5 research outputs found
The mystery of periodontal chemotherapeutics
No full textA visualization of the complicated nature of choosing appropriate periodontal chemotherapeutics.Completed for DHYG 3313, instructor Nancy Baily. This poster is for demonstration only and is not meant to be used in guiding clinical decisions of any kind. Presented at: Vancouver Community College Teaching, Learning, and Research Symposium, March 30-31, 2023oral healthdental hygienePeriodontalchemotherapeutic
Economists, institutions, and trade restrictions : a review article
No full textA review article on the work of"practitioners of contemporary economic analysis of trade restrictions", this report focuses on three questions : a) are there holes in the case of free trade? B) Why are trade restrictions imposed, and c) how do US policy actions and those of other nations interact ? On the first question, though difficult to identify when there is profit to be captured by trade intervention and to design an appropriate trade intervention policy, capturing a strategic sector and economic rents is important to equity holders without necessarily being of much significance to the economy as a whole. Further, on trade restrictions, these are often aimed at non economic objectives, since economic sanctions tend to be used only when other instruments fail. As for the interaction of US policy actions versus other nations, they are a manifestation of protectionist legislation in the US Congress and perhaps indictments against GATT as wrong headed.TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Rules of Origin,Trade Policy
Book Reviews
No full text'Social Security for the Excluded Majority: Case Studies of Developing Countries'; Editor: Wouter van Ginneken; Reviewer: Tim Conway; 'Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on the Roles of Government and Market'; Authors: Erik Thorbecke and Henry Wan; Reviewer: John W. Mellor; 'The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms'; Editor: Ariel Dinar; Reviewer: Paul Herrington; 'Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees'; Editors: Michael M. Cernea and Christopher McDowell; Reviewer: Zo� Marriage; 'On the Move: Mobility, Land Use and Livelihood Practices on the Central Plateau in Burkino Faso'; Author: Mark Breusers; Reviewer: Karim Hussein; 'Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation'; Editors: Sue Jones and Nici Nelson; Reviewer: Sandra Wallman; 'Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America'; Editors: Deborah Bryceson, Christobal Kay and Jos Mooij; Reviewer: Jan Kees Van Donge; 'Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy in Transition'; Authors: Ishac Diwan and Radwan A. Shaban; Reviewer: Emma Murphy; 'EU 'Global Player': The North-South Policy of the European Union'; Author: Mirjam van Reisen; Reviewer: Marjorie Lister;Review Books,
Prognostic assessment in COPD without lung function: the B-AE-D indices.
No full textpeer reviewedSeveral composite markers have been proposed for risk assessment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, choice of parameters and score complexity restrict clinical applicability. Our aim was to provide and validate a simplified COPD risk index independent of lung function.The PROMISE study (n=530) was used to develop a novel prognostic index. Index performance was assessed regarding 2-year COPD-related mortality and all-cause mortality. External validity was tested in stable and exacerbated COPD patients in the ProCOLD, COCOMICS and COMIC cohorts (total n=2988).Using a mixed clinical and statistical approach, body mass index (B), severe acute exacerbations of COPD frequency (AE), modified Medical Research Council dyspnoea severity (D) and copeptin (C) were identified as the most suitable simplified marker combination. 0, 1 or 2 points were assigned to each parameter and totalled to B-AE-D or B-AE-D-C. It was observed that B-AE-D and B-AE-D-C were at least as good as BODE (body mass index, airflow obstruction, dyspnoea, exercise capacity), ADO (age, dyspnoea, airflow obstruction) and DOSE (dyspnoea, obstruction, smoking, exacerbation) indices for predicting 2-year all-cause mortality (c-statistic: 0.74, 0.77, 0.69, 0.72 and 0.63, respectively; Hosmer-Lemeshow test all p>0.05). Both indices were COPD specific (c-statistic for predicting COPD-related 2-year mortality: 0.87 and 0.89, respectively). External validation of B-AE-D was performed in COCOMICS and COMIC (c-statistic for 1-year all-cause mortality: 0.68 and 0.74; c-statistic for 2-year all-cause mortality: 0.65 and 0.67; Hosmer-Lemeshow test all p>0.05).The B-AE-D index, plus copeptin if available, allows a simple and accurate assessment of COPD-related risk
Variación sobre un tema: patrones demográficos de la misión de Nuestra Señora de los Reyes Yapeyú (Corrientes, Argentina)
No full textSeveral generations of scholars have accepted general assumptions about indigenous demographic patterns in the Americas after 1492 suggested by scholars such as Alfred Crosby and Henry Dobyns. According to this model, waves of epidemics spread across the Americas in outbreaks that claimed the lives of millions of people, but over time the indigenous populations built up immunities to pathogens such as smallpox and recovered. The analysis of demographic patterns of the Jesuit missions among the Guaraní challenges these assumptions. The mission populations experienced catastrophic mortality, which in some cases was more than 50 percent of the population of a given community several centuries following first sustained contact, and epidemics occurred about once a generation after there was a large enough pool of potentially susceptible hosts born since the previous outbreak. The case study ofYapeyú mission highlights the reality of considerable variation in levels of epidemic mortality between communities. For some 50 years, the mission did not suffer catastrophic epidemic mortality, as did neighboring mission communities. Varias generaciones de académicos han aceptado supuestos generales sobre los patrones demográficos indígenas en las Américas después de 1492, sugeridos por académicos como Alfred Crosby y Henry Dobyns. De acuerdo con este modelo, oleadas de epidemias se extendieron por las Américas en brotes que se cobraron la vida de millones de personas, pero con el tiempo las poblaciones indígenas acumularon inmunidades a patógenos como la viruela y se recuperaron. El análisis de los patrones demográficos de las misiones jesuitas entre los guaraníes desafía estos supuestos. Las poblaciones de la misión experimentaron una mortalidad catastrófica que en algunos casos fue más del 50 % de la población de una comunidad dada varios siglos después del primer contacto sostenido, y las epidemias ocurrieron aproximadamente una vez por generación, tan pronto hubo un grupo suficientemente grande de huéspedes potencialmente susceptibles nacidos desde el brote anterior. El estudio de caso de la misión Yapeyú destaca la realidad de una variación considerable en los niveles de mortalidad epidémica entre comunidades. Durante unos cincuenta años la misión no sufrió una mortalidad epidémica catastrófica, como sí ocurrió en las comunidades misioneras vecinas
