BACKGROUND Metropolitan and rural Western Australia (WA) major trauma transport times are extremely different. We compared outcomes from these different systems of care. METHODS Major trauma (Injury Severity Score, ISS>15) data from the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) and Trauma Registries, 1 July 1997-30 June 2006. Two groups were studied: Metro (metropolitan major trauma transported dire...

In this paper, we present estimates of the fiscal transfer to immigrants from native-born Canadians. The fiscal transfer is the amount of money that immigrants absorb in public services less the amount that they pay in taxes, suitably adjusted for scale effects in public provision of services, life-cycle effects in tax payment, and so on. Our work builds on previous work in the literature, upda...

1 Steven E. Justiniano, Joseph P. McElroy, Lianbo Yu, Ayse Selen Yilmaz, Kevin R. 2 Coombes, Leigha Senter, Rebecca Nagy, Paul Wakely, Jr, Stefano Volinia, Michelle 3 Vinco, Thomas J. Giordano, Carlo M. Croce, Motoyasu Saji, Matthew D. Ringel 4 1 Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Center for Biostatistics and Department 5 of Bioinformatics; Division of Human Genetics, 4 Depart...

Photosynthetic eukaryotes have a critical role as the main producers in most ecosystems of the biosphere. The ongoing environmental metabarcoding revolution opens the perspective for holistic ecosystems biological studies of these organisms, in particular the unicellular microalgae that often lack distinctive morphological characters and have complex life cycles. To interpret environmental sequ...

LINDA LAIKRE,∗ FRED W. ALLENDORF,† LAUREL C. ARONER,† C. SCOTT BAKER,‡ DAVID P. GREGOVICH,§ MICHAEL M. HANSEN,∗∗ JENNIFER A. JACKSON,‡ KATHERINE C. KENDALL,†† KEVIN McKELVEY,‡‡ MAILE C. NEEL,§§ ISABELLE OLIVIERI,∗∗∗ NILS RYMAN,∗ MICHAEL K. SCHWARTZ,‡‡ RUTH SHORT BULL,† JEFFREY B. STETZ,†† DAVID A. TALLMON,††† BARBARA L. TAYLOR,§ CHRISTINA D. VOJTA,‡‡‡ DONALD M. WALLER,§§§ AND ROBIN S. WAPLES∗∗∗...

It has been proposed that there are at least 2 classes of dendritic cells (DCs), CD8alpha(+) DCs derived from the lymphoid lineage and CD8alpha(-) DCs derived from the myeloid lineage. Here, the abilities of lymphoid- and myeloid-restricted progenitors to generate DCs are compared, and their overall contributions to the DC compartment are evaluated. It has previously been shown that primitive m...

This paper discusses the prospects of psychology playing a significant role in the progress of human-computer interaction. In any field, hard science (science that is mathematical or otherwise technical) has a tendency to drive out softer sciences, even if the softer sciences have important contributions to make. It is possible that, as computer science and artificial intelligence contributions...

BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors for horizontal transmission of hepatitis B infection due to intravenous drug abuse (IVDA), tattooing, blood transfusion, and combinations of these risk factors. METHODS All people detained in 19 prisons were invited to participate. Subjects underwent a physical examination and completed a questionnaire. Blood s...

OBJECTIVES A well-known demographic finding in modern society is the inverse association between socioeconomic status and mortality. The purpose of the study was to examine socioeconomic indicators, such as occupational category (white-collar vs blue -collar) and occupational position (managerial vs non-managerial) as determinants of all -cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality...

We used a two-phase study design that incorporated a novel video shadowing approach to learn how close-knit groups use technology to stay connected while mobile and to identify their unmet needs. In the first phase, we conducted a logging study with small groups in which each member logged all their interactions over 3 days, enabling us to identify suitable groups for the second, video shadowin...