Using a spatial percentile approach, we explore the magnitude of temperature anomalies across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Linear trends in spatial percentile series are estimated for 1881–2013, the most recent 30 year period (1984–2013), and 1998–2013. All spatial percentiles in both hemispheres show increases from 1881 to 2013, but warming occurred unevenly via modification of cold ...

During a two-year period, from January 1984 through December 1985, six cases of intentional overdosage with isoniazid were reported in young Southeast Asian refugee women. The patients were aged 14 to 23 years, had all immigrated within one year and were receiving isoniazid preventive therapy for tuberculosis infection without disease. Clinically, all patients experienced generalized seizures, ...

We analyzed the trends in the age-standardized incidence rates of 10 460 cases of primary intracranial tumors diagnosed during 1975 and 2004, Osaka, Japan using the Joinpoint regression analysis. During the period 1975–2004, the age-standardized incidence rates of total intracranial tumors increased until 1987 at 3.1% per year and then decreased significantly at 21.8% per year. The time trends ...

We analyzed the trends in the age-standardized incidence rates of 10,460 cases of primary intracranial tumors diagnosed during 1975 and 2004, Osaka, Japan using the Joinpoint regression analysis. During the period 1975-2004, the age-standardized incidence rates of total intracranial tumors increased until 1987 at 3.1% per year and then decreased significantly at -1.8% per year. The time trends ...

We describe a percutaneous technique for screw fixation of all types of fractures of the scaphoid. During a 15-year period ending in 1984, 280 cases were treated by this method; 198 of them returned for evaluation in 1986 and comprise the material for this report. After a mean postoperative time of 82 months, 89% of the recent fractures had united as well as 81.8% of those with delayed or nonun...

Introduction Visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis are endemic in the Maltese islands. Leishmania infantum has been cultured from humans, dogs and the sandfly PhZebotomus perniciosus (GRADONI et al., 1991). Since 1955 the incidence of leishmaniasis has been about 10 local new cases per year compared with about 150 cases per year in the immediate post-war period (CACHIA & FENECH, 1964; Ministry o...

Upon settlement after a pelagic larval phase, brown shrimp Crangon crangon depend on intertidal flats. During low as well high tide the young play roles predators of meiofauna and prey for fish birds. Unlike biology commercially important adults, knowledge these juveniles remains sketchy. Here we provide an analysis 35 years (1984–2018) monitoring in May–June flats westernmost Dutch Wadden Sea....

At the end of the first year of life, there is a confluence of two major developments in infant language acquisition. Infants this age are emerging from a period of refining their speech perception skills to native-language contrasts (e.g., Werker & Tees, 1984). Concurrently, the infants’ word learning skills are solidifying. Although infants have some success with word learning prior to 12 mon...

BACKGROUND The objective of this retrospective descriptive study was to determine whether the universal influenza vaccination for schoolchildren was effective in controlling influenza outbreaks in a school. A universal vaccination program for schoolchildren was started in Japan in the 1960s, but the government abandoned the program in 1994 because of lack of evidence that the program was effect...