Record Status This is a critical abstract of an economic evaluation that meets the criteria for inclusion on NHS EED. Each abstract contains a brief summary of the methods, the results and conclusions followed by a detailed critical assessment on the reliability of the study and the conclusions drawn. Health technology Several statin monotherapies and combination therapies of statin with ezetim...

Evolutionary role of the separation into two sexes from a cyberneticist’s point of view. [I translated this 1965 article from Russian ”Nauka i Zhizn” (Science and Life) in 1988. In a popular form, the article puts forward several useful ideas not all of which even today are necessarily well known or widely accepted. Boris Lubachevsky,

Recent progress in understanding the structure of cosmological singularities is reviewed. The well-known picture due to Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifschitz (BKL) is summarized briefly and it is discussed what existing analytical and numerical results have to tell us about the validity of this picture. If the BKL description is correct then most cosmological singularities are complicated. Howev...

Fodder yield and quality must be improved for sustainable livestock production. A lack of or low application phosphorus (P) potassium are among the leading constraints lower fodder sorghum [most cultivated crop during kharif season (crop cultivation in summer harvesting winter] Aridisol Pakistan. Therefore, this two-year field study evaluated role different P K levels on cultivar ‘Ijar-2002’ pl...

Five crossbred wethers (58 kg) fitted with cannulas in the rumen, duodenum, and ileum were used in a 5 x 5 Latin square design to study effects of feeding combinations of alkaline hydrogen peroxide-treated wheat straw (AHP-WS) and alfalfa hay at restricted intakes on site and extent of nutrient digestion. Additionally, flows and disappearance of N and amino acids (AA) in the small intestine wer...