Lav kroppsmasseindeks og økt risiko for hjerteinfarkt

Glucose intolerance and its relation to cardiovascular risk factors among Greenland Inuit. The Greenland Population Study.

Tidligere har det været en generel opfattelse at forekomsten af type 2 diabetes var lav blandt grønlændere, men nyere studier fra Canada og Alaska har vist, at diabetes er tiltagende hyppigt forekommende hos inuit. Dette var baggrunden for at påbegynde befolkningsundersøgelsen i Grønland, B99, som var den første undersøgelse, hvor alle deltagere blev undersøgt ved hjælp af en oral glukose-belas...

Software-Infrastrukturen für das Risiko- und Katastrophenmanagement

Neben der wichtigen Klärung der fachlichen Abstimmung in allen Phasen des Risikound Katastrophenmanagements nimmt die Bereitstellung einer geeigneten Software-Infrastruktur eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle ein. Der Beitrag betrachtet diese Anforderungen aus der Sicht der Informatik an Hand der Konzeption eines Web-Portals zur Kernreaktor-Fernüberwachung (KFÜ) und des EU-Projekts ORCHESTRA beschr...

Optimal Policy in OG Models

In the present paper general stationary overlapping generations economies with many commodities in every period and many different consumers in every generation are considered. A government maximizes a utilitarian social welfare function, which is the sum of weighted averages of utilities for generations, through fiscal policy, i.e., monetary transfers and taxes. Situations both with and withou...

Risiko und Nutzen von Wissensschnittstellen - Ein Gestaltungsansatz

Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt

Since 1950 or so, placebos and their effect have generated a considerable interest in certain medical communities, in particular among psychiatrists and the designers of clinical trials, yet the only significant external study of this phenomenon to appear has been Howard Brody's doctoral investigation, Placebos and the philosophy ofmedicine, published in 1980. In 1997, however, three book-lengt...