Right here waiting...?

Still waiting for the right questions.

This supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine addresses an ambitious and important challenge—the task of evaluating community-based interventions designed to promote social environments that facilitate positive health outcomes. Three types of interventions were selected for systematic analysis: early childhood development, affordable housing for low-income families, and cultura...

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Watchful Waiting

On Waiting

Waiting is the activity of maintaining selected aspects of a current situation over some period of time in order that certain goal-related actions can be performed in the future. Initial steps toward the formalization of notions relevant to waiting are presented. Conditions and information pertinent to waiting decisions are defined.

Calcium channels and acquired thermotolerance: here comes the sun and it's all right.

When the sun comes up on a clear summer morning, it starts to get hot and you know it's going to get hotter. What's remarkable is that plants know it too. However, rather than making plans to hit the swimming pool, plants have to make other arrangements. These arrangements result in tran-scriptional activation of genes encoding heat shock proteins (Hsps); this dramatic mobilization can involve ...