Authors are often asked about the impact of their research on their fields or disciplines. Likewise, editors often wonder about the impact of articles published in their journals. In an effort to reinforce the high quality of articles published in EHP, reveal trends in emerging research themes, and track the impact of groundbreaking research, we will henceforth, on an annual basis, identify the...

Louie H. Yang and V. H. W. Rudolf* Department of Entomology, UC Davis, CA 95616, USA Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77098, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract Climate change is altering the phenology of many species and the timing of their interactions with other species, but the...

Purpose of Study: Physiotherapy plays a major role in rehabilitating a patient. The role of a Physiotherapist is to deal with application of physiotherapy skills & knowledge to the assessment, design, delivery & evaluation of physiotherapeutic treatments in the management of the various conditions of acute or chronic sickness, disability or handicap. The history of physiotherapy, in India, was ...

Test-score semantics is based on the premise that almost everything that re la tes to natural languages is a matter of degree. Viewed from th is perspect ive, any semantic e n t i t y in a natural language, e . g . , a pred icate , p red ica te -mod i f ie r , p ropos i t ion , quant i f i e r , command, quest ion, etc. may be represented as a system of e l as t i c constra ints on a co l l ec ...

portant prognostic predictor in patients with congestive heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;31:391–398. 38. Colombo PC, Banchs JE, Celaj S, Talreja A, Lachmann J, Malla S, DuBois NB, Ashton AW, Latif F, Jorde UP, Ware JA, LeJemtel TH. Endothelial cell activation in patients with decompensated heart failure. Circulation 2005;111:58–62. 39. Silverstein RL, Febbraio M. Cd36, a scavenger recepto...

Consistent with results from an earlier U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meta-analysis of three occupational cohorts, Crump et al. [Environ Health Perspect 111:681-687 (2003)] recently concluded that "dioxin TEQ [toxic equivalent] exposures within roughly 3-fold of current background levels may be carcinogenic" to humans. In contrast, my meta-analysis using an intercept-only model implied z...

BACKGROUND Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate change due to fossil fuel combustion. OBJECTIVE This ...