Unsurprisingly, over more than 40 years as the subtle spider-figure at the heart of his party and usually of the cabinet, Mr Andreotti came to be seen as the custodian and originator of Italy’s darkest secrets.
30m melancholics
Sep 7th 2011, 14:06 by The Economist online
A new study estimates the number of people with mental disorders in Europe
OVER 38% of all Europeans, or 165m people, suffered from a mental disorder in 2010, according to a new study published this week in European Neuropsychopharmacology. The authors, led by Professor Hans-Ullrich Wittchen of Technische Universität Dresden, analysed 27 conditions using data, studies and surveys for the 27 countries of the European Union, plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. The most common condition is depression. Over 30m people were affected by it, or 6.9% of the population. The second most frequent diagnosis is of specific phobias—such as of spiders. Those suffering from alcohol dependence are conservatively estimated at 14.6m, a considerably larger number than the 2.4m people with drug dependency issues (though some may suffer from both).
OVER 38% of all Europeans, or 165m people, suffered from a mental disorder in 2010, according to a new study published this week in European Neuropsychopharmacology. The authors, led by Professor Hans-Ullrich Wittchen of Technische Universität Dresden, analysed 27 conditions using data, studies and surveys for the 27 countries of the European Union, plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. The most common condition is depression. Over 30m people were affected by it, or 6.9% of the population. The second most frequent diagnosis is of specific phobias—such as of spiders. Those suffering from alcohol dependence are conservatively estimated at 14.6m, a considerably larger number than the 2.4m people with drug dependency issues (though some may suffer from both).
There is a public-good carrot, too. Now Google is getting 2.3 billion datapoints per day about what people do and do not like. That's probably going to make search better, even as people try to game it. If your community really loves your work, they'll +1 the stories in an organic way, helping them float up Google's various algorithmic rankings (News, Search, etc). In short, it brings a human element to Google's search rankings, and at least conceptually, that's a good thing. Maybe that'll help weed out some of the content farm trash that nobody likes except for Google's spiders.
public-good,
Products the government is best positioned to utilize as compared to the private marketplace. Police power and militaryrelated hardware are most effectively managed by the government.
datapoint
In statistics, a data point is a single typed measurement. Here type is used in a way compatible with datatype in computing; so that the type of measurement can specify whether the measurement results in a Boolean value from {yes, no}, an integer or real number, or some vector or array. The implication of point is therefore that the data may be plotted in a graphic display, but in many cases the data are processed numerically before that is done.
See also
melancholic[mel・an・chol・ic]
(mĕl'ən-kŏl'ĭk)
adj.
- Affected with or subject to melancholy.
- Of or relating to melancholia.
melancholically mel'an·chol'i·cal·ly adv.
発音記号[mèlənkɑ'lik | -kɔ'l-]
[形]((形式))
1 憂うつな, ふさぎ込んだ.
2 うつ病の, うつ病にかかった.
Definition of spider
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