Internal Medicine Resident, Department of Internal Medicine; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Staff Internist, VA North Texas Health System; and Professor of Medicine & Clinical Sciences, Division of Outcomes and Health Services Research, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA. Staff Physician, VA North Texas Health Care System and Associate Professor...

Shane B. Kanatous, Pradeep P. A. Mammen, Paul B. Rosenberg, Cindy M. Martin, Michael D. White, J. Michael DiMaio, Guojin Huang, Shmuel Muallem, and Daniel J. Garry Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina; 4 Lill...

Haynes, Richard W. 2008. Emergent lessons from a century of experience with Pacific Northwest timber markets. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-747. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 45 p. Timber markets in the United States are areas where timber prices tend to be uniform because of the continuous interactions of buyers and sellers. These m...

Aerial surveys were conducted in 1999 and 2000 to estimate the densities of ringed (Phoca hispida) and bearded (Erignathus barbatus) seals in the eastern Chukchi Sea. Survey lines were focused mainly on the coastal zone within 37 km of the shoreline, with additional lines flown 148–185 km offshore to assess how densities of seals changed as a function of distance from shore. Satellite-linked ti...

farmers need up to date information on efficient use and management of labour for agricultural production. yet, they lack adequate and needed information. hence, this study was undertaken to explore the sources and use of labour information by farmers in southwestern nigeria. multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. primary data were collected to elicit infor...

background: diagnosis of anemia is challenging in resource-poor settings due to inadequate laboratory resources. this study assessed the validity of the tallquist haemoglobinometer in assessing anemia among pregnant women in osogbo, southwestern nigeria. methods: this was a cross - sectional study, in which 200 pregnant women of reproductive age were selected using multistage sapling method. a ...

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Beppu city, Japan has a large body of students from well over 90 countries, especially from the Asia Pacific region, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian students. To improve analytical thinking skills among college students, a course on “bioethics” was introduced and offered in two consecutive semesters to undergradu...

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum launched a process that could ultimately produce the largest single act of trade liberalization in history. They agreed to " seriously consider " negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) and instructed their officials to " undertake further studies on ways and means to promote " the initiative so that they could address it at their...

UNLABELLED • PREMISE OF THE STUDY Globally, the origins of xeromorphic traits in modern angiosperm lineages are obscure but are thought to be linked to the early Neogene onset of seasonally arid climates. Stomatal encryption is a xeromorphic trait that is prominent in Banksia, an archetypal genus centered in one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, the ancient infertile landscape of Medite...