Many studies have quantified debris collected on beaches around the world. Only a few of those studies have been conducted in the United States, and they are largely limited to semi-quantitative efforts performed as part of volunteer clean-up activities. This study quantifies the distribution and composition of beach debris by sampling 43 stratified random sites on the Orange County, California...

BACKGROUND Injury and violence cause five million deaths annually in the world which is around 9% of the global mortality. Eight out of fifteen leading causes of deaths in the age group 15-25 years are injury related. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the incidence, severity and socio-economic burden of injuries and violence in two cities of Nepal. MATERIALS AND METHODS Re...

The heritability of diet selection for mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. vaseyana [Rydb] Beetle) by grazing sheep was estimated from fecal samples collected from 549 Rambouillet ewes. Fecal samples were collected in September and October during 1996 and 1997 from free-grazing ewes on intermountain sagebrush-bunchgrass rangelands at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in Idah...

Abstract. In view of the data gathered in September 1997, we review the flux values collected so far for the ”fuzziness” seen in the optical counterpart of GRB970228. Comparison between the ground based data collected in March and the data of September 1997 suggests a fading of the fuzz. Given the diversity of the data in hand, the magnitude of the effect and its significance are not easy to qu...

OBJECTIVES In children aged less than 15 years, to determine the cumulative proportion of deaths occurring within 3 and 6 months of starting split-tablet adult fixed-dose combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) and to identify risk factors associated with early deaths. DESIGN A retrospective cohort analysis. METHODS Data were collected and analysed from ART patient master cards and the ART...

BACKGROUND We designed a self-sampling method to collect exfoliated genital cells for human papilloma virus (HPV) detection. The aim was to assess whether it was suitable as an assistant tool for the early detection of cervical pre-cancer and cancer in a special category of the women who are not frequently screened for cervical cancer. METHODS We compared the results of HPV detection that wer...

Young summer leaves of uniform size on a single tree were tagged and then picked at intervals as they matured. Prior to the time of maximum leaf expansion, the relation between Fe and chlorophyll concentrations changed rapidly in the direction of increased chlorophyll per unit of Fe. Samples from three orchards taken in September revealed a correlation coefficient of .70 between Fe and chloroph...

Abstract. Using multiple reanalysis datasets and modeling simulations, the trends of Antarctic stratospheric planetary wave activities in early austral spring since 2000s are investigated this study. We find that September have weakened significantly year 2000, which is mainly related to weakening tropospheric sources extratropical Southern Hemisphere. As ozone also shows clear shift around imp...

The large Japanese field mouse, Apodemus speciosus, is a potential indicator of environmental stress, but this function has not been confirmed by histological studies. Since environmental stress affects the reproductive function of mice, we determined the reproductive characteristics of this species at two locations: Toyama (36°35'N, 137°24'E) and Aomori (40°35'N, 140°57'E). Mice were captured ...

introduction: recently, air pollution due to the occurrence of dust storms is one of the worst environmental problems in western and southwestern iran, especially the khuzestan province (12, 13). according to the reports of the meteorological organization of iran the average number of dusty days in the cities of ahvaz and abadan in the khuzestan province reaches 68 and 76 days each year, respec...