Centre for Wildlife Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada; Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA; and Pacifi c Wildlife Research Center, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Rural Route 1, 5421 Robertson Road, Delta, British Columbia V4K 3N2, C...

I N S I D E Family Planning Road Map Points Way to Equitable Access .................... 2 Improving Adherence in Microbicide Clinical Trials: Lessons Learned and Recommendations .................................................................. 4 Increasing Girls’ Protective Assets in Rural Upper Egypt .......................... 6 Menstruation Accounts for Only Small Proportion of Girls’ Absen...

Studies of forested rural watersheds provide estimates of background contamination for comparison with streams and rivers in other settings. We performed a landscape analysis and measured major dissolved ions and benthic macroinvertebrates for a small rural watershed in Albany County, NY, to determine spatial variation in water quality. An estimated 73% of the surface cover is postagricultural ...

Michelle Thorn*, Matthew Green, Philip W. Bateman, Elissa Z. Cameron, Richard W. Yarnell & Dawn M. Scott Biology Division, University of Brighton, Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, U.K. Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa School of Animal, Rural and Environment Sciences, Nottingham Tre...

Australia's rural hospitals face most of the same issues and challenges faced by metropolitan hospitals. However they also face additional challenges around geographic isolation, their iconic status and role as major employers in local communities, and their close relationship with community based health services. Future opportunities include more formal integration with community service throu...

This article argues the case for introducing new energy policies in Ethiopia that will ensure energy initiatives for rural development meet the desired expectations. A review of the rural energy sector in Ethiopia is presented. Rural communities have for centuries relied solely on traditional biomass energy sources, human and animal power. In addition, sample findings show that the basic stock ...

nonfarm activities play an important role in the determination of rural household income, consumption expenditure, and household food security. however, much less studies have been devoted to the factors that influence nonfarm income diversification by farm household in developing countries. using cross-sectional data and a probit model, this study attempts to determine the factors influencing ...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

Every spring, many of amphibians are killed by motor vehicles on roads. These road-killed animals can be used as valuable material for non-invasive studies showing the effect of environmental pollution on amphibian populations. The aims of our research were to check whether the phalanges of road-killed toads may be useful as material for histological analysis, and whether various degrees of hum...

Some users of virtual environments experience adverse effects known as simulator sickness. Common symptoms are generally grouped into nausea, oculomotor discomfort, and disorientation. This research examined whether the severity and type of simulator sickness differs due to the type of driving environment or the gender of the driver. Three environments with variations in driver workload were de...