Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

The National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, 101-8430 Japan Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 611-0011 Japan Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd., Urban Infrastructure & Environmental Products Headquarters, Kyoto, 601-8105 Japan Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8505 Japan Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Th...

Dark Fermentation Optimization by Anaerobic Digested Sludge Recirculation: Effects on Hydrogen Production Marco Gottardo*, Cristina Cavinato , David Bolzonella, Paolo Pavan a University Ca’Foscari of Venice, Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics, Calle Larga Santa Marta, Dorsoduro 2137 – 30123, Venice, Italy University of Verona, Department of Biotechnology, Strada le ...

Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Environmental Science (Biogeography), University of Basel, St Johanns-Vorstadt 10, 4056 Basel, Switzerland, Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Waldstraße 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany, Systemic Conservatio...

The increasing transformation of biodiversity into a data-intensive science has seen numerous independent systems linked and aggregated into the current landscape of biodiversity informatics. This paper outlines how we can move forward with this programme, incorporating real time environmental monitoring into our methodology using low-power and low-cost computing platforms.

Public access to environmental information is the basis for a higher degree of involvement of citizens and stakeholders in environmental decision-making [Haklay 2003][EU ISPO 1999]. Environmental Information Systems play a key role in contemporary urban environmental management strategies, and are a prerequisite for the proper, timely information of the public [Kampinnen 2001]; yet the fuzzy na...

introduction: the information literacy status and the use of information technology among students in the globalization age of course plans are very momentous. this study aimed to evaluate the information literacy status and use of information technology among medical students of shiraz university of medical sciences in 2013. methods: this was a descriptive-analytical study with crosssectional ...

background: telemedicine has been used in different fields of medicine in the past 20 years. the main advantages of this technology include saving costs, improving quality of care, and increasing access to specialists. this study aimed to review telemedicine applications in treating burn patients.   methods: in this systematized review study, related papers were searched using various databases...

Hiroya Nakao, 2 Sho Yasui, Masashi Ota, 4 Kensuke Arai, and Yoji Kawamura Department of Systems and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Department of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan Ricoh Company Ltd., J...