Background Up-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence,
prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional, …

… < 0.001), and this difference continued to be evident in the regression analysis (T = 6.04,
P < 0.001). Both the mean point … P values less than 0.05 were considered significant. …

… in the tool using proportion of agreement (p 0 ) and the Kappa statistic. The p 0 is the raw
proportion of the number of times the two raters agree. A disadvantage of p 0 is that it does not …

Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease …

Background Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial consideration
in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The Global Burden of …

Background Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite metric
that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health. The …

Background The incidence and severity of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia increase
with age in association with a progressive decline in cell-mediated immunity to varicella–…

Angiogenesis depends on the adhesive interactions of vascular cells. The adhesion receptor
integrin α v β 3 was identified as a marker of angiogenic vascular tissue. Integrin α v β 3 …

… And Holmes replies, "So much so that they are history" (p. 445). Between "having a
history" and "being history," we move to a deeper level of fabula, and the spatio-temporal …

This is a book about excess, about a mode of heightened dramatization inextricably bound
up with the modern novel's effort to signify. My argument in the chapters that follow has its …