Assessing ecosystem services of urban green spaces: the case of Eugene Pioneer Cemetery, Eugene, OR (USA)

Ecosystem services and urban heat riskscape moderation: water, green spaces, and social inequality in Phoenix, USA.

Urban ecosystems are subjected to high temperatures--extreme heat events, chronically hot weather, or both-through interactions between local and global climate processes. Urban vegetation may provide a cooling ecosystem service, although many knowledge gaps exist in the biophysical and social dynamics of using this service to reduce climate extremes. To better understand patterns of urban vege...

The Eugene Rasmusson Symposium

Eugene Garfield

Thisessaydiscusseslupus, an imnnme-systemdysfunctionthat affects may, especiallyyoung women, but is recognized by all too few. Its multiple manifestations have been baffling to researchers for over 100years; only rexently have the tools of molecular biology and immunogenetics reveafed substantial new information on its mechanism of autoimmunity. Still, the ukimate trigger for lupus remains a my...

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Anyone growing up in a city, especially in tenements, has encountered cockroaches. From childhood I remember my mother clobbering them with a shoe or a newspaper. Looking back, I marvel at how mothers in slums managed to keep apartments free of them. Even in modem high rises, these inseets are indefatigable--often outwitting regulas extermination squads. However, what I encountered as a child w...

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Mew-analyses and their proper place in medical literature are explained along with how they differ fromtraditional literature reviews. Both the qualitative and quantitative amccts of meta-analvsis are consid-ered in relation to studying the results of clinical tri This issue [1 February 1991] includes ameta-analysis of the use of steroids in treat-ing chronic obstructive pulmona...