THE RIGOROUS STUDY by Emanuel and coworkers reported in this issue of the Journal underlines two critical points in relation to end-oflife care. First, the various "pieces of the puzzle" at the end of life—for example, pain control, advance care planning, and palliative care—should be integrated into a coherent conceptual framework of quality end-of-life care. Second, the appropriate evidence b...
It has been widely recognized that the ocean supplies surface heat fluxes and therefore energy to tropical cyclones (TCs). The TC can induce the sea surface temperature (SST) cooling (Price 1981) associated with both the entrainment/mixing and upwelling processes. In turn, the SST cooling near the storm core exerts influence on the TC intensity. This negative feedback to the TC intensity is cle...
