BACKGROUND Previous studies stating a high prevalence of occupational acute pesticide poisoning in developing countries have mainly relied on measurements of the rather non-specific self-reported acute pesticide poisoning symptoms. Only a few studies have measured the biomarker plasma cholinesterase (PchE) activity, in addition to the symptoms, when assessing occupational acute pesticide poison...

s submitted, as the best representatives we have this year of interdisciplinary team process and content. These are our winning projects. In this session, each team will highlight the interdisciplinary approaches they found useful. They will also identify the interdisciplinary issues and problems that they encountered. Please note that the research findings will not be emphasized in this sessio...

The Energy Issues Working Group on Long-Term Visions for Fusion Power considered the following four questions: 1. What is the projected market for electrical energy production in the next century? 2. What is fusion's potential for penetrating the energy market in the next century? 3. Is there a potential role for advanced fusion fuels? 4. What is fusion's potential for applications other than c...

OBJECTIVE Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) is an emerging trend worldwide. To inform public health policy and educational programming, we systematically reviewed the biomedical literature to compute the inhaled smoke volume, nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide (CO) associated with a single WTS session and a single cigarette. METHODS We searched seven biomedical bibliographic databases for contr...

In this paper, we describe a paradigm and its associated collaboration artifact to allow exible support for asynchronous collaboration. Under this paradigm, a user session with an application's user interface is encapsulated into a data artifact, referred to as a session object. Users collaborate by annotating, by modifying, and by a back-and-forth exchange of these session objects. Each sessio...

Dynamic structural equation modeling was applied to examine feelings of competence and in the moment motivation among pre-service science teachers ( N = 101) enrolled a course on practical biology during their second semester. The student completed short questionnaire 18 times, interaction between momentary over time examined relation control-value theory. autoregressive values both variables w...

The time course of knee extension torque was measured in human quadriceps muscles during 30 min of transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). Ninety subjects were divided into six experimental groups (n = 15 per group), which received stimulation at one of the following frequency/duty cycle combinations: 10 Hz/50%, 30 Hz/50%, 50 Hz/50%, 10 Hz/70%, 30 Hz/70%, and 50 Hz/70%. Two-...