Reevaluating Epidemiological Monitoring

Reevaluating the disengagement hypothesis.

Despite extensive research, the question of the relative contributions of stimulus-driven and goal-directed factors to the allocation of attentional priority at the preattentive stage remains highly controversial. Theeuwes (2010) claims that within a spatially defined window of attention, the most salient object is always granted attentional priority mandatorily and irrespective of the observer...

Epidemiological concepts regarding disease monitoring and surveillance.

Definitions of epidemiological concepts regarding disease monitoring and surveillance can be found in textbooks on veterinary epidemiology. This paper gives a review of how the concepts: monitoring, surveillance, and disease control strategies are defined. Monitoring and surveillance systems (MO&SS) involve measurements of disease occurrence, and the design of the monitoring determines which ty...

Epidemiological studies in monitoring reproductive effects.

The possible hazards of occupational exposure on the reproductive health of workers is of great interest. In this review, epidemiological study designs suitable for reproductive studies and sources of outcome and exposure data are described with a few examples. Studies have been conducted on hormonal changes, semen quality, fertility, and various outcomes of pregnancy, e.g., spontaneous abortio...

Reevaluating Runoffs in Latin America

Reevaluating herpes simplex virus hemifusion.

Membrane fusion induced by enveloped viruses proceeds through the actions of viral fusion proteins. Once activated, viral fusion proteins undergo large protein conformational changes to execute membrane fusion. Fusion is thought to proceed through a "hemifusion" intermediate in which the outer membrane leaflets of target and viral membranes mix (lipid mixing) prior to fusion pore formation, enl...