American Fisheries Society (F1)

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

We encourage the submission of original papers on fisheries science, including ones on genetics, physiology, biology, ecology, population dynamics, economics, health, culture, and other topics pertaining to marine and freshwater finfish and exploitable shellfish. We generally favor papers that address functional questions (how, why, and when). However, we recognize that many aspects of fisherie...

North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:1144-1157, 1997 American Fisheries Society 1997

─Public agencies are being asked to quantitatively assess the impact of land management activities on sensitive populations of salmonids. To aid in these assessments, we developed a Bayesian viability assessment procedure (BayVAM) to help characterize land use risks to salmonids in the Pacific Northwest. This procedure incorporates a hybrid approach to viability analysis that blends qualitative...

Mid-atlantic Chapter of the American Fisheries Society

American Thoracic Society Documents

Clinical research involving critically ill patients is necessary to reduce the extreme morbidity and mortality encountered in the intensive care unit (ICU). Yet such research is ethically challenging because critically ill patients usually are unable to consent for research participation, because conflicts of interest occur among investigators, and because discovering new knowledge while simult...

American Thoracic Society Documents

Helen K. Reddel, D. Robin Taylor, Eric D. Bateman, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Homer A. Boushey, William W. Busse, Thomas B. Casale, Pascal Chanez, Paul L. Enright, Peter G. Gibson, Johan C. de Jongste, Huib A. M. Kerstjens, Stephen C. Lazarus, Mark L. Levy, Paul M. O’Byrne, Martyn R. Partridge, Ian D. Pavord, Malcolm R. Sears, Peter J. Sterk, Stuart W. Stoloff, Sean D. Sullivan, Stanley J. Szefler,...