Henry Hyde Salter’s pioneering contributions and unsurpassed descriptions regarding many facets of asthma and its treatments are increasingly recognised during the last 50 years. 3 Indeed, reference to Salter is frequent in current discussions on asthma. However, Salter’s intriguing observations inferring roles of respiratory infection in asthma remain little noticed. Yet, common cold, predomin...

Accessible improved sanitation is critical to health, and inequities in improved sanitation can be interpreted as health inequities across socioeconomic groups (1). In China, sanitation improvement in rural areas has made great progress in recent years. However, China still has a disparity in coverage rates of improved sanitation among 30 provinces. Aiming to identify the determinants that lead...

THE ECOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MATURATION DRYING DETERMINES DEHYDRIN EXPRESSION IN SEEDS In areas exhibiting typical seasonal changes, the seeds of most plants are getting mature in summer and fall, respectively. In order to prevent the destruction of the young and sensitive seedlings by the frosty winter conditions, any germination in fall has to be hindered. Accordingly, efficient outlasting mec...

IRAS 09371+1212 is an oxygen-rich post-asymptotic giant branch (postAGB) star with an hourglass-like bipolar proto-planetary nebula (PPN), and has been well studied since its discovery because of several interesting peculiarities. It is also known as Frosty Leo because its unique, strong peak at 60 μm in the IRAS photometry was initially proposed to be due to emissions from water ice which cond...

The geochemical composition of foraminiferal tests is a valuable archive for the reconstruction of paleo-climatic, -oceanographic and -ecological changes. However, dissolution of biogenic calcite and precipitation of inorganic calcite (overgrowth and recrystallization) at the seafloor and in the sediment column can potentially alter the original geochemical composition of the foraminiferal test...

a widely distributed species, occurring not only in the European continent, as suggested by its common name. Its range embraces part of the northern African Maghreb region, much of southern and western Europe, Anatolia and vast parts of eastern Europe and adjacent Asia. It is a genetically deeply structured species, and the Sicilian pond turtle was recognized as a distinct species (E. trinacris...

Previous scholarship on American federalism has largely focused on the national government’s increasingly conflictual relationship with the states. While some studies have explored the rise of mandates at the state level, there has been comparatively less attention on state-local relationships. Using a new survey of mayors, we explore variations in local government attitudes towards their state...

International Forum on Rheumatoid Arthritis (IFRA), an incredible meeting. Professor Zhan-guo Li, Professor of Medicine at Peking University and President of the Asia Pacifi c League Against Rheumatism, and his co-chairs, Professor Lars Klareskog, Professor of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet, and Professor Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Professor of Medicine, University of Tokyo, organized the meeting....

Recent years have seen growing evidence of a fruitful engagement between phenomenology and cognitive science. This paper confronts an in-principle problem that stands in the way of this (perhaps unlikely) intellectual coalition, namely the fact that a tension exists between the transcendentalism that characterizes phenomenology and the naturalism that accompanies cognitive science. After articu...