OBJECTIVE The Joint Working Group on First Nations, Indian, Inuit, and Métis Infant Mortality of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System is a collaboration of national Aboriginal organizations and federal and provincial/territorial stakeholders. Our objective was to better understand what is currently known about Aboriginal infant mortality rates (IMR) in Canada. METHODS As part of a large...

A novel method for capturing two-dimensional, thin, under-resolved material configurations, known as “filaments,” is presented in the context of interface reconstruction. This technique uses a partitioning ∗Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under contract DMS 1016381. †This work of M. Jemison was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy’s NNSA as par...

Neuroethics and National Security Turhan Canli a , Susan Brandon b , William Casebeer c , Philip J. Crowley d , Don DuRousseau e , Henry T. Greely f & Alvaro Pascual-Leone g a Stony Brook University, b Yale University, c United States Air Force, NATO Military Headquarters, d Center for American Progress, e Human Bionics LLC, f Stanford University, g Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deacon...

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Traditionally, national security has been narrowly defined as the preservation of the state from physical threats. Still, emerging diseases and their pandemic potential pose perhaps an even greater national security threat, particularly in this era of globalization when disease can spread more rapidly than in previous eras. Thirty four percent of all deaths worldwide are now attributable to inf...

Logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems. The first significant applications of logistics were developed in the military sector. Modern military operations require constant mobility and consume large amounts of supplies. Although military logistics first developed in the Nineteenth Century (O’Sullivan and Miller, 1983), it was in World War II that logistics theo...

Researchers develop optically switchable chiral THz metamolecules LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 10, 2012—A multi-institutional team of researchers including scientists with Los Alamos National Laboratory (of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration) has created the first artificial molecules whose chirality can be rapidly switched from a right-handed to a left-han...