Jornades d'Història de la Medicina a la Garrotxa : Olot, 28 i 29 de març de 1987

Amb aquest número, la revista "Gimbernat" deixa de centrar-se en els Congressos d'Història de la Medicina Catalana i s'obre a altres esdeveniments, també més locals, en aquest cas, les primeres Jornades d'Història de la Medicina a la Garrotxa. En aquest volum trobem el resum de les diferents ponències i comunicacions.

EPI Update, March 29, 2013

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

XI Congrés d'Historia de la Medicina Catalana, 29 de setembre a 1 d`octubre de 2000. Programa

Aquesta publicació conté el programa d'activitats previst per l'XIè Congrés d'Història de Medicina Catalana, cel·lebrat a l'edifici de la Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya. També conté una petita història i descripció de la seu del congrés.

Special investigation of the Iowa Department of Transportation for the period January 29, 1994 through July 7, 2011

Special investigation of the Iowa Department of Transportation for the period January 29, 1994 through July 7, 2011

Fiscal Update, April 29, 2013

The Fiscal Division newsletter, published weekly during session and periodically during the interim.

Iowa Crop and Weather Report, April 29, 2013 Vol 13, no.8

Report produced by the The Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Climatology Bureau. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October.

Fiscal Update, April 29, 2013

The Fiscal Division newsletter, published weekly during session and periodically during the interim.

Progeny, June 2013, Vol 29, no.1

This newsletter from The Department of Public Health about perinatal health care and statistics.

Final Report on the Portable Computerized Assessments of Sleepy Drivers in Operational Environments, June 29, 2011

Excessive daytime sleepiness underpins a large number of the reported motor vehicle crashes. Fair and accurate field measures are needed to identify at-risk drivers who have been identified as potentially driving in a sleep deprived state on the basis of erratic driving behavior. The purpose of this research study was to evaluate a set of cognitive tests that can assist Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officers on duty in identifying drivers who may be engaged in sleep impaired driving. Currently no gold standard test exists to judge sleepiness in the field. Previous research has shown that Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) is sensitive to sleep deprivation. The first goal of the current study was to evaluate whether computerized tests of attention and memory, more brief than PVT, would be as sensitive to sleepiness effects. The second goal of the study was to evaluate whether objective and subjective indices of acute and cumulative sleepiness predicted cognitive performance. Findings showed that sleepiness effects were detected in three out of six tasks. Furthermore, PVT was the only task that showed a consistent slowing of both ‘best’, i.e. minimum, and ‘typical’ responses, median RT due to sleepiness. However, PVT failed to show significant associations with objective measures of sleep deprivation (number of hours awake). The findings indicate that sleepiness tests in the field have significant limitations. The findings clearly show that it will not be possible to set absolute performance thresholds to identify sleep-impaired drivers based on cognitive performance on any test. Cooperation with industry to adjust work and rest cycles, and incentives to comply with those regulations will be critical components of a broad policy to prevent sleepy truck drivers from getting on the road.

Sex-chromosome differentiation parallels postglacial range expansion in European tree frogs (Hyla arborea).

Occasional XY recombination is a proposed explanation for the sex-chromosome homomorphy in European tree frogs. Numerous laboratory crosses, however, failed to detect any event of male recombination, and a detailed survey of NW-European Hyla arborea populations identified male-specific alleles at sex-linked loci, pointing to the absence of XY recombination in their recent history. Here, we address this paradox in a phylogeographic framework by genotyping sex-linked microsatellite markers in populations and sibships from the entire species range. Contrasting with postglacial populations of NW Europe, which display complete absence of XY recombination and strong sex-chromosome differentiation, refugial populations of the southern Balkans and Adriatic coast show limited XY recombination and large overlaps in allele frequencies. Geographically and historically intermediate populations of the Pannonian Basin show intermediate patterns of XY differentiation. Even in populations where X and Y occasionally recombine, the genetic diversity of Y haplotypes is reduced below the levels expected from the fourfold drop in copy numbers. This study is the first in which X and Y haplotypes could be phased over the distribution range in a species with homomorphic sex chromosomes; it shows that XY-recombination patterns may differ strikingly between conspecific populations, and that recombination arrest may evolve rapidly (<5000 generations).

Iowa Crop and Weather Report, July 29, 2013 Vol 13, no.21

Report produced by the The Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Climatology Bureau. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October.