Remember that Diamond Princess only had about 20% of the population on board that got sick despite all of them being confined together over an extended period, and even more-telling, there were multiple instances where one member of a cabin pair (husband and wife, usually) got seriously ill ...
Embassy held its annual Independence Day picnic a few weeks early, on June 22 (presumably because the entire population of Norway heads to their summer cabins for the month of July). Unusually, this year proved to be a total crush. The line to get into the party stretched the entire ...
The major difference in the programmes is the focus on a targeted population for the Nurse Family Partnership programme vs. the universal offer of Well Child Clinics in Norway.ConclusionNorway should continue with universal approach to support new families. A model similar to Nurse Family Partnership...
Women participating in MoBa are older, better educated and include fewer smokers than the general population of pregnant women59. Therefore, effect estimates for the socioeconomic differences in children’s weight, height, and BMI in the current study are likely underestimated; the generally small ...
All the other soil parameters measured did not vary significantly between the two soil compartments (R vs BS) or between the two tree stands (beech vs Norway spruce). At an average total bacterial population size of 9.05 ± 0.05 (expressed as log[16S rRNA gene copies per gram of ...
We are deep into population overshoot not just based on energy but also in many other ways. The big questions, in addition to timeframe as you mentioned, also revolve around the rate of decline and the manner in which people, regions and nations will manage themselves. The big aspect of ...
The Norwegian cattle population is currently free from bovine herpes virus type 1 (BHV 1) [14] and bovine virus diarrhoea virus (BVDV) [15], and Mycoplasma bovis has never been detected [16]. BRSV belongs to the genus Pneumovirus in the family Paramyxoviridae. The gene coding for the ...
(1) some unconditional cooperation propensity at first move is required for the establishment of direct reciprocity in a population [5] and (2) “generous” or “forgiving” reciprocal cooperation, or simply “errors,” can significantly enhance the emergence and evolutionary stability of reciprocity...
Winnipeg, MB, Canada and 19National Cancer Action Team, Department of Health, London, UK Background: We investigate whether differences in breast cancer survival in six high-income countries can be explained by differences in stage at diagnosis using routine data from population-based cancer registri...
The aim of the present study was to determine whether 16 weeks of daily vitamin D3 supplementation (10 or 25 μg/d) vs placebo would affect the iron status (serum ferritin, haemoglobin, s-iron, and transferrin saturation) in a multi-ethnic immigrant population during the late wintertime....