The need for a focus on air pollution research in the elderly
During recent years an increasing focus has been directed towards the adverse health effects associated with ambient air pollution. Elderly people appear to be particularly susc...
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Modeling the Atmospheric Transport and Deposition of PCDD/F to the Great Lakes
Atmospheric deposition is a significant loading pathway for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (dioxin) to the Great Lakes. An innovative approach using NOAA's ...
Association between Monocyte Count and Risk of Incident CKD and Progression to ESRD
Background and objectives Experimental evidence suggests a role for monocytes in the biology of kidney disease progression; however, whether monocyte count is associated with ri...
Exposing misclassified HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa
Adjusting for cause of death misclassification, a simple procedure that can be carried out in any country, can improve death registration data and provide empirical estimates of...
Maximising the impact of global and national physical activity guidelines: the critical role of communication strategies
Objectives Physical activity guidelines are evidence-based statements on recommended physical activity levels for good health. Guidelines, in isolation, are unlikely to increase...
Electron-impact excitation of neutral oxygen
Aims: To calculate transition rates from ground and excited states in neutral oxygen atoms due to electron collisions for non-LTE modelling of oxygen in late-type stellar atmosp...
Geographical, racial and socio-economic variation in life expectancy in the US and their impact on cancer relative survival
The use of these new socio-economic life tables (County SES-LT) can provide more accurate estimates of relative survival, improve comparisons of relative survival among registri...
The lens of ludic engagement
Designers and artists have integrated recent advances in interactive, tangible and ubiquitous computing technologies to create new forms of interactive environments in the domai...
The spatial association between community air pollution and mortality: a new method of analyzing correlated geographic cohort data.
We present a new statistical model for linking spatial variation in ambient air pollution to mortality. The model incorporates risk factors measured at the individual level, suc...