Supported by the rapid economic development in the last few decades, China has become the largest energy consumer in the world. Alongside this, the effect of the anthropogenic heat released from energy consumption is increasingly apparent. We quantified the daytime and nighttime surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) for the 32 major cities in mainland China, using MODIS land surface tempe...

ERJ Open Research launched in May 2015. It has been an exciting and busy couple of months since the launch and we’ve been pleased with the response from readers and authors that we’ve received so far. The editorial board has already had several teleconferences and a face-to-face meeting, and we are looking forward to our first official editorial board meeting taking place at the European Respir...

Certification of specialists in respiratory sleep medicine for the purposes of continuing professional development http://ow.ly/4uX9309g3Hs.

ERS launches structured EBUS training programme http://ow.ly/br5P302vhh3.

The extended mind thesis (in brief, EMT) does not reserve a position for inner representations, which certainly play a substantive role in the making of human mind, however. It is, as a consequence, hard to conceive of perception as extended. The present paper, as a complement to EMT, argues that perceptual processes are extended, and so is perceptual content. The argument proceeds with three r...

Junior member activities at the ERS International Congress 2015 http://ow.ly/R2oIn.

The aim of this paper is to examine available homogenous data on urban conversion of land in Western European countries and determine whether they are suitable to make an international comparison between land policies and management behaviour at the local level. This paper provides some results obtained from currently available information, but it stresses major data production criticalities wh...

Daihatsu Motor Company, in conjunction with the Japan Electric Vehicle Association, also carried out a small-scale EV demonstration in Japan some 20 years ago. In recent years, Japanese corporations and researchers have conducted a succession of demonstrations of shared small EVs. Leading the way was Honda’s field trial of its Intelligent Community Vehicle System in 1998 at its Motegi recreatio...

Although the European Respiratory Society (ERS) strongly supports and prioritises research on asthma, the publication should NOT be interpreted as an official opinion of the ERS. The ERS took part in this summit and decided, based on exclusive sponsorship of Merck Sharpe and Dohme (Hoddesdon, UK), to cease further participation. The whole project was financially supported by the Asthma, Allergy...