For the 17 euro area members, the introduction of a common currency also meant a common monetary policy and, for a while, the convergence of risk premia.
The absence of bias is further revealed by the identification of possible master susceptibility loci for different cancer types, such as the convergence of risk variants at chromosome 8q24 [ 3, 5- 12].
In addition, Moroccan women showed the least indications for convergence of risk factors towards the ethnic Dutch women: among both generations, significantly lower prevalence rates were found for smoking and alcohol consumption and a significantly higher prevalence of physical inactivity.
SIDS is hypothesized to result from a convergence of risk factors, including a pathologically vulnerable infant, a developmentally critical period, and exposure to external stressors that overwhelm autonomic functions (Kinney and Thach 2009; Paterson et al. 2006).
8 9 Few data on risk factor trends for migrant groups are available, but the results here correspond with a gradual convergence of risk for some groups towards that of England and Wales.
Changing risk with duration of residence (Harding, 2003) and convergence of risk factors, together with poorer declines in traditionally low-risk groups (Harding et al, 2009; Arnold et al, 2010; Mangtani et al, 2010), threaten the healthy migrant advantage (Zaman and Mangtani, 2007).
We also observed a tendency towards a convergence of risks for type 1 diabetes between the offspring of immigrants as one group and native Swedes.
Since 90%% of participants had been living in an urban area since age 20, there was likely to be a convergence of risks due to similar exposures to social and environmental factors, as seen in India [ 39].
According to the theory of the uniform convergence of empirical risk to actual risk [26], the convergence rate bounds are based on the capacity of the set of functions that are implemented by the learning machine.
These approaches are effective empirically, however, little effort has been devoted to the understanding of their consistency, i.e., the convergence of the risk of learned functions to the Bayes risk.
Epidemiologically oesophageal reflux and obesity are independent risk factors for OAC and the current data suggest that Akt activation might be a point of convergence of these risk factors.
