1 Children’s Hospital Colorado, Department of Research Informatics, Aurora, Colorado, United States; 2 University of Colorado, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States; 3 Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States; 4 Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; 5 Kaiser Permanente, San Rafael Medical Cent...

A case study of the Sacramento Basin is undertaken to examine problems of planning for the impacts of climate change on water resources utilizing output from general circulation climate models. This work provides a sensitivity analysis linking climate, stream ̄ow, and planning decisions. Water resource planners want reliable time series of stream ̄ow in the basin. Sacramento basin hydrological mo...

Predation is one mechanism that could lead to low native fish abundance in macrophyte dominated shallow-water habitats in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. We used beach seine and gill net sampling to identify and compare the distribution and feeding ecology of three piscivores (striped bass, Morone saxatilis, largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, and Sacramento pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus gran...

OBJECTIVE This article reports the results of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP). SNAPP set as its goal the reduction of alcohol access, drinking, and related problems in two low-income, predominantly ethnic minority neighborhoods, focusing on individuals between the ages 15 and 29, an age group identified with high rates of alcohol-involved problems. METHOD Two ne...

I nuovi scenari culturali, sempre più secolarizzati, plurali e prepotentemente influenzati dalla cultura digitale pongono le scelte di vita, in particolare quella cristiana, fronte ad antiche nuove sfide. In essi quale posto occupa la fede cristiana? Questa domanda merita adeguata risposta che Chiesa intende offrire proponendo un rinnovamento del cammino ecclesiale punti sull’evangelizzazione d...

[1] Measurements of anthropogenic hydrocarbons, ozone, and meteorological variables were obtained during the summer of 1997 near the University of California Blodgett Forest Research Station on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These measurements and related observations obtained upwind in Sacramento and Folsom, California, by the California Air Resources Board and the National ...

D.R. Vinson1,2,3; J.E. Morley4; J. Huang3; V. Liu1,3,5; M.L. Anderson1,2; C. E. Drenten6; R.P. Radecki7; D.K. Nishijima4; M.E. Reed3; on behalf of the Kaisers Permanente CREST Network 1The Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California; 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center, Roseville, California; 3Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, Californi...

DEWI SARTIAMI1, GILLIAN W. WATSON2, MOHAMAD ROFF M.N3., MOHD HANIFAH Y3 & IDRIS. A.B1 1School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, National University of Malaysia, Bangi 43000, Selangor, Malaysia. E-mail addresses: [email protected] and [email protected] 2Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food and Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Roa...

BACKGROUND Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs has increased rapidly in the United States during the last decade, yet little is known about its effects on prescribing decisions in primary care. We compared prescribing decisions in a US setting with legal DTCA and a Canadian setting where DTCA of prescription drugs is illegal, but some cross-border exposure occurs. METH...

Survival and migration dynamics of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta