Vulnerable, threatened, and degraded. This is the status of Earth’s biodiversity, upon which we all rely. Humanity demanding too much from nature while at same time deteriorating natural world. Unprecedented rates ecosystem degradation species decline set stage for anticipated twice delayed 15th Conference Parties to UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (COP-15), rescheduled later this y...

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This analysis of Commonwealth Fund survey data estimates the economic impact of health problems on worker productivity. In 2003, an estimated 18 million adults ages 19 to 64 were not working and had a disability or chronic disease, or were not working because of health reasons. Sixty-nine million workers reported missing days due to illness, for a total of 407 million days of lost time at work....

The effect of physiological changes in systemic blood pressure on the force output of working abductor pollicis (AP) muscle was studied in six normal subjects. Supramaximal tetanic stimulation at the ulnar nerve produced repeated isometric contractions at 1-s intervals. Force output declined gradually with time. During the train of contractions, subjects voluntarily contracted the knee extensor...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the impact of 'sit less, move more' interventions on workplace performance. This study assessed the short and mid-term impacts of and patterns of change within, a 19-week workplace web-based intervention (Walk@WorkSpain; W@WS; 2010-11) on employees´ presenteeism, mental well-being and lost work performance. METHODS A site randomised control trial recruited...

OLLOWING the Keyrnesiari Revolution in macr-oecomnomics, a iarge numberof economists argued that deficit spending was required to achieve two of the stated national econonnic objectives: frill ennployment and a high r-ate of econonnic gr’owtln.’ Societywas thotnght to bemnefit fr-ornn deficit spendiing because of tine reduction in lost output arnd because tine econornw would achieve a higher n-...

Ala~tmet--In order to understand more fully some of the trade-ot~ involved in using a sampled-data representation of a continuous-time system, the effects of time-sampling on the ability to achieve disturbance decoupling and input-output decoupling for linear systems are investigated. It is shown that disturbance decouplability is lost through sampling whereas row-by-row dynamic input-output de...

In this work we consider a variation of the phase retrieval problem where the phase is not lost completely but is known to lie within a certain interval. For this problem, we develop two new algorithms and evaluate their performance compared with the classical Hybrid Input-Output (HIO) method. One of the algorithms is a modification of the Hybrid Input-Output method which uses the additional in...

When a scientist dies too early in their career we miss them as a colleague and as a person and, as Eve Marder explains, we also lose the science they would have done.house died, we experienced the pain of losing a special talent too young. Joplin, Lennon and Winehouse, whether you like their music or not, were special. Each had a voice, both as a sound and as a songwriter, that was unique. Whe...