Day: September 13, 2013

PeerJ memberships now sponsored by UCB Libraries

Posted on by esmith

PeerJ

The Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library and the Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library are now sponsoring basic lifetime memberships for Berkeley researchers to PeerJ, a peer-reviewed open access biological, medical and health sciences journal. When an article has been accepted for publication in PeerJ, the basic lifetime membership fees for all Berkeley authors will be paid automatically by the Libraries.

For more information, please see:

PeerJ memberships now sponsored by UCB Libraries

Posted on by esmith

PeerJ

The Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library and the Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library are now sponsoring basic lifetime memberships for Berkeley researchers to PeerJ, a peer-reviewed open access biological, medical and health sciences journal. When an article has been accepted for publication in PeerJ, the basic lifetime membership fees for all Berkeley authors will be paid automatically by the Libraries.

For more information, please see:

PeerJ memberships now sponsored by UCB Libraries

Posted on by esmith

PeerJ

The Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library and the Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library are now sponsoring basic lifetime memberships for Berkeley researchers to PeerJ, a peer-reviewed open access biological, medical and health sciences journal. When an article has been accepted for publication in PeerJ, the basic lifetime membership fees for all Berkeley authors will be paid automatically by the Libraries.

For more information, please see:

Does childhood lead exposure cause violence in adulthood?

Posted on by msholinb

I recently came across this article: The urban rise and fall of air lead (Pb) and the latent surge and retreat of societal violence. In it, the authors evaluate air lead levels and latent aggravated assault behavior at a city scale for 6 US cities.They conclude that, "a 1% increase in tonnages of air Pb released 22 years prior raises the present period aggravated assault rate by 0.46%." They quote from research that shows that exposure to lead alters neurotransmitter and hormonal systems and may thereby generate aggressive and violent behavior, especially impulsive violence.

What do you think?

How Does Work Affect the Health of the U.S. Population? Free Data from the 2010 NHIS-OHS Provides the Answers

Posted on by msholinb

from the CDC NIOSH Science Blog

You may have some hypotheses about how work affects the health of the U.S. population, but collecting data from a nationally representative sample is expensive and time-consuming. What if there was free data available at your fingertips? You’re in luck!
NIOSH sponsored an Occupational Health Supplement (OHS) to the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and the data is publicly available. See the NIOSH Topic Page for more information. Over 17 thousand current and recent U.S. workers supplied information on their industry, occupation, and workplace health conditions and exposures.

More information is on the original post: http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2013/06/24/nhis/.