S Balasegaram, J M Watson, A M C Rose, A Charlett, A J Nunn, A Rushdy, J Leese, L P Ormerod, on behalf of the Public Health Laboratory Service/British Thoracic Society/Department of Health Collaborative Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible o...

Robin Nunn has argued that we should stop using the terms ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. I argue in support of Nunn’s position by considering the logic of why we perform placebo comparisons. Like all comparisons, placebo comparison is just a case of comparing one thing with another, but it is a mistake, I argue, to think of placebo comparison as a case where something is compared to ‘a placebo...

abstract striped rice stem borer, chilo suppressalis walker (lepidoptera: pyralidae) is a major pest of rice in northern iran. regarding to the importance of population dynamics studies in pest management programs, the population fluctuations of c. suppressalis was studied in central part of mazandaran province (rice research centre of mazandaran) during 2005-2006. the male and female moths wer...

K. T. Kaczmarek1,∗, P. M. Ledingham, B. Brecht, S. E. Thomas, G. S. Thekkadath, O. Lazo-Arjona, J. H. D. Munns, E. Poem, A. Feizpour, D. J. Saunders, J. Nunn, I. A. Walmsley1∗ Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK. QOLS, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, UK. University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada. Departme...

How do experienced users extract information from a complex visualization? We examine this question by presenting experienced weather forecasters with visualizations that did not show the needed information explicitly and examining their eye movements. We replicated Carpenter & Shah (1998) when the information was explicitly available on the visualization. However, when the information was not ...

The importance of socioeconomic position, measured at multiple levels (e.g., individual, household, area) and across the life course, for studying health disparities is now well recognized (1–7). Our multilevel study (8) reported that individual-based socioeconomic measures (IBSMs) and area-based socioeconomic measures (ABSMs) together capture birth weight inequalities that otherwise would have...

ies, two educational symposia, eight mini-symposia and six newly organised academic symposia – all very well attended by more than 3,000 registered clinicians and basic scientists with interest in stroke research from all around the globe – we selected two for this Conference Report, nicely demonstrating the broad scope of topics addressed as well as the success made through recent research. Th...