The use of mobile devices as an effective and targeted way for alerting the public in cases of disasters has become an important part of future infrastructures for early warning and disaster management. In contrast to classical alert approaches such as TV, Radio and sirens that are offering solely a one-directional communication the use of smart phones opens new potentials such as feedback mech...

a Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, United States b U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety Inspection Service, 14th and Independence S.W., Washington, DC 20250, United States c Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,...

We present Siren, an interactive tool for mining and visualizing geospatial redescriptions. Redescription mining is a powerful data analysis tool that aims at finding alternative descriptions of the same entities. For example, in biology, an important task is to identify the bioclimatic constraints that allow some species to survive, that is, to describe geographical regions in terms of both th...

Supermassive black hole binary systems (SMBHB) are standard sirens – the gravitational wave analogue of standard candles – and if discovered by gravitational wave detectors, they could be used as precise distance indicators. Unfortunately, gravitational lensing will randomly magnify SMBHB signals, seriously degrading any distance measurements. Using a weak lensing map of the SMBHB line of sight...

On 1 March 1997, powerful tornadoes touched down in Arkansas (USA) on a Saturday afternoon. Twenty-six fatalities and 400 non-fatal injuries were reported. We performed a population-based cross-sectional study to determine factors associated with appropriate responses to tornado warnings. Of 146 survey participants, 140 (96 per cent) knew the difference between 'tornado watch' and 'tornado warn...

© The Canadian Journal of UrologyTM; 21(6); December 2014 Address correspondence to Dr. Daniel J. Canter, Einstein Health Network, 60 E. Township Line Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027 USA Partial cystectomy for invasive bladder: the sirens’ song? Daniel J. Canter, MD1,2,3 1Einstein Health Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 2Urologic Institute of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsyl...

This article reviews the majority of Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT) with emphasis in Pediatric Pathology describing and illustrating lesions as varied as ureteral duplications, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, horseshoe kidney, posterior urethral valve and prune belly syndrome, obstructive renal dysplasia, nonmotile ciliopathies and several syndromes associated ...