In August 2007, several horses showed pyrexia and respiratory signs while in post-arrival quarantine in Australia. Subsequent investigations diagnosed equine influenza by serology and PCR in two quarantine stations. A common origin in a shipment of horses from Japan was indicated.

BACKGROUND To explain the possible effects of exposure to weather conditions on population health outcomes, weather data need to be calculated at a level in space and time that is appropriate for the health data. There are various ways of estimating exposure values from raw data collected at weather stations but the rationale for using one technique rather than another; the significance of the ...

14 15 16 [plus additional co-authors that will be named at the time of submission to the journal] 17 2 Abstract 18 In Fall et al, 2011, results from the recently concluded Surface Stations Project surveying 19 the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) were presented, using a siting 20 classification system developed by Michel Leroy for Meteofrance in 1999, and employed 21 system to introd...

Subway systems span most large cities, and railway networks most countries in the world. These networks are fundamental in the development of countries and their cities, and it is therefore crucial to understand their formation and evolution. However, if the topological properties of these networks are fairly well understood, how they relate to population and socio-economical properties remains...

Mobile Backbone Wireless Networks (MBWN) [10] are wireless networks in which the base stations are mobile. Our strategy is the following: mobile nodes are dynamically grouped into clusters of bounded radius. In the very large wireless networks we deal with we deal with, several hundreds of clusters may be generated. Clustering makes use of a two dimensional Euclidean version of the Antipole Tre...

BACKGROUND There is a general concern on the possible hazardous health effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic radiations (RFR) emitted from mobile phone base station antennas on the human nervous system. AIM To identify the possible neurobehavioral deficits among inhabitants living nearby mobile phone base stations. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on (85) inhabi...

Recent experiments investigating the acoustic cues that underlie distance perception for nearby sources provide important insights into how distance cues can be incorporated into virtual auditory displays. Potential distance cues considered include overall level, reverberation, and interaural level differences. Perceptual research shows that the relative utility of these cues depends on the typ...

The article contains the analysis of alternative sources and the perspectives of application low-powered nuclear thermoelectric power stations for electromagnetic compatibility on distance oil and gas fields with mesh power networks from 6 to 35 kV.

All available hedonic pricing estimates of the impact of landfills on nearby property values are assembled, including original estimates for three landfills in Pennsylvania. A metaanalysis shows that landfills that accept high volumes of waste (500 tons per day or more) decrease adjacent residential property values by 12.9%, on average. This impact diminishes with distance at a gradient of 5.9%...