STUDY OBJECTIVE To review systematic review literature that describes the effectiveness of transport interventions in improving population health. METHODS Systematic review methodology was used to evaluate published and unpublished systematic reviews in any language that described the measured health effects of any mode of transport intervention. MAIN RESULTS 28 systematic reviews were iden...

Ground vibrations generated by heavy trucks and buses are a common source of environmental problem. They can reach levels that may cause nuisance to residents, damage to near-by structures, and perturbation in the functioning of sensitive equipment. These vibrations are produced mainly when the vehicle wheel’s pass over a speed reducer such as a road hump or a speed cushion. This study aims to ...

Hand-mouth coordination was studied in l-3-day-old human infants by delivering 0.2 ml of sterile 12% sucrose solution intraorally once every 2 min. Sucrose was extraordinarily calming and caused sustained hand-in-mouth contact. The calm state persisted well beyond sucrose termination. Handin-mouth behavior, however, stopped upon sucrose termination, demonstrating stimulus control over this inte...

We investigated potential mechanisms of action for anger symptom reductions, specifically, the roles of anger regulation skills and therapeutic alliance on changes in anger symptoms, following group anger management treatment (AMT) among combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Data were drawn from a published randomized controlled trial of AMT conducted with a racially divers...

Two dyadic studies investigated interpersonal worry regulation in heterosexual relationships. In Study 1, we video-recorded 40 romantic couples discussing shared concerns. Male partners' worry positively predicted female partners' interpersonal calming attempts, and negatively predicted female partners' interpersonal alerting attempts (i.e., attempts to make their partners appreciate the seriou...

The concept of excitotoxicity, first established by the pioneering work of John Olney, traditionally has been applied to lesions of the CNS, focusing mostly on glutamate as a neurotoxic excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter. Indeed, glutamate excitotoxicity remains one of the best-supported theories for motor neuron death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and was the pharmacologic inspir...

Study objective: To review systematic review literature that describes the effectiveness of transport interventions in improving population health. Methods: Systematic review methodology was used to evaluate published and unpublished systematic reviews in any language that described the measured health effects of any mode of transport intervention. Main results: 28 systematic reviews were ident...