ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Winter Advisory

Science funding. The National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.

(Editor's Note: Following is a reprint ofa letter sent to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department ofHealth and Human Services, on 9June 1995.) The budget now under consideration in the Congress for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences would indefensibly threaten environmental health protection for America. For millions of Americans the environment is a major determinant of...

Conservation Advisory Science Notes

Conservation Advisory Science Notes

Icms Complexity Science Winter School

Lecture 1: Feedback, sensitivity, and complexity A central paradigm of control theory is that feedback shapes sensitivity. This lecture will review the basics of this theory and its relevance to analyse complex systems, when understood as large networks of interconnected systems. Lecture 2: Sensitivity analysis of neuronal behaviors The heritage of Hodgkin and Huxley confers a unique place to n...

AHA Science Advisory Call to Action: Cardiovascular Disease in Asian Americans A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association

Latha P. Palaniappan, MD, MS, FAHA, Chair; Maria Rosario G. Araneta, PhD; Themistocles L. Assimes, MD, PhD; Elizabeth L. Barrett-Connor, MD, FAHA; Mercedes R. Carnethon, PhD, FAHA; Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH, FAHA; Gordon L. Fung, MD, PhD, MPH, FAHA; K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, FAHA; Hamang Patel, MD; Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae, PhD, RN; Peter W.F. Wilson, MD, FAHA; Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FAHA; on b...