Maternal deaths drop by one-third from 1990 to 2008: a United Nations analysis John Wilmoth, Colin Mathers, Lale Say & Samuel Mills a Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America (USA). b Department of Health Statistics and Informatics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. c Department of Reproductive Health and Research, Worl...

www.philadelphiafed.org steadily in the postwar U.S.1 economy, indicating that the economy has become wealthier over time. The smooth rise of productivity shown in the figure might suggest that all firms partake equally in the nation’s productivity growth. Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, observed that anyone who thought so would complet...

Petra Reinhardt is working as Marketing Communications Manager with ABB Switzerland Ltd., Power Systems, Baden/Switzerland after having gained several years experience in substation automation and protection in Switzerland and South Africa where she has been working as sales engineer and key account manager. www.abb.com/substationautomation The high acceptance of IEC 61850 resulted in the imple...

Abstract We examine the effect of corruption control on efficiency and its implications for spillovers by a stochastic frontier model. Our dataset covers 102 countries from 1996 to 2014. find positive relationship between efficiency. If neighboring have difficulty in handling corruption, country would be negatively affected neighbors' through spillovers. then compare differences across three ti...

We present Simulink Design Verifier, a tool distributed by The MathWorks to help Simulink users in their verification and validation activities. Simulink Design Verifier automatically generates test input sequences for a model or proves properties about this model. The tool is based on automatic theorem proving and model-checking techniques and aims at a high level of integration with Simulink ...

This third issue of Evolutionary Applications features a wide range of topics, including evolutionary causes of invasiveness (Lee and Gelembiuk 2008), human sexual dimorphism (Crespi 2008), estimation of effective population size (Nomura 2008), genetic connectivity and habitat restoration (Raeymaekers et al. 2008), maize adaptation (Mercer et al. 2008), fitness consequences of wild-farm salmon ...

In Saudi Arabia, CRC incidence, morbidity and related mortality have been steadily increasing over the past twenty years (Ibrahim et al., 2008). There were 904 new cases of CRC accounting for 10.2 % of all newly diagnosed cancer patients in 2008 (Bazarbashi et al., 2008). This cancer ranks first among males and third among female population (male to female ratio of 112:100) with median age at d...

P. Reimer, V. Avrigeanu, A. J. M. Plompen,* and S. M. Qaim European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg, B-2440 Geel, Belgium Institut für Nuklearchemie, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany ‘‘Horia Hulubei’’ National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O. Box MG-6, 76900 Bucharest, Romania ~Received 5 ...

by Quang Duy Trinh, Ngan Thi Kim Pham, Bao Quoc Lam, Thoa Phan Kim Le, Khanh Huu Truong, Thinh Quoc Le, Hung Thanh Vo, Thuong Chi Tang, Tuan Manh Ha, Yasuyuki Izumi, Masashi Mizuguchi, Satoshi Hayakawa, and Hiroshi Ushijima Department of Developmental Medical Sciences, Institute of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Japan Children’s Hospital 1, Ho Chi Mi...