Patient records from the Thiaroye Psychiatric Hospital in Senegal were studied to see if analysis of patterns of persons accompanying patients to the hospital could help to portray the community's response to mental illness. A systematic sample of 935 records of initial out-patients visits were...

During times of emergency, private organizations as well as local, state, and federal authorities must coordinate in real time to create an effective response. When coordination is absent, failure results, as was seen after Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake. Using primary data that the...

Emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxides from power stations make a major contribution to the acidification of surface waters with adverse consequences for fish and other aquatic life. The results of a recent six-year Anglo-Scandinavian research programme enable us to account quite well for the...