The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) is the largest epidemiological study ever performed and the only truly global allergy study. This review summarises the childhood eczema-related findings from ISAAC and discusses how these fit into our current understanding of eczema aetiology, with particular emphasis on worldwide time trends in eczema prevalence, climatic an...

The 12 second flight of the world’s first heavier-than-air powered vehicle in 1904 heralded the birth of a new transport mode. In the days, months, and years following that event, it must have been evident that airplanes had a future, but not its shape and extent. The first propeller driven airship was flown 50 years earlier than the Wright Brothers airplane in 1852. A century and a half later,...

1 Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Fundació Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, 2 Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain, 3 The Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change (SCOHOST), Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden, 4 Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School o...

The Melkites, Jacobites, and Nestorians were the main Christian communities under Muslim rule. Several pre-Islamic Arab Christian authors wrote treatises concerning their beliefs in Arabic, some of which date back to the early Islamic centuries. The multiplicity of such polemical works suggests an intellectually open society and a degree of tolerance shown by Muslim leaders. Abu Raʾita...

Citation: Ziervogel K, Osburn C, Brym A, Battles J, Joye S, D’souza N, Montoya J, Passow U and Arnosti C (2016) Linking Heterotrophic Microbial Activities with Particle Characteristics in Waters of the Mississippi River Delta in the Aftermath of Hurricane Isaac. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00008 Linking Heterotrophic Microbial Activities with Particle Characteristics in Waters...

â â â  poetic stories in ilia abu mazi’s poetic works â â â  sadeq fathi dehkordi * â  shlyr fathi ** â  abstract â  â  poetic story is a kind of art firmly connected to poetry and story and is a sign of restoration in arabic poetry furthermore, it is an artistic field for presenting poets' ability in putting poetry and tale together. this genre has included many current poetic works. ab...

In 1693, Isaac Newton answered a query from Samuel Pepys about a problem involving dice. Newton’s analysis is discussed and attention is drawn to an error he made. On November 22, 1693, Samuel Pepys wrote a letter to Isaac Newton posing a problem in probability. Newton responded with three letters, first answering the question briefly, and then offering more information as Pepys pressed for cla...