Linking agricultural crop management and air quality models for regional to national-scale nitrogen assessments E. J. Cooter, J. O. Bash, V. Benson, and L. Ran United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Lab, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Benson Consulting, Columbia, Missouri, USA University of North Carolina, Insti...

At the 2005 Kaiser Permanente National Primary Care Conference in Maui, I convened a distinguished panel, diverse in disciplines, to address the topic of meditation, prayer, and spiritual healing. The following symposium is an edited transcript of that session. Meditation in the form of a relaxation response was first brought to conventional medicine by Herbert Benson, a Harvard cardiologist in...

OBJECTIVES To determine the potential impact of point of sale advertising on adolescents so as to inform changes to the Tobacco Control Act. DESIGN Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the control condition, students were exposed to a photograph of a packet of cigarettes; in the intervention condition, students were exposed to an ad for cigarettes, typical of point...

background and objectives: muscle relaxing technique is an effective method in improving sleep quality. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of muscle relaxation technique on fetal outcomes in complicated pregnancies who had sleep disorders. materials and methods: this study was performed as a clinical trial on 160 pregnant women who suffered from preeclampsia and gestational d...