When a New York Times reporter asked George Mallory (1886–1924) why he wanted to ascend Mt Everest, the peak that would eventually take climber's life, replied, “Because it's there.” Other mountaineers have given their own reasons for risks they take: test themselves limit, find out who really are, be surrounded by beauty, or as Alan Arnette declared, “to see sun rise before it does”. In 1963, ...

Google Trends data are a popular source for research, but raw frequency-inconsistent: daily fail to capture long-run trends. This issue has gone unnoticed in the literature. In addition, sampling noise can be substantial. We develop procedure (available an R-package), which solves both issues at once. apply this construct long-run, frequency-consistent economic indices three German-speaking cou...

Abstract Early modernists have recognized the importance of propaganda and public opinion in Scotland after development print culture Reformation. Consequently, there is an impression that these sixteenth-century developments were new features political life. Yet role rumour slander fifteenth-century has gone unnoticed, despite numerous references contemporary records. Several acts violence thr...

Kenya belongs to a high incidence region known as Africa's esophageal cancer (EC) corridor. It has one of the highest incidence rates of EC worldwide, but research on EC in Kenya has gone highly unnoticed. EC in Kenya is unique in its high percentage of young cases (< 30 years of age). In this review, we show the current status of EC in the country. We mainly focus on significant risk factors s...