Few general practitioners have extensive daytime telephone contacts with patients. Forty nine general practitioners responding to a postal survey who reported handling a mean of nine or more calls a day were interviewed about their experiences. The nature of telephone contacts with patients and the organizational strategies employed to minimize disruption to surgeries were explored. Views on th...

Introduction: We have obtained multiple contemporaneous ground and space-based visible and hyperspectral infrared observations of a persistent active lava lake, one of the rarest volcanonological phenomenon. This unique dataset advances our understanding of remote sensing of lava lake activity on Earth and Io. The Mt. Erebus lava lake: Active lava lakes are the top of an open magma system and p...

Reforming the US vaccine-financing system is a promising means of increasing vaccine coverage among US children; however, it is a significant undertaking that calls for creativity and cooperation by a diverse group of stakeholders. In this commentary, we present a consumer’s viewpoint on the vaccine-financing recommendations of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). Because immunizatio...

Lake Tana is Ethiopia’s largest lake which carries more than 80% of the total volume Nile River. The objective this study was to analyze fisheries’ access information and technologies in Tana. Raw data collected from four landing sites (Bahird Zuria, Gorgora, Metreabaworka Bata kebele) filled STATA by Nationa Fishery other Aquatic Life Research Center, Agricultural Directorate used. Then analys...

nature has always proven that it is able to overcome its problems. however, humanmanipulation has led to environmental degradations. the dryness of a thousand-year urmia lake(a brine water lake in iran) is an example of environmental degradation that happened due tosuccessive droughts and construction of dams on the basin of this lake. this study examinesmethods for the revival of urmia lake by...

Variations in a lake area constitute an important indicator of the modifications of the lake hydrology. This paper explores the inter-annual variations of the Poyang Lake area during the dry seasons occurringwithin the 1961 to 2010 period and further quantifies the severity of dryness recently endured during the 2000s. A physically based hydrodynamic model of Poyang Lake established the relatio...

The National Lake Fish Tissue Study (NLFTS) was the first survey of fish contamination in lakes and reservoirs in the 48 conterminous states based on a probability survey design. This study included the largest set (268) of persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals ever studied in predator and bottom-dwelling fish species. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) implemente...

Metrics describing the shape and size of lakes, known as lake morphometry metrics, are important for any limnological study. In cases where a lake has long been the subject of study these data are often already collected and are openly available. Many other lakes have these data collected, but access is challenging as it is often stored on individual computers (or worse, in filing cabinets) and...