The presence of Aedes aegypti in Malaya has been noted very early by Leicester (1908) and Stanton (l914).One of the earliest survey carried out on the species was by Reid (1954).Macdonald(1965a) submitted a paper dealing extensively with the distribution and dispersal of the species in Malaya. At that time, the interest in Ae. aegypti centered on it being a potential vector of yellow fever in M...

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of three conditions of acute severe maternal morbidity in selected regions in nine European countries. DESIGN A population-based questionnaire survey. SETTING Eleven regions in nine countries of Europe. POPULATION All the pregnant women in each region who had delivered during the period covered by the study. METHODS Standard definitions of three sever...

To date, hitting sabermetrics have lagged behind pitching metrics in the removal of luck. While most sabermetricians recognize the pervasive impacts that batting average on balls in play (BABIP) can have on a hitter’s batting line, attempts to precisely adjust players’ “triple slash,” OPS, or weighted on-base average (wOBA) for luck remain relatively uncommon. Thus, under existing metrics, luck...