troke is a major public health burden in the United States, with indications that stroke is emerging as a global epidemic. Furthermore, there exists an appreciation that focus on clinical treatment alone will not significantly reduce the burden of stroke, including morbidity and mortality. Emphasis needs to shift to acknowledging the importance of behavioral change science. The focus of this mo...

OBJECTIVE Effective interventions to prevent, delay, or remit diabetes are currently available. However, their impact on the prevalence of diabetes at the population level is unknown. This study aimed to estimate the impact of a range of diabetes interventions on the population prevalence of diabetes for Australian adults between 2010 and 2025. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used the Australi...

Adolescent depression is a serious and relatively common mood disorder with an estimated 1-year prevalence of between 4 and 5% (Thapar 2012). The prevention of depression in young people is important not only because it is distressing for the individual, family and carers, but because it is also associated with considerable social, educational and occupational impairment as well as poor physica...

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Global biodiversity continues along a trajectory of decline despite enormous conservation efforts (Rands et al., 2010). This is also true in China, one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world (Liu and Raven, 2010; Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, 2010a). To fundamentally change this trajectory, it is essential to understand complex interactions among various forces af...