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Evans’ subsequent attempts to recreate areas of the palace have met with intense criticism from other scholars but Knossós is now Crete’s premier attraction and rightly so.
Other attempts to get people to pay what they owe are also way down.
On Monday, the Financial Times noted "a growing impatience with the attempts to turn her [Diana] into a secular saint" and pointed out that Prince Charles' "popularity rating is now equal to that of Tony Blair, the prime minister who so adeptly expressed the nation's grief a year ago."
Analyzing a total of 1,721 estimates from 188 studies and covering 46 countries, they calculated the following median prevalence estimates: 4.6 per 1,000 for point prevalence (defined as prevalence during any interval of less than a month), 3.3 for period prevalence (defined as prevalence during a period from 1 to 12 months), 4.0 for lifetime prevalence (the proportion of individuals in the population who have ever manifested the disease and who are alive on a given day), and 7.2 for lifetime morbid risk (which attempts to include the entire lifetime of a birth cohort, both past and future, and includes those deceased at the time of the survey).
The dilution in estimated risk is likely to be particularly important if the background prevalence among unexposed persons is substantial but the incidence of new cases during the observation period is small, as illustrated in figure 1. While other investigators have noted this potentially large bias [ 22 ] , no attempts at appropriate correction have been made.
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