Recently, also for Cuba an escalated sex ratio from 1987 onward has been documented and discussed in the scientific literature.
An intriguing new example of an escalated sex ratio after Chernobyl has been published in the American Journal of Epidemiology by Cuban scientists [ 35].
Therefore, Simpson's explanation does not apply to the period from 1987 through 1990, and thus his explanation may perhaps only partly account for the escalated sex ratio in Cuba from 1991 onward.
Specifically, the EBCTCG radiation meta-analyses between 1990, 2000 and 2005 showed a gradually escalating radiation benefit ratio: a 13% increased (overall) mortality in the 1990 overview (HR = 1.13), a 4% mortality increase in 2000 (HR = 1.04), but a significant 17% mortality reduction in 2005 (HR = 0.83).
However, the strong increase from the stable sex ratio of 1.0585 in the 29-years 1958 198686 to the escalated average sex ratio of 1.0864 (1.0944, 1.0944), p value < 0.0001 in the 4-years period 1987 199090 can hardly be explained neither by chance nor by economic depression.
Demand for intensive care has steadily escalated, and the ratio of intensive care unit (ICU) to hospital beds is increasing everywhere.
In addition, the progressive-ratio model invokes the linear waiting principle (Wynne et al., 1996) to predict the escalating duration of the post-reinforcement pause in successive ratios, thereby yielding a dynamic account of performance on this schedule.
And former Secretary of State George P. Shultz has emphasized that we should "make failure tolerable," suggesting, for example, "an escalating schedule could be required of necessary capital ratios geared to size and matched with escalating limits on leverage".
Disclosing the ratio provides greater transparency and places some restraints on escalating remuneration.
RESULTS: In a dataset of 2157 recipients, there were no blood bank-reported complications, but escalating plasma transfusion was associated with increased 30-day mortality (odds ratio, 1.52 per unit; P =.0001).
Thus, a phase I trial of the combination of standard, preoperative radiotherapy and escalating doses of concurrent capecitabine was undertaken to assess the risk/benefit ratio.
