The Southern Alliance for the Utilization of Biomass Resources (SAUBR)................ 3 I met a landowner who was getting out of the cattle business and wanted to plant trees for some income, to encourage wildlife, and for recreation. She asked me how many loblolly pine seedlings she should plant on her pastureland. I replied, “It depends on your objectives and who you ask.” You see, there are...

Few school-age youth consume the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables, and increasing fruit and vegetable intake in children and adolescents is an important public health goal to maintain long-term good health and to decrease risk of chronic disease and obesity. School salad bars are an important tool to promote fruit and vegetable consumption among schoolchildren. Studies show that int...

A world-renowned physician-researcher, David Bates, MD, MSc, is Chief of the Division of General Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, and a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is codirector of the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. He is the Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Information Systems at Partners...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, 52072 Aachen, Germany 2 JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Germany 3 IRTG2150 International Research Training Group 4 Parietal team, INRIA, Neurospin, bat 145, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France 5 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119...

Author details MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH, UK. Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, NY, USA. Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Division of Pulmonology and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Mowbray, Cape Town, South A...

Prompted by a real-life observation in the UK retail market, a two-player Prisoners’ Dilemma model of an alliance between two firms is adapted to include the response of a rival firm, resulting in a version of a three-player Prisoners’ Dilemma. We use this to analyse the impact on the stability of the alliance of the rival’s competition, either with the alliance or with the individual partners....

OBJECTIVE Scholars increasingly recognize that therapeutic alliance and symptomatic change are associated with one another. A common assumption is that alliance predicts symptomatic change. However, the issue is far from settled. One challenge in determining the causality is the establishment of temporal precedence showing that alliance, as opposed to previous symptomatic change, drives subsequ...

Few studies have examined school-based factors associated with variability in the victimization and health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Among 15,965 students in 45 Wisconsin schools, we identified differences based on Gay–Straight Alliance (GSA) presence. Youth in schools with GSAs reported less truancy, smoking, drinking, suicide attempts, and sex with...

X Luang Xu, Xinyu Liu, Na Sheng, Kyaw Soe Oo, Junxin Liang, Yok Hian Chionh , Juan Xu, Fuzhou Ye**, Yong-Gui Gao**, Peter C. Dedon , and Xin-Yuan Fu From the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, 14 Medical Drive, 117599 Singapore, the Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University, 12 Xuefu Road, 210032 Nanjing, China, the Department of Biochemistry, Nati...