Groups of Rainbow smelt were observed spawning in the first riffle in Mohican Canyon upstream of Otsego Lake. Adult smelt were collected with a shore seine on 22 April 2001. Sampled fish (n=17) had an average length of 176.8 mm total length (TL) and weight of 34.2 g. Despite these observations, no larval, juvenile or adult smelt were collected in any trawling or gill netting activities in Otseg...

We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971 through 1992 to characterize currency crashes. We define a currency crash as a large change of the nominal exchange rate that is also a substantial increase in the rate of change of nominal depreciation. We examine the composition of the debt as well as its level, and a variety of other macroeconomic factors, exte...

The 13 C substitutions of molecule HC 7 N were observed in TMC-1 using the J = 12 − 11, J = 13 − 12 rotational transitions in the frequency range 12.4 to 13.6 GHz. We present the first detection the 13 C isotopic species of HC 7 N in the interstellar medium, based on the average of a number of weak rotational transitions. This paper describes the calibration and data averaging process that is a...

The study investigated the correlation between the perception of sibling relationship to cope an adverse occurrence - the partial collapse of a primary school - and the indicators related to the traumatic impact set off by the event, by soliciting the child's reminiscence of the catastrophic experience. One hundred trauma-exposed children were recruited from a Sicilian primary school and were a...

Patient safety events (PSEs) are common in healthcare and may be particularly prevalent in complex care settings such as emergency departments (EDs). Systems for reporting, analyzing, learning from and responding to incidents are promoted as a means to reduce adverse events by facilitating feedback, learning and system change. However, only 4-50% of PSEs are reported. Under-reporting masks the ...

OBJECTIVES Injury interventions often invoke the teachable moment (TM); however, there is scant empirical research examining this construct with violent injuries. We sought to operationalize the TM construct and to determine whether an emergency department (ED) visit was a TM for intervention among assault-injured adolescents and their parents. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS One hundred sixty-eight...