Where has all the old crust gone?

Coronavirus: Where Has All the Health Economics Gone?

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...

Where has all the money gone?

Where has all the stigma gone?

75 There has been a dramatic increase in recent years in the number of people diagnosed with mental disorder. For example, in USA the NIMH estimates that, in any given year, 25% of the population has a diagnosable mental disorder. A prospective study found that, by age 32yrs, 50% of the general population had qualified for an anxiety disorder, 40% for depression and 30% for alcohol abuse or dep...

Where Has All the Polarization Gone?

Circumnuclear tori are a central ingredient in the unification of the AGN phenomenon, but the conditions in the tori, the jet collimation, and the accretion mechanisms are still poorly constrained. Magnetic fields are involved in jet collimation and probably in feeding material into the nucleus, but those that are derived using equipartition are uncertain since equipartition conditions are not ...

Where has all the road kill gone?

Acknowledgments We thank Drs. T. Namikawa, Y. Matsuda, M. Mizutani, and Y. Atsumi for providing PNP roosters. Takashi Yoshimura is supported by the Funding Program for Next Generation World Leading Researchers (NEXT Program) initiated by the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) and Tsuyoshi Shimmura is supported for JSPS fellows 22-4942. WPIITbM is supported by the World Premier Int...