Abstract Background The cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden among patients with oesophageal cancer (EC) treated curative intent is unclear. Purpose To determine CVD incidence and all-cause mortality in EC. Material methods Danish national health registries were used to identify diagnosed primary EC between 2008 2018. Each patient was matched ten individuals from the general population. endpoint...

Given a game and a dynamics on the space of strategies it is possible to associate to any component of Nash equilibria, an integer, this is the index, see Ritzberger (1994). This number gives useful information on the equilibrium set and in particular on its stability properties under the given dynamics. We prove that indices of components always coincide with their local degrees for the projec...

This paper studies the switching of trading strategies and its effect on the market volatility in a continuous double auction market. We describe the behavior when some uninformed agents, who we call switchers, decide whether or not to pay for information before they trade. By paying for the information they behave as informed traders. First we verify that our model is able to reproduce some of...

We consider the robustness of extensive form mechanisms to deviations from common knowledge about the state of nature, which we refer to as information perturbations. First, we show that even under arbitrarily small information perturbations the Moore-Repullo mechanism does not yield (even approximately) truthful revelation and that in addition the mechanism has sequential equilibria with undes...

In this article we investigate the effect of product market regulation on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The results indicate that regulations that restrict competition slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across borders and new technologies are incorporated into the production process. This effect is reflected in cross-co...

Disoriented chiral condensates (DCC) were recently proposed as potential signatures for chiral symmetry restoration [1,2, 3,4]. In the theory of DCC formation, the explicit chiral symmetry breaking which occurs during the phase transition from a plasma phase, where all masses are zero, to normal nuclear matter, where particles have mass, is accompanied by the formation of extended domains in wh...

Robert J. Wenthold (Bob) grew up on a farm outside of Cresco, Iowa, a small town near the Minnesota border. Anyone who knew Bob would acknowledge that he never lost the midwestern work ethic gained during his formative years. After high school, Bob left the farm and went to Loras College, a small liberal arts college in Dubuque, Iowa. Following the completion of his undergraduate degree, he pur...

Much to Learn! In the preinsulin era, pregnancy in a diabetic mother had a bleak outcome for both the mother and the baby. Availability of insulin and modern methods of treatment improved the survival of these babies, but they appear to be at increased risk of obesity and diabetes (1–3). Spread of the diabetes pandemic to the young means there is now a growing epidemic of gestational diabetes m...