2012 Question of the Year

Seroepidemiology and Risk Factors of Toxoplasmosis in High School Girls of Ilam in the Year 2012

Background& Objective: Toxoplasmosis is a common infection among humans and animals. The disease is caused by Toxoplasma gondii. The prevalence of this infection depends on the weather conditions, dietary habits, and exposure to cats. This infection maylead to abortion, preterm labor and congenital anomalies in pregnant women. The present study is a descriptive cross – sectional study, whi...

Question Answering System for QA4MRE@CLEF 2012

The article presents the experiments carried out as part of the participation in the main task of QA4MRE@CLEF 2012. In the developed system, we first combine the question and each answer option to form the Hypothesis (H). Stop words are removed from each H and query words are identified to retrieve the most relevant sentences from the associated document using Lucene. Relevant sentences are ret...

EHP Paper of the Year, 2012

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) established the Paper of the Year Award in 2008 to recognize high­quality papers published in the journal (Tilson 2008). Starting in 2011, EHP decided to recog nize two papers each year (Tilson 2011). The EHP Classic Paper of the Year is the research article, commentary, or review that is the most highly cited over the preceding 60 months. The winner of t...

EHP Classic Paper of the Year, 2012

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) established the Paper of the Year in 2008 (Tilson 2008) as a way of highlighting high-quality articles published in the journal. The EHP Classic Paper of the Year is given to the most highly cited Research Article, Commentary, or Review Article over the preceding 60 months. We are proud to announce that the 2012 EHP Classic Paper of the Year is “Exposure ...

Editor's Note: 2012 Reviewers of the Year