Eradication of bovine tuberculosis (TB) from free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) requires mortality rates of infected deer exceed the rate of new infection. Efforts to reduce TB transmission in Michigan, USA, are based on 2 assumptions: 1) deer mortality may be increased through recreational hunting, and 2) encounter rates between infected and noninfected deer may be reduced...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to ban ambulance diversion in 2009. It was feared that the diversion ban would lead to increased emergency department (ED) crowding and ambulance turnaround time. We seek to characterize the effect of a statewide ambulance diversion ban on ED length of stay and ambulance turnaround time at Boston-area EDs. METHODS We conducted...

BACKGROUND Consistent evidence has demonstrated that smoking ban policies save lives, but impacts on health inequalities are uncertain as few studies have assessed post-ban effects by socioeconomic status (SES) and findings have been inconsistent. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of the national Irish smoking ban on ischemic heart disease (IHD), stroke, and chronic obstructive pu...

Ruriha Yoshikawa, Atsushi Teramoto, Tomoko Matsubara ,Hiroshi Fujita 1. Graduate School of Fujita Health University, Health Sciences 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Japan 2. Nagoya Bunri University, Department of Information and Media, 365 Maeda, Inazawa-cho, Inazawa, Aichi 492-8520, Japan 3. Department of Intelligent Image Information, Graduate School of Medicine, G...

Interventional Cardiology, San Giovanni Hospital, Via dell’Amba Aradam, 8, 00184 Rome, Italy; Thoraxcenter, University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA; IRCCS Foundation Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Wakayama Medical Un...

Device-performances of 3.7 THz indirect-pumping quantumcascade lasers are demonstrated in an InGaAs/InAlAs material system grown by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. The lasers show a low threshold-current-density of ~420 A/cm and a peak output power of ~8 mW at 7 K, no sign of parasitic currents with recourse to well-designed coupled-well injectors in the indirect pump scheme, and a maximum o...

The arterial networks in the human brain, termed brain or BANs, are complex arrangements of individual arteries, branching patterns, and interconnectivity. BANs play an essential role characterizing understanding physiology, one would like tools for statistically analyzing shapes BANs. These include quantifying shape differences, comparing populations subjects, studying effects covariates on th...