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Gordon Nichols, Iain Lake and Clare Heaviside
Background: Water-related, including waterborne, diseases remain important sources of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but particularly in developing countries. The potential for changes in disease associated with predicted anthropogenic climate change...
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Gustavo Zen de Figueiredo Neves, Nuria Pérez Gallardo and Francisco Arthur da Silva Vecchia
The present study presents a brief discussion regarding the evolution of meteorology from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, throughout antiquitiy, Aristotle?s legacy, and contemporaneity. Part of the text is dedicated to illustrating the emergen...
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Anna Wong, Anson K. C. Chau, Yang Fang and Jean Woo
Loneliness is a common experience among older people that is associated with health risks and negative well-being. As a psychological phenomenon, it has typically been defined in Western research literature as the discrepancy between desired and actual i...
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Lorraine Maclauchlan
The impact of mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Scolytinae), is the most significant source of mortality of mature pine forests in western North America; however, in 2003-2004, high levels of mortality were observed in yo...
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