BACKGROUND Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was used extensively to control malaria, typhus, body lice, and bubonic plague worldwide, until countries began restricting its use in the 1970s. However, the use of DDT to control vector-borne diseases continues in developing countries. Prenatal DDT exposure is associated with elevated blood pressure in humans. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that p...

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* This article was originally publisched by Environ Health Perspect 118:727–734 (2010). doi:10.1289/ehp.0901835 [Online 22 February 2010] and is part of the scientific collaboration between Cienc Saude Coletiva and EHP. 1 Department of Epidemiology, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2 Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Ma...

This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the value of structuration theory as ‘an ontology of potentials’ for empirical research in accounting. In engaging with the two main papers in this issue, it considers issues of methodological bracketing and the extent to which the work of Coad and Glyptis (2013) offers an agency focus rather than an institutional focus for analysis. F...

of Twin Registries (INTR): building a platform for international collaboration. Twin Res Hum Genet 2014;17:574–77. 3. McRae AF, Powell JE, Henders AK et al. Contribution of genetic variation to transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation. Genome Biol 2014;15:R73. 4. Hopper JL. Disease-specific prospective family study cohorts enriched for familial risk. Epidemiol Perspect Innov 2011;8:2. 5...

BACKGROUND Both public health, and the health of the natural environment, are affected by policy decisions made across portfolios as diverse as finance, planning, transport, housing, education, and agriculture. A response to the interdependent character of public health has been the "health in all policies" (HiAP) approach. OBJECTIVES With reference to parallels between health and environment...

Recent findings of indoor exposure studies of chlorpyrifos indicate that young children are at higher risks to the semivolatile pesticide than had been previously estimated [Gurunathan et al., Environ Health Perspect 106:9-16 (1998)]. The study showed that after a single broadcast use of the pesticide by certified applicators in apartment rooms, chlorpyrifos continued to accumulate on children'...

Many environmental agents exert estrogenic activity. Previous studies from our laboratories demonstrated that certain combinations of environmental estrogens (i) reverse the sex of male turtle embryos in a synergistic manner (Bergeron et al., (1994) Environ. Hlth Perspect. 102, 780-782), and (ii) synergistically transactivate the human estrogen receptor (hER) in yeast and mammalian cells (Arnol...

OBJECTIVE The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that the upper bound of benefits from removing mercury emissions by U.S. power plants after implementing its Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) is $210 million per year. In contrast, Trasande et al. [Environ Health Perspect 113:590-596 (2005)] estimated that American power plants impose an economic cost of $1.3 billion due to mercur...

Abstract In this paper, I present an account of group competence that is explicitly framed for cases epistemic performances. According to it, we must consider as the agents’ capacity produce knowledge, and not result summation its individual members’ competences knowledge. Additionally, contend be understood in terms normative status. To introduce my view, Jesper Kallestrup’s (Synthese 1–19, 20...