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Sir Richard Doll, Epidemiologist – a Personal Reminiscence with a Selected Bibliography
British Journal of Cancer (2005) 93, 963 – 966 & 2005 Cancer Research UK All rights reserved 0007 – 0920/05 $30.00 www.bjcancer.com Obituary Sir Richard Doll, epidemiologist – a personal reminiscence with a selected bibliography The death of Richard Doll on 24 July 2005 at the age of 92 after a short illness ended an extraordinarily productive life in science for which he received widespread recognition, including Fellowship of The Royal Society (1966), Knighthood (1971), Companionship of Honour (1996), and many honorary degrees and prizes. He is unique, however, in having seen both universal acceptance of his work demonstrating smoking as the main cause of the most common fatal cancer in the world and the relative success of strategies to reduce the prevalence of the habit. In 1950, 80% of the men in Britain smoked but this has now declined to less than 30%. Richard Doll qualified in medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital in 1937, but his epidemiological career began after service in the Second World War when he worked with Francis Avery Jones at the Central Middlesex Hospital on occupational factors in the aetiology of peptic ulceration. The completeness of Doll’s tracing of previously surveyed men so impressed Tony Bradford Hill that he offered him a post in the MRC Statistical Research Unit to investigate the causes of lung cancer. For the representations of Percy Stocks (Chief Medical Officer to the Registrar General) and Sir Ernest Kennaway had prevailed against the then commonly held view that the marked rise in lung cancer deaths in Britain since 1900 was due only to improved diagnosis. -
The Axis and Allied Maritime Operations Around Southern Africa, 1939-1945
THE AXIS AND ALLIED MARITIME OPERATIONS AROUND SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1939-1945 Evert Philippus Kleynhans Dissertation presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Military Science (Military History) in the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University Supervisor: Prof I.J. van der Waag Co-supervisor: Dr E.K. Fedorowich December 2018 Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za DECLARATION By submitting this dissertation electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the sole author thereof (save to the extent explicitly otherwise stated), that reproduction and publication thereof by Stellenbosch University will not infringe any third party rights and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification. Date: December 2018 Copyright © 2018 Stellenbosch University All rights reserved Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za Abstract The majority of academic and popular studies on the South African participation in the Second World War historically focus on the military operations of the Union Defence Force in East Africa, North Africa, Madagascar and Italy. Recently, there has been a renewed drive to study the South African participation from a more general war and society approach. The South African home front during the war, and in particular the Axis and Allied maritime war waged off the southern African coast, has, however, received scant historical attention from professional and amateur historians alike. The historical interrelated aspects of maritime insecurity evident in southern Africa during the war are largely cast aside by contemporary academics engaging with issues of maritime strategy and insecurity in southern Africa. -
Access Pdf of Lancet Paper on Global Burden of Disease Here
Articles A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Stephen S Lim‡, Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman, Goodarz Danaei, Kenji Shibuya, Heather Adair-Rohani*, Markus Amann*, H Ross Anderson*, Kathryn G Andrews*, Martin Aryee*, Charles Atkinson*, Loraine J Bacchus*, Adil N Bahalim*, Kalpana Balakrishnan*, John Balmes*, Suzanne Barker-Collo*, Amanda Baxter*, Michelle L Bell*, Jed D Blore*, Fiona Blyth*, Carissa Bonner*, Guilherme Borges*, Rupert Bourne*, Michel Boussinesq*, Michael Brauer*, Peter Brooks*, Nigel G Bruce*, Bert Brunekreef*, Claire Bryan-Hancock*, Chiara Bucello*, Rachelle Buchbinder*, Fiona Bull*, Richard T Burnett*, Tim E Byers*, Bianca Calabria*, Jonathan Carapetis*, Emily Carnahan*, Zoe Chafe*, Fiona Charlson*, Honglei Chen*, Jian Shen Chen*, Andrew Tai-Ann Cheng*, Jennifer Christine Child*, Aaron Cohen*, K Ellicott Colson*, Benjamin C Cowie*, Sarah Darby*, Susan Darling*, Adrian Davis*, Louisa Degenhardt*, Frank Dentener*, Don C Des Jarlais*, Karen Devries*, Mukesh Dherani*, Eric L Ding*, E Ray Dorsey*, Tim Driscoll*, Karen Edmond*, Suad Eltahir Ali*, Rebecca E Engell*, Patricia J Erwin*, Saman Fahimi*, Gail Falder*, Farshad Farzadfar*, Alize Ferrari*, Mariel M Finucane*, Seth Flaxman*, Francis Gerry R Fowkes*, Greg Freedman*, Michael K Freeman*, Emmanuela Gakidou*, Santu Ghosh*, Edward Giovannucci*, Gerhard Gmel*, Kathryn Graham*, Rebecca Grainger*, Bridget Grant*, -
Osprey Publishing, Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom
WOLF PACK The Story of the U-Boat in World War II The Story - oat iq-Workd War 11 First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Osprey Publishing, Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected] Previously published as New Vanguard 51: Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939-45 (1); New Vanguard 55: Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939-45 (2); and Warrior 36: Grey Wolf. © 2005 Osprey Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Enquiries should be addressed to the Publishers. CIP data for this publication is available from the British Library. ISBN 1 84176 872 3 Editors: Anita Hitchings and Ruth Sheppard Design: Ken Vail Graphic Design, Cambridge, UK Artwork by Ian Palmer and Darko Pavlovic Index by Alan Thatcher Originated by The Electronic Page Company, Cwmbran, UK Printed and bound by L-Rex Printing Company Ltd 05 06 07 08 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FOR A CATALOGUE OF ALL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY OSPREY PLEASE CONTACT: NORTH AMERICA Osprey Direct, 2427 Bond Street, University Park, IL 60466, USA E-mail: [email protected] ALL OTHER REGIONS Osprey Direct UK, P.O. Box 140, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 2FA, UK E-mail: [email protected] www.ospreypublishing.com EDITOR'S NOTE All photographs, unless indicated otherwise, are courtesy of the U-Boot Archiv. -
Does Financial Reform Raise Or Reduce Savings?
Does Financial Reform Raise or Reduce Savings? Authors: Oriana Bandiera, Gerard Caprio Jr., Patrick Honohan, Fabio Schiantarelli This work is posted on eScholarship@BC, Boston College University Libraries. Boston College Working Papers in Economics, 1998 Originally posted on: http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocoec/413.html DOES FINANCIAL REFORM RAISE OR REDUCE SAVINGS? By Oriana Bandiera (Boston College) Gerard Caprio Jr. (World Bank) Patrick Honohan (World Bank and CEPR) Fabio Schiantarelli (Boston College) This draft: September 1998 We would like to thank Pierre-Richard AgŽnor, Craig Burnside, Bruce Hansen, Tullio Jappelli, Peter Pedroni, Deborah Wetzel, Stephen Zeldes, participants in seminars at Boston College and the World Bank, and especially Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, and Luis ServŽn for useful suggestions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. DOES FINANCIAL REFORM RAISE OR REDUCE SAVING? By Oriana Bandiera*, Gerard Caprio Jr.**, Patrick Honohan** and Fabio Schiantarelli* (*Boston College, **World Bank) Abstract The effect of financial liberalization on private saving is theoretically ambiguous, not only because the link between interest rate levels and saving is itself ambiguous, but also because financial liberalization is a multi-dimensional and phased process, sometimes involving reversals. Some dimensions, such as increased household access to consumer credit or housing finance, might also work to reduce private savings rather than increasing them. Furthermore, the long-term effect of liberalization on savings may differ substantially from the impact effect. Using Principal Components, we construct a 25-year time series index of financial liberalization for each of eight developing countries: Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Turkey and Zimbabwe. -
International Agency for Research on Cancer 2014–2015 Sc/52/2 Gc/58/2
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER 2014–2015 SC/52/2 GC/58/2 BIENNIAL REPORT 2014–2015 INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER LYON, FRANCE 2015 ISBN 978-92-832-1101-3 ISSN 0250-8613 © International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2015 150, Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France Distributed on behalf of IARC by the Secretariat of the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Scientific Structure ............................................................................................................................................. 3 IARC Medals of Honour ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Section of Cancer Surveillance ......................................................................................................................... 7 Section of IARC Monographs ............................................................................................................................ 15 Section of Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis ..................................................................................................... 21 Epigenetics Group ........................................................................................................................................ 23 Molecular Mechanisms and Biomarkers -
Curriculum Vitae of Stephen C. Sheppard
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Official Hearing Exhibit Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. In the Matter of: (Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3) ASLBP #: 07-858-03-LR-BD01 NYS000208 Docket #: 05000247 | 05000286 Submitted: December 16, 2011 Exhibit #: NYS000208-00-BD01 Identified: 10/15/2012 Admitted: 10/15/2012 Withdrawn: Rejected: Stricken: Other: September 23, 2011 Curriculum Vita Stephen Charles Sheppard Address: Office Home Department of Economics 86 Gale Road 24 Hopkins Hall Drive Williamstown, MA 01267 Williams College Williamstown, MA 01267 Phone (413) 597-3184 Phone (413) 248-7437 e-mail [email protected] e-mail [email protected] Education: Ph. D., Washington University, St. Louis, 1984 A.M., Washington University, St. Louis, 1979 B.Sc., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1977 Published Papers: ‘The Qualitative Economics of Development Control’, by Stephen Sheppard, Journal of Urban Economics, 24, 310-330, (1988). ‘British Planning Policy and Access to Housing’, by Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard, Urban Studies, 26, 469-485, (1989). ‘Nice Demand in Rough Neighborhoods: Continuity in Non-Convex, Dispersed Economies’, by Stephen Sheppard, in Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Memoriam of J. Trout Rader, edited by Wilhelm Neuefeind and Raymond Riezman, Berlin : Springer - Verlag, (1992). ‘A Model of Regional Contraction and Unemployment’, by Barry McCormick and Stephen Sheppard, Economic Journal, 102, 366-377, (1992). ‘The Benefits of Transport Improvements in a City with Efficient Development Control’, by Stephen Sheppard and Mark Stover, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 25, 211-223, (1995). ‘Capturing Land Value Based Externalities in U.S. Communities’ (in Japanese), by Stephen Sheppard, in Land Use and Capturing Land Value Based Externality, edited by Makato Ikeda, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Research Institute (1995). -
2018 Conference Directory
RSS International Conference for all statisticians and data scientists Conference directory CARDIFF, WALES 3 – 6 September 2018 #RSS2018Conf Headline sponsor www.rss.org.uk/conference2018 Visit Wiley during the RSS 2018 International Conference Visit our photo booth and get a printed Add the joint YSS/Wiley Author souvenir to take home with you. Workshop to your schedule. Getting your research published and maximising its impact Thursday 6th September, 11:30am – 12:50pm Speakers: SMILE! • Brian Tarran, Editor, Significance magazine • Professor Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol, Joint Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A • Paul Smith, University of Southampton, Discussion Papers Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Download the apps for • Stephen Raywood, Senior Journals Publishing Manager, Wiley Significance and the Get the latest content • Beverley Harnett, Senior Marketing Manager, Wiley Journal of the Royal with personalised alerts Statistical Society – and register for free Series A, B and C. sample issues Stay informed with StatisticsViews.com Statistics by Wiley @Wiley_Stats 460801 - 18 Welcome Croeso cynnes iawn i Gymru, i Gaerdydd, ac i Gynhadledd RSS 2018. A very warm welcome to Wales, her vibrant capital Cardiff, and to the 2018 RSS Conference. We hope you will enjoy some Welsh hospitality and culture, as well as an abundance of statistics, during your visit. The conference venue, Cardiff’s majestic City Hall, is ideally located close to the impressive Cardiff Castle, the University’s main historic buildings, the city’s commercial centre, and the National Museum, where the opening reception will take place. On Thursday, those joining us for the conference dinner will have a chance to enjoy some more of the city’s iconic architecture – old and new – at the waterfront development of Cardiff Bay. -
Regional Newsletter, December 2019
Regional Newsletter, December 2019 Regional Newsletter, December 2019 Elizabeth (Fizz) Williamson (LSHTM) and (out-going) In this issue vice-president Martin Ridout (University of Kent) as their ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON elected terms come to an end. However, I am very Welcome to the Winter 2019-2020 issue of the newsletter pleased to welcome Kirsty Hassall (Rothamstead Re- of the British and Irish Region of the IBS. Due to unavoid- search; who continues her time on the committee after able absences, we had no summer newsletter so this is a joining in 2018) and Andy Lynch (University of St An- bumper edition! As well as the usual offerings from our drews) as incoming elected committee members; and regional officers, we have a brief introduction to a new Dan Farewell as the (incoming) vice-president before he committee member (Andy Lynch), reports from meetings takes up the role as president in 2021. Kirsty will also take that have happened over the last year, reports from bur- on the important communication role from Fizz as the sary awardees, and a note about an exciting upcoming Biometric Bulleting and BIR newsletter correspondent. meeting in the field of statistical genetics and genomics. Finally, in terms of committee members, Emanuele Gior- Kirsty Hassall will be taking over the newsletter after gio (Lancaster University) will also step down from the this issue. If you have any items or news you would like to committee at the end of this calendar year so that Rafael share with the society in future newsletters, please send De Andrade Moral (Maynooth University) has been co- a message to [email protected]. -
All Projects.Pdf
Project Award £ Reference Lead Research Organisation PI Name Title Start Date End Date sterling GTR project url Lead FundingLead Organisation Involvement ESRC EPSRC Yes EP/L024756/1 Imperial College London Jim Watson UKEnergy Research Centre 05/2014 04/2019 33,609,563 https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FL024756%2F1 EPSRC Yes EP/R035288/1 University of Oxford Nick Eyre UK Centre for Research on Energy Demand 04/2018 03/2023 19,435,274 https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR035288%2F1 ESRC Yes ES/G021694/1* LSE* Sam Fankhauser* Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy 10/2008 09/2013 14,500,105 https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FG021694%2F1 EPSRC EP/S018107/1 Swansea University David Worsley SUSTAIN Manufacturing Hub 04/2019 03/2026 10,319,154 https://gtr.ukri.org:443/projects?ref=EP/S018107/1 Ian Scoones/Melissa ESRC Yes ES/I021620/1* Institute of Development Studies Leach Social, Technological and Environmental pathways to Sustainability 10/2011 12/2017 9,245,460 https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FI021620%2F1 NE/N017978/1 NERC No * University of Leeds* Colin Jones* The UKEarth system modelling project. 04/2016 04/2021 8,477,252 https://gtr.ukri.org:443/projects?ref=NE/N017994/1 GCRF: DAMS 2.0: Design and assessment of resilient and sustainable interventions ESRC Yes ES/P011373/1 University of Manchester David Hulme in water-energy-food-environment Mega-Systems 10/2017 12/2021 8,162,095 https://gtr.ukri.org:443/projects?ref=ES/P011373/1 GCRF-AFRICAP - Agricultural and Food-system Resilience: Increasing Capacity and BBSRC -
Sir Richard Doll
ARTÍCULO ESPECIAL Sir Richard Doll Silvia Franceschi(1) ir Richard Doll falleció en Oxford a la edad de 92 quismo e incluyeron el esclarecimiento de los efectos S años el 24 de Julio de 2005 a causa de un fallo car- cancerígenos de la radiación, tanto ionizante (como diaco agudo. Había pasado por varias jubilaciones: de cáncer pulmonar y por radares) como no ionizante (por la presidencia de Regius Professor of Medicine en 1979; ejemplo los campos electromagnéticos y la leucemia de Green College, el cual fundó y donde cinco años infantil), los coefectos de los anticonceptivos orales, y fue director; y de la Universidad de Oxford en 1983. la eficacia de la suplementación con la vitamina D en Tras 22 años de su última jubilación “oficial”, aún se la prevención de las fracturas de hueso en los ancia- complacía en escribir artículos científicos, dar confe- nos. Alentó a la Agencia Internacional para la Investi- rencias y viajar largas distancias. Tres semanas después gación sobre Cáncer a apoyar y recopilar datos sobre de su muerte hubiera cumplido 93 años trabajando día los registros de cáncer en cinco continentes. tras día. Demostró de la manera más clara que el cáncer no Se le conoce sobre todo por su trabajo relacionado es sólo una consecuencia natural del envejecimiento, con el tabaco. Durante los años cuarenta y cincuenta sino, en gran medida, un padecimiento evitable. El tra- varios investigadores examinaron la asociación entre bajo de Doll constató que el cáncer es una combina- el tabaquismo y el cáncer pulmonar. Mas Richard Doll ción de la naturaleza, el estilo de vida y el azar, y que siempre será vinculado con la demostración de que el los contaminantes ambientales producidos por el fumar causa cáncer, al utilizar y redefinir las más im- hombre no necesariamente son el principal culpable. -
6 Conclusions
6 Conclusions The theoretical literature analyzing the impact of income inequality on economic development rec- ognizes the possibility of nonlinear effects. However, only a few empirical studies looked into non- linearities, and generally only by allowing for heterogeneous effects across countries or subsets of countries, or by including a quadratic term of the income inequality measure in the equation to be estimated. This paper explores nonlinearities in the relationship between income inequality and economic development with an empirical framework that is robust to endogeneity caused by dif- ferent issues. Within such nonlinear framework, it also analyzes the existence of possible trade-offs associated with two policies often considered when aiming to spurring growth, namely boosting financial inclusion and promoting female labor participation. We find pervasive evidence of nonlinearities, as the relationship between income inequality and economic development for the observed levels of income inequality is, on average, concave. Also, our findings suggest that the slope of the polynomial relationship from positive turns negative at a net Gini of about 27 percent, indicating that the inequality overhang occurs at low levels of in- come inequality. Finally, we find that in an environment characterized by widespread financial ac- cess and high income concentration, rising income inequality has a larger negative impact on eco- nomic development because banks may curtail credit to customers at the lower end of the income distribution, who became poorer and suffered a deterioration in their ability to repay. Female la- bor participation, on the other hand, can effectively contribute to reduce such negative impact and strengthening the positive one (typical of countries experiencing low levels of income inequal- ity), by enlarging the pool of talents that are available to work.