<scp>CO₂</scp> has significant implications for hourly ambient temperature: Evidence from Hawaii

When ' neutral ' evidence still has probative value ( with implications from

The likelihood ratio (LR) is a probabilistic method that has been championed as a ‘simple rule’ for evaluating the probative value of forensic evidence in court. Intuitively, if the LR is greater than one then the evidence supports the prosecution hypothesis; if the LR is less than one it supports the defence hypothesis, and if the LR is equal to one then the evidence favours neither (and so is...

Heat stress from enclosed vehicles: moderate ambient temperatures cause significant temperature rise in enclosed vehicles.

OBJECTIVE Each year, children die from heat stroke after being left unattended in motor vehicles. In 2003, the total was 42, up from a national average of 29 for the past 5 years. Previous studies found that on days when ambient temperatures exceeded 86 degrees F, the internal temperatures of the vehicle quickly reached 134 to 154 degrees F. We were interested to know whether similarly high tem...

Evidence of Double Dissociation in Auditory Agnosia: Implications for Rehabilition

Acute Impact of Hourly Ambient Air Pollution on Preterm Birth

BACKGROUND Preterm birth is a major perinatal health problem, but factors leading to it are still not completely understood. OBJECTIVES Our goal was to identify the relation between acute increase in ambient air pollution in a few hours before onset of labor and the risk of preterm birth. METHODS We collected registered birth outcome data and hourly ambient air pollution measurements during...

Ambient Temperature and Morbidity: A Review of Epidemiological Evidence

OBJECTIVE In this paper, we review the epidemiological evidence on the relationship between ambient temperature and morbidity. We assessed the methodological issues in previous studies and proposed future research directions. DATA SOURCES AND DATA EXTRACTION We searched the PubMed database for epidemiological studies on ambient temperature and morbidity of noncommunicable diseases published i...