BACKGROUND Surveillance of sexually transmissible infections (STI)s is important to assess the disease burden in the population and to monitor and evaluate changes in trends over time. Routinely collected surveillance data in New South Wales are reliant on case reporting, which for many infections is an inadequate mechanism for capturing incidence and prevalence. Increasing rates of chlamydia o...

Millar (1961), in his study of gastro-intestinal cancer in Montgomeryshire, noted an increased frequency of oesophageal and gastric cancer but not of colonic and rectal cancer in North Wales. The present study is an extension of one previously reported which connected the high frequency of gastric cancer in Wales (Ashley and Davies, 1966a) with the genetic constitution of the Welsh people. It d...

1Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Aged Care, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 2Department of Aged Care, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 3Laboratory of Ageing and Pharmacology, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales...

This paper considers the relative healthcare expenditure needs of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It applies the NHS weighted capitation formula – used to allocate resources to English Primary Care Trusts – to Health Boards in Wales and Scotland and Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland. According to this formula, per capita healthcare expenditure need in Wales is 16%...

Concepts Concrete Concepts Example Motivation Conclusion and Perspectives Andreas Metzger – SAM 2002 – Aberystwyth, Wales – June, 2002 1 Motivation 1 Application of Prototyping Final System Idea Validation (Product Test) Validation (Prototype Test) Verification (e.g. Inspection) Verification (Prototype Test) Prototype Creation Requirements Specification Problem Description System Prototype Prob...

Stacy L. Littlechild, Robert D. Young, Bruce Caterson, Hideyuki Yoshida, Maya Yamazaki, Kenji Sakimura, Andrew J. Quantock, and Tomoya O. Akama Structural Biophysics Group, School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, Uni...

The incidence and the clinical course of patients suffering from sickle-cell syndrome (Hb SS; Hb SC; Hb S thal) in England and Wales are not known. In 1979 an ad hoc committee was formed to investigate these problems. Initially, a questionnaire was sent to 227 haematologists in England and Wales to determine the number of cases in these countries. The replies have indicated that 1367 cases were...

In the United Kingdom, European badgers Meles meles are a protected species and an important wildlife reservoir of bovine tuberculosis. We conducted a survey of badger dens (main setts) in 1614 1 km squares across England and Wales, between November 2011 and March 2013. Using main setts as a proxy for badger social groups, the estimated mean density of badger social groups in England and Wales ...

In the Australian state of New South Wales judges have sat under the coat of arms of the British monarchy since the nineteenth century (figure 1). Having been accustomed to seeing this symbol over the course of many years doing research in New South Wales courtrooms I was surprised to notice, during some research into the physical form of courts in 2000, that a different coat of arms had appear...

For 1980 Singapore was found to have overall a more favourable birthweight distribution than England and Wales. The proportion of very low birthweight babies (less than 1500 g) and heavy babies (3500 g and over) was 0.4% and 18.5% in Singapore and 0.7% and 34.9% in England and Wales for live births, and 0.6% and 18.5% against 0.9% and 34.7% for total births. However, for low birthweight (less t...