Zoos have yet to unveil their full conservation potential

Captivity for Conservation? Zoos at a Crossroads

Protons for Oropharyngeal Cancer Have Not Yet Justified Their Promise.

Our colleagues had a tough job to do. Using patientreported outcomes (PRO) instruments that may have lacked sensitivity to elicit subtle differences in outcomes important to patients, they compared PROs in oropharyngeal cancer patients treated with intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) versus those in patients treated with intensity modulated photon therapy (IMRT) (1). Sio et al hypothesize...

kids and teenager are sleepy at school because the electronic media they have in their bedrooms leads them to have delayed sleep phase disorder (dspd)

bserved by many teachers that most of the time, mumbling and searching for their intended words, students complain why they have forgotten the words they have learned in the previous semesters. they ask for some new ways that may help them to recall and apply the learned words more efficiently, since as they declare one of the most important skills in foreign language learning is having a g...

Zoos and Conservation: Policy Making and Organizational Challenges

The zoo community seeks improved relevance to society by contributing to restoration of biological diversity, but faces special challenges to meeting this admirable policy goal. We examine zoos’ effectiveness in endangered species restoration, public education, and policy and operations. We suggest that the zoo community can improve its performance in a complex context by better clarifying its ...

A horizon scan for species conservation by zoos and aquariums.

We conducted the first horizon scan for zoos and aquariums to identify the 10 most important emerging issues for species conservation. This involved input from more than 100 experts from both the wider conservation community and the world zoo and aquarium community. Some of the issues are globally important: diseases, zoonoses, and biosecurity issues; new (communication) technologies; global wa...