Is the increase in the share of the older population in Germany inevitably connected with a parallel increase in frail people? We analyse the development of care need in West and East Germany between 1991 and 2003 on the basis of longitudinal data from the German SocioEconomic panel. A lower transition risk into care need for men exists in the period 1998-2003 as compared to the period 1991-199...

In this paper, I examine differentials in under-five mortality by place of residence for the state of São Paulo, Brazil. I examine differentials between urban and rural areas, and by location within urban areas, over a 21-year period between 1970 and 1991. I also investigate economic inequalities in under-five mortality for urban areas. For São Paulo, much of the entire infant and child mortali...

The article examines the role and place of Visegrad Group countries, as well Central European region a whole, in foreign policy planning Russia 1991–2018. Based on historical genetic method to create holistic image region’s perception, analyzes step-by-step changes that have occurred minds highest political leadership public relation it since times USSR (1968–1985, 1985–1991, 1991–1995, 1996–19...

the purpose of this study is finding the sensitivity of central bank independence measurements on its impact on inflation in iran. to this aim different measurements of the central bank independence were calculated using the indices of grilli et al. (1991), cukierman et al. (1992), mathew (2006) and dumiter (2009) for the period 1961-2012 . although results of correlation between cbi index and ...

this paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic instability and private investment of the iranian economy. the study uses a trivariate var(2)-garch(1,1)-in-mean with diagonal bekk approach to proxied inflation and exchange rate uncertainties as the main indicators of macroeconomic instability. moreover, bounds testing approach to level relationship applied to investigate the long...

This study presents the summary of historical exposures, measurement practice and evolution of the recording of the individual doses of medical radiation workers during 1950-2003 in Lithuania. The aim of this study is to present occupational exposure of medical radiation workers in Lithuania since the earliest appearance period. Data from publications have been used for the earliest two periods...

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the psychological refractory period (PRP), the delay in the response to the second of two tasks occurring in immediate succession. Our results were consistent with prior work on the PRP in that when two visual-manual tasks were presented within 100 ms of each other, the second response was delayed on the order of 500 ms, compar...

It has been argued that the psychological refractory period (PRP) effect is eliminated with two ideomotor compatible tasks when instructions stress fast and simultaneous responding. Three experiments were conducted to test this hypothesis. In all experiments, Task 1 required spatially compatible manual responses (left or right) to the direction of an arrow, and Task 2 required saying the name o...

In this paper we discuss general properties of geodesic surfaces that are (locally) biLipschitz homogeneous. In particular, we prove that they are locally doubling and there exists a special doubling measure analogous to the Haar measure for locally compact groups.

We show that the string bit model suffers from doubling in the fermionic sector. The doubling leads to strong violation of supersymmetry in the limit N → ∞. Since there is an exact correspondence between string bits and the algebra of BMN operators even at finite N , doubling is expected also on the side of super-Yang–Mills theory. We discuss the origin of the doubling in the BMN sector.