In the article “Identifying Gaps in Asthma Education, Health Promotion, and Social Support for Mi’kmaq Families in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, Canada,” an error occurs in the first sentence of the Introduction. That sentence should read, “The health of Canada’s 1.5 million Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-645-x/2010001/count-pop-deno...

This paper introduces the application of the visualization technology in the USA environmental consulting industry for site characterization, remedial programs, and litigation support. As a tool visualization allows environmental data that is three-dimensional and transient in nature to be accurately documented, efficiently represented, and effectively communicated to both professionals and the...

In today's economic climate where budget reductions are common, executives are under pressure to deliver profitable growth. Business leaders must identify and implement the critical items that will enable the enterprise to remain competitive. Methods and techniques long utilized in the actuarial department are being leveraged to improve many areas of the insurance operation. Will these methods ...

(2), in the view of 2 of the IOM study committee members (Appendix) and a colleague who is involved in evaluation of Kaiser Permanente's Community Health Initiatives. " In addition, the Acknowledgment was omitted. It should have appeared as follows: Acknowledgment

Aesthetic knowing may be valuable to educational leadership practice because it links feeling and intuition to procedural information to inform decision-making. Within the large and diverse field of aesthetics, some models apply aesthetic knowing to leadership practice. Scholarly interest in this area emerged in the late 1980’s, and various conceptualizations of aesthetic leadership abound in t...

We investigate the simultaneous effects of aerosol peak height (APH), aerosol properties, measurement geometry, and other factors on the air mass factor for NO2 retrieval at sites with high NO2 concentration. A comparison of the effects of high and low surface reflectance reveals that NO2 air mass factor (AMF) values over a snowy surface (surface reflectance 0.8) are generally higher than those...