Publications

Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive Industry

Robust monetary policy with competing reference models

Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA Project

A new scenario framework for climate change research: background, process, and future directions

Inflation, Rational Expectations and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

In a number of recent papers [11] [12],2 it has been shown that, for the United States, the behaviour of the term structure of interest rates can be explained remarkably well by...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Epidemiologic approaches to occupational exposure.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) risk-related factors were epidemiologically investigated on the basis of 1,311 Japanese IPF autopsy cases selected from the annual complicati...

Comparison of Cases Captured in the National Cancer Data Base with Those in Population-based Central Cancer Registries

Impact of Anemia and Cardiovascular Disease on Frailty Status of Community-Dwelling Older Women: The Women's Health and Aging Studies I and II

In community-dwelling older women, mildly low and low-normal Hb levels were independently associated with increased frailty risk. This risk was synergistically modified by the p...

Spatializing commodity chains

There has been a growing interest in connecting production and consumption through the study of commodity chains. We identify three distinct approaches to the chain and review d...

Coexistent Hashimoto's thyroiditis with papillary thyroid carcinoma: Impact on presentation, management, and outcome

Tests for cointegration a Monte Carlo comparison

Biological and Physical Signs of Climate Change: Focus on Mosquito-borne Diseases

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there is "discernible evidence" that humans - through accelerating changes in multiple forcing factors - have begun ...