By examining the census tracts and towns that are intersected by Massachusetts' major highway corridors, Diesel and Health along Massachusetts' Highway Corridors ascertains whether these areas contain significantly higher rates of diesel particulate matter (DPM), lung cancer, and asthma. DPM was significantly higher for corridor towns than non-corridor towns. Hot spot analysis revealed statisti...

Omar Sadr, Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan. Oxon: Routledge, 2020, xiii+242 pp., US$112.11, ISBN: 978-1138371057

Nora Sandu1,2, Fatemeh Momen-Heravi3, Pooyan Sadr-Eshkevari4, Ali Arvantaj5 and Bernhard Schaller2 1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 2Department of Neurosurgery, University of Paris 7, Paris, 3Craniomaxillofacial Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 4Dental Section, Farzan Clinical Research Institute, Tehran, 5Department of Neuro...

Mostafa Hosseini ([email protected]) Parisa Adimi Naghan ([email protected]) Ali Moghadas Jafari ([email protected]) Mahmoud Yousefifard ([email protected]) Shervin Taslimi ([email protected]) Kian Khodadad ([email protected]) Forouzan Mohammadi ([email protected]) Makan Sadr ([email protected]) Mansour Rezaei ([email protected]) Mohammad Reza Masjedi (mr...

Copper, lead, cadmium, and zinc levels were analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in surface soil, plants, and air samples taken from both sides of the major highway connecting Amman with the southern parts of Jordan. Elevated levels of the studied elements were found in both soil and plants on the east side and on the west side of the road compared with the background values. The hig...

Total ... 28 grains injected. Collapse was passing off at 4 p. M. Urine was not passed, however, till morning of 28th : had reactionary fever, for which he was treated with quinine. Recovered. 3. At Sadr Dispensary.?Sahibdin, aged 35, Mussulman. 28th April.?10 A. M., was attacked yesterday morning. Is now in intense collapse : cramps severe. 28tli April, 10 A. M. injected G grs. Chloral. 2 P. M...