BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, itching skin disease, and conventional therapies offer inadequate symptom management. Patients with AD are increasingly turning to Chinese medicine. OBJECTIVE We systematically evaluated the clinical evidence of the efficacy and safety of oral Chinese herbal medicine for AD. METHODS Searches were conducted on major electronic databases using t...

of the Past: A Mixed Spatially Correlated Multinomial Logit Model Approach for the Analysis of the Public Land Survey Data Eun-Hye Yoo, Bruce W. Hoagland, Guofeng Cao, Todd Fagin Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory and Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, Department of...

Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS Michael F. Goodchild a , May Yuan b & Thomas J. Cova c a National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106‐4060 b Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd St, Norman, OK 73019‐1008 c Department of Geography, University of Utah, 2...

1College of Informatics, South China Agriculture University., Guangzhou 510642, China 2Key Lab Ecological Environment and Resource Development of Poyang Lake, School of Geography and Resource Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330027, P. R. China 3Guangdong Public Lab of Environment Science & Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, P. R. China 4Guangzhou In...

RATIONAL Research suggests that increased consumption of herbal drugs is raising important public health concerns such as safety issues that may involve adverse effects and herb-drug interactions. The main objective of this study is to investigate the role of Pharmacists in herbal drug information dissemination. METHOD We investigated the demographics, knowledge, attitude and practices regard...

BACKGROUND Many randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of herbal interventions have been conducted in the ASEAN Communities. Good quality reporting of RCTs is essential for assessing clinical significance. Given the importance ASEAN placed on herbal medicines, the reporting quality of RCTs of herbal interventions among the ASEAN Communities deserved a special attention. OBJECTIVES To systematica...

Introduction: The addition of herbs into hot sesame oil could increase the oil-pulling efficiency of sesame oil. The aim of present study was to modify the proportion of herbs and sesame oil with the addition of other ingredients including menthol, camphor, and borneol and improve the medicinal properties and the scent of the oil. Methods: Macerated herbal oil was prepared by heat extraction of...

This qualitative study explores the perceived value of a video-based online workshop in Geography, “Watershed Management,” part of the Geography: Teaching with the Stars series, a 22 program professional development series for teachers of geography, social studies, and environmental science. Results indicated that teachers reported satisfaction with the online professional development approach ...

JOHANNES FEDDE1\IA is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was formerly a Ph.D. student at the University of Dela\vare. His research interests include \vater balance climatology and climate/teleconneccion processes. CORT WILLMOTT is Chair of the Department of Geography and Professor of Geography and Marine Studies at the University of Dela\vare. He a...

Storm event representation and analysis based on a directed spatiotemporal graph model Weibo Liu, Xingong Li & David A. Rahn a Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA b State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China c Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Geography, Universit...