POPULAR SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

Popular diets: a scientific review.

Introduction Weight loss is a major concern for the US population. Surveys consistently show that most adults are trying to lose or maintain weight (1). Nevertheless, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased steadily over the past 30 years. Currently, 50% of all adult Americans are considered overweight or obese (2,3). These numbers have serious public health implications. Excess ...

Popular and Scientific Attitudes Regarding Pandemic Influenza

1. Martinez AJ, Visvesvara GS. Free-living, amphizoic and opportunistic amebas. Brain Pathol. 1997;7:583–98. DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1997.tb01076.x 2. Dziuban EJ, Liang JL, Craun GF, Hill V, Yu PA, Painter J, et al. Surveillance for waterborne disease and outbreaks associated with recreational water—United States, 2003–2004. MMWR Surveill Summ. 2006;55(12):1–30. 3. Marciano-Cabral F, MacLean R...

Crying and Health: Popular and Scientific Conceptions

We summarize popular and pre-scientific conceptions of the relationship between crying, well-being and health, and we review the scientific literature on this topic. First, the focus is on whether crying brings relief and facilitates emotional recovery. Next, we discuss the evidence addressing whether crying or its chronic inhibition is associated with an increased risk of developing health pro...

Scientific themes in the popular literature and the poetry of the German Enlightenment, 1720–1760

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Bruce Schatz William Mischo Timothy Cole Ann he Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) project at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign (UIUC) was one of six sponsored by the NSF, DARPA, and NASA from 1994 through 1998. Our goal was to develop widely usable Web technology to effectively search technical documents on the Internet. We concentrated Susan Harum Eric Johnson Laura Neumann Univer...