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The association between extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields and childhood leukaemia in epidemiology: enough is enough?

2010

Background: Previous pooled analyses have reported an association between magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia. We present a pooled analysis based on primary data from studies on residential magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia published after 2000. Methods: Seven studies with a total of 10 865 cases and 12 853 controls were included. The main analysis focused on 24-h magnetic field measurements or calculated fields in residences. Results: In the combined results, risk increased with increase in exposure, but the estimates were imprecise. The odds ratios for exposure categories of 0.1–0.2 μT, 0.2–0.3 μT and ⩾0.3 μT, compared with <0.1 μT, were 1.07 (95% CI 0.81–1.41), 1.16 (0.69–1.93)…

Incidence, Medical Resource Utilisation and Costs of Hyperuricemia and Tumour Lysis Syndrome in Patients with Acute Leukaemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymph…

2003

Hyperuricemia (HU) and tumour lysis syndrome (TLS) are complications of acute leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) leading to increased morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to define incidence and calculate health care cost associated with HU and TLS. 788 acute leukaemia and NHL patients from Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and UK were screened retrospectively for HU and TLS. Resource use related to HU and TLS was recorded and costs were calculated applying local unit costs. Results showed that HU occurred in 18.9% of patients, and 27.8% of them fulfilled TLS criteria. The cost of HU without TLS was 672 euros (SE 181), the cost of TLS 7,342 euros (SE 1,412). TLS requ…

A brave new kingdom: images from the sea and in the coastal sanctuaries of Valencia (XIII–XV centuries)

2014

Tras la conquista de Jaime I, Valencia estaba llamada a convertirse en un nuevo reino cristiano por coherencia geopolítica y decisión real. Desde entonces el Reino de Valencia estaría orientado hacia la Cristiandad occidental y las rutas comerciales del Mediterráneo. Sin embargo, la falta de reliquias o imágenes planteaba un problema espinoso para los nuevos colonos cristianos y sus gobernantes. Las reliquias tuvieron que donarse más tarde, como el fragmento de la corona de espinas de Cristo ofrecida por el rey Luis IX de Francia a la catedral de Valencia o, al final de este período, el Santo Cáliz depositado como garantía de un préstamos por el rey Alfonso V el Magnánimo al tesoro de la mi…

Note critique : A World of Difference ? Comparing Learners Across Europe ? OSBORN M . ; BROADFOOT P . ; MC NESS E . ; PLANEL C . ; RAVN B . & TRIGGS …

2005

External knowledge sourcing in different national settings: a comparison of electronics establishments in Britain and France

2004

04001; International audience; In a detailed comparison of matched samples of electronics establishments in Britain and France, this paper finds that the two samples of establishments were operating in distinctively different national labour markets for engineers and scientists, reflecting structural differences in national higher education systems and a far higher level of individual mobility between enterprises in Britain than is found in France. These differences were found to have very little effect on quantitative measures of establishments' external research interactions which tended to reflect other national-institutional differences such as continued government support for public la…

Psychometric properties of the stress control mindset measure in university students from Australia and the UK

2021

Abstract Introduction Beliefs about the consequences of stress, stress mindsets, are associated with health and performance outcomes under stress. This article reports the development and examination of the psychometric properties of a measure of stress mindset: The Stress Control Mindset Measure (SCMM). The measure is consistent with theory on mindsets about self‐attributes and conceptualizes stress mindset as the extent to which individuals endorse beliefs that stress can be enhancing. Methods The study adopted a correlational cross‐sectional survey design in two student samples. Undergraduate students from an Australian university (Sample 1, N = 218) and a UK university (Sample 2, N = 21…

Value congruence in health care priority setting: social values, institutions and decisions in three countries

2014

AbstractMost developed democracies have faced the challenge of priority setting in health care by setting up specialized agencies to take decisions on which medical services to include in public health baskets. Under the influence of Daniels and Sabin’s seminal work on the topic, agencies increasingly aim to fulfil criteria of procedural justice, such as accountability and transparency. We assume, however, that the institutional design of agencies also and necessarily reflects substantial value judgments on the respective weight of distributive principles such as efficiency, need and equality. The public acceptance of prioritization decisions, and eventually of the health care system at lar…

Was the Christian conquest of al-Andalus irreversible?

2012

The consideration of the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa as a turning point in history must necessarily be contemplated within the larger framework of the incapacity shown by Andalusi society to oppose the conquering dynamics manifested by the Iberian feudal aristocracies and monarchies since the conquest of Toledo (1085). This is a crucial matter that cannot be seen in isolation from the wider context of the expansion of Latin Christendom. In this regard, the present article suggests a comparison between the disparate fortunes of the Iberian kingdoms and the Latin principalities in the East through the critical assessment of three factors: (i) dissemination of, and role played by the ideolog…

El llibre de la Çuna e Xara en dos bibliotecas valencianas del siglo XV

2019

Este trabajo estudia la presencia del libro llamado Llibre de la Çuna e Xara, por el que se regían las aljamas musulmanas valencianas durante la Edad Media, en dos bibliotecas valencianas dispares. Una la del noble Ferran Ximénez d’Arenós, señor de Alberic, y la otra de Joan Lopiç, párroco de Silla. En la primera obedece a una mejor ejecución de la jurisdicción civil y criminal entre sus vasallos musulmanes, en la segunda para conseguir una evangelización efectiva de esa población musulmana. This article analyzes the presence of book denominated Llibre de la Çuna e Xarain two Valencian libraries. Muslims are governed by all laws and rules of that book during Medieval Age in the Kingdom of V…

Poder Real Africano. Propaganda y legitimación de Juba I (ca. 60-46 a. C.) a través de sus emisiones helenísticas

2019

Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar un estado de la cuestión acerca de las acuñaciones monetarias del rey númida Juba I. Históricamente nos encontramos ante la Segunda Guerra Civil Romana mantenida entre Pompeyo y Julio César (49-45 a. C.), donde Juba I apoya al «bando pompeyano». Las monedas de Juba I son producto de dicho acontecimiento y tienen su explicación en el pago de tropas contratadas. Además, las leyendas monetarias se insertan dentro de la propaganda e inciden en la posterior legitimación del trono númida, en manos de Juba I. This paper aims to present a state of the question about the coins struck by Juba I, king of Numidia. Historically we find ourselves before the Sec…