The objective of biosurveillance in this chapter is the detection of emerging incidence clusters in time of a health related event. Reviews on temporal surveillance can be found e.g. in Sonesson and Bock (2003), Bravata et al. (2004), Buckeridge et al. (2005) and Tennant et al. (2007). In recent years a pleasant development has been a synthesis of surveillance methods with methods from statisti...

Work is a fundamental determinant of how Americans feel about the quality of their life. In the past 15 years, employment has gained a central role in the lives of women as well as men, with married women and single mothers greatly increasing their participation in the workforce (Nieva, 1988). As economic changes trigger workplace shutdowns and reductions in the workforce, an estimated 10 milli...

According to the Statistical Account of Scotland (Maconochie, 1792) the village of Leadhills in Lanarkshire contains the most famous and ancient lead mines in Scotland. They were included in a grant of lands to the monks of Newbattle Abbey in 1239 and, from a lawsuit soon afterwards, it is clear that the mines were in production about that date. Depending on demand and the price of lead they ha...

Information regarding the successive changes of resistance in the coronary branches and their determinantIs is of paramount importance both in understanding the phasic changes of coronary flow and in interpreting the actions of drugs upon the intact coronary circulation. It seemed that a study of the pressure pulse from the peripheral end of a coronary vessel (peripheral coronary pressureP.C.P....

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This paper presents the results of a survey conducted on public perception of genetic engineering in Jamaica. Our findings suggest that the safety of genetically modified foods is a major concern for consumers and that the perception of the prospects for genetic engineering to improve the quality of life represents a major factor in a consumer’s decision to purchase GM foods. Introduction Withi...

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Co-infection of neonatal BALB/c mice with Friend virus (FV) complex (containing defective spleen focus-forming virus [SFFV] and endogenous N-tropic leukemia-inducing helper virus [LLV-F]) and B-tropic Tennant leukemia virus (TenLV) resulted in the inhibition of LLV-F by the Fv-1(b) gene and recovery of a TenLV pseudotype of SFFV, abbreviated SFFV(TenLV). The host range of this pseudotype was B-...