U.S. cancer trends are increasingly bleak. There are two ways to judge cancer trends: by incidence rates and by death rates. Cancer incidence refers to the number of new cases of cancer per 100,000 population, ageadjusted. Similarly, the cancer death rate is the number of cancer deaths per 100,000 population, age-adjusted. The purpose of adjusting for age is to eliminate trends that might occur...

This study examines Cambodia’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on Rights Child (CRC). Corpus analysis civil society organisations’ submissions to Universal Periodic Review reveals a raft CRC violations, including sexual abuse, trafficking and child labour. is due political bureaucratic failings. The wider significance this lies in underlining how disjuncture between state underp...

As an ancient microbe, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is an extremely successful pathogen. MTB causes more deaths worldwide now than at any previous time in history as the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately one-third of the world’s population (roughly 2 billion total) is infected with MTB [1]. MTB is a major health threat, causing 9 million new infections and between...

46 INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Winter 2013 Volume 5 Issue 4 A future without antibiotics is deemed to be bleak, if bacteria continue to develop new resistance mechanisms and the pharmaceutical industry have to produce novel classes of antibiotics at the existing rate. Things may change, though. Recently, a UK-based company announced a major collaboration in the fight against resistanc...

The conventional view of the impact of terrorism on democracy in America since 9/11 is bleak. Pundits in the mass media, candidates on the campaign trail, and scholarly experts portray the United States as a fearful nation whose people are worried about the next terrorist attack and are willing to sacrifice civil liberties at home and support costly and aggressive policies abroad (Ackerman 2007...

Ð Although barriers to international trade were removed during the 1990s, log prices remain ineciently low in Ecuador. Oligopsonistic conditions, which prevailed in the forestry sector under protectionism, have not been relieved by increased competition. The problem is that new investment is discouraged by weak property rights, corruption, and dated legislation that hinders forest dwellersÕ pa...

Two decades ago, Frankel (1979) reported empirical results favoring the Dornbusch (1976) overshooting model. Despite an important theoretical and empirical critique by Driskill and Sheffrin (1981), Frankel’s classic empirical results spawned a huge literature. We attempt to replicate the Frankel and the Driskill and Sheffrin results. We also offer an update and an extended critique of their wor...

Despite a decline in births, adolescent pregnancy continues to be a concern for parents, policymakers, and social service providers. Although the future of young mothers in general has been proven to be bleak, some research suggests that the negative impact of adolescent pregnancy is less severe in African American families. Hypotheses have been formulated in prior literature to explain this ph...