President's Report for Volume 57

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

MDH volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

A journal devoted to the history of the sciences and of health Published by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos is a quarterly journal that features original articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, as approved by its Editorial Board and in ad hoc peer reviewers. Its departments include original articles and essays, research notes, doc...

MDH volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

http://journals.cambridge.org/bjh This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. Recent special issues include history of science sources available on the internet, book history and the sciences. BJHS papers make imp...

SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences SUBJECT INDEX TO VOLUME 57 ( 2014

Special Focus on Advanced Science and Technology for Future Cybermatics Editor’s note ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 030100 HuanSheng NING, JianHua MA, Laurence T. YANG, WeiFeng LÜ, XinDong WU, Victor C. M. LEUNG, Vincenzo PIURI Tes...

Underwriting the presidents.

The United States has had 43 presidents. We examined whether they survive significantly longer or shorter than their contemporaries. We found that survival was better for presidents elected in the 1789-1841 and 1933-2001 periods (SMRs of 0.7 and 0.6, respectively), but worse for those elected in 1845-1929 (SMR = 2.9). We also found increased mortality during the years lived in office (SMR = 1.4...