it seems we might be allowed to trace a serious rivalry between two great oil companies of great britain, i.e. anglo-iranian oil company and royal dutch shell- at the eve of 20th century. this presumed rivalry itself seemed to be a result of two important developments in british industry: conversion of the fuel consumption of british navy from coal to petrol; a development which raised the comp...

a Department of Forest Engineering Resources and Management, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 1M5, Canada c Integrated Remote Sensing Studio, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1...

a Canadian Forest Service (Pacific Forestry Centre), Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5 b Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA c Integrated Remote Sensing Studio, Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main...

BACKGROUND The objective was to investigate trends in work-related mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) among seafarers employed in British merchant shipping from 1919 to 2005, to compare CVD mortality among British seafarers at work in British shipping - and ashore in Britain - with that in the general British population, and to investigate work-related CVD mortality in British shipping...

1Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China; 2Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; 3Chieng Genomics Centre, Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC; 4Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC; 5Institute of Dermatology,...