been proposed in the literature. One such technique is that of data anonymization. For example, synthetic data sets are generated and released. In this paper we analyze the privacy aspects of synthetic data sets. In particular, we introduce a natural notion of privacy and e...

Current neurological mortality rates in infectious endocarditis.

Current trends in Irish perinatal mortality.

This was a retrospective review of normally formed perinatal deaths among 176,620 births at the National Maternity Hospital (1984-2007). Prelabor stillbirths were categorised by presumed cause of death including unexplained, intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), placental abruption, red cell alloimmunisation (RCA) and deaths related to prematurity. Peripartum deaths included intrapartum and f...

Current differential infantile mortality, England and Wales.

A recent publication (Taylor, 1954) reviewed the decline of infantile mortality in England and Wales during the past half-century from a diagnostic viewpoint in as far as it is possible to do so by recourse to official sources. The outcome was a strong presumption in favour of the view that there is no likelihood ofstabilization atthe presentlevel, since the tempo of decline is still steep. One...