Although invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) accounts for only a minority of the infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (such as pneumonia and otitis media), it is associated with the most severe disease and is readily measured, as it is by definition associated with a sterile site isolate. The Metropolitan NSW Pneumococcal Study Group was formed in 1997 to generate data describing the a...

The spatial political logic of the construction Chinese metropolitan areas (CMAs) is unique and complex, involving interaction power, production, rationality between multiple scales. Taking representative Nanjing area as an example, we use “material–organizational–discursive” analytical framework politics scale theory to analyze CMAs. This study finds following: (1) In general, CMA a high-quali...

Citation: Shryock B, Marzluff JM and Moskal LM (2017) Urbanization Alters the Influence of Weather and an Index of Forest Productivity on Avian Community Richness and Guild Abundance in the Seattle Metropolitan Area. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:40. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00040 Urbanization Alters the Influence of Weather and an Index of Forest Productivity on Avian Community Richness and Guild Abundan...

The deterioration of the urban surface thermal environment has seriously affected regional environments and human health, becoming a critical ecological problem faced by cities worldwide. This study focused on heat island effect in metropolitan area selected emerging Zhengzhou, China, as case study. Based MODIS land temperature data obtained from Google Earth Engine intensity (SUHII) was calcul...

Both drug use and sex work considered as serious health and social problems. This study aimed to find the relation between them in young Iranian women. A mixed method of data collection applied from 300 young female sex workers in Tehran and 39 in-depth interviews with key informants. Result show that 84.4 % of participants used drugs before sex work. 46.2% of their fathers and 56.6% of their h...