An important type of nonsampling error that has been identified in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is known as the seam effect. The SIPP is a panel survey with an interval of four months between waves, but with information on many income sources being collected on a monthly basis. A common finding has been that more month-to-month changes in recipiency of most income types...

With this issue of Allergology International, there has been a change in the editorship. When the former editor-in-chief, Professor Hirohisa Saito, assumed the presidency of the Japanese Society of Allergology in June 2013, he resigned as the editor-in-chief. He had become the fourth editor-in-chief in 2005 and for eight years made outstanding contributions to the journal. In 2005, under his le...

j J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004;11:104–112. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M1471. Medical error reduction is an international issue. The Institute of Medicine’s report on medical errors dramatically called attention to dangers inherent in the U.S. medical care system that might cause up to 98,000 deaths in hospitals and cost approximately $38 billion per year. In the United Kingdom, the chief medical officer ...

The physiological responses of fish to continuous (nonpulsed) direct current were first described in the 1960s. One of these responses, electronarcosis (anesthesia, accompanied by muscle relaxation, through electrical inhibition), has been used in fisheries research and management as an anesthetic since the 1970s. We provide details on the assembly and operation of a portable electronarcosis un...

Allergology International Vol. 63 No. 2 includes a collection of review articles entitled “ Periostin : from pathogenesis to clinical application in allergic diseases”, as well as original articles and letters to the editor. We believe this issue will be of great interest to clinical and basic researchers in this field. Periostin is a protein that has recently been implicated in the pathogenesi...

The assessment of genetically modifi ed (GM) crops for regulatory approval currently requires a detailed molecular characterization of the DNA sequence and integrity of the transgene locus. In addition, molecular characterization is a critical component of event selection and advancement during product development. Typically, molecular characterization has relied on Southern blot analysis to es...