with the growing population and density in metropolitan areas, higher tendency to live in high-rise buildings, and increasing demand for parking lots, it seems necessary to excavate soil to construct underground spaces. during excavation work, as the height of the wall increases, special care should be taken to the wall stabilization to avoid any consequent damage including extensive property d...

AT A recent conference on the future of the NHS workforce, I heard a speaker use the term 'physician extender' (PE) to describe nurses who are licensed by doctors to provide quasi-autonomous health care.

Discussing parasites over dinner requires particular company – like the “Parasite Ladies,” our circle of six female graduate students. Since discovering our mutual interest in disease ecology, we have supported each other’s research endeavors during weekly dinners. While we plan to sustain our support through lifelong research careers, current trends predict that 2 of the 6 of us will leave sci...