Helen Acland, PA; Gary Anderson, KS; Scott Bender, AZ; Nancy Chapman, MD; Richard Chipman, NH; Joseph Corn, GA; Stephen Crawford, NH; Tarrie Crnic, KS; Koren Custer, WV; Donald Davis, TX; Ignacio dela Cruz, MP; Thomas DeLiberto, CO; Tracy DuVernoy, MD; Brigid Elchos, MS; Nancy Frank, MI; Donna Gatewood, IA; Richard Gerhold, TN; Robert Gerlach, AK; Keith Haffer, SD; Steven Halstead, MI; Cathleen...

Additive flame retardants such as tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) and triphenyl phosphate (TPP), which are not chemically bonded to the products they are intended to protect, may escape into indoor environments such as homes, offices, and car interiors. A new study shows that men living in homes with higher amounts of TCDPP and TPP in their house dust had reduced sperm counts and ...

Additive flame retardants such as tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) and triphenyl phosphate (TPP), which are not chemically bonded to the products they are intended to protect, may escape into indoor environments such as homes, offices, and car interiors. A new study shows that men living in homes with higher amounts of TCDPP and TPP in their house dust had reduced sperm counts and ...

Accelerated life test (ALT) planning in Bayesian framework is studied in this paper with a focus of differentiating competing acceleration models, when there is uncertainty as to whether the relationship between log mean life and the stress variable is linear or exhibits some curvature. The proposed criterion is based on the Hellinger distance measure between predictive distributions. The optim...

Additive flame retardants such as tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) and triphenyl phosphate (TPP), which are not chemically bonded to the products they are intended to protect, may escape into indoor environments such as homes, offices, and car interiors. A new study shows that men living in homes with higher amounts of TCDPP and TPP in their house dust had reduced sperm counts and ...

The southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis, is a major threat to pine forest health in the South, and is expected to play an increasingly important role in the future of the South’s pine forests (Ward and Mistretta 2002). Once a forest stand is infected with southern pine beetle (SPB), elimination and isolation of the infested and immediately surrounding trees is required to control the o...

Dehydration is the danger signal of infantile diarrhoea because without dehydration the mortality from properly treated gastro-enteritis should be negligible, hence the importance of preventing dehydration and the recognition that its presence indicates a medical emergency. Important constituents of both extracellular and intracellular body fluids are the electrolytes, and Gamble (1947) conside...

BACKGROUND Preterm birth (PTB), a leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity, has a complex etiology with a multitude of interacting causes and risk factors. The role of environmental contaminants, particularly bisphenol A (BPA), is understudied with regard to PTB. OBJECTIVES In the present study we examined the relationship between longitudinally measured BPA exposure during gestation a...

In this chapter, the authors explore the development of mathematics content for mobile learning. Firstly, some key factors which affect the development of mathematics content for mobile learning are considered. The development of content is challenging because of the limitations of a mobile device and the diversity of the mathematics content. The diversity of the content refers to the different...