Sevda Dirikoc,1 Suzette A. Priola,2 Mathieu Marella,3 Nicole Zsürger,1 and Joëlle Chabry1 1Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6097, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 06560 Valbonne, France, 2Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laborator...

Recent concern about survival and recovery of highelevation white pine ecosystems has returned white pine blister rust (caused by Cronartium ribicola) to prominence as a significant threat to forest health in the western U.S. (Samman et al., 2003). This, in turn, has spurred new research into potential rustresistance mechanisms in high-elevation white pines, including whitebark (Pinus albicauli...

USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-5. 2000 In: Cole, David N.; McCool, Stephen F.; Borrie, William T.; O’Loughlin, Jennifer, comps. 2000. Wilderness science in a time of change conference— Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23– 27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-5. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Resea...

OBJECTIVE To identify dimensions of health associated with work ability and to verify whether such relationships are influenced by demographic or occupational characteristics. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out, including 224 employees of an employee health insurance and retirement savings company in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2001. Subjects responded to self-administered ...

The present paper aims at presenting a short history of health policies implemented in São Paulo in the 1920's and 1930's, trying to reach a more accurate understanding of the processes that led to the formulation of governmental health policies. The paper emphasizes Geraldo Horácio de Paula Sousa's contribution to the history of health administration in Sáo Paulo in the first half of the twent...

1 Department of Surgery, University of Sao Paulo, Rua Guimaraes Passos 260, Vila Mariana, 04107-030 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Department, Paoli-Calmettes Institute, 232 Boulevard Sainte Marguerite, 13273 Marseille Cedex 9, France 3 Endoscopy Center, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, 36 Sanhao Street, Shenyang, China 4 Endoscopy Unit, Gastroenterology D...

Vegetation restoration has been widely used in karst rocky desertification (KRD) areas of southwestern China, but the response of microbial community to revegetation has not been well characterized. We investigated the diversity, structure, and co-occurrence patterns of bacterial communities in soils of five vegetation types (grassland, shrubbery, secondary forest, pure plantation and mixed pla...

1. Departamento de Diagnóstico por Imagem da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP. 2. Centro de Medicina Diagnóstica Fleury, São Paulo, SP. Address to: Dr. Ricardo Jorge Vital. Dept de Diagnóstico por Imagem/UNIFESP/EPM. R. Napoleão de Barros 800, Vila Clementino, 04024-001 São Paulo, SP. e-mail: [email protected] Recebido para publicação em 22/4/2005 ...

Author details Universidade Nove de Julho, UNINOVE, São Paulo, Brazil. Postgraduate program in Biophotonics Applied to Health Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho, UNINOVE, Vergueiro, 235/249, CEP 01504-001 São Paulo, Brazil. Postgraduate program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidade Nove de Julho, UNINOVE, São Paulo, Brazil. Pulmonary Department, Heart Institute (InCor), School of Medicine,...

Disturbances by insects have considerable effect on the heterogeneity of forested landscapes in North America. Responding to calls for bringing human dimensions of landscape disturbance and heterogeneity into ecological assessments and management strategies, this paper explores linkages between biophysical, socioeconomic, and perceptual aspects of a mountain pine beetle (MPB) (Dendroctonus pond...