Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind: Katrina 15 Years After

Language and the sow-reap rhythm.

Hurricane Katrina: a physician's whirlwind course in disaster psychiatry.

1350 J Clin Psychiatry 66:11, November 2005 t was my first visit to the Big Easy. Since childhood, I’d been eager to explore New Orleans—such a rich mélange of culture and history. The mingling of French sophistication, great food, jazz, mysterious voodoo roots, and a southern American laissez-faire attitude has held such an allure. Little did I know that this dream weekend getaway would develo...

Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

We investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential wellbeing in Germany, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a unique novel panel data set on more than 20,000 wind turbines for the time period between 2000 and 2012. Using a Geographical Information System (GIS), we calculate the proximity between households and the nearest wind turbin...

Defining analytical performance specifications 15 years after the Stockholm conference.

The European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) has as part of its mission “to be the leading organization of Laboratory Medicine in Europe.” Through leadership, the EFLM strives to enhance patient care and improve outcomes by promoting and improving the scientific, professional and clinical aspects of laboratory medicine. To focus on important aspects in laboratory...

When to Reap and When to Sow - Lowering Peak Usage with Realistic Batteries

In some energy markets, large clients are charged for both total energy usage and peak energy usage, which is based on the maximum single energy request over the billing period. The problem of minimizing peak charges was recently introduced as an online problem in [4], which gave optimally competitive algorithms. In this problem, a battery (previously assumed to be perfectly efficient) is used ...