The Paper of the Year Award was established in 2008 by Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) as a means of reinforcing high-quality articles published in the journal, identifying emerging research themes, and tracking the impact of groundbreaking research (Tilson 2008). In this issue, we are pleased to announce that the EHP Paper of the Year for 2009 is “Decrease in Anogenital Distance among ...

We find that trade and domestic market size are robust determinants of economic growth over the 1960-1996 period when trade openness is measured as the US dollar value of imports and exports relative to GDP in PPP US$ (“real openness”). When trade openness is measured as the US dollar value of imports and exports relative to GDP in exchange rate US$ (“nominal openness”) however, trade and the s...

This paper examines the impact of national security threats on a nation’s economic growth and fiscal policy based case study Korean peninsula. I construct four measures provocations using newly-assembled list North provocative events going back to 1960. The results show that overall South Korea’s short-run is negligible. Since inter-Korean relations have gone through phases, this also estimates...

Phenological responses of vegetation to climate, in particular to the ongoing warming trend, have received much attention. However, divergent results from the analyses of remote sensing data have been obtained for the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the world's largest high-elevation region. This study provides a perspective on vegetation phenology shifts during 1960-2014, gained using an innovative appr...

This paper deals principally with alteration to the physical form of forage diets and the effect on rumen fermentation. When a forage crop is cut and conserved there are possibilities of (a) changing the physical and chemical characteristics of the forage before it is given and (b) of combining the forage with other food components. T o produce a ruminant ration of high nutrient potential both ...

Since the 1960's many authors accepted the triple constraints (time, cost, specification) as a standard measure of success and this still appears to be extremely important in evaluating the success of ICT (information communication technology) projects. However, an ICT project cannot always be seen as a complete success or a complete failure. Moreover, the parties involved may perceive the term...

in the february 2006 in two wetlands in northern iran, the mortality among wild swans was observed. paralysis was the most prominent feature of the disease. histologically, diffused necrosis of acinar cells in pancreas, degeneration and necrosis of some neurons in central nervous system (cns), sever necrotic and hemorrhagic enteritis, foci of haemorrahge and myocardial cell necrosis in the hear...