Space Weather Research and Policy for This Decade

Public Health Nutrition for this decade.

You will notice from the contents list beginning with this issue that we have made some adjustments to our journal. These follow from a discussion at a meeting of our editorial board together with representatives of the Nutrition Society and Cambridge University Press, held on the occasion of the International Conference on Nutrition in Bangkok last October. The field of public health nutrition...

Research Environment and Information Service of the Space Weather Cloud

For researches and information services of space weather, it is important to establish a comprehensive system which enables us to analyze observation and simulation data in an integrated manner. For this, we constructed recently a new computing environment called the “Space Weather Cloud Computing System” of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Now, the Sp...

~- This research was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space

Space Weather Support for Communications

Ionospheric variability (space weather) significantly impacts ground and space-based communications. In essence, the electrically charged particles of the ionosphere (i.e., the partially ionized portion of the atmosphere starting at about 40 nautical miles (nm) above the Earth's surface) can attenuate, totally absorb, reflect, change direction of propagation, and change the phase and amplitude ...

Alcohol-related injury and the emergency department: research and policy questions for the next decade.