However, unlike such natural disasters as earthquakes, hurricanes, or wildfires, the contagious nature of an epidemic entails self-isolation or even mandatory quarantine as a public health intervention, thereby further exacerbating the detrimental mental health effect. As a result, people may develop an...
Democratic running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is one of the busier senators when it comes to introducing congressional legislation. Her 54 bills introduced in 2019 tied for 19th-most among all…
The Federal Aviation Administration tracks injuries to airline passengers and crew members due to turbulence during flights. The most recent annualstatisticspublished by the agency show that total injuries ranged from five to 18 per year between 2009 and 2019, although double-digit totals were recorded...
The Trump campaign has spent $40 million by airing as on cable and broadcast television in May and June, according to Advertising Analytics. At the time, the president’s support started to fall in polls during the early parts of the coronavirus pandemic together with the protests over racial ...
That Canada will be there to support Europe and, as the world moves “beyond fossil fuels,” to “have more renewables in our mix.” If you’re perplexed by that statement, you should be; it doesn’t make sense on any level. But that’s what happens when a leader like that takes ...
In Q2 prices started to come back up as second quarter growth data from the world’s major economies was unexpectedly positive after the disappointing Q1, which ramped up demand. This coupled with production disruptions in Canada due to wildfires destroying much of the oil sands region and rebel...
The suite of threats that lead to habitat loss and degradation affect fungi similarly to many other groups of organisms, including logging of old-growth forests and wildfires, to which mycorrhizal fungi and lichens are particularly sensitive. Many mycorrhizal fungi and lichen species are completely ...
The ability to measure the ecological effects of understory fire in the Amazon on a landscape scale remains a frontier in remote sensing. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation’s (GEDI) LiDAR data have been widely suggested as a critical new tool i
Department of Health Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2012,9(9), 3298-3316;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9093298 ...
Table 1 shows descriptive statistics of the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents. There were more female than male respondents in the sample and the average age of the respondents was 27.2 years. The highest percentage of respondents had completed secondary school (over 50%), while alm...