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As both studies argue, understanding North Korea, too often dismissed as a merely irrational and reckless pariah, is the starting point for devising sensible policy to manage the dangers that it poses.

More research aimed at capturing both intergenerational and environmental risk factors for obesity and medication use as well as healthcare use and its associated costs in children is needed as a starting point for devising cost-effective prevention strategies, and analyses investigating the costs of childhood obesity should include the costs of medication use as well as other healthcare costs.

Models such as Job Demands-Resources Model (Bakker and Demerouti 2007) or the Effort-Reward Imbalance Model (Siegrist 1996) have been applied across a wide variety of work situations and could provide a starting point for devising an analytic framework or for constructing a more generalisable and diagnostic safety climate tool.

This model was devised as a starting point for discussion and further development of the CPHC model with the services and the research reference group.

A previously published clinical risk score 8 was devised as a starting point for the identification of high-risk stage II colon cancer patients using routinely collected clinical information.

Also, identifying subgroups with disproportionately high utilization is the starting point for further research to illuminate the reasons for such phenomena, and to devise strategies for reducing critical illness in high-risk groups.

(Stephen Holden) FELICE BROTHERS The homespun and mysterious roots rock that the Band and Bob Dylan devised in the Catskills in the 1960s is the starting point for the Felice Brothers, a young band unafraid to deploy fiddle and accordion or, on a whim, to test out a drum machine.

The content and structure of the paper has been devised to become a comprehensive material to be considered as the starting point for future work in this interesting research area.

Prior to data collection, the research team devised a rough and ready framework (list of topics) as a starting point for the discussions.

Using a scale devised under Labour's 2003 Criminal Justice Act it ranges from a 15 year starting point for serial rapists to five years for a single offence of rape by a single offender.

I long ago devised a basic method for processing large quantities of courgettes, and it's the starting point for a host of recipes.