Do economic considerations shape attitudes toward immigration? In this article, we consider the relationship between economic interests and immigration preferences by examining how developments in individuals’ sectors of employment affect these views. Using survey data across European countries from 2002 to 2009 and employing new measures of industry-level exposure to immigration, we find that ...

Volume 31, Number 1, January/February 1999 termination using methotrexate started to appear in both the medical and popular literature.3 Interest in this method grew rapidly within the community of abortion providers. In spring 1996, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) devoted its annual postgraduate symposium to medical abortion, including both mifepristone and methotrexate, and the Planned...

1Faculty of Medicine; 2Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. 3Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. 4Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom. ABSTRACT A latex agglutination test to detect urinary antigens for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was studied. In 204 patients with su...

35.1 Preliminaries This chapter discusses how linguistic expressions may change their meaning over time. Actually the scope is a bit more limited than that, in the sense that here we will only see examples of how words  e.g. silly, very  change their meaning. The term 'linguistic expressions' includes words, but also larger grammatical constructions. Grammatical constructions  e.g. what in p...

ITE JOURNAL / FEBRUARY 2001 ALL OVER THE WORLD, ROAD safety appears to be considered a problem with many (social) consequences. Everywhere in the world people are trying to improve road safety. Yet, relevant literature contains many indications that road safety improvements are moving slowly. Several causes for this are given. First, the political priority is relatively low. Second, it is not w...

Objective: To synthesize the substance-dependence researches focusing on rehab treatment phase. Material and Method: Several criteria were used to select studies for meta analysis. Firstly, the research must have focused on the rehab period on the substance-dependence treatment, secondly, only quantitative researches that used statistics to calculate effect sizes were selected, and thirdly, all...

Photochemical uncaging of bio-active molecules was introduced in 1977, but since then, there has been no substantial improvement in the properties of generic caging chromophores. We have developed a new chromophore, nitrodibenzofuran (NDBF) for ultra-efficient uncaging of second messengers inside cells. Photolysis of a NDBF derivative of EGTA (caged calcium) is about 16–160 times more efficient...