Pancreatic cancer represents a real clinical challenge. The aim of the SUDCAN collaborative study was to compare the net survival from pancreatic cancer between six European Latin countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland) and provide trends in net survival and dynamics of excess mortality rates up to 5 years after diagnosis. The data were extracted from the EUROCARE-5 ...

The United States is currently in the throes of fuel shortages and is facing a national debate on energy policy. Western Europe and Japan are dependent on supplies from the Middle, Eastern, and African nations. Collectively these developed nations, plus Canada and the United States, account for nearly three-quarters of the free world's petroleum consumption and their consumption is growing rapi...

Deregulation, privatization and shifting demand patterns in the airline industry, combined with the emergence of low-cost airlines and rising fuel prices have increased the competitive pressure on legacy airlines. Since alliances do not deliver sufficient benefits to counterbalance these trends, many airlines have engaged in mergers to seek for additional cost and revenue synergies. An extent b...

Since the Spanish government gradually eliminated the restrictions on foreign direct investments (FDI) by Spanish enterprises between 1977 and 1992, Spanish FDI reached important proportions, making Spain the twelfth home country for FDI in the world in 2000 by “stock”. The “position” or “stock” of Spanish FDI abroad grew from $1.931 billion in 1980, to $15.652 billion in 1990, and to $160.202 ...

Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in children younger than 3 years of age worldwide. New rotavirus vaccine candidates were required to confer early protection against the most common rotavirus serotypes and to be well tolerated and not associated with intussusception. RIX4414 is a human-attenuated G1(P8) oral rotavirus vaccine administered in two doses at approximatel...

OBJECTIVE Management of Graves' orbitopathy (GO) continues to be a challenge to clinical endocrinologists. In the last few years, surveys on GO management have succeeded in elucidating trends in Europe and Latin America. To determine how endocrinologists in China assess and treat patients with GO and gain insight into how to make the management of this disease more uniform and standardized. M...

The objective of the SALA (SpeechDat across Latin America) project is to record large SpeechDat-like databases to train telephone speech recognisers for any country in Latin America. The SALA consortium is composed by several European The Netherlands). This paper gives an overview of the project, introduces the definition of the databases, shows the dialectal distribution in the countries where...

BACKGROUND Within the field of neuropsychology, there is a significant lack of normative data for individuals in Latin America. OBJECTIVE To describe the methodology utilized to obtain the data and create norms for 10 Spanish-language neuropsychological tests administered in 11 Latin-American countries in a sample of 3,977 healthy individuals between the ages 18 and 90. METHOD The same data...