ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF INCLUDING VARIATION IN GENERAL POPULATION MORTALITY ON STANDARD ERRORS OF RELATIVE SURVIVAL AND LOSS IN LIFE EXPECTANCY

Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy

Abstract Background A relative survival approach is often used in population-based cancer studies, where other cause (or expected) mortality is assumed to be the same as the mortality in the general population, given a specific covariate pattern.The population mortality is assumed to be known (fixed), i.e.measured without uncertainty.This could hav

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Letter from the Editors

Blackness as a non-monolithic lived experience surrounds us at all times, permeating across institutions and platforms.Within this antiblack singularity where Black is rendered visible through violence and cruelty, Look @ Me Now: Black (In)Visibility across Institutions and Platforms seeks submissions highlighting Black joy, activism, exploration,

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Properties and mechanisms of olfactory learning and memory

Memories are dynamic physical phenomena with psychometric forms as well as characteristic timescales.Most of our understanding of the cellular mechanisms underlying the neurophysiology of memory, however, derives from one-trial learning paradigms that, while powerful, do not fully embody the gradual, representational, and statistical aspects of cum

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Investigating workplace bullying (WPB), intention to quit and depression among nurses in the Upper West Region of Ghana.

BackgroundIntention to quit among nurses is increasingly recognized as a serious predictor of voluntary turnover.Voluntary turnover on the other hand is Onesie a significant factor fueling the shortage of nurses globally which could partly be blamed on negative workplace behaviors including but not limited to workplace bullying.Even though the rela

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