The 2002 Olympic Winter Games were held in Utah from February 8 to March 16, 2002. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax release in October 2001, the need for bioterrorism surveillance during the Games was paramount. A team of informaticists and public health specialists from Utah and Pittsburgh implemented the Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) ...

Blowing dust from excessively tilled fallow fields is a major soil loss and air quality concern in the low precipitation (<12 inches annually) wheat production region of the Inland Pacific Northwest (PNW). A 2-year, tillage-based winter wheatsummer fallow (WW-SF) rotation is practiced on more than 90% of rainfed cropland in the region. Earlier research proved that the undercutter method for non...

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bachground: acute carbon monoxide poisoning (cop) is a common problem that occurs more frequently during winter and leads to serious complications. in our poisoning referral center, the incidence and complications of acute cop has not been evaluated previously. therefore we designed a study to evaluate its significance in our center. methods & materials: 111 cases of acute cop admitted during f...

Based on research conducted by NCBI’s comparative genomics group, the database of Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COGs) represents a phylogenetic classification of proteins encoded in complete genomes. The COGs are derived from an “all-against-all” sequence comparison of the encoded proteins. Each COG consists of individual proteins or groups of paralogs from at least three lineages...

spend the next nine months without making landfall. And it is becoming increasingly clear that very little is known about the birds during this time. As they breed only above 50 degrees latitude, they are considered cold-water birds, but researchers working with puffins breeding at England's largest colony on the Farne Islands are concerned about their winter environment as there has recently b...

Over-wintering monarch butterflies in the forests of central Mexico may be looking forward to more secure rest following an announcement by the Mexican government of a budget boost of $4.6 million per year to improve the conditions for the migrant butterflies and for the many often prominent human visitors, and to tackle illegal logging. Conservation officials said that the additional funds for...