A Selection of Significant Papers from the Past Year as Recommended by the US Endocrine Disease 2006 Advisory Panel

AbstractRecent findings from molecular genetics now make it possible to test directly for natural selection by analyzing whether genetic variants associated with various phenotypes have been under selection. I leverage these findings to construct polygenic scores that use individuals’ genotypes to predict their body mass index, educational attainment (EA), glucose concentration, height, schizophrenia, total cholesterol, and (in females) age at menarche. I then examine associations between these scores and fitness to test whether natural selection has been occurring. My study sample includes individuals of European ancestry born between 1931 and 1953 in the Health and Retirement Study, a representative study of the US population. My results imply that natural selection has been slowly favoring lower EA in both females and males, and are suggestive that natural selection may have favored a higher age at menarche in females. For EA, my estimates imply a rate of selection of about -1.5 months of education per generation (which pales in comparison with the increases in EA observed in contemporary times). Though they cannot be projected over more than one generation, my results provide additional evidence that humans are still evolving—albeit slowly, especially when compared to the rapid secular changes that have occurred over the past few generations due to cultural and environmental factors.

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Advances In Asthma Care

Californian Journal of Health Promotion ◽

10.32398/cjhp.v1i1.383 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 87-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chris Garvey

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Costs ◽

Professional Organizations ◽

Current Status ◽

Asthma Care ◽

Advanced Level ◽

Clinical Criteria ◽

Asthma Knowledge ◽

The Past ◽

The Us ◽

Examination Process

Asthma rates in the US have risen during the past 25 years, as have asthma-related morbidity and healthcare costs. Professional organizations involved in asthma care have identified the need to assure that an advanced level of asthma knowledge and skill is available to patients with asthma, their families, and insurers. This need led to development of the certification for asthma educators. The Certified Asthma Educator (AE-C) must meet specific clinical criteria and pass a standardized examination designed to evaluate knowledge and skill for providing competent asthma education and coordination. The development and current status of the Certified Asthma Educator examination process and content are discussed, as are goals of the certification

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Integrated FAHP-VIKOR model for green supplier selection in a Nickle coating SME

WEENTECH Proceedings in Energy ◽

10.32438/wpe.0602126 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 133-139

Author(s):

Sanatan Ratna ◽

B Kumar

Keyword(s):

Staff Training ◽

Supplier Selection ◽

Fuzzy Ahp ◽

Research Work ◽

Supplier Evaluation ◽

Green Supplier Selection ◽

The Past ◽

Coating Industry ◽

Sustainability Issue ◽

Selection Of

In the past few decades, there has been lot of focus on the issue of sustainability. This has occurred due to the growing concerns related to climate change and the growing awareness about environmental concerns. Also, the competition at global level has led to the search for the most sustainable route in the industries. The current research work deals with the selection of green supplier in a Nickle coating industry based on certain weighted green attributes. For this purpose, a hybrid tool comprising of Fuzzy AHP (Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy) and VIKOR (VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) is used. The Fuzzy AHP is used for assigning proper weights to the selected criteria for supplier evaluation, while VIKOR is used for final supplier selection based on the weighted criteria. The three criterions for green supplier selection are, Ecological packaging, Corporate socio-environmental responsibility and Staff Training. The outcome of the integrated model may serve as a steppingstone to other SMEs in different sectors for selecting the most suitable supplier for addressing the sustainability issue.

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BP Global Energy Outlook 2030

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2013-5-109-128 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 109-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

C. Rühl

Keyword(s):

Emerging Economies ◽

Energy Demand ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Net Energy ◽

Global Energy ◽

The Past ◽

Market Shares ◽

The Us ◽

Almost All ◽

Oil Gas

This paper presents the highlights of the third annual edition of the BP Energy Outlook, which sets out BP’s view of the most likely developments in global energy markets to 2030, based on up-to-date analysis and taking into account developments of the past year. The Outlook’s overall expectation for growth in global energy demand is to be 36% higher in 2030 than in 2011 and almost all the growth coming from emerging economies. It also reflects shifting expectations of the pattern of supply, with unconventional sources — shale gas and tight oil together with heavy oil and biofuels — playing an increasingly important role and, in particular, transforming the energy balance of the US. While the fuel mix is evolving, fossil fuels will continue to be dominant. Oil, gas and coal are expected to converge on market shares of around 26—28% each by 2030, and non-fossil fuels — nuclear, hydro and renewables — on a share of around 6—7% each. By 2030, increasing production and moderating demand will result in the US being 99% self-sufficient in net energy. Meanwhile, with continuing steep economic growth, major emerging economies such as China and India will become increasingly reliant on energy imports. These shifts will have major impacts on trade balances.

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World Economy: Prospects and Barriers for Recovery

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-12-61-83 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 61-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Ershov

Keyword(s):

World Economy ◽

Western World ◽

Short Time Period ◽

Market Segments ◽

Junk Bonds ◽

The Past ◽

Time Period ◽

The Us ◽

Global Liquidity ◽

Short Time

According to the latest forecasts, it will take 10 years for the world economy to get back to “decent shape”. Some more critical estimates suggest that the whole western world will have a “colossal mess” within the next 5–10 years. Regulators of some major countries significantly and over a short time‑period changed their forecasts for the worse which means that uncertainty in the outlook for the future persists. Indeed, the intensive anti‑crisis measures have reduced the severity of the past problems, however the problems themselves have not disappeared. Moreover, some of them have become more intense — the eurocrisis, excessive debts, global liquidity glut against the backdrop of its deficit in some of market segments. As was the case prior to the crisis, derivatives and high‑risk operations with “junk” bonds grow; budget problems — “fiscal cliff” in the US — and other problems worsen. All of the above forces the regulators to take unprecedented (in their scope and nature) steps. Will they be able to tackle the problems which emerge?

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Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Volker Scheid

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Chinese Medicine ◽

Medical Humanities ◽

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Human Beings ◽

The Past ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Us ◽

Shared Objective ◽

Definition Of

This chapter explores the articulations that have emerged over the last half century between various types of holism, Chinese medicine and systems biology. Given the discipline’s historical attachments to a definition of ‘medicine’ that rather narrowly refers to biomedicine as developed in Europe and the US from the eighteenth century onwards, the medical humanities are not the most obvious starting point for such an inquiry. At the same time, they do offer one advantage over neighbouring disciplines like medical history, anthropology or science and technology studies for someone like myself, a clinician as well as a historian and anthropologist: their strong commitment to the objective of facilitating better medical practice. This promise furthermore links to the wider project of critique, which, in Max Horkheimer’s definition of the term, aims at change and emancipation in order ‘to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them’. If we take the critical medical humanities as explicitly affirming this shared objective and responsibility, extending the discipline’s traditional gaze is not a burden but becomes, in fact, an obligation.

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The Riddle of a Common History

Journal of Educational Media Memory and Society ◽

10.3167/jemms.2009.010107 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 93-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Common Ground ◽

The United States ◽

History Textbooks ◽

Recent History ◽

History Textbook ◽

The Past ◽

The Us ◽

Constant Part ◽

Intrinsic Component

By identifying two general issues in recent history textbook controversies worldwide (oblivion and inclusion), this article examines understandings of the United States in Mexico's history textbooks (especially those of 1992) as a means to test the limits of historical imagining between U. S. and Mexican historiographies. Drawing lessons from recent European and Indian historiographical debates, the article argues that many of the historical clashes between the nationalist historiographies of Mexico and the United States could be taught as series of unsolved enigmas, ironies, and contradictions in the midst of a central enigma: the persistence of two nationalist historiographies incapable of contemplating their common ground. The article maintains that lo mexicano has been a constant part of the past and present of the US, and lo gringo an intrinsic component of Mexico's history. The di erences in their historical tracks have been made into monumental ontological oppositions, which are in fact two tracks—often overlapping—of the same and shared con ictual and complex experience.

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