The concepts and architecture underlying a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) are discussed. The main objective of the project is to build a tool that will have a significant impact for the monitoring and the control of infectious diseases and...

Die UV-Träger kommen ihrem Anliegen, statistisch fundierteInformationen über das Berufskrankheiten-Geschehen einerbreiten interessierten Öffentlichkeit verfügbar zu machen, übermehrere Wege nach:Im dreijährlichen Abstand erscheint die Reihe BK-DOK, die dieQuerschnittsbetrachtung eines...

Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) Infektionen, die sich durch Sexualkontakte übertragen, sind weit verbreitet und in der Regel leicht zu behandeln. Voraussetzung für die Behandlung ist jedoch, daß die Infektion erkannt wird. Geschieht dies nicht, so kann ein Befall mit Ct zu schwerwiegenden...

The main contribution of this paper to current philosophical and sociological studies on modelling is to analyse modelling as an object-oriented interdisciplinary activity and thus to bring new insights into the wide, heterogeneous discourse on tools, forms and organisation of interdisciplinary...

BEA’s national economic statistics provide a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. These statistics are best known by summary measures such as gross domestic product (GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending,...

The Survey of Professional Forecasters is the oldest quarterly survey of macroeconomic forecasts in the United States. The survey began in 1968 and was conducted by the American Statistical Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia took...

This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...

The Ad Age DataCenter provides exclusive advertising and marketing industry data compiled by the Ad Age Research Department. This constantly updated collection includes more than 600 separate charts arranged in four major categories: Marketers/ Advertisers, Media, Agencies, and Salary Surveys.

The Surveys of Consumers has been conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan since 1946. Each month, 500 individuals are randomly selected from the contiguous United States (48 states plus the District of Columbia) to participate in the Surveys of Consumers. The...

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis monthly journal of record presents summary estimates and analyses of U.S. economic activity. It includes articles about the national, regional, and international economic accounts and related topics. It also presents the latest estimates of the national...