We investigated the association of the intensity of newspaper reporting of charcoal burning suicide with the incidence of such deaths in Taiwan during 1998-2002. A counting process approach was used to estimate the incidence of suicides and intensity of news reporting. Conditional Poisson generalized linear autoregressive models were performed to assess the association of the intensity of newsp...

Biomass burning has long been recognised as an important source of trace gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. The burning of vegetation has a repeating seasonal pattern, but the intensity of burning and the exact localisation of fires vary considerably from year to year. Recent studies have demonstrated the high interannual variability of the emissions that are associated with biomass burning....

We investigate the evolution of metal deficient stars, presentingH-burning isochrones covering cluster ages from800 Myr to 7 Gyr. Evolutionary evidences for selection effects in the metallicity distribution of very metal poor H-burning red giants are reported. The evolution of stars during central and shell He burning is further investigated, discussing the occurrence of He burning pulsators as...