Clinical and translational research extends basic science research into the clinical realm, bringing the latest advances and potential treatments to the patients who need them. The Brown School of Public Health offers a number of educational programs that trains physicians and researchers in these research methods. The goal of these programs is to help students develop an independent research c...

In this editorial, we have highlighted key research opportunities and challenges in four topical themes for indoor chemistry: human occupants as agents influencing indoor chemistry; oxidative chemistry; surface phenomena; and semivolatile organic compounds. In each case, enough prior work has been done to demonstrate the importance of the theme and to create a foundation for future studies. Ext...

Progress in understanding mineral evolution, Earth’s changing near-surface mineralogy through time, depends on the availability of detailed information on mineral localities of known ages and geologic settings. A comprehensive database including this information, employing the mindat.org web site as a platform, is now being implemented. This resource will incorporate software to correlate a ran...

The rapid growth in computer and communication technologies has vastly expanded the potential scope and impact of computer systems designed to improve negotiation process and outcomes. Negotiation Support Systems (NSS) are evolving in a number of innovative directions. In this review article, we explore several related questions: (1) What is an NSS? (2) How have NSS evolved in the past? (3) Wha...

Despite growing interest in traditional and Internet auctions, the marketing literature on auctions is sparse. This paper outlines selected aspects of the research opportunity. We provide a brief description of the major auction mechanisms, outline key concepts and results from the economic analysis of auctions, and summarize the key findings in empirical tests of auction theory. We then identi...

XBRL is a computer language add-on that facilitates the rendering of financial information. Its development has been accompanied by claims that XBRL will, among other things, lead to continuous reporting and eliminate financial reporting differences including differences between jurisdictional GAAP. These discussions have largely ignored the literature on voluntary disclosures and earnings mana...

Platforms refer to intermediaries that facilitate economic interaction between two sets of agents wherein the decisions of one set of agents is likely to have an effect on the other via direct and/or indirect externalities. Given their nature, platforms need to find the appropriate balance between the competing objectives of agents and act as catalysts by facilitating the beneficial effects of ...

Welcome to the first issue of the new Environmental Health Perspectives: it looks a lot different from the original journal, but the tradition of dedication to good science remains unchanged. We have published 100 volumes of EHP and this, volume 101, is a new beginning. We have changed formats and provided new ones to accommodate the numerous varieties and forms that scientific information can ...

Orthotopic hepatic transplantation offers selected patients a surgical cure of their otherwise hopelessly advanced liver disease. It also presents the medical-scientific community with an almost limitless list of new questions to be asked, unique materials to be studied, and an opportunity to extend the current understanding of liver disease and its complications. Presented below is a list of f...