Thunderstorm asthma — a timely reminder

2011 ◽  
Vol 195 (9) ◽  
pp. 512-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan L Howden ◽  
Christine F McDonald ◽  
Michael F Sutherland
Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
William D. Richardson ◽  
Ronald L. McNinch

"Forrest Gump" bas been extraordinarily popular with the ordinary citizens and one of the reasons is self-evident: it presents a Jeffersonian confidence in the moral stalwartness of the yeoman citizenry that runs counter to some of the current approaches in ethics. The film celebrates a basic decency and a common sense that are accessible to all. No real or imagined superiority is required for one to partake. The film is not only popular but also populist in its assertion of the primacy of the ordinary citizen within this regime. In a political climate that now finds the tenure of elected officials uncertain and the legitimacy of public administration suspect, the visible portrayal of exemplary citizen virtues may serve as a timely reminder to all that, more so than any other regime, a democratic republic is ultimately and fundamentally dependent on the core values possessed by its citizenry.


2019 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Robertson ◽  
T. T. Temesgen ◽  
K. R. Tysnes ◽  
J. E. Eikås

AbstractIn the autumn of 2018, an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis affected adult employees from the same company in Western Norway. The organism wasCryptosporidium parvum, GP60 subtype IIaA14G1R1. All those infected had drunk from the same container of self-pressed apple juice. Incubation period (1 week) and clinical signs were similar among those infected, although some experienced a more prolonged duration of symptoms (up to 2–3 weeks) than others. The infections resulted after consumption from only one of 40 containers of juice and not from any of the other containers. It seems that althoughCryptosporidiumoocysts were detected in a sample from another container, the contamination did not affect the whole batch. This is perhaps indicative of a restricted contamination event, either from contaminated ground in the orchard, or during collection of the fruit, or during processing. Although outbreaks of food-borne cryptosporidiosis have previously been associated with consumption of contaminated apple juice, most of the more recent outbreaks of food-borne cryptosporidiosis have been associated with salad vegetables or herbs. This outbreak, the first outside USA reported to be associated with apple juice, is a timely reminder that such juice is a suitable transmission vehicle forCryptosporidiumoocysts, and that appropriate hygienic measures are essential in the production of such juice, including artisanal (non-commercial) production.


2013 ◽  
Vol 97 (9) ◽  
pp. 1217-1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seng Chee Loon ◽  
K Lun
Keyword(s):  

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanishka B. Rangamuwa ◽  
Alan C. Young ◽  
Francis Thien
Keyword(s):  

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Clayton-Chubb ◽  
Danny Con ◽  
Kanishka Rangamuwa ◽  
David Taylor ◽  
Francis Thien ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 108911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur S. Idrose ◽  
Shyamali C. Dharmage ◽  
Adrian J. Lowe ◽  
Katrina A. Lambert ◽  
Caroline J. Lodge ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482095160
Author(s):  
CJ Reynolds ◽  
Blake Hallinan

Yahoo’s purchase of make-your-own-website platform GeoCities in 1999 and subsequent implementation of a new Terms of Service agreement led to one of the most notable boycotts in Web history. During the “Haunting,” GeoCities users stripped their homepages of color and content, replacing blinking GIFs with excerpts of the offending Terms of Service. In this landmark battle over content rights and access control, protestors used the platform antagonistically, disrupting the value of user-generated content and undermining the company’s strategic vision for the platform. Within a week, the Haunting of GeoCities successfully forced Yahoo to acquiesce to protestor demands and set enduring standards for Terms of Service that preserved greater rights for content creators. This case study from the early Web demonstrates how access is always bound up in a struggle over control and offers a timely reminder of how users have been—and can be—vital agents of platform politics.


Antiquity ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 9 (34) ◽  
pp. 190-194
Author(s):  
Lancelot Hogben

In a stimulating lecture recently published in ANTIQUITY (1933, VII, 410–18) Gordon Childe raises the question : is Prehistory practical ? He suggests that the disastrous social consequences of applying ethnological hypotheses based on flimsy foundations of fact are sufficient justification for insisting on the scientific study of prehistory and archaeology as an essential part of the intellectual equipment of a civilized person in our generation. Current events certainly sustain the justice of his plea. Still it may be argued that there is an even stronger reason, and one which is perhaps more durable, for asserting the claims of such studies to occupy a pivotal position in twentieth - century culture. The publication of Neugebauer‘s Vorlesungen ueber Geschichte der antiken mathematischen Wissenschaften is a timely reminder of the contribution which students of prehistory and archaeology working together can make to the solution of one of the great intellectual issues of our own time.


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