{"text": "The Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research lecture will feature an address by the 2020 recipient, Sean P. Curran, PhD. This award is given by the American Federation for Aging Research, Inc"}
{"text": "In \u201cElectronic Cognitive Screen Technology for Screening Older Adults With Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Community Setting: Development and Validation Study\u201d :e17332) the authors noted the need to revise the \u201cAcknowledgments\u201d section.In the originally published article, the Acknowledgments section read as follows:The development of EC-Screen is supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. We greatly appreciate the contributions of the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing in the design and development of the EC-Screen, and Mindvivid Limited for program development of EC-Screen. We also thank Ms. Anthea Ng for her help in data collection and entry.This section has been revised to:We thank Professor JE Morley, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, USA, for having agreed to let us adapt his Rapid Cognitive Screen test into EC-Screen for older Chinese people. We are also grateful for the funding support from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities trust, and for the support of the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing for its contribution in design and data collection. We appreciate the support from Mindvivid Limited in software development of EC-Screen. We also thank Ms. Anthea Ng, research assistant of the Division of Neurology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, for her help in data collection and entry.The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on January 19, 2021, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder KideOn Research Group of the Basque Government, Ref.: IT1342-19 (A category).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Jianzhong Li and Shasha Tao. As well as having affiliation(s) existed in the paper, they should also have Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China as the first affiliation.In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliation for The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Incorrect funding information is included in the Acknowledgments. The correct funding information should be included in the Funding statement and read as follows: The publication was co-financed within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education program as \"Regional Initiative Excellence\" in years 2019\u20132022 (Project No. 005 / RID / 2018/19). No additional external funding was received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The raw data underlying the findings of this study  are missThe following information is missing from the Funding statement: This study was funded by grants to NA from Astex Inc. (GRANT # 120039) and the Van Andel Research Institute\u2013Stand Up To Cancer Epigenetics Dream Team. Stand Up To Cancer is a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, administered by AACR.There is information missing from the Competing Interests statement. The correct Competing Interests statement is as follows: The authors of this manuscript have read the journal\u2019s policies and have the following competing interests to declare: NA was the recipient of grants from Astex Inc. and the Van Andel Research Institute. Additionally, NA has served as consultant to Johnson & Johnson, an advisor to Celgene, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the No Stomach for Cancer Foundation. There are no patents or marketed products to declare. This does not affect our adheres to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.S1 Data(ZIP)Click here for additional data file."}
{"text": "In \u201cImproving Nutrition and Activity Behaviors Using Digital Technology and Tailored Feedback: Protocol for the Tailored Diet and Activity (ToDAy) Randomized Controlled Trial\u201d :e12782), corrections have been made to the article title and to three places in the text to reflect that the term \u201cLiveLighter\u201d is a registered trademark.The original title of this paper was:Improving Nutrition and Activity Behaviors Using Digital Technology and Tailored Feedback: Protocol for the LiveLighter Tailored Diet and Activity (ToDAy) Randomized Controlled TrialThe title has been changed to:Improving Nutrition and Activity Behaviors Using Digital Technology and Tailored Feedback: Protocol for the Tailored Diet and Activity (ToDAy) Randomized Controlled TrialIn the originally published paper, the caption of Table 1 read:Table 1. Frequency of assessment of variables in the LiveLighter ToDAy study for the tailored feedback, active control, and online control groups.The caption of Table 1 has been changed to read:Table 1. Frequency of assessment of variables in the ToDAy study for the tailored feedback, active control, and online control groups.Under the first paragraph of the section \"Process Evaluation\" in the originally published paper, the sentence:Selected program completers and noncompleters (tailored feedback and active control groups) will be invited to participate in one-on-one interviews concerning their perceptions of the LiveLighter ToDAy intervention.has been replaced by the sentence:Selected program completers and noncompleters (tailored feedback and active control groups) will be invited to participate in one-on-one interviews concerning their perceptions of the ToDAy intervention.In the originally published paper, the Acknowledgments section read:Funding for the LiveLighter ToDAy study is provided by a Healthway Health Promotion Research Grant and the East Metropolitan Health Service. The mFR app is funded by NIH-NCI (1U01CA130784-01) and NIH-NIDDK . CC is supported by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship and a University of Newcastle \u2013Gladys M Brawn Senior Research Fellowship. Funding for Fitabase is provided by a Curtin Institute of Computation grant. The sponsors had no role in the design of the study; collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; writing of the manuscript; and decision to publish the results.This section has been changed to read:Funding for the ToDAy study is provided by a Healthway Health Promotion Research Grant and the East Metropolitan Health Service. The mFR app is funded by NIH-NCI (1U01CA130784-01) and NIH-NIDDK . CC is supported by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship and a University of Newcastle \u2013Gladys M Brawn Senior Research Fellowship. Funding for Fitabase is provided by a Curtin Institute of Computation grant. The sponsors had no role in the design of the study; collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; writing of the manuscript; and decision to publish the results. The term \u201cLiveLighter\u201d is a registered trademark. The LiveLighter campaign is funded by the Western Australian Department of Health and at the time of this study, delivered by the National Heart Foundation (WA Division), and currently delivered by Cancer Council Western Australia.The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on December 2, 2020, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder: Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas Training Grant (CPRIT RP170067) to Hannah Savage.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Dear Dr. Yokokura:Congratulations on the launch of JMA Journal by the Japan Medical Association (JMA) and Japanese Association of Medical Sciences (JAMS). As an official English medical journal covering all aspects of medicine and medical care, including original research, health policy, and global health, I am sure it will be a success not only with clinical investigators in Japan, but worldwide. The publication of this type of comprehensive medical journal is the first challenge in Japan. We sincerely hope that the JMA Journal will promote international medical science and contribute to the improvement of the quality of health care by being read and cited by many people.If I or any of my staff can be of any help in this important endeavor please let us know.Good luck with this important initiative of the JMA and JAMS.Sincerely,Howard Bauchner, MDEditor in Chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network (2011-)Senior Vice-President, American Medical Association"}
{"text": "The Editors highlight that the information presented in the original version was provided by the authors at submission and revision. In addition, the authors had the opportunity to correct the information during proofreading, before approving for publication.<renhaozhen1984@163.com> | Jinglin Wang <cw20120817@163.com>Correspondence: Haozhen Ren: Acknowledgments: This work was supported by grants from the Nanjing Medical Science and Technique Development Foundation (No. QRX17129), the Certificate of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant (2018M642222), and the Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation (BK20190114).*These authors contributed equally to this study."}
{"text": "It is with great grief that we announce the loss of our friend and mentor, Professor Dr. Ovidiu Alexandru B\u0103jenaru. It would be difficult to write of our beloved colleague in these pages without betraying emotion. A brilliant neurologist, researcher, teacher, husband, father, he leaves behind a profound legacy of perhaps the most influential contemporary figure in Romanian neurology.We remember and cherish some of his most significant achievements over his long and fruitful career. Professor B\u0103jenaru is the founding President of the Romanian Society of Neurology (RSN), an organization that he has formally led for 12 years. In this position, he has contributed decisively to the advancement of science and education in our field. He spearheaded the development of a vision for clinical neurology in our country, based on the conceptual changes determined by colossal advances in neuroscience and modern medical technologies, and integrated using traditional clinical training.Professor Ovidiu B\u0103jenaru represented Romania at top-notch medical forums. He was Romania\u2019s official representative at the World Federation of Neurology (since 2001), the European Stroke Organization, and the European Union of Medical Specialists (Board of Neurology permanent representative of Romania since 2008). Dr. B\u0103jenaru was also a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (since 2016), as well as a member of the Romanian Group of Brain Research (since 2016), member in the Bureau of Medical Services (since 2018), member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (since 2013).His primary areas of interest were neurodegenerative diseases (particularly Parkinson\u2019s disease and Alzheimer\u2019s disease), muscular dystonia and other motor behavior abnormalities, cerebrovascular diseases, multiple sclerosis, and sleep pathology in neurological disorders and medical conditions \u2013 all fields in which he became a leading authority. His scientific activity includes over 500 presentations at national and international events and over 50 international multicentric clinical trials as a principal investigator.Professor B\u0103jenaru coordinated the interdisciplinary medical group for the treatment by deep brain stimulation for Parkinson\u2019s disease  from the Bucharest Emergency University Hospital (since 2006), the first Romanian medical group for the interventional treatment of epilepsy (since 2009), and the national health programs for neurological disorders of the National Health Insurance House and the Romanian Ministry of Health (since 2014). Between 2008-2014, he was the President of the Neurology and Pediatric Neurology Commission at the Romanian Ministry of Health.Among his original scientific contributions, as part his doctoral thesis defended in 1993, he introduced the concept of incipient cognitive impairment for the first time in Romania, referring to patients with cerebrovascular and coronary diseases who develop neurocognitive disorders as a condition preceding the onset of dementia. He has also promoted the implementation of systematic neurocognitive evaluation for patients with neurological and vascular diseases, as well as their treatment in the current pursuit/activity of the neurologists in Romania. Dr. B\u0103jenaru conducted the first brain connectomics study in the context of a neurological condition (Parkinson\u2019s Disease) in Romania. Under the coordination of Professor B\u0103jenaru, a modern school of clinicians and researchers in neurosciences was born, forming several professors and heads of clinics and departments in Bucharest. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards that certify the effort made and the unquestionable dedication which he had in helping those in need. Among the awards and distinctions received we mention the Romanian Patriarchate Award \u201c100 years of Modern Medicine in the capital of united Romania\u201d (2018), The Excellence Award for the entire activity in the field of Neurology in Romania of the Academica Foundation (2016), the Excellence Award for the whole of the activity of the Foundation Prof. Dr. Marin Voiculescu \u201c(2015), Excellence Award of the International Brain Foundation and the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences - for his activity in the field of neurology in Romania, (2014); Doctor Honoris Causa of the \u201cOvidius\u201d University of Constan\u021ba, Romania (2006); Award of Excellence in Neurology in Romania - for scientific and educational activity at national level, 2005, 2006 and 2011; Romanian Society of Internal Medicine Award for the most active scientific collaborator in a related specialty, 2008, 2012; Excellency prize of the International Society for the Study of Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity, 2011; Excellence Award for medical activity awarded by the Romanian Ministry of Health in 2015.He was an influencing neurologist, a fantastic colleague, and a dear friend. It is a great loss for all of us that he has passed away at such a young age. Although he is no longer with us, his powerful impact on our field will last for a very long time. Our deepest sympathy goes to his family in this time of grief.He will be greatly missed. May his soul rest in peace."}
{"text": "The National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is the federally designated lead agency on aging research, and has supported significant research on aging as a life-long process. In the last five years, NIA experienced a tripling of its budget. Although much of this funding is targeted to Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and AD related dementias (ADRD) research, there was an increase in funds allocated to non-AD research in keeping with the overall growth of NIH. This symposium will provide a forum for exploration of the implications of the budget increases for the general research community. It will involve NIA\u2019s senior staff discussing research priorities and programs supported by the Institute. A question-and-answer session will follow brief introductory remarks on current funding and future priorities and research directions of NIA."}
{"text": "The fourth speaker is Dr. Erica Solway. Dr. Solway will discuss her experience working in policy at the federal level as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow and a policy advisor with the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging and in her current involvement in policy-relevant research at the state and national level at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. Dr. Solway is a senior project manager forthe evaluation of the Healthy Michigan Plan, Michigan\u2019s Medicaid expansion program, and is also an associate director of the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging."}
{"text": "The authors wish to add the following statement in the Acknowledgements section of this paper :The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Nat\u00e1lia Tobar, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, for the excellent acquisition and discussion of animal parameters by DEXA.The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected."}
{"text": "The session will also include the presentation of the2020 Lawton Award to recipient Sara J. Czaja, PhD, FGSA. The M. Powell Lawton Award is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions from applied research that has benefited older people and their care. The Lawton Award is generously funded by the Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life.\u201d"}
{"text": "Health Resources and Service Administrator-HRSA, grant # K01HP33459 to Dr. Tabrizi. These statements should also be added per funders request.In the original article, we neglected to include the funder \u201cThis publication was made possible by Grant Number K01HP33459 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an operating division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Health Resources and Services Administration or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The funding statement for this article should read as follows:\u201cThe research was supported by grants from the European Research Council , the Israel Science Foundation to MS (300/17) and through its Center of Excellence in Structural Cell Biology to SJF and DF (1775/12), a research grant from Sheri and David E. Stone and by a charitable donation from Sam Switzer and family. M.S. is an incumbent of the Aharon and Ephraim Katzir Memorial Professorial Chair. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This research/work was supported by the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology 'CITEC' (EXC 277) at Bielefeld University to SF and AM, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)."}
{"text": "Correction to:Perspect Med Educ 201910.1007/s40037-019-00558-zUnfortunately information regarding Paul Worley\u2019s affiliation is missing from the original article. Please find the information here:Paul Worley is affiliated to the Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He is the Australian National Rural Health Commissioner. This is an independent statutory position. The views in this paper are those of the authors only and do not represent the views of the Australian Government or the Department of Health."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for the National Natural Science Foundation of China is No. 81771231, 81471156 to HJ and No. 81600995 to YS.the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81974176 to HJ, 81901169 to ZC, No. 81901305 to CW.We also neglected to include the funder The final funding part is as follows:This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2016YFC0901504 and 2016YFC0905100 to HJ and No. 2016YFC1306000 to BT), the National Natural Science Foundation of China , the Key Research and Development Program of Hunan Province (No. 2018SK2092 to HJ), the Scientific Research Foundation of Health Commission of Hunan Province (No. B2019183 to HJ), and the Clinical and Rehabilitation Fund of Peking University Weiming Biotech Group (No. xywm2015I10 to HJ).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliations for Sean M. Bialosuknia. Instead having affiliations 1,2,3, they should have affiliations 1,3.In the original article, we neglected to include funding from Pacific Southwest Regional Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Cooperative Agreement 1U01CK000516) to Erin Taylor Kelly and Geoffrey M. Attardo.This publication was supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number U01CK000509 funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Its content is solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services. The study received funding from Pacific Southwest Regional Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Cooperative Agreement 1U01CK000516), to EK and GA. We would like to extend our gratitude to Illia Rochlin of Suffolk County Health Department for providing us with Ae. albopictus mosquitoes and the Arbovirus laboratory insectary crew for mosquito maintenance. Data for these analyses were acquired at the University of California, Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center, U2C ES030158. We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Alice Trimmer for her suggestions and edits.The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This study was funded in part by the Deputyship for Research and Innovation, \u2018Ministry of Education\u2019 in Saudi Arabia through the Project no. IFKSURP-160. No additional external funding was received for this study.The following information is missing from the Acknowledments section: The author extends their appreciation to the Deputyship for Research and Innovation, \u2018Ministry of Education\u2019 in Saudi Arabia for funding this research work through the Project no. IFKSURP-160. Special thanks for Dr Emad Mahmoud, an assistant professor, and senior researcher at King Saud University, for the support in evaluating the eligibility of the articles for inclusion in this systematic review and meta-analysis."}
{"text": "Since 2015, The John A. Hartford Foundation has been funding strategies to create Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS). Led by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association, the AFHS movement is rapidly growing, with participation in all 50 states from over 450 sites, including the full continuum of care settings. Partnerships with private and public entities are accelerating the work. As one example, the Health Resources and Services Administration has embedded AFHS principles into the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. This Kent Lecture will focus on the genesis and trajectory of the AFHS social movement and discuss how the effort will lead to an age-friendly ecosystem that transcends boundaries and cultures and leads to a common framework for the way we approach care, caregiving and communities for optimizing the lives and wellbeing of all older adults."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder, the Jacobs Foundation, Grant: 015 11 63 00 to Kate Ellis-Davies.The updated Funding section reads as follows:This research was supported, under the auspices of the Open Research Area , by grants from the UK Economic and Social Research Council , The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research , the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche , and the Jacobs Foundation (Grant 015 11 63 00 to KE-D) whose support is gratefully acknowledged.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The publisher apologizes for these errors. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This Collection was supported by TEPHINET, a program of The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., via Cooperative Agreement number NU2GGH001873, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., or TEPHINET."}
{"text": "Cross-border partner interactions were supported by the EU Twinning project VACTRAIN #692293 and PI project of the Swedish Institute #19806_2016. Participation of Petkov S, Chiodi F, and Wahren B was supported by VACTRAIN. Participation of Svirskis S was supported by BALTINFECT.There are errors in the Funding statement. The grant number listed from the Russian Foundation of Basic Research is actually from the Russian Science Foundation. The correct Funding statement is as follows: The study was supported by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research project #17_04_00583 Click here for additional data file."}
{"text": "European Immunization Week (EIW) 2020, the European Vaccination Information Portal was launched on 21 April. This publically accessible website provides anyone interested in vaccination with accurate, objective and up-to-date evidence on vaccines and vaccination with an European Union (EU) perspective.On the occasion of Council Recommendation on Strengthened Cooperation against Vaccine Preventable Diseases adopted in December 2018. The portal, which is available in all of the EU\u2019s official languages, features an overview of the existing mechanisms in the EU to ensure that available vaccines conform to the highest standards of safety and effectiveness. It also highlights the benefits of vaccination to the individual and the community. The project is an initiative of the EU, following the The website was developed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), in partnership with the European Commission (EC), specifically, the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).here.EIW, which is led and coordinated by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe), is marked across the WHO European Region every April. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of immunisation for people\u2019s health and well-being. ECDC supports the EIW campaign by providing scientific evidence on immunisation. Information on ECDC activities in the context of EIW can be found"}
{"text": "The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment affiliation should not have been included for Ms Warren. In addition, Dr Kolodny should have been named as the corresponding author instead of Ms Warren. This article has been corrected.1In the Research Letter titled \u201cTrends in Heroin Treatment Admissions in the United States by Race, Sex, and Age,\u201d"}
{"text": "Dr. Takashi Sugimura, an honorary member of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society (JEMS), passed away on September 6, 2020, at the age of 94. Dr. Sugimura was a leading international figure in cancer medicine for many years, and was a pioneer in molecular biology. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine, in 1949, received his Ph.D. in 1957, and went abroad to study at the National Cancer Institute in the United States. He then joined the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo in 1962 and was appointed Director in 1974. He later concurrently served as a Professor of Molecular Oncology at the Institute of Medical Science in the University of Tokyo from 1970 to 1988. He was appointed to be President of the National Cancer Center in 1984 and was instrumental in promoting the government\u2019s Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer, which was launched that year, and was appointed Honorary President of the National Cancer Center in 1992. He also served as President of Toho University from 1994 to 2000, and was named President Emeritus in 2000. In 2003, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and had his entire stomach removed. In an effort to help other patients and their families, he wrote a book about the testing and treatment process and his life after surgery, and continued to work on the development of cancer treatments from the patient\u2019s perspective.Dr. Sugimura\u2019s research clarified the relationship between mutagenicity and carcinogenicity and produced major contributions to the scientific study of cancer development mechanisms. He is especially remembered for his work on the now-well-known fact that cancer is a disease caused by genetic mutations. Together with Dr. Minako Nagao (who later became Chief of the Carcinogenesis Division) and other researchers, he showed that common cooking practices can produce mutagens exhibiting the same structures as those of heterocyclic amines in food. He then isolated and identified a large number of these heterocyclic amines, and showed that they are taken into the body via food consumption and induce mutations in genes, resulting in the development of tumors. He also analyzed multi-step carcinogenesis at the molecular level and studied its relevance to potential avenues for the prevention of cancer. This research has significantly impacted the identification of new mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis and tumor promotion.Dr. Sugimura was the second President of JEMS for 4\u2009years from 1978 and was the chairman of 5th meeting of JEMS hosted in 1976 in Tokyo. In 1981, he was a President for Third International Conference of Environmental Mutagens, which was held in Tokyo Japan and hosted by JEMS on behalf of International Association of Environmental Mutagen Societies . He also became an honorary member of JEMS in 1987, and was a frequent lecturer at annual JEMS meetings. In addition, in 1994, when the JEMS Award was established, the first prize was awarded for his \u201cResearch on the mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of heterocyclic amines.\u201dThe International Symposium of the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund, held in Tokyo every autumn, introduces the in latest cancer research and provides a forum for interaction between foreign and domestic researchers. Dr. Sugimura served as the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for this fund for 25\u2009years, from 1989 to 2014, and made significant contributions to the Fund\u2019s activities, including playing a key role in establishing the AACR Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lecture Prize in 2007. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the successful Joint Conference of the American Association for Cancer Research and the Japanese Cancer Association, which began in 1989, and he co-chaired the first meeting with the former President of the AACR, Dr. Enrico Mihich. This joint conference is held every 3\u2009years in Hawaii, and continues to symbolize the close relationship between cancer science researchers in Japan and the United States.Dr. Sugimura\u2019s work has been recognized in the United States as well in Japan, appearing five times on the cover of Cancer Research. He has also been the recipient of multiple honors in the United States, with his election as a member of the AACR in 1969, an honorary member in 1980, and the first fellow of the AACR Academy in 2013. His accomplishments are too numerous to list in full here, so I will only list some of the major awards he has received as evidence of his high esteem: the Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize in 1976, the EMS Award from the Environmental Mutagen Society  in 1978, the Order of Culture of the Japanese Government in 1978, the Charles S. Mott Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation in 1981, the Tomizo Yoshida Prize from the Japanese Cancer Association in 1992, and the Japan Prize for Biotechnology in Medicine in 1997. He also served as the 25th President of the Japan Academy in 2013\u201316. He was an elected foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine (U.S.), and an elected foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.There is an expression in Japanese, \u201cfall of a giant star.\u201d In the field of genotoxicity and cancer research, Dr. Sugimura\u2019s death may be best described using this expression. It is an undeniable fact that Dr. Sugimura was and will continue to be respected for his intellectual contributions to research, his amazing leadership skills, and his supreme passion for research above all.May he rest in peace.Editor-in-ChiefMasami YamadaNational Defense Academy of Japan"}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliation for Lidan Sun. Instead of affiliation 3, it should be 2.In addition, there is an error in the order of the Funding statement. The correct statement appears below. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31870689), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NO. 2015ZCQ-SW-06), the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China , and grant 201404102 from the State Administration of Forestry of China."}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following erratum to this paper . The FunThis research was funded by project (RTI2018-093321-B-I00) supported by: ERDF , Ministry of Science and Innovation and State Research Agency from Spain.Life editorial office has been asked to update the original manuscript [The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by these changes. The nuscript  on the a"}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This Collection was supported by TEPHINET, a program of The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., via Cooperative Agreement number NU2GGH001873, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., or TEPHINET."}
{"text": "The past 5 years have seen incredible advances in approaching hearing loss as a major public health issue. National efforts include the 2015 President\u2019 Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine\u2019s 2016 Commission on Hearing Health Care for Adults, which led to the 2017 OTC hearing aid legislation and the expected debut of OTC hearing aids in 2020-2021. The World Report on Hearing amplifies these efforts. This presentation will cover the role of the Report in the context of the rapidly evolving hearing care landscape in the US and how the Report\u2019s call for affordable, accessible hearing care fit within current national efforts focused on older adults. Finally, the WHO recognized 2020-2030 as the Decade of Healthy Aging. We will discuss how the World Report on Hearing integrates with broader efforts to support healthy aging locally and globally."}
{"text": "The Clark Tibbitts Award lecture will feature an address by the 2020 award recipient, Jan Abusharkrah, PhD, FAGHE. AGHE\u2019s Clark Tibbitts Award was established in 1980 and named for an architect of the field of gerontological education. The award is given each year to an individual or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of gerontology and geriatrics education."}
{"text": "The manuscript draft was developed by KL, MG, and MKG. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.YL is supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC1310405) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1736124). MKG is supported by the Bekker programme grant of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (PPN/BEK/2019/1/00245/U/00001).The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "In 2015, the Program of Merit was expanded and adapted to implement a voluntary evaluation process for health professions programs that are choosing to integrate gerontology/geriatrics competencies in order to prepare students for working with older adults as well as their informal care partners. These programs are now eligible to apply for the Program of Merit designation. The Program of Merit for Health Professions Programs is based on the AGHE Standards and Guidelines for Gerontology/ Geriatrics in Higher Education, Sixth Edition (2015), specifically Chapters 11 and 12. This session will provide an overview of the process, review the application content, and provide technical support for interested participants."}
{"text": "Correction to: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2020) 20:257https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-02951-7Following publication of the original article , the autAcknowledgementsWe would like to thank the team of the Netherlands\u2019 Course on Global Health and Tropical Medicine of the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam for passionately teaching the determinants of health model. The lectures and assignments of the course led to the first draft of this paper. Especially the guidance and support of Maaike Flinkenfl\u00f6gel was of great value. We thank professor Florence Mirembe from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda, for sharing her thoughts after reading our manuscript."}
{"text": "There is information missing from the Funding statement. The complete, correct Funding statement is as follows: This research was made possible in part by a grant from NOAA Fisheries, Office of Protected Resources, Species of Concern Program, in part by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, and in part by funding from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (Grants FWC-08304 and FWC-16188 to WFP). Riverside Technology, Inc. provided support in the form of salary for author LT, but did not have any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of this author are articulated in the 'author contributions' section.The publisher apologizes for the error.https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org (doi:10.7266/N7W37TWR).The following information is missing from the Data Availability statement: Dissolved inorganic carbon 14C data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at"}
{"text": "The National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is the federally designated lead agency on aging research, and has supported significant research on aging as a life-long process. In the last five years, NIA experienced a tripling of its budget. Although much of this funding is targeted to Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and AD related dementias (ADRD) research, there was an increase in funds allocated to non-AD research in keeping with the overall growth of NIH. This symposium will provide a forum for exploration of the implications of the budget increases for the general research community. It will involve NIA\u2019s senior staff discussing research priorities and programs supported by the Institute. A question-and-answer session will follow brief introductory remarks on current funding and future priorities and research directions of NIA."}
{"text": "The authors of \u201cPostvaccination Fever Response Rates in Children Derived Using the Fever Coach Mobile App: A Retrospective Observational Study\u201d :e12223) identified an error in the Acknowledgements section.In the first part of the Acknowledgements section, the following phrase:This work was supported by Technology Innovation Program (10060085) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy Has been changed to:This work was supported by Technology Innovation Program (20002289) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR website on May 7, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This paper is an output of a research project implemented as part of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE).There is an error in affiliation 1 for authors Iuliia Naidenova, Petr Parshakov, and Aleksei Chusovliankin. The correct affiliation 1 is: HSE University, Perm, Russia."}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper . The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Ali Khammanivong for providing gRNA sequences and guidance during the generation of the CD44 knockout cell lines. The authors would also like to acknowledge the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellowship program for providing funding for Dr. Witschen.The original \u201cAcknowledgments\u201d isAcknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Douglas Yee (funded by Masonic Cancer Center (MCC) Support Grant, P30-CA077598), and other members of the University of Minnesota Breast Cancer Translational Working Group (BrCa-TWG), for assistance with the cell line and patient Nanostring gene expression experiments. The authors would also like to thank the Elsa Pardee foundation .And should be replaced with:Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Douglas Yee (funded by the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC) Support Grant, P30-CA077598), and other members of the University of Minnesota Breast Cancer Translational Working Group (BrCa-TWG), for assistance with the cell line and patient Nanostring gene expression experiments. The authors would also like to thank the Elsa Pardee foundation . The authors would like to acknowledge Ali Khammanivong for providing gRNA sequences and guidance during the generation of the CD44 knockout cell lines. The authors would also like to acknowledge the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellowship program for providing funding for Patrice M. Witschen.The authors would like to apologize for these omissions from the original manuscript. These changes do not affect the scientific results. The manuscript will be updated, and the original will remain online on the article webpage."}
{"text": "Gordon has been a mentor for me, and one of my best friends for 40 years. What has always impressed me of Gordon was his innate ability to bring people to work together, to build new structures and to facilitate cancer research in creative new ways. Those who knew him will remember his sharp thinking, his wit and great sense of humor and his upbeat spirit and love for life, work and fun. I will never forget his kindness, his balanced advice, his jokes, and his incredibly fast speaking.Professor Gordon McVie qualified in the nineteen sixties in science and medicine at Edinburgh University, he was appointed Foundation Senior Lecturer at the Cancer Research Campaign oncology unit at the University of Glasgow in 1975. He trained in the US, and spent sabbaticals in Paris, Sydney, and Amsterdam.Throughout the eighties, he was Clinical Research Director at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and set up their drug discovery programme and the leading intraperitoneal chemotherapy studies in Europe. In the early eighties he was the Chair of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Lung Cancer Cooperative Group for 6 years. I met him for the first time in Brussels at one of the first meetings of this newly formed group. He was also appointed Chair of the UICC Fellowships Programme in 1990 for 8 years. From 1994 to 1997 he served as President of the EORTC, and during that time he set up the present Drug Development Group in Brussels, and with the US National Cancer Institute support, the European New Drug Development Network.After almost a decade in the Netherlands, Professor McVie returned to the UK to be the Chief Executive of the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC), which, under his aegis, took over 70 molecules from the lab into clinical trial. He led CRC into a merger with Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 2002, which formed the largest cancer charity in the UK, Cancer Research UK. In the UK he was one of the architects of the Cancer Trials Networks in Scotland, Wales, and England, and was a founding member of the National Cancer Research Institute. His commitment to drug discovery and delivery is evidenced by ~240 patents granted to CRC scientists under his leadership, several drugs registered including carboplatin, temozolomide, olaparib, and abiraterone and the foundation of 10 biotechnology companies based on CRC intellectual property. His clinical interests, apart from new drug discovery and chemoprevention were in the management of cancers of the lung, ovary, liver, breast, and brain.ecancer.org and ecancerpatient.org both online Open Access free websites, with almost 21 million visits in a decade from 191 countries. For 10 years he was Senior Consultant building clinical research at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan.Lately he was visiting professor at Cancer Studies, Kings College London for five years, and was Clinical Research Advisor to the Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Milan. He was founding editor of He was a Director and Co-Founder of Ellipses Pharma - an advanced cancer medicines company.Professor McVie was the recipient of numerous awards and has honorary doctorates in science and medicine from six universities. He has served on key committees of AACR and ASCO, and on the boards of the National Cancer Institutes of France, Italy, and Holland. He has authored 360 peer-reviewed articles, and contributed to over 35 books.He was elected as Fellow of the European Association for Cancer Science in 2014, and has been chairman of the European Alliance for Personalized Medicine since early 2016.This is only a short selection of the most important activities Prof. McVie has been engaged in. He was truly a dynamic international presence that recognized the necessity of going beyond the geographical boundaries, bringing people together to create novel structures in the pursuit of the fight against cancer.The author confirms being the sole contributor of this work and has approved it for publication.The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "This presentation will describe collaborative efforts on the campus of a mid-sized, private university to carry out activities consistent with the Age-Friendly University philosophy. In one program, staff from Career Services and a faculty member from the Department of Health Science coordinated with the President\u2019s College (a continuing education program for adult learners), the Emeriti Association (a group of retired faculty members), and alumni to offer mock interviews for students preparing for graduate school. In another program, steps were taken to coordinate with the office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to address Ageism in the Workplace. The presentation will conclude with advice for identifying allies across campus and fostering support for the AFU principles."}
{"text": "In the Sample and procedure subsection of the Methods, there is an error in the first sentence of the first paragraph. The correct sentence is: The ESA is regularly conducted by the Institute for Therapy Research (IFT Institut f\u00fcr Therapieforschung).Information is missing from the Acknowledgments. The correct Acknowledgments are as follows: We thank the IFT Institut f\u00fcr Therapieforschung for providing the data for this analysis.There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: The 2015 Epidemiological Survey of Substance Abuse (ESA) was supported by funding from the German Federal Ministry of Health (project no. IIA5 \u20132514DSM200)."}
{"text": "Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-019-54310-y, published online 09 January 2020Correction to: The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete.\u201cThe authors would like to thank CReATE and the ALS Association (US) for the award of the grant supporting the study: \u201cGoing Dry: empowering neurofilament-based biomarkers studies for disease monitoring in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis\u201d. We would also like to thank all ALS patients and their families for their support to this research project and we acknowledge the MND Association (UK) for their help in establishing the ALS biomarkers biobank and contributing with significant resources in the sample collection phase and to general aspect of research in ALS. We also acknowledge the support of the North-Thames Local Research Network (London) in the recruitment process and in the collection and processing of biological samples.\u201dshould read:\u201cThe authors would like to thank CReATe and the ALS Association (US) for the award of the grant supporting the study: \u201cGoing Dry: empowering neurofilament-based biomarkers studies for disease monitoring in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis\u201d. The CReATe consortium (U54NS092091) is part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), an initiative of the Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR), NCATS. CReATe is funded through a collaboration between NCATS, and the NINDS. We would also like to thank all ALS patients and their families for their support to this research project and we acknowledge the MND Association (UK) for their help in establishing the ALS biomarkers biobank and contributing with significant resources in the sample collection phase and to general aspect of research in ALS. We also acknowledge the support of the North-Thames Local Research Network (London) in the recruitment process and in the collection and processing of biological samples.\u201d"}
{"text": "The affiliation for the third author is incorrect. The correct affiliation is not indicated. Christian Raschner is not affiliated with #2 but with: Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria."}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following correction to this paper :In the original version of our article , 8897), insufficient source of funding was given. The authors wish to change the information in the Funding section from:Funding: This research was funded by German Academic Exchange Services, grant number 91727334.to the correct version as follows:Funding: This research was funded by the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD), grant number 91727334, and by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft \u2014Projektnummer 427397520.The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by these changes."}
{"text": "The Donald P. Kent Award lecture will feature an address by the 2019 Kent Award recipient, Terry Fulmer, PhD, of The John A. Hartford Foundation. The Kent Award is given annually to a member of The Gerontological Society of America who best exemplifies the highest standards of professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and interpretation of gerontology to the larger society. The Robert W. Kleemeier Award lecture will feature an address by the 2019 Kleemeier Award recipient, Steven Zarit of Pennsylvania State University. The Kleemeier Award is given annually to a member of The Gerontological Society of America in recognition for outstanding research in the field of gerontology"}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, P50HD089922, to Giorgia Picci and Emma Rose.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This study was funded by a grant to Dr. Ahuja from Astex Inc. (GRANT # 120039).There is information missing from the Competing Interests statement. The correct Competing Interests statement is as follows: Dr. Ahuja receives research grant funding from Astex Inc. and the Van Andel Research Institute. She is a consultant for and has licensed methylation biomarkers to Cepheid (PATENT # 10167513). Dr. Ahuja has also served as consultant to Johnson and Johnson, an advisor to Celgene, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the No Stomach for Cancer Foundation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.The raw data underlying the findings of this study are missing from the list of Supporting Information. The authors have provided the data as Supporting Information file S1 Data(XLSX)Click here for additional data file."}
{"text": "The 2019 marks twenty years since Professor Ao Li (\u9ece\u9ccc) passed away. Although he has left us, the \u201cLi Ao Spirit\u201d has lived on and continuously encourages us to climb higher in scientific research and make more contributions to our people and country , was born in Changsha, Hunan Province in May 1917. He graduated from the National Shanghai Medical College in 1941, and had a long and distinguished career in medicine. His various positions over the years included Associate Professor at the National Chung Cheng Medical College, Professor at the Third Military Medical University, Director of the Burn Research Institute of the Third Military Medical University, and the Vice President of the Third Military Medical University. As one of the pioneers and founders of burn medicine in China, professor Li led comprehensive multidisciplinary research on the pathogenesis and prevention of inhalation injury. For his great contribution to the field of burn research, he was not only the recipient of the Everett Idris Evans Memorial Lecture Award of the American Burn Association in 1994, but also won first prize in both the Chinese Science and Technology Advancement Award and the Military Scientific and Technological Progress Award among other accolades.After graduating from high school, Mr. Li was recommended to study in the Department of Physics or Mathematics at Nanjing Central University. However, touched by the sufferings of the general public caused by a lack of medical knowledge and medicine and his father\u2019s illness, Mr. Li was determined to become a doctor. In 1935, he was given the opportunity to study at Shanghai Medical College, where he started his medical career. After graduating, he successively presided over general surgical work in the National Chung Cheng Medical College, the Third Military Medical University and other institutions, saving thousands of lives.In the late 1950s, the number of burn patients increased drastically due to the country\u2019s efforts in increasing steel production, but there were no effective therapies available at that time , which was published by People\u2019s Military Medical Press in 1993  launched the research project named \u201cStudy on the Pathogenesis of Early Burn Injury and Wound Healing Mechanism\u201d. The project was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation. After five years of hard work, they discovered that macrophages act as an initiator in the uncontrolled inflammatory response after burns, verified that vascular endothelium played the central role in the pathogenesis of early organ damage, clarified the mechanism of the early intestinal damage and intestinal infections, and proposed corresponding treatment measures (Huang et al., Professor Li attached great importance to the growth and cultivation of young scientists. He emphasized training in practice, encouraged young scientists to participate in clinical operation, classroom teaching and laboratory tasks Fig.\u00a0. He provIn 1986, Professor Li won the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He donated the bonus of the award to establish the Outstanding Paper Award in Burn Medicine for Young Army Scientists to encourage young scientists and technicians to engage in burn research. In 1996, Professor Li won the China Engineering Science and Technology Award and Military Technical Major Contribution Award. Again, he donated the bonus of both awards, a total of 150,000 Chinese Yuan, to set up the Li Ao Burn Medicine Fund so as to reward young and middle-aged scientists who contributed to the development of burn medicine. Ten of the recipients of the Li Ao Burn Medicine Fund have become the leading scientists of burn medicine in China. In 1996, Professor Li was awarded the title of \u201cOutstanding Mentor\u201d by the General Logistics Department of Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army.Professor Li has devoted his whole life to the cause of burn medicine in China and made a lot of remarkable achievements. Although he left us twenty years ago, we are still always encouraged and inspired by the \u201cLi Ao Spirit\u201d of selflessness, diligence and entrepreneurship. With the great efforts of generations of doctors and scientists, we believe burn medicine research in China will bring about more and more breakthroughs and play a leading role in the international arena."}
{"text": "UNICEF is acknowledged for their support towards the Center for Nutrition Studies, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University). No additional external funding was received for this study.There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: MB received a grant from The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for a capacity building workshop on Nutrition Assessment Techniques. The URL of the website is:"}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for the National Natural Science Foundation of China is No. 81771231 to HJ and No. 81600995 to YS.the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81974176 to HJ; No. 81901169 to ZC. The corrected funding statement appears below.Additionally, we neglected to include the funder We declared that there were no financial interests in this study. This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China , the National Natural Science Foundation of China , the National Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (No. 2019JJ40363 to RQ), Key Research and Development Program of Hunan Province (No. 2018SK2092 to HJ), Scientific Research Foundation of Health Commission of Hunan Province (No. B2019183 to HJ), The Clinical and rehabilitation fund of Peking University Weiming Biotech Group (No. xywm2015I10 to HJ).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Bioengineering and Translational Medicine, we are pleased to introduce our Editorial Board Member, Professor W. Mark Saltzman. Professor Saltzman is the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Physiology at Yale University. Professor Saltzman received his BS in chemical engineering from Iowa State University before earning a SM in chemical engineering and a PhD in medical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).In this issue of Professor Saltzman's research has been formative in the fields of controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering. As a trainee in the laboratory of Professor Robert Langer at MIT, Professor Saltzman participated in some of the very earliest work in utilizing polymer scaffolds for cell transplantation with Dr Joseph Vacanti.Professor Saltzman is recognized as a pioneer in quantifying and modeling the transport of macromolecules through synthetic polymers and biological matrices,In addition to his research excellence, Professor Saltzman is passionate about education and has left an indelible mark in this area as well. He has contributed to the emergence of the academic field of biomedical engineering by authoring three original textbooksOver the past 30+ years, Professor Saltzman's contributions as a researcher, educator, and mentor have been immense. He has supervised the research work of over 43 PhD students and 27 postdoctoral researchers who now populate the academic and industry landscape and contribute to his legacy of fundamental discovery and translation in bioengineering. His overall excellence has been recognized via election as Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (1997), Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2010), member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (2014), and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2018). Moreover, Professor Saltzman has set a standard for supportive mentorship that has created a family\u2010like network among his trainees. He is always available for advice and support, even for those who have long ago left his group, no matter how many other demands on his time there may be. On behalf of his current and former trainees, I express my appreciation and gratitude to Mark for sharing his scientific journey with us and helping to shape our own through his insight and guidance."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 723951 to RO. The corrected Funding section reads as follows:This work was supported by the EPSRC Cambridge NanoDTC, EP/L015978/1 and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant Agreement No. 723951 to RO.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The secondary analysis presented here was not externally funded. The funder of the original study had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We acknowledge financial support for the publication costs from the Open Access Publication Fund of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: The original study, of which data were used for analysis, was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ("}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The funding from the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) was mistakenly omitted. The correct Funding statement appears below."}
{"text": "The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a development plan proposed by China that aims to build a new platform for international cooperation and create new drivers of shared development. South Asia is a key area in the Belt and Road Initiative, including eight countries. As the BRI implemented, China\u2019s trade with South Asia has been gradually strengthened. This paper explores the influencing factors of China-South Asia trade under the background of the BRI by using Gravity Model of Trade. The results show that economic growth in China and South Asia, increase of savings rate and improvement of industrialization in South Asia has a significant positive effect on China-South Asia trade. While the development gap between China and South Asia has negative effect on China-South Asia trade. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 . . lnGDPitlnGDPit is negative and significant at 10% level, which is different from the expected sign. This is due to the restriction of economic development level, China mainly imports labor-intensive products from South Asian countries, because countries with lower economic development level have relatively few laborers, and the eight South Asian countries are not China\u2019s main trading partners. The coefficients of lnGDPct, lnGDPPict, lnFDIict and AR(1) is significant at 1% level with the same expected sign. The economic growth in China, China\u2019s invest, the common development of China-South Asia, the path-dependence such as import products from South Asia will encourage South Asia\u2019s export to China. The coefficient of SRit is positive and significant at 5%level. Therefore, the increase of savings rate of South Asia can expand domestic investment of South Asia countries and bring more opportunities to export goods for South Asia.On China\u2019s imports from South Asia as shown in column (3), most facts have significant effect and the same expected sign. The coefficient of BRIit is positive and significant at 10% level in column (3), while not significant in column (1) and (2), This shows that the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative or establish a free trade zone at present is relied on China much more than on South Asia, which was consistent with the findings of Kong (2018) and Zhang (2019) [The coefficient g (2019) , 26. TheTo sum up, we concluded that, GDP, FDI and AR (1) have significant influence on China-South Asia trade, which means that economic growth, development gap, national savings rate and industrialization level are the main influencing factors of trade between China and South Asia. Among them, economic growth, savings rate and industrialization level of both sides have a significant positive impact, while the development gap between China and South Asia has a negative impact on trade between China and South Asia. The impact of BRI on China-South Asia trade is mainly reflected in China\u2019s imports, which shows that the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative still needs to be deepened step by step.The trade volume between China and South Asia has been increasing gradually. But the trade imbalance is obvious\u2014South Asia seriously depend on China\u2019s imports. China mainly exports capital-intensive products to South Asia, while China imports labor-intensive products from South Asia. The economic growth, the development gap, national savings rate and the industrialization level have influence on the trade between China and South Asia. Among these influencing factors, economic growth of China and South Asia counties, savings rate and industrialization level of host countries have significant positive effect on the bilateral trade, while development gap has negative effect. However, the effect of BRI on China-South Asia trade is not significant. The following policy implications are proposed.Promote China\u2019s Going Out Strategy and encourage foreign direct investment. On the one hand, as China improve the value chain and increase the environmental awareness, many capital-intensive and labor-intensive industries, such as construction, manufacturing and energy, are shifting production abroad. Many Chinese multinationals bring advanced technology to invest in countries with rich resources and lower labor costs. On the other hand, expanding China\u2019s investment in South Asia will facilitate technology transfer to domestic firms through spillover, which also promote domestic firms to make the strategic decision to adopt the advanced technology and stimulate innovation and creativity.China and South Asia should deepen the cooperation of production. China has a relatively high level of industrialization. Deepening production capacity cooperation through building production bases and economic and trade cooperation zones can promote the industrialization of South Asia. The improvement of the industrialization expands the range of commodities of China-South Asia trade and optimize the trade structure.Through combing the existing literature, although there are innovations, there are still limitations. For example, in terms of choosing influencing factors, although the research pursues the comprehensiveness of the theme, there may be other factors that have a certain impact on bilateral trade. In addition, the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative policy is affected by many parties, and the implementation of specific projects and their impact on trade and economy need longer time and data to further prove and analyze. This study suggests that future research should continue to track and explore the trade influencing factors of South Asia and other countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative.S1 Data(XLSX)Click here for additional data file."}
{"text": "In January, 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90\u00a0s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.Current nuclear arms control and non\u2010proliferation efforts are inadequate to protect the world's population against the threat of nuclear war by design, error, or miscalculation. The Treaty on the Non\u2010Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) commits each of the 190 participating nations\u201dto pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control\u201d.Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity. Even a \u201climited\u201d nuclear war involving only 250 of the 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world could kill 120 million people outright and cause global climate disruption leading to a nuclear famine, putting 2 billion people at risk.http://www.ippnw.org).The health community has had a crucial role in efforts to reduce the risk of nuclear war and must continue to do so in the future.In 2007, the IPPNW launched the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which grew into a global civil society campaign with hundreds of partner organisations. A pathway to nuclear abolition was created with the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017, for which the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. International medical organisations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the IPPNW, the World Medical Association, the World Federation of Public Health Associations, and the International Council of Nurses, had key roles in the process leading up to the negotiations, and in the negotiations themselves, presenting the scientific evidence about the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. They continued this important collaboration during the First Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which currently has 92 signatories, including 68 member states.We now call on health professional associations to inform their members worldwide about the threat to human survival and to join with the IPPNW to support efforts to reduce the near\u2010term risks of nuclear war, including three immediate steps on the part of nuclear\u2010armed states and their allies: first, adopt a no first use policy;The danger is great and growing. The nuclear armed states must eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us. The health community played a decisive part during the Cold War and more recently in the development of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We must take up this challenge again as an urgent priority, working with renewed energy to reduce the risks of nuclear war and to eliminate nuclear weapons.Respective authors were paid by their employers. Chris Zielinski's time was funded by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.KB\u2010D is a full\u2010time employee of the American Medical Association, working as the Editor\u2010in\u2010Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network. AH is principal investigator of the Pathfinder Initiative 2020\u20132025, co\u2010investigator of Sustainable Healthy Food Systems research programme 2017\u20132023, and co\u2010investigator of Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health 2017\u20132023, all funded by the Wellcome Trust, with additional funding from the Oak Foundation for the Pathfinder Initiative, and he reports royalties from Cambridge University Press for the coauthored book Planetary Health; consultancy fees paid to his institution from the Wellcome Trust for his role as Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Health in 2021; travel/meeting support from WHO and Human Frontiers Science Program; and he is a member of the Cool Roofs trial steering committee Nouna Research Centre, Burkina Faso/University of Heidelberg, is Co\u2010chair of the International Advisory Committee, NIHR Clean\u2010Air (Africa) Global Health Research Unit, is a member of the Independent Advisory Group, Collaboration for the Establishment of an African Population Cohort Consortium, and he was Co\u2010chair of the InterAcademy Partnership, Climate Change and Health Working Group 2019\u20132022 and Co\u2010chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences/Royal Society working group on \u2018A healthy future\u2014tackling climate change mitigation and human health together\u2019 2020\u20132021 . IH reports honoraria for several speaking engagements, all donated to Back from the Brink, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or Physicians for Social Responsibility; travel/ meeting support for Nobel Peace Laureates' Summit, the World Federation of Public Health Associations World Congress, and the UN Human Rights Commission Youth Summit; and he is a member of the steering committee of Back from the Brink and the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a Board member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a Trustee of the Phillips Exeter Academy . MGMOR reports research grants from the Dutch Research Council, NOW (grant number COMPL.21COV.001) and from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research ZonMw (grant number 09120012010063) and he is Chair of the Dutch guideline committee on cognitive impairments and dementia. TR reports a contract with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (USA) for papers addressing the health and environmental consequences of nuclear testing in multiple locations, including Australia, French Polynesia, central Pacific, and China; honorarium from The Choisun Ilbo media group in South Korea for a lecture on nuclear weapons in 2022 and for nuclear weapons presentations from Hyogo Medical Practitioners Association (Japan), Peace Boat (Japan), and the University of Sydney; he was an expert witness on radiation and health for Environmental Justice Australia acting for Mine\u2010Free Glenaladale regarding proposed Fingerboards Mineral Sands Mine to the Victorian Government Fingerboards Inquiry and Advisory Committee; he is a member of RV3 Rotavirus Vaccine Development Scientific Advisory Board, Murdoch Children's Research Institute/ Royal Children's Hospital; he is a member of the Committee of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia; he is a member of the Internet Peace Prize Award Committee ; he was a member of the Victorian International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee, Australian Red Cross; he is a Board member of the Initiative for Peacebuilding, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne; he is an At\u2010large Board member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; he was Co\u2010president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 2012\u201323; and he is Honorary Principal Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. PY reports grants from Atea Pharmaceuticals; honoraria for lectures, presentations, and educational events from bioM\u00e9rieux and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; fees for participation on an advisory board from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; and he is a member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Study Group Executive Committee (2022\u20132024) and the Clinical Practice Guideline Panel on Vaccinations in Immunocompromised hosts for the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. CZ reports consulting fees for his role as senior adviser on the international journals project from the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. All the other authors declare no competing interests."}
{"text": "Funding statement.In the published article, there was a mistake in the Original text: This research was supported by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depressio (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award and K23 MH067705 to EN and K01 DA020485 to JE. AK was supported by grant Ministry of Education and Science of the RK AP08856595. JA was supported by R01-DA022221-02S2 (PI: DelBello).Due to an oversight by the authors during proofing, the order of grant support was listed incorrectly, and some awkward wording was not corrected. As a condition of supporting the research publication costs, the Ministry of Education and Science in the Republic of Kazakhstan requires that it must be listed first in the funding statement. The correct Funding statement appears below."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The grant number was mistakenly omitted. The correct Funding statement appears below.This material is based upon work supported by, or in part by, the Army Research Laboratory and the Army Research Office under contract/grant number W911NF-19-0419.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The corrected Acknowledgements statement appears below.In the published article, Vounba P, Loul S, Tamadea LF, Siawaya JFD. Microbiology laboratories involved in disease and antimicrobial resistance surveillance: Strengths and challenges of the central African states. Afr J Lab Med. 2022;11(1), a1570. The original incorrect wording:We sincerely thank Dr Skander Hathroubi  for his contribution by reading and correcting the first draft of the manuscript.The revised and updated wording:We sincerely thank Dr Skander Hathroubi  for his contribution by reading and correcting the first draft of the manuscript. This study was commissioned and supported by the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) project in Central Africa, which is financially supported by the World Bank and managed by the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). We would like to thank ECCAS and the World Bank for supporting our efforts through REDISSE.The authors apologise for this error. The correction does not change the study\u2019s findings of significance or overall interpretation of the study\u2019s results or the scientific conclusions of the article in any way."}
{"text": "Funding statement appears below:In the original article, there was an error in the Funding statement. . The correct \u201cThis study was supported by the project of the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2019YFC1712105), and the Major Basic Research Project of Shandong Natural Science Foundation (No. ZR2020ZD17).\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. We missed out an extra funder. The correct Funding statement appears below:The CERTAIN registry received funding from Astellas and Novartis. The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication. All authors declare no other competing interests. The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding of the CERTAIN Registry by a grant from the Dietmar Hopp Stiftung, the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN) and The German Society for Paediatric Nephrology (GPN). JKi acknowledges funding from a MRC NIHR fellowship (MR/V037900/1). CS acknowledges funding from the European Commision\u2019s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant no. 952512). VK acknowledges funding from an NIHR Fellowship (PDF-2016-09-065) and as a Paul I. Terasaki Scholar.VK acknowledges funding from the National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit  in Organ Donation and Transplantation at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Newcastle University and in partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the National Institute for Health Research, the Department of Health or National Health Service Blood and Transplant.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: This research was supported by the Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (no. 2021\u2013001) and the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The grant number for funding from the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China was incorrectly reported as \u201cNo. LR22C02003\u201d. The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the \u201cThis work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 32000234, and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LR22C020003, the Major Science and Technology Special Project of Variety Breeding of Zhejiang Province (2021C02067-7), and the State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products under Grant No. 2021DG700024-KF202102\u201d.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Clarifying the integrated development mechanism of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program has positive and practical significance for the efficient implementation of the healthy China strategy. In order to analyze and study the integrated development mechanism of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program, we established a coupling-coordination measurement model. Based on two dimensions of space and time, we first analyzed the coupling degree between National Fitness System and National Health System in the Yangtze River Economic Belt region of China from 2016 to 2020, and studied and analyzed the coupling mechanism between the two. The research results show that the National Fitness Program and National Health Program have a development model of mutual promotion and mutual benefit. The National Fitness Program promotes the National Health Program by improving the fitness environment, increasing fitness participation, and health investment. The National Health Program optimizes environmental construction, health education, and healthy populations, thereby driving national fitness. Overall, there is stable development and balanced promotion in the integration of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program. In addition, the integrated development of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program is positively affected by economic level and regional marketization. The coupling- coordination model adopted in this study has practical value in measuring the coupling degree between the National Fitness System and National Health System. The results of this study also provide an important reference basis for the integrated and coordinated development of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program and the implementation of the Healthy China strategy. National fitness and national health have become important factors in social development and the improvement of people\u2019s well-being. The integrated development of national fitness and national health aligns with the global trend of health development. More and more countries and regions worldwide are treating national fitness and national health as important strategies, promoting people\u2019s health through measures such as providing fitness facilities, promoting health education, and strengthening health management. In response to this, General Secretary Xi Jinping of China has repeatedly emphasized the advocacy of a healthy and civilized lifestyle, the improvement of the health literacy of the entire population, and the deep integration of national fitness and national health during the period of 2016\u20132022. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has issued the \u201cNational Fitness Plan (2021\u20132025)\u201d and the \u201cSports Law of the People\u2019s Republic of China,\u201d which propose the implementation of a national fitness strategy, the establishment of a public service system for national fitness, and the encouragement and support of citizens\u2019 participation in fitness activities to promote the deep integration of national fitness and national health  In terms of the connotation of the integration of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program, many scholars have started their research on the integration of the two systems by tracing the source of concepts. For examples, Lu  believes(2) On the integration path of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program, much progress has been made. For examples, Lu  formulat3) In terms of the mechanism of integrating the National Fitness Program and National Health Program, Lu  In terms believesIn general, scholars have achieved fruitful results in the research on the integration relationship between the National Fitness Program and overall health, and have conducted well. They have analyzed and explored the integration relationship between the two from multiple perspectives of integration. However, there are two problems in current relevant research: first, the research has remained theoretical research on the National Fitness Program and National Health Program, and there is a lack of data exploration and verification of the integration relationship between the National Fitness Program and overall health. The coupling relationship between the two will affect the progress and effectiveness of comprehensive fitness and the achievement of the goal of national health. The second is that the scope of research is large, the theoretical coverage is broad, involving the entire national level, and there is a lack of specific comparative analysis of representative regions and different provinces and cities. Therefore, in the context of the healthy China strategy, it is particularly important to measure and evaluate the integration of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program through a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. Based on the analysis of the coupling effect between the National Fitness Program and National Health Program in various aspects, this paper constructs a model based on the two dimensions of space and time, analyzes the coupling and coordination relationship, and verifies the integration mechanism between the two. The research results of this paper have positive practical significance for achieving the efficient implementation of the healthy China strategy.2.2.1.Since the State Council promulgated the \u201cRegulations on National Fitness\u201d and the \u201cNational Fitness Plan 2011\u20132015),\u201d the National Fitness Program has been integrated into the overall planning of economic and social development of governments at all levels. After continuous efforts in recent years, the \u201cbig group\u201d work pattern of \u201cgovernment led, department coordinated, and the entire society participated\u201d has basically taken shape, and the effect has gradually become evident. Wei  regarded,\u201d the Na2.2.The connotation of a Healthy China strategy is not only to ensure the health of the whole people, but also to ensure the overall health of the healthy environment, the healthy economy, and the healthy society. National health is also one of the main indicators to ensure the construction of a healthy city. The WHO defines a healthy city as an organic combination of healthy people, a healthy society, and a healthy environment. It has formulated 3 health indicators, 8 social indicators, 7 health service indicators, and 14 environmental indicators for a healthy city. In 2018, the China Health Commission released the \u201cChina Healthy City Evaluation Indicator System (2018 Version)\u201d , which c2.3.The concept of coupling originates from physics and refers to the existence of a relationship of mutual influence and interaction between two or more systems. In terms of the relationship between national fitness and national health, the two have similarities in service targets, convergence in core goals, and overlap in means and methods. Therefore, it is necessary to explore and analyze the integration relationship and mechanism between the two before building the model.2.3.1.The optimization of the national fitness environment can improve the development of the National Health System. The quality of the national fitness environment and the construction of the fitness environment are dialectically unified and complement each other. High environmental quality can greatly promote fitness activities. Conversely, low environmental quality is not conducive to the formation of residents\u2019 fitness habits, it is difficult to form a good fitness atmosphere and crowd participation rate, and environmental construction will also lag behind. Therefore, forming an active fitness atmosphere, rich sports life, strong fitness awareness, and a good fitness ecological environment can improve the quality of national fitness, promote the construction of a healthy environment, and promote the completion of the national health system. Starting from the \u201chard environment,\u201d increasing the availability and use of national fitness venues, facilities, and equipment, and popularizing the group fitness effect of community fitness can greatly improve fitness habits, promote the construction of a healthy environment, and further promote and improve the national health system.The quality and quantity of participation in national fitness can improve the over-all health system. Constantly improve the public service system for national fitness, ensure that everyone enjoys basic sports fitness services, and consolidate the basic conditions for national fitness to promote national health . The strThe volume ratio of national health investment can expand the National Health System. The health level of a country or region is usually measured by health input, which is reflected by human, material, and financial indicators of the health industry such as the total number of professional health personnel, the total number of medical and health institutions, and the total amount of health expenses .2.3.2.The construction of a healthy environment is the basic condition for promoting the development of national fitness. The development of national fitness needs to be supported by a good sports ecological environment. Through the construction and improvement of a healthy environment, such as increasing forest coverage and reducing smog days, more people can participate in physical exercise and expand the demand for sports market. National fitness has a high demand for healthy environmental conditions. Therefore, it is possible to start with managing the broken health environment, protecting and strengthening a good health environment, optimizing the construction of a healthy environment, and ultimately promoting the development of national fitness.The promotion of health education is a key factor in improving the awareness and needs of national fitness. With the increasing satisfaction of material pursuits, more and more people are paying attention to health education, not only physical health, but also psychological and social health. When the awareness of national fitness is constantly strengthened and demanded, it will be beneficial to expand the fitness community and promote the development of national fitness.per capita is bound to bring about an aging population, and the increase of the aging population will bring more health problems for the older adult. Developing healthy exercise for the older adult is particularly important. The youth group is the main group participating in physical exercise, mainly ensuring that the youth group exercises in a good healthy environment, and ensuring the stability and improvement of group development, in order to stabilize and ensure the national fitness system.The development of healthy people is an important guarantee for stabilizing the National Fitness System. The extension of life expectancy Based on the above analysis and discussion, the coupling mechanism model of the National Fitness Program and National Health program is shown in 3.3.1.3.1.1.Dimensionless processing can eliminate dimensional differences between variables, enhancing the stability and reliability of data analysis, improving the performance and effectiveness of models, reducing computational complexity, accelerating algorithm convergence, and enhancing the effectiveness of feature selection. The National Fitness System and National Health System are composed of several indicators. In order to unify the dimensions of each indicator, the raw data is standardized before data analysis. The calculation formula is as follows , 23:ijx means the original data of the j-th indicator of a province or municipality in year i, and ijy means the standardized data of the j-th indicator of a province or municipality in year i. min ijx is the minimum value of the i-th indicator and max ijx is the maximum value of the i-th indicator. The data of the dimensionless processing has the value of 0, which will interfere and affect the later calculation, so the data is panned. The calculation formula is as follows:The \u03b1 in 3.1.2.The advantages of the entropy method include: the absence of subjective weight setting, consideration of the correlation between indicators, strong flexibility and adaptability, easily interpretable and understandable results, applicability to multi-objective decision-making, as well as flexibility and adjustability. These features make the entropy method a commonly used multi-criteria evaluation approach that finds wide application in various fields and scenarios. Therefore, in this paper the entropy method is used to measure the index weights of national fitness and national health. The specific process is as follows \u201326:i-th year of the j-th indicator. The formula is as follows:Step 1: Homogeneous metrics are quantified. Measure the share of the ijp refers to the i-th year of indicator j.Where Step 2: The entropy value of the annual indicators of each region of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is calculated, and the proportion of each index is obtained. The entropy calculation formula for item j indicator is as follows:ih represents the specific entropy value of indicator j.Where j, the greater the ijy difference, the greater the impact on the results of specific provinces and cities, and vice versa. The specific calculation formula is as follows:Step 3: Calculate the difference coefficient for the indicator. For indicator jw. The calculation formula is as follows:Step 4: Determine the weight Step 5: Calculate the comprehensive measure value, that is, the calculation of the comprehensive score for the two systems of national fitness and national health. The calculation formula is as follows:su in Where 3.1.3.The coupling coordination model can organically combine factors from different domains or systems, forming a unified system framework. This systemic approach allows for a better capture of the complex relationships among interrelated factors and variables, thereby providing more accurate and comprehensive results and predictions. The coordinated advancement of the deep integration of national fitness and national health is a complex systemic project. Therefore, this study establishes a \u201ccoupling coordination\u201d calculation model for the National Fitness and National Health systems in order to analyze and evaluate the interconnectedness and coordination between these two systems. The formula for calculating the coupling coordination of the National Fitness System and National Health System is as follows \u201331:c represents the coupling degree between the National Fitness System and National Health System. f(x) and g(x) are the comprehensive evaluation index of the National Fitness System and National Health System of provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, respectively, obtained by the entropy method. And, \u03b1 and \u03b2 represent the pending coefficient, and R represents the coupling coordination. This paper believes that the importance of the two systems is the same, therefore, both \u03b1 and \u03b2 take 0.5, that is, \u03b1\u2009=\u2009\u03b2\u2009=\u20090.5. k is the adjustment coefficient, which is equal to 2. c\u2208, when c\u2009=\u20091, it indicates that national fitness and national health are in a highly coupled state; when c\u2009=\u20090, it means that there is no correlation between national fitness and internal elements of national health, disorderly development. Similarly, R\u2208. Coupling coordination levels are classified here  The Yangtze River Economic Belt spans the east and west, with a population and economic total exceeding 40% of the country, and there is comparative analysis of data results; (2) As a new region for the implementation of China\u2019s new round of reform and opening up, it has global influence and is representative in data analysis. (3) Promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is of great practical significance for the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to grasp and guide the New Normal of economic development, scientifically plan the new chess game of China\u2019s economy, and promote the coordinated development of regional economy, which is conducive to the industrial structure and urbanization layout along the Yangtze River, and promote economic efficiency and value added. The raw data on National Fitness and Nation Health of 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt was supplied in 4.4.1.per capita health cost is lower than the national average, the main health indicators of residents such as per capita life expectancy, infant mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate have been achieved, which are all better than the national average. Additionally, the data also supports the effectiveness of the implementation of the \u201cImplementation Plan for Health Lifestyle Action of the Whole Population (2017\u20132025)\u201d in Sichuan Province. By 2020, the health literacy level of residents in the province reached 20%, creating a collective action by the whole society and promoting a favorable atmosphere for the promotion and adoption of healthy lifestyle practices (ractices .4.2.The coupling coordination formula can be used to calculate the coupling value and coordination values of the National Fitness System and National Health System in 11 provinces and cities of China\u2019s Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2016 to 2020, as shown in The average coupling degree and coordination degree between the National Fitness System and National Health System in 11 provinces and cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China are shown in 4.3.In order to further analyze the dynamic changes of the coupling degree and coordination degree between the National Fitness System and National Health System in various provinces and cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China over time and space, we combined ArcGIS reclassification tool to visualize the data, and the results are shown in 4.4.per capita GDP ranking first in the country. It is a major economic province and also a major province in culture, sports, and health service industries. The development of the sports and fitness industry and the construction of healthy cities can basically form a virtuous cycle. This is closely related to Jiangsu Province continuously introducing new policies to promote the levels of the National Fitness System and National Health System. For example, the \u201cImplementation Plan for Implementing the Outline of Building a Sports Power\u201d issued by Jiangsu Province in 2020 explicitly states that by 2022, a new pattern of sports development will be formed, featuring strong government leadership, broad social participation, and a vibrant market. The physical literacy and health level of the population will continue to improve, new achievements will be made in sports reform and innovation, public services will be more balanced and sufficient, and the comprehensive strength of sports development will consistently rank among the top in the country, thus continuously increasing the contribution and influence of sports on economic and social development (The coupling coordination degree combines the coupling relationship between the National Fitness System and National Health System as a whole, which is more comprehensive and stable than the coupling results. The higher the coordination between the National Fitness System and National Health System, the higher the overall level of the two, and the greater the mutual promotion between the National Fitness System and National Health System. Conversely, one party hinders the development of the other party, forming a mutually contained and vicious cycle. From elopment . Overall5.This study combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to analyze the integration relationship and mechanism of fitness for all and health for all. Taking the panel data of 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China from 2016 to 2020 as an example, the comprehensive evaluation systems of the two systems are, respectively, constructed, and the evaluation and analysis are conducted according to the coupling coordination degree. The main research conclusions are as follows:Firstly, the National Fitness Program has improved the fitness environment, increased participation in fitness, and increased health investment, thereby promoting national health. The National Health Program has optimized environmental construction, health education, and healthy populations, thereby driving national fitness.Secondly, between 2016 and 2020, in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces ranked among the top three in the evaluation index of the National Fitness System and National Health System, belonging to the typical double high type. However, Chongqing and Guizhou have the smallest comprehensive evaluation index, indicating that they belong to the double low type of provinces and cities. This confirms that the integrated development of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program is positively influenced by economic level and regional marketization level.Thirdly, from 2016 to 2020, the average coupling degree between the National Fitness System and National Health System in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China was between 0.8 and 1.0, which was in a high-level coupling stage. The average coupling coordination degree was between 0.4 and 0.7, which was in a medium to high degree of coordination coupling. This indicates that the coupling coordination pattern of the two systems has a certain degree of stability, and it also verifies that there is stable development and balanced promotion in the integration of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program.Fourthly, the high-level coupling stage between the National Fitness System and National Health System in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China has increased from 9 provinces and cities to 11 provinces and cities between 2016 and 2020. The degree of coupling coordination has expanded from 4 provinces and cities to 9 provinces and cities, with Jiangsu Province reaching an extremely coupled coordination state. The higher the coordination between the National Fitness Program and National Health Program, the mutual promotion and mutually beneficial development of the two.The above results provide an important reference basis for the integrated and coordinated development of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program and the implementation of the Healthy China strategy.6.Contributions of this paper are as follows:Based on the composition and relational model of the National Fitness System and National Health System, a comprehensive evaluation system for the coupling degree of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program is constructed, which provides a beneficial supplement to the evaluation indicators of their coupling.The establishment of the coupling coordination calculation model for the National Fitness Program and National Health Program provides a practical calculation model for evaluating their coupling degree, offering important reference for research and practice in related fields.The statistical analysis of the coupling degree of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China reveals their integration mechanism, enriching the quantitative research on the integrated development of the National Fitness Program and National Health Program.In this paper, the measurement of the coupling coordination relationship between the National Fitness System and National Health System is carried out on the basis of multi-index evaluation system, which overcomes the shortcomings of the incomplete single index representation system, but there are also limitations that the construction of the index system is relatively flexible, which may lead to certain deviations in the final evaluation results. In addition, an in-depth analysis of the influencing factors of the spatial differences in the coupling coordination relationship between the National Fitness System and National Health System in 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt has not been conducted in the paper, and the spatial differences in the coupling and coordination relationship between the two systems may be affected by factors such as location and transportation, social economy, resource endowment and infrastructure. Therefore, the internal mechanism of the spatial difference features of the coupling coordination relationship between the 11 provinces and cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China needs to be further studied. Moreover, due to the difficulty in collecting the latest data of national fitness in China, the evaluation index system for the coupling of the National Fitness System and National Health System constructed at present does not fully reflect the latest development trends, but only reflects a trend, whose latest data need to be further mined in the subsequent research.The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/ CC contributions include writing original draft, investigation, and data curation. SY contributions include methodology, review, and editing. Both authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version."}
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{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The funding statement for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft  was displayed as \u201cTRR 369\u201d. The correct Funding statement appears below.\u201cThe present study was supported by the National Genome Research Network , the Pneumonia Research Network on Genetic Resistance and Susceptibility for the Evolution of Severe Sepsis , the Young Investigator Grant , the German Center for Lung Research  and Stiftung AtemWeg . Work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft  - TRR 359 - Project number 491676693.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Correction: BMC Health Services Research 11, 217 (2011)https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-217Following a report of a publications review jointly commissioned by the Health Research Authority and the University of Bristol, the authors would like to correct the following element of the ethics statement provided in the original article :The data used in this study were originally collected and collated in the National Outcomes Database for the purposes of evaluation of CFS/ME services. The collection of a subset of CFS/ME patient data as part of the national CFS/ME collaborative was confirmed to be service evaluation by the North Somerset & Bristol Research Ethics Committee under REC reference 07/Q2006/48, and in a letter dated 29 January 2007 the Chair of the Research Ethics Committee had previously confirmed (a) that it would not be necessary to apply for ethical permission to use the data being collected as part of service evaluation for the national CFS/ME collaborative and (b) that if in future these data were to be used as part of a research project, this would be agreeable.The original article  has been"}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, the decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: This work was supported by a Ph.D. studentship (2020.04778.BD) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and by the European Social Fund (ESF) attributed to Rita Pinto, and also by national funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (UIDB/00050/2020). FCT\u2019s website:"}
{"text": "Department of Pathogen Biology, Center for Tropical Disease Control and Research, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China\u201d. The new affiliation should be the first of all affiliations, and the affiliation numbers for authors Yiji Li and Tingting Li should be changed from 3 to 1. The final version of authors and affiliations are as shown above.In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliation for author Zhuanzhuan Liu. As well as having affiliation 1, they should also have \u201cThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: Jun Song is supported by a Korea University Grant (K2127931), URL:"}
{"text": "Acknowledgements statement. Support received by CR from the Canada Research Chair program was omitted from the statement.In the published article, there was an error in the The corrected Acknowledgements statement appears below.CR was supported by the Canada Research Chair program (CRC-2018-00081).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Funding statement.In the published article, there was an error in the Original text: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61971290.The Shenzhen City project support was missed by mistake. The correct Funding statement appears below.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61971290, and the Shenzhen Stability Support General Project (Category A) 20200826104014001.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The first grant number from the Fundamental Research Business Expenses of the Central Universities was incorrect. The incorrect grant number was 2021ZD001. The correct grant number is 2022YB013. The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the \u201cFundingThis research was funded by a grant from the Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Basic and Applied Aerospace Medicine (SMFA20K04); Fundamental Research Business Expenses of the Central Universities ; National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (32071168); The authors report no involvement in the research by the sponsor that could have influenced the outcome of this work. The systematic review registration number PROSPERO 2019: CRD42018110290\u201d.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement and the publisher apologizes for the errors. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This work was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Najran University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the Research Groups funding program with the grant code number NU/RG/SERC/12/9. The authors express their gratitude for this support."}
{"text": "Correction: Molecular Imaging and Biology10.1007/s11307-023-01833-6The original online version of this article was revised to include the following funding information:This work was supported in part by the NIH HD 099090 to A.F. and by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number T32HD087166, and Michigan State University to M.A.O.B. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.The original article has been corrected."}
{"text": "In \"Assessment of the Efficacy, Safety, and Effectiveness of Weight Control and Obesity Management Mobile Health Interventions: Systematic Review\" :e16899) the authors noted one clarification that should be added:The Acknowledgments section reads as:All authors contributed equally. The research for this paper was fully funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, grant number PI16/01764.And will be changed to:All authors contributed equally. The research for this paper was fully funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, grant number PI16/01764 co-funded by FEDER.The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on April 10, 2023 together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: SHIP is part of the Community Medicine Research network of the University of Greifswald, Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as well as the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, and the network \u2019Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine (GANI_MED)\u2019 funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 03IS2061A). Genome-wide data have been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant no. 03ZIK012) and a joint grant from Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany and the Federal State of Mecklenburg- West Pomerania. The University of Greifswald is a member of the Cach\u00e9 Campus program of the InterSystems GmbH. This work was further supported by the project Superthyreose, funded by the German \u201cInnovationsfonds des Gemeinsamen Bundesausschusses\u201d (grant no. VSF2_2019\u2013167) AKB received funding from the BMBF  and gratefully acknowledges an add-on-fellowship from the Joachim Herz Stiftung. LK acknowledges funding from the European Union , as well as the State of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagenstiftung . We acknowledge support for the Article Processing Charge from the DFG and the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Greifswald. The funders had no influence on study design, data analysis, study interpretation, decision to publish, and writing of the manuscript."}
{"text": "He studied Chemistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, from where he graduated in 1954. He worked for two years at the Biochemistry Laboratory of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, under the supervision of Zoi Mela-Ioannidis.On December 8, 2022, Efstratios (Stratis) Avrameas, a novel immunology researcher passed away in Paris. Stratis was born in Athens, on January 1In 1960, with a scholarship from the French government, he was accepted in the Microbial Chemistry Laboratory under the direction of Professor Pierre Grabar, at the Institute Pasteur, in Paris. Four years later (1964), he was awarded the title of Doctor of Biological Sciences (Doctorat d\u2019\u00c9tat), by Pierre and Marie Curie University, in Paris. In 1963, he was appointed Research Assistant by the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) of France, and worked in the Department of Protein Chemistry of the \u201cInstitute for Scientific Research on Cancer\u201d in VilleJuif, at first under the direction of Pierre Grabar and then under the supervision of Andr\u00e9 Lwoff, a Nobel prize laureate. In this laboratory, he rose up the hierarchy and became Research Director. In 1972, he was invited by Jacques Monod, another Nobel laureate, to return to the Institute Pasteur, in Paris where he headed the Immunocytochemistry Unit until his retirement, in 1999. In 1976, he was named Professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. From 1999 to 2002, he served in the position of Scientific Director at the Biotechnological Company DIATOS, founded by the French Pasteur Institute. His efforts aimed at developing proteins and peptides capable of transporting substances into cells with biological actions. After retiring from the Director\u2019s position at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he returned to his homeland and worked voluntarily as a consultant both in the Immunology Laboratory of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute and the Immunology Laboratory of the Pathophysiology at the Athens University Medical School.1 This method replaced the radio-immunoassay (RIA) and thus, eliminated the exposure to radioactivity of employees working in research and diagnostic laboratories. Stratis, using the ELISA method, examined sera from healthy volunteers and demonstrated that these sera contained multitude of antibodies which recognised antigens of the human body (self-antigens autoantigens) and non-self antigens, namely, the gut microbiota. These antibodies had multireactivity. He called them natural autoantibodies.3 Based on these findings, he coined the theory of natural autoimmunity, in other words, the ability of the immune system to \u201cself-awareness\u201d  before becoming able to recognise and fight the foreign invaders.5 Under physiological conditions, the auto-polyreactive natural autoantibodies have their active site blocked by the high amount of available self-antigens. In disease states, where self-antigens are released, the natural autoantibody network is a guardian that rapidly sequesters the released, from disease tissues, self-antigens. Moreover, these autoantibodies have vital homeostatic biological activities such as cellular repairing and enzymatic catalysis. Finally, based on our own experiments and Stratis\u2019 ones, we formulated the hypothesis that autoimmune diseases are the result of the hyper-function of natural autoimmunity against a specific cell or organ.6Professor Avrameas was a pioneer researcher of Immunology. He has published over 300 papers. At first, his research led to the coupling of an antibody to the enzyme peroxidase with the chemical agent glutaraldehyde. This achievement then, paved the way for the development of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).- Prize of the Foundation of Dr K. and Mme Peyre of the French Academy of Sciences (1974),- Celine Prize (1979),- Knight of the French Order of Merit (1980),- Gold Medal of the Indian Federation of Clinical Biochemistry (1981),- State prize (Prix d\u2019\u00c9tat) of the French Academy of Sciences (1985),- Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens (1985),- Gold Award of the French Federation for the Promotion of Progress (1990),- Officer of the French National Order of Merit (1990),- Honorary member of the Hellenic Immunological Society (1991),- Honorary member of the National Medical Academy of Mexico (1995),- Medal of Honour of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (1997),- Honorary Research Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (1997),- Honorary Professor of the Pasteur Institute of Paris (1998),- Honorary Doctorate Degree of Athens University Medical School (2003),- Gold Cross of the Order of Honour from the President of the Hellenic Republic (2004).Stratis has been awarded the following significant prizes for his novel work:We, who had the honour and pleasure to work with Stratis, will all remember his honest and powerful personality, his desire to promote scientific knowledge through research and his passion for helping younger colleagues to acquire scientific knowledge.May his memory be eternal.Haralampos M. MoutsopoulosProfessor Emeritus and Member, Academy of Athens"}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliations for author Hira Singh. As well as having affiliation 1, they should also have Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.An omission to the funding section of the original article was made in error. The following funding statement has been added:Authors are thankful to the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi for providing financial support and conduct of the research program of the PhD student, HS. The research work was partially funded by the NAHEP-CAAST programme of Indian Council of Agricultural Research.The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the original published version of this article, the funding statement was printed incorrectly. This has now been corrected to:10.13039/100016714University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.\u201d\u201cThe accelerometers used in the study were sponsored by the College of Graduate Studies and the VC for Research and Graduate Studies Office, The publisher apologizes for the errors. Both the HTML and PDF versions of the article have been updated to correct the errors."}
{"text": "Chinese Journal of Bone and Joint Injury [Chinese Journal of Bone and Joint Injury and that there were significant differences in the listed authorship of the two manuscripts. This article is therefore retracted.Following publication, the authors of \u201cClinical Effect of Arthroscopic Resection of Extra-Articular Knee Osteochondroma\u201d by Chen et al.  contactet Injury , in ChinJournal of Clinical Medicine. This retraction was approved by the Editor in Chief of The authors agreed to this retraction."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: Parts of publication costs were covered by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft  project number 491193532 and the Chemnitz University of Technology.The full statement reads as follows:This study was funded by German Research Foundation \u2014SFB 1410 Hybrid Societies awarded to F.H. Parts of the salary for Javier Baladron and Torsten Fietzek were covered by the fund above. Parts of publication costs were covered by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft  project number 491193532 and the Chemnitz University of Technology. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "This article has been corrected at the request of the second author to change his affiliation from Arrowhead Regional Medical Center to\u00a0St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George's, GRD.The authors deeply regret that this error was not identified and addressed prior to publication."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT)  and Korea Medical Device Development Fund (KMDF_PR_20200901_0103). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error where the Acknowledgments statement was not included. The missing Acknowledgments statement appears below.The research described in this paper is part of the MARS Initiative at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It was conducted under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at PNNL, a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from UNESCO and the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of UNESCO, IDRC or its Board of Governors."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: YHL was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT [grant number: NRF-2021R1G1A1095517] as well as from Korea University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There is an error in"}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: This study was part of a project on improving antibiotic allergy registrations, which was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Reference number 327952).The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: This publication of this study is funded by the Universitas Indonesia PUTI 2023 Award: NKB-432/UN2.RST/HKP.05.00/2023. This research was also supported by the National Institute for Research and Development, Indonesian Ministry of Health which has been integrated into Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: This article is part of the PhD dissertation approved at Iran University of Medical Sciences . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Funding statement. This study is supported by Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong, China (No. 18190691).The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the \u201cThis study is supported by Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong, China (No. 17180941)\u201d.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The publisher apologizes for the errors. The correct Funding statement is as follows: The study was supported by Medical Research Council UK, Department of International Development (DFID), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Wellcome Trust under the Joint Health Systems Research Initiative (JHSRI) (Grant number: MR/NO15908) awarded to JG. It was also supported by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) through the South African Research Chair (SARChi) in Health Systems and Policy awarded to the Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand, and held by FG. All three authors received salary supplementation as part of the research funding from JHSRI. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the \u2018author contributions\u2019 section. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Professor Sergey Bachurin received the Ph.D. degree in 1980 from Moscow State University. From 2006 to 2018, he remained the Director of the Institute of Physiologically active Compounds RAS. In 2003, he was elected as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research activity is related to the discovery of novel agents for neurodegenerative diseases treatment, in particular for Alzheimer's disease. He is the author of more than 250 articles in peer-reviewing journals and about 40 patents. His h-index is 33. Prof. Bachurin was an invited lecturer at the University of California (San Francisco), and at Tufts University (Boston)."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The incorrect funding number was used for the Medical Health Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission. The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the"}
{"text": "Acknowledgements statement. Support received by CR from the Canada Research Chair program was omitted from the statement.In the published article, there was an error in the The corrected Acknowledgements statement appears below.CR was supported by the Canada Research Chair program (CRC-2018-00081).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "De la Rosa, and John Wiley and Sons. The withdrawal has been agreed due to a dispute over authorship and the conceptualization of some of the data.The above article, published online on 4 April 2023 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) as an Accepted Article ("}
{"text": "The funding from Guangxi key research and development program was omitted. The correct Funding statement appears below:In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The authors declare that this study received funding from Guangxi key research and development program No. (GK) AB18221080, The Basic Ability Enhancement Program for Young and Middle-aged Teachers of Guangxi (2020KY03036), Youth Foundation of Guangxi Medical University(GXMUYSF201918), Foundation of Guangxi Health and Family Planning Commission (Z20190581), Foundation of the Second Affiliate Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (hbrc202104). The funders were not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "This communication reflects the views of the RADAR-AD consortium and neither IMI nor the European Union and EFPIA are liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein. Research of Alzheimer center Amsterdam is part of the neurodegeneration research program of Amsterdam Neuroscience. Alzheimer Center Amsterdam is supported by Stichting Alzheimer Nederland and Stichting Steun Alzheimercentrum Amsterdam. IK declares support for this work through the National Institute of Health Research  and the Medical Research Council (Dementias Platform UK grant). CA\u2019s postdoctoral fellowship is funded by the Susan and Charles Berghoff Foundation. SG declares support for this work through the Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: The RADAR-AD project has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 806999. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA and Software AG. See"}
{"text": "In January, 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90\u2009s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war  commits each of the 190 participating nations\u201dto pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control\u201d UN,\u00a0. ProgresAny use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity. Even a \u201climited\u201d nuclear war involving only 250 of the 13 000 nuclear weapons in the world could kill 120 million people outright and cause global climate disruption leading to a nuclear famine, putting 2 billion people at risk Bivens,\u00a0. A largehttp://www.ippnw.org).The health community has had a crucial role in efforts to reduce the risk of nuclear war and must continue to do so in the future  Global Health Research Unit, is a member of the Independent Advisory Group, Collaboration for the Establishment of an African Population Cohort Consortium, and he was co\u2010chair of the InterAcademy Partnership, Climate Change and Health Working Group 2019\u20132022 and co\u2010chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences/Royal Society working group on \u201cA healthy future\u2014tackling climate change mitigation and human health together\u201d 2020\u20132021 . I. H. reports honoraria for several speaking engagements, all donated to Back from the Brink, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or Physicians for Social Responsibility; travel/meeting support for Nobel Peace Laureates' Summit, the World Federation of Public Health Associations World Congress, and the UN Human Rights Commission Youth Summit; and he is a member of the steering committee of Back from the Brink and the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a Board member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a Trustee of the Phillips Exeter Academy . M. G. M. O. R. reports research grants from the Dutch Research Council, NOW (grant number COMPL.21COV.001) and from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research ZonMw (grant number 09120012010063) and he is Chair of the Dutch guideline committee on cognitive impairments and dementia. T. R. reports a contract with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (USA) for papers addressing the health and environmental consequences of nuclear testing in multiple locations, including Australia, French Polynesia, central Pacific, and China; honorarium from The Choisun Ilbo media group in South Korea for a lecture on nuclear weapons in 2022 and for nuclear weapons presentations from Hyogo Medical Practitioners Association (Japan), Peace Boat (Japan) and the University of Sydney; he was an expert witness on radiation and health for Environmental Justice Australia acting for Mine\u2010Free Glenaladale regarding proposed Fingerboards Mineral Sands Mine to the Victorian Government Fingerboards Inquiry and Advisory Committee; he is a member of RV3 Rotavirus Vaccine Development Scientific Advisory Board, Murdoch Children's Research Institute/Royal Children's Hospital; he is a member of the Committee of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia; he is a member of the Internet Peace Prize Award Committee ; he was a member of the Victorian International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee, Australian Red Cross; he is a Board member of the Initiative for Peacebuilding, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne; he is an At\u2010large Board member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; he was co\u2010president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 2012\u201323; and he is honorary principal fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. P. Y. reports grants from Atea Pharmaceuticals; honoraria for lectures, presentations, and educational events from bioM\u00e9rieux and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; fees for participation on an advisory board from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; and he is a member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Study Group Executive Committee (2022\u20132024) and the Clinical Practice Guideline Panel on Vaccinations in Immunocompromised hosts for the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. C. Z. reports consulting fees for his role as senior adviser on the international journals project from the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest."}
{"text": "Finally, Staines and Barnhoorn invite the readers to submit abstracts for the next European Public Health Conference in November 2023 in Dublin. The theme of this year\u2019s conference is Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity.In this edition of the Public Health News, EUPHA\u2019s executive director addresses the European Health Data Space and the promises it holds for (public) health research as well as the challenges that lie ahead during the development of this infrastructure. Geller"}
{"text": "Acknowledgments statement. Support received by CR from the Canada Research Chair program was omitted from the statement.In the published article, there was an error in the The corrected Acknowledgments statement appears below.RRID:SCR_019195) and Lipidomics Core (RRID:SCR_019176), which receive financial support from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the latter also from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards to contributing investigators. CR is supported by the Canada Research Chair program (CRC-2018-00081).We would like to thank all research participants, the staff from the HNRU, volunteers, undergraduate and summer students that contributed to this project. Experiments are performed at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Flow Cytometry Facility (The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Nature Communications 10.1038/s41467-023-36599-6, published online 23 February 2023Correction to: The original version of this Article contained an error in the caption to the profile photos, which incorrectly read \u2018Priscilla Kolibea Mante is Co-Chair of the Global Young Academy, a neuroscientist and epilepsy drug expert at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.\u2019 The correct version states \u2018Top left: Priscilla Kolibea Mante is Co-Chair of the Global Young Academy, a neuroscientist and epilepsy drug expert at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Top right: Encieh Erfani has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy since 2021 and is an assistant professor of Cosmology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences in Iran. Middle left: Lisa Herzog is an alumna of the Global Young Academy and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Middle right: Jennifer Thomson is President of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Bottom: Kaela Singleton is president-elect of Black in Neuro as well as a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Enrichment fellow, completing her training in the Faundez lab at Emory University in the United States.\u2019https://globalyoungacademy.net/sciso/]\u201d.\u2019The original version of this Article contained an error in the response to question 6 by the GYA, which incorrectly read \u2018One project we have recently completed in science communication is SCISO, which stands for \u201cScience with Society\u201c.\u2019 The correct version states \u2018One project we have recently completed in science communication is SCISO, which stands for \u201cScience with Society [This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article."}
{"text": "The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. This research was also funded by the \u201cWestern Grains Research Foundation\u201d and should be added to the list of funders. The previous Funding statement was \u201cThe authors acknowledge the financial support of the Dean\u2019s Scholarship and from the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (CGPS), University of Saskatchewan., the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission, and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund"}
{"text": "In \"Assessment of the Efficacy, Safety, and Effectiveness of Weight Control and Obesity Management Mobile Health Interventions: Systematic Review\" :e12612) the authors noted one clarification that should be added.In the Acknowledgments section it says:All authors contributed equally. The research for this paper was fully funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, grant number PI16/01764.It should say:All authors contributed equally. The research for this paper was fully funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, grant number PI16/01764 co-funded by FEDER.The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on April 10, 2023 together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This study was part of ZS\u2019s PhD project. It was funded by the Medical Research Council\u2019s Doctoral Training Programme (Funder reference number: 1658511) in the United Kingdom. Her attendance at the WHO CST Consultation Meeting in Xiamen, China, was funded by Autism Speaks. RH, BT, and CH received support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) for the SPARK project (NIHR200842) using UK aid from the UK Government. CH receives further NIHR support through the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Homelessness and Mental Health in Africa  using UK aid from the UK Government. CH also receives support from WT grants 222154/Z20/Z and 223615/Z/21/Z. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, the decision to publish, or the preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is error in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This work was financially supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at the King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia .The affiliation for the third author is incorrect. Shekh Md. Shajid Hasan Tusher is not affiliated with #2 but with #1: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The funding statement for this project was:\u201cThis project was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $3.8 million with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by Texas DSHS, CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government. This project was also provided by the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH), a NIOSH Education and Research Center, and awardee of (Grant No. 5T42) H008421 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u201dThe correct Funding statement appears below."}
{"text": "Prof. Caraci graduated MD in 2001 and he got his PhD degree in Neuropharmacology in 2009 at University of Catania. In March 2021 he was appointed Associate Professor in Pharmacology at University of Catania and Visiting Professor at University of Bordeaux in 2016/2017 as winner of the Visiting Scholar Grant 2016/2017. Prof. Caraci has worked in the field of drug discovery in depression, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Down Syndrome with the aim to identify new pharmacological targets. Prof. Caraci has been studying the physiology and pharmacology of TGF-\u00df1 and its role in the pathophysiology of cognitive dysfunction in AD and Down Syndrome."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The fund name is incorrect and the fund number is missing. The original text is: Programs for Science and Technology Development of Henan province. The correct Funding statement appears below.Programs for Science and Technology Development of Henan province No. 222102210078.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct Funding statement is: K.M.W was supported by grant from Business for Startup growth and technological development  funded by Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups in 2020. W.J.P was supported by grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea  funded by the Korean government (MSIT). MSIT is the abbreviation of Ministry of Science and ICT. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. A funding agency was not included in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement appears below.This research was partially supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea (grant number: HI19C1343).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is: This work was funded by a grant awarded to SY Zhang under the Key Construction Program of the National \"985\" Project and \"211\" Project. LH Yuan is supported by the Guangdong Academy of Sciences Scientific Research Fund (No.qnjj20091) and Guangdong Natural Science Fund (10451026001004389). G Jones, SJ Rossiter and SY Zhang received funding from a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) China Partnering Award. The funders had no role in study design, design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the number of an additional grant from the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague is incorrectly omitted from the Funding statement. The Funding statement should read: \u201cThis project was supported by grants from the Italian Ministry of Environment (MATTM), the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (IGA FTZ CZU 20135107 and 511120/1312/3108) and the International Visegrad Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "Multiple funding organizations and grants were incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This study was supported by KAKENHI from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan , Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 24120522), the Society for Research on Umami Taste, and the Global COE Program in \"In Silico Medicine\" of Osaka University. The authors declare no conflict of interest with any financial organization regarding the manuscript. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "An introductory overview to the special issue papers on diffraction structural biology in this issue of the journal. An introductory overview to the special issue papers on diffraction structural biology in this issue of the journal. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation presents articles submitted in the context of the 4th International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB2013) held at the Fukiage Hall in Nagoya on 26\u201329 May 2013. It was the fourth in the series of ISDSB symposia initiated in 2003 by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and specifically by the University\u2013Industry Cooperative Research Committee (#169) chaired by Professor Noriyoshi Sakabe. The previous conference was held in France, close to Paris at Paris-Sud University (Orsay) and the synchrotron radiation facility SOLEIL, chaired by the late Roger Fourme. ISDSB2013 came back to Japan again.This issue of the The basic concept of the ISDSB symposia is, firstly, to bring together researchers using diffraction and crystallography, and more generally interactions of X-rays, electrons and neutrons with matter, in the study of structural biology, and, secondly, within this domain, to facilitate the interaction between academic and industrial researchers. The interfaces with other active fields in biological ultra-structure using microscopies and spectroscopies (in particular nuclear magnetic resonance) are also respected as vital for the growth of a more systematic understanding of biological function based on structure. The scientific topics covered in ISDSB2013 included the following sessions: (1) synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers; (2) new methodology and instrumentation; (3) and (4) drug design; (5) electron microscopy; (6) tomography and imaging; (7) neutron diffraction and hydration structure; (8) membrane proteins and macromolecular complexes; (9) protein structure and dynamics. A total of 207 participants, with a number of young scientists and PhD students, from 14 countries took part. The speakers included two Nobel Prize winners, Thomas Steitz and Brian Kobilka, three plenary lecturers  and 31 invited speakers. A poster session was also held and 80 posters were presented. Thirteen commercial and industrial companies presented exhibitions, and a sponsored lunch seminar was also given.The symposium was supported jointly by the #169 Committee of JSPS and by many industrial companies as well as generous individuals. We wish to express our sincere thanks to the University\u2013Industry Cooperation and Research Program Division of the JSPS, to the Industry Club of Japan for their financial contribution through JSPS to print this issue, to the Naito Foundation for supporting the travel fees, and to all companies and persons who contributed their donations and cooperation."}
{"text": "The correct funding information is: \u201cThis work was sponsored by an unrestricted grant of the Osteoporosis Platform of the Swiss Society for Rheumatology. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement.The correct Funding statement is: The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30971264). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "This project is a community-level study of equity of access to eye health services for Indigenous Australians.The project used data on eye health services from multiple sources including Medicare Australia, inpatient and outpatient data and the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey.The analysis focused on the extent to which access to eye health services varied at an area level according to the proportion of the population that was Indigenous . The analysis of health service utilisation also took into account age, remoteness and the Socioeconomic Indices for Areas (SEIFA).The rate of eye exams provided in areas with very high Indigenous populations was two-thirds of the rate of eye exams for areas with very low indigenous populations. The cataract surgery rates in areas with high medium to very high Indigenous populations were less than half that reference areas. In over a third of communities with very high Indigenous populations the cataract surgery rate fell below the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines compared to a cataract surgery rate of 3% in areas with very low Indigenous populations.There remain serious disparities in access to eye health service in areas with high Indigenous populations. Addressing disparities requires a co-ordinated approach to improving Indigenous people\u2019s access to eye health services. More extensive take-up of existing Medicare provisions is an important step in this process. Along with improving access to health services, community education concerning the importance of eye health and the effectiveness of treatment might reduce reluctance to seek help. Equitable and accessible health services form a key component of equitable health outcomes. Addressing inequities in health services is particularly important in eye health where the disadvantage of Indigenous Australians is unequivocal. The rate of low vision in Indigenous adults is 2.8 times rates in the general population and the rate of blindness 6.2 times higher than general population rates.A core concept in equitable health care is distribution according to level of need for services, without regard to characteristics that do not inform these needs-4. InequOur project examines equity of access to eye health services at a community level by examining the relationship between the percentage of Indigenous people living in an area, socioeconomic status and remoteness, access to ophthalmic and optometric services and the professionals that provide them.The data request was reviewed by Medicare Australia to ensure that the proposed use of the data was ethical and compliant with relevant legislation including the Information Privacy Principles under section 14 of Privacy Act 1988, Health Insurance Act 1973, National Health Act 1953, Health identifiers Act 2010 and Freedom of information Act. The provision of hospital data from State and Territories was similarly reviewed by the relevant data custodians including Corporate Data Management & Reporting; Information Management Section, Australian Capital Territory (request 2762); Health Demand and Performance Evaluation, New South Wales Health; Acute Care Information Unit, Northern Territory Department of Health and Families; Statistical Output, Health Statistics Centre, Queensland Health; Operations Division, South Australia Health; Health Information Provision, Victorian Department of Human Services (request 2601); Data Collection and Analysis - Statutory and Non-Admitted; Information Management and Reporting ( Request 3a_2009OP), West Australian Department of Health Service Review and Enhancement; Department of Health Services, Tasmania.Privacy Act 1988, Information Privacy Act 2000 and the Health Records Act 2001 in Victoria, Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 No 71 and Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 in New South Wales, Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997 in Australian Capital Territory, the Information Privacy Act 2009 in Queensland, Personal Information Protection Act 1991 in Tasmania, Information Act 2002 in Northern Territory, Information Privacy Bill 2007 in Western Australia and Information Privacy Principles 2009 in South Australia.Relevant legislation for standards for information collection, storage, access, transmission, disclosure, use and disposal included the Commonwealth Data on the geographic distribution of ophthalmology practices was obtained from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (n\u2009=\u20091058) membership in 2008. Data on the geographic distribution of optometry practices was obtained from the 2008 electronic white pages (n\u2009=\u20096270). The number of practitioners is estimated to be equal to the number of offices. This will overestimate practitioners if offices are only visited and operated periodically.Medicare data were obtained for services provided by optometrists and ophthalmologists . Data covered the period from 2004/05-2007/08 . The utilisation data was broken down by age  and statistical subdivision (SSD). The SSD is a general purpose geographical unit determined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In aggregate, SSDs cover Australia without gaps or overlaps. For the 2001 Census there were 207 SSDs defined throughout Australia. Medicare is available to people who reside in Australia, excluding Norfolk Island, if they hold Australian or New Zealand citizenship or have been issued with or applied for a permanent visa. Medicare provides access to free treatment as a public patient in a public hospital, free or subsidised treatment by practitioners and free treatment by providers who bulk bill.Data on attendances at outpatient from eye clinics were also collected from each State and Territory by SSD. Data on paediatric attendances were not available from one region of Western Australia because of privacy concerns. Attendance at this clinic was estimated based on the ratio between adult and child hospital separations attendances in the rest of WA. The only complete year of data available for all states and territories was for 2007/08. Outpatient data do not include data on either the age or the Indigenous status of patients seen.Each State and Territory was contacted to identify any other major programs that would not be captured using Medicare and hospitalisation data. While some small additional programs were identified in Queensland, there was no evidence of other major initiatives.Hospital inpatient data for cataract related Australian National Diagnosis Related Groups   for public and private hospitals were obtained from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania by SSD and Aboriginality.The availability of inpatient data from Western Australia and the Northern Territory was limited because of concerns of privacy. Western Australian data was provided by procedure and region. Rates of use in each SSD were then estimated based on population size. Northern Territory data for eye procedures was provided at Territory level. The distribution of services across the Territory was then estimated using the overall distribution of hospital procedures.Inpatient data does include an Indigenous identifier but this suffers from well-documented problems of under-enumeration. The extPopulation projections by age and part of the state for the whole population were obtained from SuperTABLE 4.3.1 Build 10. PopulatIntercooled Stata v10 was used to conduct a panel poisson regression using SSDs as the unit of analysis. The dependent variables for the primary care analysis were eye exams provided by optometrists and ophthalmologists through Medicare and hospitals. The dependent variables in the hospital analysis were the supply of services for cataracts through private and public hospitals. The independent variables were year and the percentage of Indigenous people living in each area. The analyses were run adjusting for age, remoteness and area socioeconomic advantage, disadvantage and socioeconomic educational status. Remoteness was coded into categories . Socioeconomic data were based on the Socio-economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA). The SEIRates of cataract surgery were also compared to the national average and World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Most deTableFiguresTableTableA number of areas had cataract surgery below the levels generally recommended by the WHO to reduce cataract blindness in Africa. Around 40 percent of areas with very high Indigenous populations had cataract surgery rates below WHO recommended guidelines. This compares to around 6 percent in reference areas Table. Around The fragmented funding and service provision in the Australian health system creates a major challenge for health services research and the assessment of equity at a system level. We have drawn together information across sectors to provide a comprehensive assessment of eye health services for Indigenous Australians. The study supports the notion that socioeconomic status, ethnicity and geography can all contribute to inequalities in eye health-25. It hAs an ecological study, this research represents an indirect examination of Indigenous eye care access and utilisation. While there are other factors that affect this distribution, including measures of remoteness and socioeconomic disadvantage, there is little doubt that areas with a larger proportion of Indigenous Australians are the most disadvantaged in terms of access to eye health services at a primary care level. The rate of total eye exams provided in areas where the Indigenous population was very high was two-thirds of the rate of eye exams for areas where the Indigenous population was very low. Areas with very high Indigenous populations constituted about two-thirds of areas where the provision of eye health services was significantly below the national average.Broadening the range of health professionals able to obtain reimbursement through Medicare is a key strategy of the reform of the Australian health system. OptometIt is concerning that many areas had rates of cataract surgery that fell below the WHO guidelines. It is eThere is currently heated debate around reduction in the Medicare reimbursement rates for cataract and its implications for service provision. IncreasThe results suggest that despite a number of government initiatives to improve Indigenous people\u2019s utilisation of eye health services there remain significant inequities in access. Even though Australia is a developed country, there was evidence that treatment for cataract in some areas with large Indigenous populations fell below WHO guidelines developed for Africa. Developing a targeted co-ordinated approach to address these issues is a challenge in an environment of complex service provision. More extensive take-up of existing Medicare provisions would be an important step in this process. The National Indigenous Eye Health Survey data suggest that along with improving access to health services, community education around the importance of eye health and the effectiveness of treatment might reduce reluctance to seek help.ATSIC: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; AIHW: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; SEIFA: Socioeconomic Indices for Areas; SLA: Statistical Local Area; SSD: Statistical subdivision; WHO: World Health Organization.The authors declare that they have no competing interests.MK contributed to the design of the project, drafted the paper and conducted the final analysis. AF contributed to the design of the project, collected the data, conducted preliminary analysis and commented on drafts. HT contributed to the design of the project and commented on drafts. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2415/12/51/prepub"}
{"text": "There was information missing from the funding section. The complete, correct funding statement is: This study was funded by Pain Therapeutics who, at the time of the study, had the license for RIT of HIV. The funders paid for research personnel effort, supplies and laboratory animals through industrial research agreements with Albert Einstein College of Medicine and with University of California Los Angeles. Currently Pain Therapeutics do not have the licensing rights for this technology. This work was also supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  and Center for AIDS Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH AI-51519). Pain Therapeutics participated in the study design, analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript. Other funders did not participate in the study design, analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Funding information was incorrect. The correct Funding is: This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant #0962805. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct version of the statement is:This work was supported by grants from 973 program of China (2010CB529100)\uff0cand the Natural Science Foundation of China , as well as by Peking University People\u2019s Hospital Research and Development Funds (RDB2012-04). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Funding line should read: \"The authors acknowledge funding for this research from WWF-Australia. RLP acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows:This work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through Grand Challenge 6; and the EDCTP through the African European TuberculosisConsortium  and the Trials of Excellence in SouthernAfrica . Dr Chegou received financial support from theClaude Leon Foundation and the South African MRC during the writing up of this work. Thefunders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, orpreparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Editor of this article was mistakenly omitted from the final document. The publisher apologizes for the error. The Editor is:Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University, USA."}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study was supported by National March of Dimes and Heart Foundation grants to MEW and KMM. LAG was supported by a National Heart Foundation of Australia Biomedical Scholarship. KMM was supported by an National Health and Medical Research Centre Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "This presentation will demonstrate how public mental health systems can deliver accessible, effective and client-centred eating disorder treatment. It will provide an overview of service development over time aimed at increasing workforce capacity, responsiveness of service provision, improved access and better integration of all essential elements of care. The presentations will describe and discuss this service delivery initiative in the Southern region of Melbourne, looking at barriers, enablers and implications for policy and planning. An overview of the development of an integrated mental health and paediatric service for young people with eating disorders at Alfred Health Child and Youth Mental Health Service will be provided. Data on service provision and outcomes will be discussed, along with a case example illustrating a typical case presenting for treatment at this service.Children and Youth Treatment and Service Development stream of the 2013 ANZAED Conference.This abstract was presented in the"}
{"text": "To understand the full burden of a health condition, we need the information on the disease and the information on how that disease impacts the functioning of an individual. The ongoing revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) provides an opportunity to integrate functioning information through the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).Part of the ICD revision process includes adding information from the ICF by way of \u201cfunctioning properties\u201d to capture the impact of the disease on functioning. The ICD content model was developed to provide the structure of information required for each ICD-11 disease entity and one component of this content model is functioning properties. The activities and participation domains from ICF are to be included as the value set for functioning properties in the ICD revision process.The joint use of ICD and ICF could create an integrated health information system that would benefit the implementation of a standard language-based electronic health record to better capture and understand disease and functioning in healthcare. Describing and understanding the relationship between disease and functioning requires the use of two of the World Health Organization\u2019s classifications systems: the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)  and the th revision (ICD-11) [The ICD is undergoing its 11(ICD-11)  wherein The process of revising the ICD is coordinated through Topic Advisory Groups (TAGs), each of which is responsible for different content areas. Responsible for the appropriate integration of the functioning properties is the Functioning Topic Advisory Group (fTAG), which consults with each of the TAGs regarding how to deal with functioning properties for their assigned ICD entities.Activity is defined in the ICF as the \u201cexecution of a task or action by an individual\u201d, while participation is defined as \u201cinvolvement in a life situation\u201d [The ICD-11 Content Model  by content experts worldwide in three steps: [Before ICD-11 is completed, functioning properties will need to be populated for each ICD code. This task of population is being done and coordinated using the web-based e steps:  if an ade steps:  use evide steps: .Obtaining information about disease entities and their impact on functioning is not entirely new in the field of medicine and health. While the consideration of the disease and its impact on functioning has been in place, or at least acknowledged, for a long time,  there reThe ICD-11 is due to be launched in 2015, and steps toward that goal are being pursued. Certainly there are challenges on our way, but there are also opportunities that are presented for users in the clinical and research communities to actively contribute in this huge endeavor by WHO and its collaborators worldwide. The unified ICD-ICF in the ICD-11 will allow for consistent terminologies to be used and to be harmonized across ICD and ICF and will provide holistic information about a disease entity and its impact on the functioning of an individual. Efforts are also currently being taken to facilitate the identification of the overlaps for ICD-11 disease entities and their titles with their conceptual equivalent in the ICF towards harmonization of ICD and ICF.The joint use of the ICD and ICF towards an integrated health information model would, in our opinion, benefit medicine and health systems and would support the push for the implementation of a standard language-based electronic health record system towards better health services planning and reimbursement.fTAG: Functioning Topic Advisory Group; iCAT: International Collaborative Authoring Tool; ICD: International Classification of Diseases; ICF: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health; TAG: Topic Advisory Group; WHO: World Health Organization.The authors declare that they have no competing interests.All authors provided concept/idea, consultation, and writing, and reviewed the manuscript before submission. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.RE is Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health Professions Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans LA USA; adjunct research scientist at the ICF Research Branch in cooperation with the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Family of International Classifications in Germany (DIMDI), Nottwil, (Switzerland); and the Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF), Nottwil, Switzerland.NK is technical officer at World Health Organization, Classifications, Terminologies and Standards (CTS), Department of Health Statistics and Informatics (HSI), Geneva, Switzerland.CK is with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Health Policy Washington D.C., USA.MMRN is technical officer at World Health Organization, Classifications, Terminologies and Standards (CTS), Department of Health Statistics and Informatics (HSI), Geneva, Switzerland.GS is director of the ICF Research Branch in cooperation with the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Family of International Classifications in Germany (DIMDI), Nottwil, (Switzerland) and the Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF), Nottwil, Switzerland; is Professor and Chair at the Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.TBU is head of WHO\u2019s Family of International Classifications, Geneva, Switzerland.R Escorpizo is an employee of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC). This article was developed in his professional capacity and does not necessarily represent the views of LSUHSC.C Kennedy is an employee of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This article was developed in her professional capacity and does not necessarily represent the views of ASPE or HHS.The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/742/prepub"}
{"text": "Grants to the second and third authors (AV and JP) are incorrectly omitted from the Funding statement. The Funding statement should read: \u201cThe PC lab was supported by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research (grant 31003A-135789), the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation and the Fondation Egon Naef pour la Recherche in Vitro. The JP lab was supported by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. WCL was partially funded during this project with a Telethon Action Suisse grant and AV was funded by an EMBO Long Term Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is: \"This work was supported by the Hungarian National Research Fund (PD83444), by the J\u00e1nos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (for MI and CSA), the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (grant awards LC06004 and OC08025) and the European Regional Development Fund . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "There is information missing from the Funding statement. The complete funding statement is: This study was financially supported by the SNAC project , the GENOBACT project  and was also supported by the Doctoral School on the Agro-Food System (Agrisystem) of the Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct version of the Funding statement is available below.This work is funded by the grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (S & T major Program: No. 2012ZX1004701-001-002), the Basic Research Program of China , the National Nature Science Foundation of China , and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 5112022). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\" Two grants from the National Science Council were incorrectly omitted. The Funding Statement should read: \"This project was supported by VGH92-378 from the Taipei Veterans General Hospital ("}
{"text": "With limited time to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, progress towards improving women's and children's health needs to be accelerated. With Africa accounting for over half of the world's maternal and child deaths, the African Union (AU) has a critical role in prioritizing related policies and catalysing required investments and action. In this paper, the authors assess the evolution of African Union policies related to women's and children's health, and analyze how these policies are prioritized and framed.The main method used in this policy analysis was a document review of all African Union policies developed from 1963 to 2010, focusing specifically on policies that explicitly mention health. The findings from this document review were discussed with key actors to identify policy implications.With over 220 policies in total, peace and security is the most common AU policy topic. Social affairs and other development issues became more prominent in the 1990s. The number of policies that mentioned health rose steadily over the years .This change was catalysed by factors such as: a favourable shift in AU priorities and systems towards development issues, spurred by the transition from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union; the mandate of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights; health-related advocacy initiatives, such as the Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA); action and accountability requirements arising from international human rights treaties, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and new health-funding mechanisms, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.Prioritization of women's and children's health issues in AU policies has been framed primarily by human rights, advocacy and accountability considerations, more by economic and health frames looking at investments and impact. AU policies related to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health also use fewer policy frames than do AU policies related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.We suggest that more effective prioritization of women's and children's health in African Union policies would be supported by widening the range of policy frames used  and strengthening the evidence base of all policy frames used. In addition, we suggest it would be beneficial if the partner groups advocating for women's and children's health were multi-stakeholder, and included, for instance, health care professionals, regional institutions, parliamentarians, the media, academia, NGOs, development partners and the public and private sectors. With limited time remaining to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there needs to be accelerated progress to achieve MDGs 4 and 5 and improve women's and children's health . This isAfrican countries have a leadership role in developing and implementing the required policies and programmes to achieve progress in women's and children's health. However, many countries are faced with multiple development priorities and limited resources. Improving the health of women and children will require national commitment to the health agenda at the highest level.Regional bodies such as the African Union (AU) set regional policy priorities. They also increasingly influence national and global policies as the need for linking global and national initiatives and for partner coordination increases .The African Union has already shaped national health priorities. For instance, in 1999, the African Union became the first and only regional body to pass a charter on the rights of the child. In 2006, the Protocol to the African Charter of Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa became the first convention to mandate state provision of comprehensive reproductive and sexual health services . This reAfrican Union policies have also been instrumental in persuading some African policy-makers to recognize HIV/AIDS , leadingAs with HIV/AIDs and other issues, the African Union can be an important stakeholder in promoting commitments to improve the health of women and children and ensuring accountability for their implementation. The Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa, led by the African Union, has been launched in 34 countries . In 2010This paper analyses how the African Union has prioritized policy-making on women's and children's health, and outlines the implications of the trends and how policy-making can be strengthened.The main method used in this policy analysis was a document review of all African Union policies developed from 1963 to 2010, focusing specifically on policies that explicitly mentioned health. The findings from this document review were discussed with key experts to identify policy implications.To conduct the document review, all African Union Head of State Assembly Outcome Documents were obtained from the African Union online archive . \"Outcomper se: one for African Union governance and one for cross-cutting policies. The combined list of the eight African Union portfolios and the two additional categories are :The 884 policies found in the 55 outcome documents were categorized according to the 8 portfolios of the African Union Commission Table . Policie1. African Union Governance: Core Business Management, Development of Strategies, Implementation Facilitation, Costs, Appointments, New Structures.2. Cross-cutting: Development, Poverty Reduction, Regional Cooperation, and any declarations that cover issues in more than one category.3. Economic affairs: Economic Integration, Monetary Affairs, Private Sector Development, Investment and Resource Mobilisation.4. Human resources, science and technology: Education, Information and Communication Technology, Youth, Science and Technology, Human Resources.5. Infrastructure and energy: Energy, Transport, Communications, Infrastructure and Tourism.6. Peace and security: Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, and Terrorism Issues.7. Political affairs: Democracy, Human Rights, Good Governance, Electoral Institutions, Humanitarian Affairs, Civil society Organisations, Refugee Matters.8. Rural economy and agriculture: Rural Economy, Agriculture and Food Security, Livestock, Environment, Water, Natural Resources and Desertification9. Social affairs: Health, Children, Drug Control, Gender, Labour and Employment, Sports and Culture, Migration10. Trade and industry: Trade, Industry, Customs and Immigration MattersThe numbers of policies developed in each of these categories were compared across time to determine historical trends in AU policy-making.per se, resulting in a total of 55 health policies that were included in this analysis.In order to identify health-related policies, a full text keyword search of the 55 outcome documents using the term \"health\" was conducted. This search yielded 56 policies from across all portfolios. One of these policies was excluded as the reference was to 'healthy management' practices and not to health Some specific health policies-for example on Polio or HIV/AIDS-were not captured in the keyword search using \"health\". Traditionally all health-related policies are located within the Social Affairs portfolio. To ensure that all policies related to health were captured, the authors further reviewed and categorized the 102 policies within the Social Affairs portfolio based on their reference to specific health topics e.g. AIDS/TB/Malaria, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH), and to women's and children's rights to health and development .In order to identify how and why women's and children's health is prioritized in African Union policies, the authors analysed all health-related policies, according to the main arguments or \"frames\" used. Based on a review of previous policy analyses -22 a preAccountability: legal, policy, and monitoring requirements, including human rights, and African Union and Millennium Development Goals reporting.1. Advocacy: prioritization statements from influential stakeholders, media coverage, events, and advocacy campaigns.2. Economic: social and economic development, including trade, productivity, cost-effectiveness analysis, efficiency and trade-offs.3. Health: scientific evidence and technical information on health outcomes, effective interventions and health systems.4. Other: anything falling outside of frames 1-4, such as cultural norms and references.5. In additional to these frames, and in line with Walt's framework of policy analysis, which promotes a review of content and context of policies, as well as a review of actors and processes that influence policy-making , the codUsing these coding parameters, two analysts first coded a random sample of 5 of the 81 health-related policies. The coding was done in Excel. The inter-rater reliability was assessed, and through an iterative process, the analysts identified discrepancies in coding, refined the analytical frames in discussion with the research team and retested inter-rater reliability. The final intercoder agreement was 0.80, which is considered acceptable .The authors also compared the policy frames used in AU policies related to MDGs 4 and 5 on reproductive, maternal and child health, with AU policies on MDG 6 related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.To validate the findings and discuss policy implications, results of the document review were discussed with a purposive sample of 10 key actors involved in the African Union and in health policy and processes on the continent.The actors included high-level representatives of the African Union, ministries of health and non-governmental organizations working on African Union issues.Interviews were conducted in a semi-structured format with written notes (Annex 2-list of questions). Discussions included a report by the interviewer of the preliminary findings of the document review and information from key actors on the reasons underlying review findings, policy implications of these findings and recommendations for how, based on results, women's and children's health could be further prioritized.Participating experts were informed of the intent and purpose of this research and were informed that their views would help shape the content of this policy analysis. They were made aware that the interviews would guide the direction of the document and would be referenced anonymously in the paper. Oral consent was sought during the interview and the research paper was circulated to interviewees to ensure that content reflected the discussions.This analysis has certain limitations. Because policies were identified using a health keyword search, a number of analysed policies may not have referred to health issues, i.e. policies nominating regional candidates for the position of Secretary General of the World Health Organization. As such the analysis of the 'other' policies that refer to health, mix policies on health issues, i.e. avian flu as well as policies on social determinants, as well as policies on political issues.Additionally, the low number of discussions with experts to inform policy implications and recommendations and the fact that interviewed experts are all current office bearers represents a limitation, as their expertise did not expand over the full period of existence of the Organization of African Unity and African Union.Since 1963, 55 African Union summits resulted in a total of 884 policies. 25% of these policies focus on peace and security, 17% on political affairs, and 14% on African Union governance. Economic and social affairs policies account for 11% and 12% of all AU policies respectively   than do AIDS/TB/malaria-related policies (2.5 frames per policy). Within women's and children's health-related policies, human rights policies use the most frames to justify investments in women's and children's health and development. Overall, AIDS/TB/malaria policies use the health and economic frames slightly more often than women's and children's health policies Table .The frames used to prioritize women's and children's health based on our review of the 81 documents that mention health are now discussed in the following sections in alphabetical order.Women's and children's health is often framed using human rights, and the health of women and children is often addressed by rights policies. Between 2001 and 2010, there were 13 policies on women's and children's rights, empowerment and health, but there were only five policies specifically focused on Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5.Rights policies address health issues related to women and children and define government obligations to provide health services. For example, the 2005 Protocol to the African Charter of Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa addresses an array of gender-related health issues and other determinants of health. These include: access to education and food; child labour and forced labour; physical and sexual violence; harmful traditional practices; early marriage; reproductive health rights; maternal mortality; cancers; menopause; and mental disorders.Legal, policy, and monitoring requirements-including human rights and African Union reporting-account for 42% of frames used by women's and children's health policies, 31% for AIDS/TB/malaria policies and 25% for other health policies.Advocacy statements, policies and related activities constitute 33% of the frames used in AIDS/TB/malaria policies, and 31% of those used in women's and children's health policies. Advocacy statements have considerably increased in policies that refer to women's and children's health.Referencing global goals and policies such as the Millennium Development Goals and regional events such as the World Summit on the Child has been significant. In the 2010 African Union Declaration on Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa, member states:\"Individually and collectively reaffirm our previous commitments aimed at accelerating the health of our people and the social development of Africa. In this regard, we re-dedicate ourselves and commit our countries to accelerate efforts to improve the state of health of Africa's women and children and thereby attain all Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) particularly MDGs 4, 5 and 6 by 2015.\"Health frames include research, evidence and information on health outcomes and the burden of diseases. 17% of the frames used in AIDS/TB/malaria policies are health, 15% are in women's and children's health policies.Generally in these policies, claims of the severity of the women's and children's health situation are not substantiated by scientific data.Economic frames in policy include the use of arguments based on socioeconomic development, cost effectiveness and investment. Economic arguments constitute 13% of frames used in women's and children's health policies, 19% of those used in AIDS/TB/malaria policies and 37% of those used in other policies that mention health.\"Recognises with concern that poor maternal, infant and child health remains a major challenge confronting the continent and undermining its development efforts\".The use of the economic frame in women's and children's health policies is infrequent and unspecific. An example is seen in the 2008 Declaration on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, which: \"African Women produce over 70% of the food crops in many parts of the Continent\".The bulk of policies that cite the contribution of women and children to development do not define or quantify it, or estimate the consequences of ill health. The closest numerical definition of the contribution of women to development is seen in the 1990 Resolution on the World Summit states that: The cost-effectiveness of women's and children's health interventions is also rarely used as an argument.The document review yielded some findings that can be used to shape knowledge and advocacy efforts to prioritize and strengthen references to women's and children's health in African Union Policies.The African Union predominantly views the health of women and children as a human right. This is seen in the inclusion of health entitlements in rights policies as well as in the referencing of rights policies in women's and children's health policies. Those organizations and individuals wishing to promote a post-2015 agenda for health can make use of the continued framing of women's and children's health in the rights discourse . The rig\"as the African Union becomes stronger, these policies will become more important because most of them incorporate monitoring and reporting clauses.\"Accountability and monitoring requirements are heavily referenced in African Union policies, and receive substantial attention within the assemblies. These requirements provide an entry point for the issue to remain on the policy agenda. This use of the accountability may become more pertinent, especially as the recognition of the African Union increases globally, regionally and nationally. One public health expert notes that Advocacy plays an important role in prioritizing issues. In part, this is due to the increased participation of advocates in African Union dialogue since the inception of the African Union in 2002. Advocacy for policy prioritization takes many shapes. For instance, prior to and during the July 2010 Summit, many articles appeared in Kampala and regional journals pointing to efforts undertaken by some countries to improve women's and children's health, highlighting the lack of progress in others and comparing regional health spending by all countries -28.While the use of the advocacy frame has been successful it has been challenging for the women's and children's health community. As noted by a public health specialist:Where the AIDS paradigm has a central message, and malaria has insecticide-treated nets, [advocacy for] reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health is complex. The messages range from coverage of different interventions along the continuum of care, to health systems issues and social determinants. When disaggregated, we note that a lot of them fall outside of the health sector. Grappling with the complex recommendations behind reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health has been challenging, and advocacy messages need to be simplified.\"\"The women's and children's health community should pursue its efforts in aligning and simplifying communication on key interventions to maximize campaign impact.While scientific evidence on trends in Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 and related interventions, policies, financing and practices  exists, Health advocates may choose to look at more effective ways to package, promote and disseminate these data to policy-makers in countries to ensure that policies are evidence-based. In addition to demonstrating that the implementation of affordable packages of interventions can save lives, they may also consider that this information will point to the severity of the women's and children's health crisis. As noted by one public health specialist:\"The AIDS and malaria movements, using health outcomes and impact of these diseases on the societies, have managed to position these diseases as crises. While stakeholders acknowledge that maternal, newborn and child health is a problem, they are rarely aware of the magnitude of this problem, and this is because [the health] community has not positioned the issue using scientific communication. We have tabled our messages on emotional argumentation.\"In addition to providing scientific evidence on the health burden, its causes and remedies, increased effort to demonstrate the economic impact of women's and children's health on national and regional economies would help to prioritize this issue among Heads of States. This is reflected in the intervention of certain Heads of States during the 2010 Summit who noted that while the health of women and children is a cause for concern, the attention provided to the issue must be shared with other sectors that have a direct bearing on countries' growth and productivity .Evidence of the productivity gains related to improved women's and children's health exists, though it is sparse and tends to reflect global figures. USAID estimates annual global losses in productivity due to maternal and newborn deaths at US$15 billion . RegionaThe proven cost-effectiveness of women's and children's health interventions is also rarely used as an argument, although clear evidence to support investment does exist. For example, research has indicated that for every dollar spent on family planning, four dollars are saved on treatment for complications of unwanted pregnancies .However, economic evidence varies greatly in quantity, quality and availability, which perhaps explains the restricted use of the economic frame. Traditional reluctance to justify health investment in economic terms may also be a factor. One health expert notes:\"There has traditionally been some resistance by the health community to using economic arguments to justify health investments because of a reluctance to associate health spending to returns to the state. This trend is slowly subsiding and research on the impact of health investment is increasing.\"Formal processes for prioritizing issues within African Union Assemblies include African Union Commission requests and recommendations; member state requests; and outcomes of regional ministerial conferences.\"One day when optimal processes have been put in place we will have reached global goals through continental mechanisms. CARMMA is one of these ideal processes.\"The African Union Commission aims to prioritize health issues based on member state interests and concerns . This gives programmes legitimacy and encourages their implementation by countries. One expert notes the importance of this consultative process in the success of health campaigns resulting from initiatives such as the International Conference for Population and Development (ICPD). Another expert states the need to take account of local factors when pursuing globally agreed goals: In addition to supporting the reflection of country priorities in the African Union agenda, the Commission plays a crucial role in defining it. The current Commissioner for Social Affairs has successfully positioned women's and children's health as a crucial issue for the continent, and has been the principal voice behind the regional campaign targeting its improvement. The Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) is an example of a successful campaign being pushed by the Commission. Having been launched at the highest political level in 34 countries in Africa (as of March 2011), CARMMA reflects successful national ownership and prioritization of women's and children's health .The Commission also monitors the implementation of policies. However, the proliferation of policies and the limited personnel and resources of the African Union Commission make the implementation of these policies and efforts to hold stakeholders accountable, daunting tasks. The monitoring of implementation in countries is a particular challenge. One expert notes:\"African Union Declarations provide ministries of health with the leverage we need in our national, regional and international advocacy. However more needs to be done to ensure strong, compelling monitoring of the implementation of these policies in countries. Partners need to support the African Union so that it can systematically provide sound progress reports on the implementation.\"Other regional institutions also contribute to prioritization of health on the continent. The Pan African Parliament, created in 2001, to ensure a representation of the voices of African populations in regional decision- making, intervened in favour of maternal, newborn and child health during the July 2010 Summit. While the body currently does not have legislative powers, it aspires \"to evolve into an institution with full legislative powers, whose members are elected by universal adult suffrage\" . An asseCurrently relegated to an advisory role, the body still contributes to regional prioritization. For instance, in October 2010, the Pan African Parliament Assembly adopted a motion adopting the Africa Parliamentary Policy and Budget Action Plan for Implementation of July 2010 AU Summit Decisions on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Development in Africa, and Partnership for Eradication of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and AIDS . In 2011Similarly, the African Court on Human and People's Rights has a strong health element to its work . To dateThe Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) assesses progress on health through its socioeconomic development remit . For exaStrong actor networks can generate, through advocacy efforts, increased attention for women's and children's health at both country and regional levels . The resFor example, during the Summit, health campaigners, development partners and Ministers of Health and Finance were invited to debate health financing during a high-level side event on health financing. Advocates were also invited to speak alongside Heads of States in the plenary session and requests from advocates such as Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, were included in the Summit outcome document.With advocacy playing such an important role, it is crucial to harness the efforts of women's and children's health advocates by developing multi-stakeholder actor networks that reflect the needs of member states, while also spanning the continuum of care for women's and children's health . Until 2This division in policy topics across the continuum of care has also been seen in the actor networks. The first streamlined global advocacy efforts for women's and children's health began as recently as 2005, when three global partnerships merged: the Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health; the Healthy Newborn Partnership; and the Child Survival Partnership.Although major networks of this type do not yet exist at regional level, effective actor networks are emerging and contributing to priority setting and policy implementation. Civil society groups have long been recognized as key actors in advocacy, and the development of the Africa Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Coalition, a regional NGO network on women's and children's health, was an important outcome of the July 2010 Summit . One exp\"Coordinated partner action at the regional and country level is crucial to ensure the wide dissemination of Head of State commitments and accountability for results. NGO groups can be particularly helpful in this sense.\"Health-care professional associations in Africa can also influence priority setting and the accountability of states to produce results, either directly or by raising awareness of key issues ,49. ThesNon-traditional actors are beginning to play a role in advocacy for women's and children's health, including parliamentarians  and the The [women's and children's health] community must involve non-traditional stakeholders in the reshaping of advocacy messages and widen their scope of engagement.\"\"To optimise their effectiveness nationally and regionally, actor networks should coordinate their work and involve the widest range of possible stakeholders. The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health provides some direction on expanding the types of stakeholders involved in women's and children's health efforts and notes the roles to be played by each of these different partner constituencies . The proThe Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health has also anchored its recommendations on principles of national sovereignty and has placed the country at the center of accountability processes. Its recommendations are based on principles of national leadership and ownership of results, strengthening countries' monitoring and evaluation capacity and reducing reporting burdens of countries .Funding and resources are also key factors, because women's and children's health initiatives can be hampered by the lack of a funding mechanism. One expert notes:\"Financing does impact policy prioritization ... in order to be most efficient and effective [funding] must come through a defined platform\" [latform\" .The benefits of sustained, coordinated funding are reflected in the prioritization of AIDS/TB/malaria in African Union policies. The Global Fund plays a major role here, contributing a high percentage of official development assistance and development assistance for health funding .Global actors have recognized the need for similar sustained commitments, and a substantial increase in health investment to close the \"funding gap\" for women's and children's health ,59. ReceIn 2007 and 2008, US$4.7 billion and US$5.4 billion were committed to women's and children's health activities in developing countries, respectively. These amounts reflect a 105% increase between 2003 and 2008 and improved prioritization of countries based on the burden of maternal and child deaths. However more remains to be done .Despite these new high-level commitments and subscription to the principles outlined in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action ,64, fundThis analysis demonstrates that in African Union policies, women's and children's health is prioritized using fewer frames than AIDS/TB/malaria. It also demonstrates that women's and children's health is most often framed using advocacy and accountability as opposed to health and economic arguments.Prioritizing women's and children's health in African Union policies could be strengthened by 1) widening the range of frames used to discuss these issues, and 2) developing a stronger evidence base to support both currently-used and new frames.The analysis also notes that regional institutions have and continue to play an important role in prioritizing women's and children's health. It identifies advocacy as an important mechanism to prioritize women's and children's health while ensuring links between global, regional and national priorities, and an alignment of partner efforts in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health.In order to improve the prioritization of women's and children's health within African Union policy-making, women's and children's health stakeholders could: 1) support the African Union Commission and other regional bodies such as the Pan African Parliament in the prioritization of women's and children's health in policies, 2) strengthen existing regional and national women's and children's health networks in part by widening the range of partners to include the private sector, media and parliamentarians, and 3) align global efforts and campaigns with nationally-and regionally-defined priorities.In an environment where different priorities compete for funding, women's and children's health policies could claim more attention by using a wider range of frames. As noted by Heads of States in their Summit debate on women's and children's health, resource constraint is a key barrier to health investment. Therefore, the use of all available evidence would help advocates to make a more effective case for prioritizing women's and children's health in African Union policies.It seems likely that increased use of economic arguments would define women's and children's health as an investment, highlight the cost-effectiveness of health interventions and assist decision-makers in allocating scarce resources, by defining the synergies between investments in social determinants and health outcomes.To inform policy decisions more effectively, national and regional institutions have the option of gathering region-specific evidence on the cost savings that result from effective interventions, and on the impact of better health on growth and productivity. In the interim, existing global estimates, and regional calculations based on disability adjusted life years and gender disaggregated information, are available to inform policy discourse. Regional institutions could also gather evidence on the impact of investment on social determinants of health. This would inform debate by decision-makers about how to invest in other sectors that have an impact on women's and children's health, such as water and sanitation, education and transport ,68.The Lancet and in processes such as Countdown to 2015.Increased use of health frames would also aid the case for greater prioritization of women's and children's health, by providing compelling, specific evidence for the effectiveness of proven interventions. Much of the evidence on health outcomes already exists, and is reported by international journals such as The African Union Commission and related bodies such as the Pan African Parliament are key fora for advocacy in favour of women's and children's health. However, their resources  are stretched, and they would benefit from increased capacity to engage fully in advocacy and follow-up at regional, sub-regional and national levels. Increasing the capacity of regional institutions can be done through the financing of health-related programs, specific projects and staff. Additionally, partners with wide country presence have the option of entering into joint planning with regional entities and acting as the implementing arms of regional agreements. For instance, partners could track a certain number of indicators to monitor progress on women's and children's health in countries which regional institutions can feed into their assemblies. These processes already exist but could benefit from being used more systematically and by a wider range of partners.While women's and children's health actors exist and are quite active, they have tended to operate in silos and focus on specific issues. We suggest that stronger and better coordinated actor networks, focusing across the continuum of care, would generate more effective advocacy, and encourage policy-making and implementation. National and regional committees on women's and children's health could be expanded to include-in addition to representatives from the Ministries of Health, donors and international organizations, health care professionals, academics and NGOs-the private sector, parliamentarians and the media. Collaboration among these partners would align efforts for more efficiency, improve the effectiveness of outlined strategies and widen the scope of actions to improve health.Women's and children's health actors also have the potential to facilitate better integration of national priorities in regional and global policies. For instance, the development of the Global Strategy sought to integrate perspectives from countries through consultations with country representatives. In the future, similar processes might use established regional networks such as the Africa Maternal, Newborn and Child Health NGO Network and processes such as African Union Ministerial meetings to ensure that global initiatives are based on national and regional priorities and recommendations.Campaigners for improved women's and children's health in Africa still face significant challenges. These include the limited capacity of the African Union bodies, the imperfect integration of national, regional and global priorities, and the lack of a central mechanism for the funding of women's and children's health. However, as our paper suggests, there is great scope for the African Union, other regional institutions and actor networks to work together more closely to develop and prioritize policies that improve the health of women and children in Africa.1. 1963 Health, Sanitation and Nutrition2. 1979 Declaration on the Rights and Welfare of the African Child3. 1985 Resolution on the Drawing up of a Programme of Assistance to Africa by UNESCO in the Fields of Scientific Research and Development4. 1987 Declaration of Health as a Foundation for Development5. 1987 Resolution on Universal Immunization in Africa6. 1987 Resolution on the Reconstruction of Chad7. 1987 Resolution on the Candidature of Professor Gottlieb Lobe Monessoko for the Post of Director General of WHO8. 1990 Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government of the Organization of African Unity on the Political and Socio-Economic Situation in Africa and the Fundamental Changes Taking Place in the World9. 1990 Resolution on the adoption of the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the African Child10. 1990 Resolution on the World Summit on Children11. 1991 Declaration of the Twenty Seventh Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government on Employment in Africa12. 1991 Declaration on the current African Health Crisis13. 1992 Declaration on AIDS epidemic in Africa14. 1992 Resolution on AIDS and Africa: an agenda for action15. 1994 Tunis Declaration on AIDS and the Child in Africa16. 1994 Preamble to the Declarations and Resolutions adopted by the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government17. 1995 Addis Ababa Declaration on the Dakar African Platform for Action on Women18. 1995 Declaration on the African Plan of Action concerning the situation on Women in Africa in the context of Family Health19. 1995 Resolution on Mobilization of Resources for Africa's Economic and Social Development20. 1996 Yaound\u00e9 Declaration on Polio Eradication in Africa21. 1996 Resolution on the Regular reporting of the Implementation status of OAU Declaration on HIV/AIDS22. 1996 Resolution on Bioethics23. 1997 Harare Declaration on Malaria Prevention and Control in the Context of African Economic Recovery and Development24. 1998 Ouagadougou declaration25. 1998 Decision: Malaria Prevention and Control within the context of Africa's Economic Recovery and Development26. 1999 Decision on the \"First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction\"27. 2000 Lome Declaration28. 2000 Lome Declaration on HIV/AIDs in Africa29. 2000 Decision on proposal for the eradication of tsetse flies on the African continent30. 2000 CSSCDA Solemn Declaration31. 2001 Decision on the declaration of 2001-2010 as the decade for traditional medicine32. 2001 Decision on the report on implementation of the PoA on the eradication of tsetse flies in Africa.33. 2002 Decision on the control of Arterial Hypertension in Africa34. 2002 Decision on the status report on Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)35. 2003 Decision on promoting the development of sustainable cities and towns in Africa36. 2003 Declaration on the fifth WTO Ministerial Conference37. 2003 Maputo Declaration on Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases (ORID)38. 2004 Decision on the Implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)39. 2005 Decision on the Interim Report on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Polio40. 2005 Decision on the proposal on sickle-cell anaemia41. 2005 Decision on the Report of the Commission on Accelerating Action for Child Survival and Development in Africa to meet the MDGs42. 2005 Declaration on the Review of the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)43. 2006 Decision on the Linkage between Culture and Education44. 2007 Decision on avian flu45. 2007 Addis Ababa 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Children9. 2002 Decision on the report of the African Committee on the rights and welfare of the Child10. 2003 Decision on the Appointment of Members of the African Commission on human and people's rights11. 2003 Decision on the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights Relating to the Rights of Women12. 2004 Decision on AIDS Watch Africa (AWA) and the Implementation of the Abuja and Maputo Declarations on Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases in Africa13. 2004 Decision on the International Centre for the Education of Girls and Women in Africa (CIEFFA)-Doc. Assembly/AU/11 (V) Add.114. 2004 Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa15. 2005 Decision of the appointment of members of the African experts on the rights and welfare of the child16. 2006 Decision on the Progress Report on AIDS Watch Africa (AWA)17. 2006 Decision on the election of one member of the African committee on the rights and welfare of the child18. 2006 Decision on Abuja Call for Accelerated Action Towards Universal Access to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (ATM) Services in Africa19. 2006 Decision on the continental framework for harmonization of approaches among member states and integration of policies on human rights and people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa20. 2007 Decision of the reports on the implementation of the African Union solemn declaration on gender equality in Africa21. 2008 Decision of the reports on the implementation of the African Union solemn declaration on gender equality in Africa22. 2008 Decision of the appointment of members of the African experts on the rights and welfare of the child23. 2009 Decision on the African women's decade24. 2010 Decision on the Establishment of the Fund for African Women25. 2010 Decision on the Appointment of Members of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the ChildThe interviewees were asked to comment on:\u2022 The prioritization of women's and children's health in the African Union; whether this could be improved;\u2022 Which mechanisms and actors have contributed to the prioritization or de-prioritization of women's and children's health; and how these same mechanisms and actors could improve prioritization.\u2022 Their perception of the value placed on African Union policies by states and development partners, and how this value could be increased.APRM: Africa Peer Review Mechanism; AU: African Union; AWA: AIDS Watch Africa; CARMMA: Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa; EU: European Union; GAVI: Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization; ICPD: International Conference for Population and Development; MDGs: Millennium Development Goals; OAU: Organization of African Unity; PMNCH: Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health; WAHO: West African Health Organisation.The authors declare that they have no competing interests.KT: Conducted research and coding and wrote different iterations of the research article. RS: Advised on content of the research and assisted in conducting key expert interviews. SK: Contributed to the analysis and writing process and content. ES: Coded policies using the coding framework and helped refine coding framework. FB: Contributed to the design, analysis and writing of the paper. BO: Guided development of the overall paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript."}
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{"text": "The correct version of the Funding statement should read \"The Special Research Fund (BOF) partly funded this research. The University Foundation of Belgium also provided funding for this research. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "Sir, We thank Dr Vishnu for his interest in our paper. We reported atrophy of the caudate and thalamus in presymptomatic familial Alzheimer\u2019s disease mutation carriers at a stage when hippocampal atrophy was not yet evident . It was undertaken at UCLH/UCL, who received a proportion of funding from the Department of Health's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres funding scheme, and was supported by the NIHR Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit. NCF is a NIHR senior investigator. The Dementia Research Centre is an Alzheimer's Research UK Co-ordinating Centre and has received equipment funded by Alzheimer's Research UK and Brain Research Trust.This work was supported by the"}
{"text": "There was an error in the published Funding statement. The correct Funding is: This study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant n\u00ba 32003B_127619) and by funds from the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital and University of Bern. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Following publication of our article , we becaThis project was funded under Contract No. HHSA290200710062I from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The authors of this report are responsible for its content. Statements in the report should not be construed as endorsement by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding statement and in Table 3.The correct Funding statement is: This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.31270496). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.A correct version of Table 3 is available here:"}
{"text": "Multiple funding organizations and grants were incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This work was supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation , the Beijing Excellent Talent Project (project number PHR20100510), Tianjin Health Bureau Technology Fund and the Beijing Key Laboratory of Major Brain Disorders (project number 2011NZDB01). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There is an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is, \"Project supported by United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants DA013261 DA019676 and MH083840. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct funding statement is: This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant (No. 2010-0014269), Republic of Korea. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Host and microbial molecular dissection of pathogenesis and immunity in tuberculosis; Grant agreement no.: 200732) to LG; by Italian Association for Research against Cancer (AIRC) grants to LG and FB. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\" A funding organization for the 12th and 14th authors was incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This work was funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (Project acronym: HOMITB, Title:"}
{"text": "A funding organization was incorrectly given in the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"Results for Development's Center for Health Market Innovations provided funds to complete this systematic review. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "The correct Funding statement is, \"This work was partly supported by the special fund for public scientific research from the Ministry of Water Resources of China (NO.201001003)"}
{"text": "Life expectancy has been increasing during the last century within the European Union (EU). To measure progress in population health it is no longer sufficient to focus on the duration of life but quality of life should be considered. Healthy Life Years (HLY) allow estimating the quality of the remaining years that a person is expected to live, in terms of being free of long-standing activity limitation. The Joint Action on Healthy Life Years (JA: EHLEIS) is a joint action of European Member States (MS) and the European Union aiming at analysing trends, patterns and differences in HLY, as well as in other Summary Measures of Population Health (SMPH) indicators, across the European member states.The JA: EHLEIS consolidates existing information on life and health expectancy by maximising the European comparability; by analysing trends in HLY within the EU; by analysing the evolution of the differences in HLY between Member States; and by identifying both macro-level as micro-level determinants of the inequalities in HLY. The JA: EHLEIS works in collaboration with the USA, Japan and OECD on the development of new SMPHs to be used globally. To strengthen the utility of the HLY for policy-making, annual meetings with policy-makers are planned.The information system allows the estimation of a set of health indicators  for Europe, Member States and shortly their regional levels. An annual country report on HLY in the national languages is available. The JA: EHLEIS is developing statistical attribution and decomposition tools which will be helpful to determine the impact of specific diseases, life styles or other determinants on differences in HLY. Through a set of international workshops the JA: EHLEIS aims to develop a blueprint for an international harmonized Summary Measure of Population Health.The JA: EHLEIS objectives are to monitor progress towards the headline target of the Europe 2020 strategy of increasing HLY by 2 years by 2020 and to support policy development by identifying the main determinants of active and healthy ageing in Europe. Life expectancy at birth has steadily increased during the last decade in the EU27, by more than 3 years for men and 2 years for women, leading to accelerated population ageing. However gaps among Member States of the European Union (EU) have remained large, 13 years in both 1997 and 2010 for men, although for women gaps have slightly reduced from more than 9 years in 1997 to 8 years in 2010. Additionally the gender gap in life expectancy at birth remains high at 6 years in 2010 although it also has reduced over time. When the quality of the years lived is taken into account through health expectancies such as life expectancy in good perceived health, life expectancy without chronic morbidity, or life expectancy without disability, even larger gaps are seen among European countries. For instance, life expectancy without long-standing activity limitations or Healthy Life Years (HLY) show gaps in both men and women reaching close to 20 years in 2010 among Member States[The HLY is technically a Summary Measure of Population Health and part of the family of disability-free life expectancy indicators which measure the number of remaining years that a person of a certain age is expected to live without disability. A Summary Measure of Population Health brings together data on both the length and the quality of life and are As measures of population health, HLY and health expectancies in general have several strengths. Health expectancy indicators are more intuitive and understandable for policy makers and the public at large compared to mortality rates or morbidity incidence or prevalence rates. Health expectancies are typically estimated based on cross-sectional survey data and guidThe next step in this process was to structure and harmonize the calculation, analysis and interpretation of data collected through those surveys. This goal was achieved by the European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) and the European Health and Life Expectancy Information System (EHLEIS) project. EHEMU established an information system which facilitates the calculation of life and health expectancies in the EU and its Member States. This information system provides a central facility for the co-ordinated analysis and synthesis of life and health expectancies and provides evidence of inequalities between Member States, highlighting potential targets for public health strategies both nationally and at a pan-European level. EHLEIS extended the EHEMU activities by more in-depth analysis of trends and gender gaps in health expectancies,14 and oMaintain and continue developing a European Health and Life Expectancy Information System, in order to improve and harmonise calculations for the development of the Healthy Life Years \u2013 HLY \u2013 structural indicator\u201d. Accordingly the JA: EHLEISWithin the programme of the Community action in the field of health, JA: EHL(i) consolidates the existing information system (EHLEIS) through promoting further European comparability, annual HLY calculations and dissemination  and upd(ii) further extends EHLEIS through analyses of micro-level health determinants using the new European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) and analyses of HLY gaps between socio-economic groups,(iii) develops an alternative Summary Measure of Population Health that can also serve as a common international measure beyond the EU,(iv) Integrates the Task Force on Health Expectancies into an In particular, in the trend and gap analyses the JA: EHLEIS utilises a range of health expectancies, including self-rated health, morbidity and disability. The JA also develops a study design for computing maximally comparable health expectancies by socio-economic status for the Member States that already have mortality data by socio-economic position. Finally, in collaboration with the main OECD countries, especially the United States of America (USA) and Japan, the JA: EHLEIS will provide a blue print for an improved new internationally comparable Summary Measure of Population Health, thus upgrading the current European HLY by a global indicator. A Summary Measure of Population Health that is comparable to the USA and Japan indicators is a necessary condition to achieve a grade \u201cA\u201d for European Structural Indicators. The international discussion will not focus on the health expectancy indicator as such but rather on the essential of how to measure the health or quality of life related information necessary to calculate the health expectancy.The Lancet in 2008 is a good example of HLY use in non-health policies[The JA: EHLEIS targets Member States, health and non-health policy makers at the regional, national and European level, health professionals and researchers, media, general public and Non Governmental Organizations (NGO). Increasing involvement of Member States in health monitoring is one of the main priorities of JA: EHLEIS as well as promoting their wider engagement in using HLY in policy-making. The annual public JA: EHLEIS meeting plays a central role in addressing these priorities. In addition, the work published by the EHLEIS group in policies. Scientipolicies,5 and onpolicies,16,20,21policies and Wikipolicies. The JA:A first major aim of the Joint Action is to maintain and continue developing the European Health and Life Expectancy Information System (EHLEIS), by providing online calculations of various health indicators  with confidence intervals, that are comparable among EU countries, and with improved dissemination, understanding, ease of access and public health relevance. The methods and means to meet this aim include: computational and web methodologies for the EHLEIS database; statistical and demographic analyses for the substantive results; linguistic methods for the translation/provision of the easy-to-use web facilities in multiple European languages and translation of the Country reports into national languages; and methodologies to address the conceptual basis of the HLY indicator and its greater comparability with Summary Measures of Population Health in the USA and Japan. The JA: EHLEIS further develops the EHLEIS system to allow rapid access to up-to-date data on health expectancies  from a variety of European databases , EHIS). The computational and web expertise to undertake this key foundation of the Joint Action come from Montpellier RIO Imaging. AnalysiThe main outcomes of the Joint Action will comprise:(i) An Information System allowing online calculation of health indicators ), combining population and mortality data with health information coming from European  and/or national surveys. All HLY-related websites will be organized in a new website;(ii) Country reports on HE: Part of a series, each annual report presents life expectancy and HLY for the country of interest and for the overall EU27 using the SILC question on long term activity limitation (GALI) included in the SILC survey since 2004 or 2005. The reports will be translated in the national languages and will be disseminated to national institutions;(iii) Proceedings of the JA: EHLEIS annual meetings: The annual meetings will consist of one half-day open to the public and media (back to back with the Enlarged Steering Committee). The main aim of the meeting is to encourage Member States to use health expectancies, including HLY, in their health, social and employment policies;(iv) Presentation of the new HLY values and latest trends in Europe and press communiqu\u00e9s;(v) Statistical tools - New version of attribution and decomposition tools, distributed with updated manuals through the website and deve(vi) Technical reports and scientific analyses exploring geographical variations in HLY within Europe, trends in HEs in Europe, social differentials in HLY across Member States and calibration of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI) with EHIS data;(vii) A blueprint for a new international Summary Measure of Population Health.In addition the Joint Action plans to present its work at major European Conferences such as the European Health Forum in Gastein and the The JA: EHLEIS contributes directly to two of the three objectives of the Second Programme of Community Action in the Field of Health 2008\u20132013: to promote health and to generate and disseminate health information and knowledge. The JA:The authors declare that they have no competing interests.JMR and CJ drafted the manuscript. All authors commented the draft versions. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.http://www.eurohex.eu/index.php?option=aboutehemu#team.The JA: EHLEIS team:"}
{"text": "In the Funding statement, the number of a grant from the National Institutes of Heatlh to the first author (JK) is incorrect. The Funding statement should read: \"This research was supported by National Institutes of Health . The Pennington Biomedical Genomics Core Facility is supported in part by COBRE (NIH P20 GM103528) and NORC (NIH 2P30DK072476) center grants from the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There were multiple errors and omissions in the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This work was supported in part by research grants of the Research Foundation Flanders , the Belgian Foundation against Cancer , the Methusalem program of the Flemish Government attributed to Prof Herman Goossens , the Interuniversity Attraction Pole program (IAP #P6/41) of the Belgian Government and the Belgian Hercules Foundation (www.herculesstichting.be). SA is a former PhD fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders and currently holds an Emmanuel van der Schueren Fellowship of the Flemish League against Cancer . SA was awarded a 2012 Endeavour Research Fellowship by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education of the Australian Government (www.innovation.gov.au). SA also received financial support from the Belgian Foundation against Cancer and the Belgian public utility foundation VOCATIO (www.vocatio.be). EL was supported by a PhD grant of the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology  and by an Emmanuel van der Schueren Fellowship of the Flemish League against Cancer. JT was supported by a grant from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research . ELS is a post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "The corresponding author of the article was not correctly indicated. The correct corresponding author is not the last author, but instead the second author, Lei Ren. The corresponding author's email address is: lei.ren@manchester.ac.uk.In addition, two grant numbers from the Key Project of the National Science Foundation of China were incorrectly listed in the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This work was supported by the International Cooperation Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50920105504), a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Grant (No.BB/H002782/1), the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51105167), the Fundamental Research Founds of China (No. Z201105), the Key project of National Science Foundation of China , the postdoctoral project  and the scientific and technological development planning project of Jilin Province . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement that was omitted from the first correction. The complete, correct Funding statement is: The present study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China , Scientific Research Foundation of Hangzhou Normal University in China (2011QPL15 to F. L.), and National Institutes of Health Grants . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This research was supported in part by facilitating funds from the George Washington University School of Medicine (SAM), National Science Foundation grant MCB-1121711 (SAM), and the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute project number ZIA BC01000617 (IOD). Imaging was supported by NIH NICHD 2P30 HD040677 and NIH NCRR 1S10RR025565-01. Dr Klein\u2019s efforts were supported by the National Science Foundation while working at the Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The authors are grateful for a grant provided to CHC from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda (Scholarship No. 95802). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is: The research was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant no. 0347960 to LRG). MGS was funded in part by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013;"}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement.The correct version of the Funding is: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China  and Nature Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (No. 2007K09-05(7)). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "A funding organization and grant were incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"The authors wish to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41373073) and Zhejiang Science and Technology Program (2011F20025) for providing the financial support for this project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. \""}
{"text": "Of all the goals listed in last year's President's address, most of them were realized. The National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board (NHPLEB) of the Republic of Korea earned the ISO 9001 certificate in August 2011. The Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions (JEEHP) was accepted as an official journal of the Association for Medical Education in the Western Pacific Region. This means that a new international window was opened for communicating ideas on educational evaluation within the Western Pacific Region. Another remarkable project was two trial runs of an examination of ubiquitous-based testing (UBT) for medical technologist students in November and December 2011. Smart pads were kindly provided by Korea Telecom. Some bandwidth problems and procedural mistakes in the first examination were corrected in the second one. The response from examinees and the faculty was favorable to UBT suggesting the possibility of introducing UBT to the variety of national health personnel licensing examinations. At last November's meeting of the Board of the Korean Medical Licensing Examination, the NHPLEB was also asked to prepare for the introduction of computer-based testing (CBT) within 7 years. 2012 is the 20th anniversary of NHPLEB. To continue the success of the last 20 years of hard work and perspiration, a conference will be held this May. Here, the new short-term and long-term goals of NHPLEB and new educational evaluation projects will be discussed in depth, preparing plans for the next 20 years worthy of our pride and admiration. Among those planned projects, UBT and CBT will be implemented to two health personnel fields, medical technologists and dentists as trial run of examination.I have been pleased to observe the increase in the papers published through this journal. In 2012, I hope an even greater number of invaluable articles will appear in the journal to promote higher quality educational evaluation for health personnel."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: The funding source for this project is internal to Mayo Clinic and was provided by the Center for Individualized Medicine at Mayo Clinic. No additional external funding was received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "A funding organization and grant were incorrectly included in the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China  and Jiangsu Province's Outstanding Leader Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement.The correct version of the statement is: This study was supported by a Plastic Surgery Education Foundation Research Fellowship: \u201cMechanisms regulating fibrosis in chronic lymphedema\u201d . Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01HL111130. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The affiliation for the second author is incorrect. Carla Bosia is not affiliated with Department of Physics and INFN, University of Torino, Torino, Italy but with Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF), Torino, Italy. The correct affiliation is listed as #2 on the PDF but is not present on the HTML version of the paper."}
{"text": "The Funding statement in the article was incorrect. The correct version of the Funding statement is available below.The authors acknowledge the following sources of funding: The University of Liverpool, UK provided research costs; The University of Guadalajara, Mexico provided research costs and the Peter Lienhardt Memorial Fund and Philip Bagby Bequest from the University of Oxford, UK provided a travel grant. The funders played no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The number of one of the grant from the first funding body, National Natural Science Foundation of China, is incorrect. The correct grant numbers from this funding body are: 30830072, 31271703."}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding section. The correction funding information is as follows: S.S. gratefully acknowledges the support of the Josef Sagol Fellowship for brain research at Tel Aviv University. This research was supported by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation (grant No 41/11). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is: This research was supported by the Key Project for Breeding Genetic Modified Organisms (2011ZX08012-004). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The recipient of the grant from the NIH was incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This research was supported by an NIH grant to Dr. Zili Zhang (R01 EY022937). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "In addition, the seventh author, Han Lin, should be indicated as a corresponding author. Han Lin's email address for the purposes of correspondence regarding the article is: In the Funding statement, the name of a funding organization is incorrect. The Funding statement should read: \"The work was supported in part by National Science Foundation of China (81271469) and Research Foundation of Doctor Program (20113321110003) to QL, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Z2101211) to QL. The funder is the corresponding author of this study, and he gave final approval of the version to be published.\""}
{"text": "There is a sentence missing from the Funding Statement. The following is the correct Funding Statement:This work was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation (DEB 0083944) and the U.S. Geological Survey Wildlife and Invasive Species Programs. The Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin provided funds for publication. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "A funding organization for the 13th author, Richard Hamill, was incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The following sentence should be included with the Funding Statement: \"RJH was supported in part by resources provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs.\"In addition, an affiliation for the 13th author was incorrectly omitted from the byline. Richard Hamill is also affiliated with The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America."}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct Funding is:This work was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and also supported by National Institutes of Health grant CA095389 to IG. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Funding statement is incorrect. The publisher apologizes for the error. Please view the correct funding information below:\"This work was supported by CONICYT \"Proyecto Anillo en Complejidad Social\" SOC1101 and by the Millenium Center for the Neuroscience of Memory, Chile (NC10-001-F), which is developed with funds from the Innovation for Competitivity from the Ministry for Economics, Fomentation and Tourism, Chile. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "Two funding organizations are incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"Funding was provided by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the Australian Government\u2019s National Environmental Research Program and an Australian Research Council Grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct version of the statement is available below.This work was funded by NIH R01 CA102184 (M.M). This work was also funded in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences-National Institutes of Health (projects: Z01ES100475 and Z01ES065079). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct statement should be:This work was supported in part by research grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (#30772548 to Dr. Zhou), and Foundation from Excellent Master Dissertation of College of Laboratory Medicine at Chongqing Medical University (#201202). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "PROSPERO is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care. Between July 2012 and June 2013, 1,106 registrations were added, bringing the total since launch in February 2011 to 1,704. The value of the growing number of records is reflected in a 117% increase in page views in the first half of 2013 compared with the first half of 2012. Developments over the year included expansion of scope, improvement of the registration form and easier access to information on how to register. PROSPERO was launched in February 2011 as the first open access international prospective register for systematic review protocols. The aim of the register is to help prevent unintended duplication of systematic reviews by allowing those commissioning or planning reviews to identify whether there are any relevant reviews already underway. PROSPERO also aims to provide transparency in the review process and help identify potential biases by enabling comparison of reported review findings with what was planned in the protocol. Registration, which is free, requires entry of a minimum dataset that includes key information about the systematic review design and brief administrative details and was developed and agreed through international consultation. This letter briefly outlines activity and progress of PROSPERO from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013.Since its inception, there is evidence that PROSPERO is gaining increasing acceptance and visibility. Numbers of protocol registrations and register users have increased rapidly; 1,106 records were added to PROSPERO between July 2012 and June 2013, bringing the total number of registrations to 1,704  over the past year. As IP addresses can represent either a single user or a whole organisation , we know that this is a conservative estimate of usage. Nevertheless, register usage greatly increased in 2013 with 117% more page views in the first half of 2013 compared with the same period in 2012. This reflected the growing number of searchable records in the register.In January 2013, we published data on the utility of PROSPERO in its first year [Presentations about PROSPERO were well received at the EQUATOR Scientific Symposium in Freiburg  and the Plans for further PROSPERO developments include implementation of a new administration system with such functions as automated email reminders to help registrants keep their records up to date. The system will also facilitate the efficient addition of new Cochrane protocols to the register. A new search interface for the website is currently under development and is being informed by feedback from a recent survey of PROSPERO registrants and users.The PROSPERO team would like to thank the advisory group for their continued advice and support, and all registrants and register users. We always welcome feedback and would like to hear more from users, particularly if and how the register has been useful.CRD: Centre for reviews and dissemination; IP: Internet provider; NIHR: National Institute for Health Research.The development and ongoing management of PROSPERO is supported by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination\u2019s (CRD) core work programme, which is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, England; the Department of Health, Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland and the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research, Wales.AB is a research fellow at NIHR CRD, University of York, UK, and is responsible for the development and maintenance of PROSPERO."}
{"text": "Some information was missing from the funding section. The correct funding statement should read: This study was supported in part by grant AI28900 from the National Institutes of Health, grant 3401-11 from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and grant 1024929 from the National Health and Medical Research Council. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Both Daniel Gough and David Levy are corresponding authors. Dr. Gough can be reached here : daniel.gough@monash.edu"}
{"text": "There was an omission in the funding information. The correct funding information is as follows: \"The study was sponsored by the National Research Foundation of Singapore , the Pharmacogenomics of Anticancer Agents Research (PAAR) Group, NIH/NIGMS U01GM61393 and the National Medical Research Council of Singapore (NMRC/CSA/021/2010). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the published Funding statement. The correct Funding is:http://www.gacr.cz/); the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ; the Czech University of Life Sciences and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic ; Japan Society for Promotion of Science ; Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Financial support for this study was received from the Czech Science Foundation (project P506/10/1570;"}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct version of the Funding statement is available below.The work was supported by NASA grant NNX10AJ31G and the LLUMC Department of Radiation Medicine. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 23700476 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, a grant from Naito Foundation and the Suzuken Memorial Foundation to SK, and grants from Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, National Science Foundation and Whitehall Foundation to NCH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. No additional external funding was received for this study."}
{"text": "The GEO study accession number was not noted in the published article. The GEO study accession number is GSE34197.There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is: This work was funded by National Institutes of Health grants GM083337 to DMG and NS048859 to ME, and a grant from the FSHD Global Research Foundation to ME. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information was missing from the Funding section: This work was supported by the NIH, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Protein Structure Initiative [U54 GM094586 and GM074898]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the published article the part of the funding statement describing how Philip Bejon was supported should read: \"PB is supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Oxford.\" The corrected funding statement for this article reads in full: &ldquo;The study was supported by the Wellcome Trust and by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). PB is supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Oxford. KM, TNW, and FO are supported by the Wellcome Trust. SIH is funded by a Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (#079091). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.&rdquo;"}
{"text": "There was an error in the published funding statement. The correct funding is:This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China , and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Professor Hajo Grundmann was not included in the author byline. Prof. Grundmann should be listed as the sixth author and affiliated with Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. The contributions of this author are as follows: Conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript.In addition, there was an error in the Acknowledgments Statement. The Acknowledgments Statement should read: \"The authors wish to thank the Thika Hospital staff and patients for their involvement in surveillance and the SSI Surveillance team for their diligent work on data collection and entry. We also wish to thank Andy Hall and Neal Alexander for their assistance with designing and conducting SSI surveillance and Peter Davey and Andrea Patton for advice on conducting an Interrupted Time Series analysis. \""}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is: The study was funded by Martek Biosciences Inc. (There was an error in Table 6. The correct version of Table 6 is available here:"}
{"text": "In the Netherlands, there seems to be a relatively large interest in traumatic stress and its consequences. A literature search for publications in the field of psychotrauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Web of Science shows that authors from the Netherlands are among the top seven in the world see . Most reIn this thematic cluster we highlight psychotrauma research in the Netherlands. We start with a review of Dutch psychotraumatology (Vermetten & Olff, The aforementioned articles include an article by Diehle et al. , who preMiranda OlffDepartment of PsychiatryAcademic Medical CenterUniversity of Amsterdam & Arq Psychotrauma Expert GroupDiemen, The NetherlandsEric VermettenResearch Center\u2014Military Mental HealthMinistry of DefenseUtrecht, The NetherlandsDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrecht, The Netherlands"}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: \"This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health  grant 5DP1DA026197 and Dr. Dean Y. Li was funded by NHLBI. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is: This work was supported by a grant from CIHR China-Canada Joint Health Research Initiative Grant (CCI 102929) to BBY who is the recipient of a Career Investigator Award (CI5958) from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Support for this study was also provided, in part, from the Holland Musculoskeletal Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is: \u201cThis analysis was funded by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Publication of this article was funded by the University of Florida Open-Access Publishing Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "Information regarding funding for the fourth author is incorrectly omitted from the Funding statement. The Funding statement should read:This work was supported by the Program for Innovative Research Team of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (2011-CXTD-09) and the 111 Project (No. B08006). Jian-Ping Liu was partially funded by the grant number 2011ZX09302-006-01-03(5) by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Eric Manheimer was partially funded by grant no. R24 AT001293 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the US National Institutes of Health. The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NCCAM or the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "An author was omitted from the article.Joel A. Spencer was omitted from the author byline; he should be the sixth author and affiliated with the Center for Systems Biology and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.The contributions of this author are: contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools."}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement.The correct version of the statement is: Pre-doctoral training support to BKS was provided by National Institutes of Health T32 HD043730 and The Foundation for Physical Therapy. Some supplies were provided by an Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI-funded mini-grant to BDD. Publication of this article was funded in part by the University of Florida Open-Access Publishing Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The correct funding information is: \"This study is supported by: Research Grants for PRESTO and SENTAN from JST, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas Molecular Brain Science and Research on Pathomechanisms on Brain Disorders from MEXT. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "In the Funding Statement, the name of a funding organization is incorrect. The Funding Statement should read: \"This study was partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81270215) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (Grant No. 2013M530664). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "This activity was supported by unrestricted educational grants from Stallergenes Allergen Vaccines Worldwide, Nestl\u00e9 Nutrition Institute, and UCB.Stallergenes - http://www.stallergenes.com/nc/en.htmlhttp://www.nestlenutrition-institute.org/enhttp://www.ucb-group.com/and http://www.todaysallergies.comJune 2008Genoa, ITALYDear Colleagues:Innovation in Continuity. WAO will continue to build on its existing programs to further support and develop new research, education and training initiatives in this specialty and to focus attention on the importance of the allergist as the key coordinator of allergy patient care.One of my first duties as President of the World Allergy Organization (WAO) is the pleasure of presenting the State of World Allergy Report 2008. This exciting new WAO initiative, launched at the World Allergy Congress in Bangkok in December 2007, will provide a biennial review of the explosion of allergies around the globe and will consider how the medical, social and economic issues surrounding allergic diseases should be addressed. This first report provides a snapshot of the prevailing situation in 2008 from the perspective of organizations, such as the WAO and the World Health Organization through the Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases, which represent allergists and clinical immunologists -- the clinicians at the forefront of attempts to recognize, assess and address this global crisis. The focus of WAO's mandate for the next two years is The State of World Allergy Report is a call to action for everyone with an interest in allergy to develop a partnership with WAO in a global effort to control and manage allergic diseases on behalf of the world's population.Yours sincerely,Professor G. Walter CanonicaPresident, World Allergy Organization"}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding Statement. The correct funding is:Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada to WJR and MR (grant numbers not disclosed). DM received financial support from the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Science, Project 177023. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Vasogliano\" should be \"Visogliano\"A word was misspelled in the Abstract. \"-218\" should be \"-281\"There was an error in the Supporting Information. In Table S1, in the last column of the row \"BH-1 Mandible\", the value \""}
{"text": "There were errors in the Funding statement. The correct statement is: This work was supported in parts by the National Center for Soybean Biotechnology and the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council to HTN and by a grant (No. AP24-1-0076) from the RIKEN Strategic Research Program for R & D to L-SPT. DTL was supported by RIKEN Foreign Postdoctoral Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The first and second authors, Xiuyu Chen and Minjie Lu, should be indicated as having contributed equally to the work.In addition multiple funding organizations and grants were incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This study was supported in part by the Research Grant of National Natural Science Foundation of China (81000604 and 81370036 )\uff0cPUMC Youth Fund and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2009-xhj04# and 3332013105), and Grant for Talent Research Star of Fuwai Hospital (2012\u2010FWXX01). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding section. The corrected Funding section should appear as follows:This study was supported by grants from National Institute of Health  to SJC (www.nih.gov). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct version of this Funding statement is available below.This study was sponsored by grants of Zhejiang Provincial Top Key Discipline in Surgery, the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Grant No. Z2100853) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81070372). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There were multiple errors and an omission in the Funding Statement. The Funding Statement should read: \"The infrastructure for the NESDA study (www.nesda.nl) is funded through the Geestkracht program of the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development  and is supported by participating universities and mental health care organizations , Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) and Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction (Trimbos Institute). This work was supported by the Top Institute Pharma, project number T5-203. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "In the Funding Statement, an organization was incorrectly as having provided funding for the article. The Funding Statement should read: \"This work was supported by a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) grant and Academic Project Support (APS) funding. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the Funding statement. The correct version of the statement is available below:This work was supported by the Society for Research on Cardiovascular Diseases, the Ministry of Culture, Health and Higher Education, and the National Fund for Research of Luxembourg. Profs. Ng and Squire and Dr. McCann received support from the NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Competing Interests statement. The Competing Interests statement should read: \"AMD is currently a Professor of Pathology, Urology and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine  and was also employed as such during the conduct of this study. During part of the writing of this manuscript AMD was employed at Predictive Biosciences, Inc. , as well as part-time adjunct Professor of Pathology, Oncology, and Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine . No funding or other support was provided by Predictive Biosciences, Inc., for any of the work in this manuscript. The terms of the relationship between AMD and Predictive Biosciences, Inc., were managed by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict-of-interest policies. This does not alter the authors\u2019 adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.\""}
{"text": "There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding is:http://www.rcn.no) , the Cancer Foundation of Norway (http://www.kreftforeningen.no) (to KKA), and the NSF-Biochem 0919027 to EIS). The Raman instrument and laser equipment in Oslo was funded by a grant from the Research Council of Norway. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This work was supported by The PEOPLE Marie Curie Actions Intra\u2013European Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme (PIEF\u2013GA\u20132009\u2013235237 to GZ), the Research Council of Norway ("}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The Funding statement is incorrect. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct Funding statement is: This research was financially supported by the National Key Technologies R&D Program (2015BAD07B01), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270656,"}
{"text": "There is an error in the funding statement. Please refer to the complete funding statement here:This research was supported by funds from the Cave Conservancy Foundation , Society of Systematic Biologists (Graduate Student Research Award), and the American Arachnological Society (Vincent Roth Fund for Systematics Research) awarded to S Derkarabetian. This research was also supported by an NSF grant awarded to M Hedin (DEB 1354558). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This project was funded in part with Federal funds from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. 272200800007C, CTSA award No. UL1TR000445 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the Childhood Infections Research Program grant T32-AI095202-01, the Immunobiology of Blood and Vascular Systems training grant 5 T32 HL69765-12, and NIH grant GM064779. The contents of this manuscript are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent official views of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences or the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "ZYGX2014Z002. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The Funding statement appears incorrectly in the published article. The correct Funding statement is: This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ("}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: We acknowledge support by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Muenster.http://www.nf.mpg.de/). We also acknowledge support by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Muenster. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The complete, correct Funding statement is: The Max Planck Institute financed the fMRI study ("}
{"text": "During typesetting, errors were introduced into the Funding section. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (RSN-109427) and the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation to QL. ZL is a recipient of the University of Saskatchewan Vaccinology and Immunotherapeutics Ph.D. Student scholarship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is an error in the funding statement. Please refer to the correct funding statement below.This work was made possible by support from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through Cooperative Agreement 5U2GPS001930-05 from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Global AIDS Program. The findings and conclusions included in its content are solely the responsibility of the author (s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Publication of this article was funded in part by the Open Access Promotion Fund of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries. This work was supported through technical assistance from the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (1P30AI094189). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) for atomically controlled fabrication technology was established in 2008 by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), as a succession program of the 21st Century COE program for atomistic fabrication technology promoted from 2003 to 2007. The GCOE program is implemented by three departments, namely the Departments of Precision Science & Technology, Applied Physics, and Advanced Science and Biotechnology, and by the Research Center for Ultra-precision Science and Technology, all of which belong to the Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka University.The Fifth International Symposium on Atomically Controlled Fabrication Technology (ACFT-5) was organized by the GCOE program and the technical committee on ultraprecision machining of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), in cooperation with JSPE, the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and the Physical Society of Japan (JPS).The aim of our GCOE project is to achieve the atomic level controllability in wide-area processing and environmental harmony, which are essential for next-generation manufacturing technologies with high functions. For this purpose, by collaborating with other organizations from different fields, we focus not only on the creation of new fabrication processes beyond the current limitations but also on the systematization of the fabrication processes as science.ACFT-5 highlights the recent achievements in the program. The topics covered here are \u2018Impact of Quantum Beam Techniques with Advanced Optics\u2019, \u2018Surface Characterization and Bottom-up Technologies\u2019, \u2018Multi-Scale Surface Control Techniques\u2019, \u2018Advanced Processing and Materials Science for Device Applications\u2019, and \u2018Frontier in Carbon/Organic Nano-Scale Systems\u2019. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to all the contributors and committee members for their great effort in making the symposium successful and also to MEXT for its continuous support."}
{"text": "Prior to 1993, Nepal had a vertical health logistics system. Logistics was not a government priority. No logistics curricula had been developed, no staff had been trained, and no logistics information systems existed at any level. After the establishment of the Logistics Management Division in 1993, the lack of trained manpower in logistics was realized. With support of USAID funded projects (implemented by John Snow Incorporated through Family Planning Logistics Management (FPLM), Nepal Family Health Program, and DELIVER), logistics training was institutionalized within the National Health Training Centre of Ministry of Health and Population.With support from USAID, the National Health Training Centre and Logistics Management Division have worked to institutionalize logistics training. Trainers were trained and Regional Health Training centres have been conducting logistics training. Logistics training is included in National Health Training Centre\u2019s annual work plan and approved by the National Planning commission. Logistics practices have been incorporated in the pre-service and in-service curricula and health logistics training has also been incorporated in the training management guideline of the National Health Training Centre.Logistics practices have been incorporated in the pre-service and in-service curricula. Technical assistance is being provided to establish or maintain training within a national training system and efforts are being made to build the capacity of government healthcare providers to manage training events. Ten standardized Health Logistics Training packages have been institutionalized into the National Health Training Centre system to train human resource needed for the logistics management of the country and computer based self-paced training (CD-ROM), has been developed.The Ministry of Health has recognized the importance of the not only logistics management but also the need for quality training. The Ministry of Health has initiated and is continuing provision of logistics training from its own financial resources ensuring sustainability of the program to some extent. From 1993 to 2013, a total of 27,734 government personnel have been trained in the health logistics trainings. Through the training important logistics interventions like Pull System of Health Commodities and web-based LMIS were successfully implemented in all 75 districts of the country.Frequent turnover of trained storekeepers and a lack of effective supervision after training remain concerns. The misconception among health workers that training will solve all performance problems hinders their ability to analyse gaps and subsequently address them; and overall governance and accountability of the Government are continued issues."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: National Clinical Key Subject Construction Project Fund of China funded this work. This funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "A second affiliation for the second author is not indicated. Yau-Huei Lai is also affiliated with Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, New Taipei City, Taiwan.The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was partially funded by grants from National Science Council , Mackay Memorial Hospital  and Taiwan Foundation for geriatric emergency and critical care."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This study was supported by Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Grant N000141310672. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There were additional funders for this article that were not included previously. Please refer to the correct funding statement below:This study was supported by a grant of the German medical acupuncture association (D\u00c4gfA), China scholarship council and University Funds from the University Hospitals of Wuerzburg. This publication was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the University of Wuerzburg in the funding program Open Access Publishing. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Fundamental and clinical experts from Japan, Korea and China, warmly gathered on the beautiful ice and snow city\u2014Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province, China\u2014during 23-26 January 2015, to present their research findings and participated in discussion relating to progress in biomaterials, stem cells and bone tissue engineering. The International Symposium on Recent Trend of Biomaterials and Stem Cells for Bone Tissue Engineering (BTE 2015) was hosted by the Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-organized by the Department of Orthopaedics, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University. It provided a new platform of academic and technological communication for fundamental researchers and orthopedic surgeons to express their diverse ideas and inspiring new cooperation.The field of tissue engineering has emerged as an important approach to the clinical therapy of damaged bone due to trauma, tumor resections or congenital anomalies . Besidesin\u00a0vivo microenvironment is a promising strategy for tissue engineering and stem cell research [The participants focused on discussing the recent development of synthetic or natural bioscaffolds that can provide 3D architecture , 9, apprresearch . A serieresearch  or peptiresearch  have beeresearch , 19. TheWe made a concise report on this symposium, and some comments of the key speakers in the symposium were presented. We hope that their comments can arouse further interests of readers in discussing future strategies of bone tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Moreover, we believed that the frequent appointment of researchers and orthopedic surgeons may inspire more and more ideas in the development of future clinical products of tissue engineering for orthopedic application.Chief Scientist and Director of the Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory at the RIKEN (from 2004). He received his Bachelor\u2019s degree in polymer chemistry at Kyoto University and was awarded a doctorate in engineering from the same university in 1987. Since then he has held some posts as assistant and associate professor at Kyoto University, research fellow at the University of California, Irvine (1992-93), professor of the University of Tokushima, and Project Leader at the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology. Currently, he is also a visiting professor of some universities including Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hokkaido University and Waseda University. He received the Award of Japanese Society of Biomaterials (2009) and Fellow, Biomaterial Science and Engineering (2012). His research focuses on biomaterial science, regenerative medical engineering, combinatorial bioengineering for the creation of functional polymers and soft nanotechnology.Comment: The surface properties are of prime importance in establishing the response to tissue from biomaterials. I have investigated the immobilization of growth factor proteins to provide a set of very powerful signals for cells. Immobilized growth factors stimulated cultured cells for a longer time and enhanced cell growth more than did soluble growth factors and also induced cellular differentiation. The effects of immobilized growth factors were visualized by their micropatterning on substrates. Recently, we extended the immobilization technology from chemical to biological one, which is protein engineering for synthesis of binding growth factors. We synthesized some types of growth factors carrying collagen binding sequence extracted from fibronectin. One of them was collagen binding-BMP, which was synthesized by silk worm, and directly injected or utilized with scaffold or visible-light-curable gelatin gel. We demonstrated that both of the direct injection and the bound implants significantly enhanced bone formation in animals. Another type of binding growth factors was also designed by combination with binding motif of underwater adhesive proteins composed of non-canonical amino acids such as phosphorylated serine from salivary statherin and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine from mussel protein for binding to inorganic materials such as metals and ceramics. The technology uses not only usual protein engineering but also bioorthogonal approach. As a result osteogenetic differentiation was enhanced on the bound apatite. These new types of binding growth factor could contribute current treatment methods of various debilitating injuries and diseases and deliver on the therapeutic promise of bone tissue engineering.Professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Applied Chemical Engineering, Graduate School, Kyungpook National University. He is currently a director of Center for Intelligent Hybrid Nanomaterials and Processes supported by Brain Korea 21+ National Program. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry at Kyoto University in 1987, and joined in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering in 1988 as a professor. He has published more than 190 articles and his research is focused on surface modification, nanofiber scaffolds, functionalization of nanoparticles and liquid crystal sensors.Comment: During last one decade several advancements have been made in fabrication of scaffolds for tissue engineering using various techniques of fabrication and materials of different origin. The scaffolds for tissue engineering are ranging from nanofibers to nanoparticles and have been developed by tuning their morphology and architecture. Several breakthroughs have been reported and successful attempts have been made to overcome the drawbacks of the scaffolds fabricated by conventional and modern methods of scaffolds formation yet significant amount of research is required to control the vascularity of the scaffolds, which is a major challenge in the field of fabrication of scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Although few attempts have been made by harvesting cells from donor/patient to vascularize the scaffolds before their implantation in the patient but area still need intensive research to develop scaffolds with proper vascularization. The worldwide research has achieved success in tissue engineering but matrix induced autologus condrocyte implantation has received little success in repair of cartilage. The bioactivity of scaffolds totally depends on surface topology, microstructure, chemistry and mechanical properties of scaffolds. Thus, controlling the cells behavior and remodeling is a critical step in development of next generation scaffolds for tissue engineering. The functionalized scaffolds loaded with certain amount of growth factor and therapeutics to stimulate cells proliferation and treatment of infection after surgical operations also strongly needed to achieve success in the area of tissue engineering and regeneration. The increasing interest to incorporate a drug delivery function in the scaffolds is emerged as a new field of scaffolds engineering. The drug loaded scaffolds are able to provide sufficient amount of drug at a specific place in comparison to systematic drug delivery systems. The scaffolds loaded with growth factors such as cytokines, hormones, morphogens and proteins need to be developed to enhance cells adhesion, proliferation and differentiation in tissue engineering. The mechanical behavior of scaffolds has important implication on tissue regeneration; stiff scaffolds mimic precalcified bone and elastic scaffolds mimic the elasticity of muscles, which cause MSC differentiation down to a myogenic pathway. Thus, scaffolds with optimized mechanical strength need to be fabricated for enhanced bone tissue engineering. The critical review of the literature reported during last one decade has clearly indicated that there is lot of scope to improve the properties and functionality of the scaffolds for bone tissue engineering using various biomaterials and their fabrication techniques.Principal Investigator and Unit Director of Tissue Regeneration Materials Unit, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1997 majoring in biomaterials and did postdoctoral research until 2000. He became researcher in 2000 and senior researcher in 2003 at Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. He moved to Biomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science as senior researcher in 2004 and was group leader from January, 2007 to March, 2011. He is concurrently Professor of Joint Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is Guest Professor of Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Southeast University and Sichuan University, China. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry B; Editor of Science China Chemistry and Editorial Board of Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers and Tissue Engineering .Comment: Tissue engineering has attracted tremendous endeavors from various fields of material science, biomedical science, chemical engineering, stem cell biology, clinics, industry and etc. The disciplinary research to regenerate functional tissues and organs has reached enormous progress and achievements spanning form fundamental research to clinical applications and industrialization. As one of the tissue engineering, triad, scaffolds not only accommodate implanted cells but also control cell functions to guide functional tissue engineering. Design and creation of highly functional scaffolds have been challenged to mimic the in\u00a0vivo dynamically remodeling cellular microenvironments. Scaffolds with controlled chemical compositions, nano- and micro-structures, mechanical property and some special functions have been developed form synthetic and naturally derived biomaterials and decellularized matrices. The scaffolds can provide biological and physiochemical cues to recruit stem cells, induce stem cells differentiation and promote regeneration of various tissues and organs. Development of new and highly functional scaffolds will further facilitate efficient regeneration of functional tissues and organs for clinical applications and industrialization.Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a Chairman of Interdisciplinary Program of Bioengineering in Seoul National University, South Korea. He is an active researcher with 275 peer-reviewed publications, 14 book chapters and 17 patents. He has received William B. Walsh Award and Shinyang Award. He had served or now serves as an Associate Editor or an editorial board member of 10 journals including the Tissue Engineering, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. He is the chair of Scientific Committee of Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society and an organizer of 15th International Biotechnology Symposium.Comment: Currently, a number of bone graft substitutes have been developed and are being utilized clinically, but there are rooms for improvement. Bone graft substitutes can promote bone regeneration by the interaction of three components: (i) bone-forming cells, (ii) a suitable biomaterial scaffold and (iii) biological stimulants. In the International Symposium on Recent Trend of Biomaterials and Stem Cells for Bone Tissue Engineering (BTE 2015), which was held in Changchun in China in January, 2015, new technologies on these three components for bone regeneration were presented. For large bone-defect, stem cells or progenitor cells need to be implanted since recruitment of bone-forming cells to the large bone-defect may be limited. For effective bone regeneration, implantation of osteogenically induced stem cells or progenitor cells results in better bone regeneration rather than implantation of undifferentiated cells. Thus, decent technologies for ex vivo osteogenic induction of stem cells would be necessary. Meanwhile, biomaterials can be designed in nano scale to present biological stimulants for effective bone regeneration. BMPs are currently used for bone regeneration in patients, but often cause adverse effects due to the high dosage. Drug delivery carrier determines the bone regeneration efficacy of BMPs. Efforts should be made to develop an appropriate delivery carrier which can deliver BMPs without the adverse effects.Professor of polymer chemistry in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from June 1999. He graduated from the Chemistry Department of Jilin University. He got his Master degree from CIAC in 1988. He got his Ph.D. from Waseda University Japan on March 1997. He had postdoc experience in the University of Pennsylvania from 1997 to 1999. Now he is working in Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials of CAS in CIAC. He is one of the board members of Journal of Controlled Release, Biomacromolecules, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Acta Biomaterialia and Macromolecular Bioscience. He has published 490 papers.Comment: In the past 20 years, the regenerative medicine materials, especially the tissue engineering repair materials have made important progress. Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field, including materials chemistry and physics, biological engineering, biochemistry, biomechanics, cell biology, biotechnology, clinical medicine, etc. It is one of the important means to repair and rebuild the body\u2019s tissues and organs and has been becoming more and more important. The novel therapy method will change the quality and the way of people\u2019s life, and extend the life of human beings in the near future. Biodegradable polymer material (absorbed in\u00a0vivo) is one of the very important elements in the process of tissue engineering therapy. As a result, the preparation of porous bioscaffolds with adjustable absorption time, good strength, pore structure and distribution under well control, and good biocompatibility, are the objective requirements for the future development of tissue engineering therapy. We hope that through the joint efforts of scientists, more and more products of tissue engineering devices will be widely used in clinic in the near future.The \u2018Qiu-shi\u2019 Distinguished Professor and dean for School of Basic Medical Science, Vice Dean College of Medicine in Zhejiang University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in orthopedics from National University of Singapore in 2003. Since returned to China in 2005, Prof. Ouyang focuses on the research of tissue engineering and regenerative therapy of musculoskeletal system. His research has been granted support by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for Distinguished Young Scholars, The State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, The National Key Basic Research Program, The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), etc. Currently, he has filed 10 national patents applications (six approved) and published more than 60 original research papers in the international peer review journals. More than 40 papers corresponded by Prof. Ouyang were published in the leading journals of regenerative medicine fields, such as Stem Cells, Advanced Functional Materials/Biomaterials, Annals of the Rheumatic Disease, Tissue Eng, Cell Transplantation. Moreover, he was authorized by State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and Ministry Of Health (MOH) to formulate the guidance for assessment of implants for cartilage repair and therapeutic transplantation of engineered tissues, respectively. Prof. Ouyang has established a standard approach for tissue engineered cartilage (TEC) transplantation and is the pioneer of clinical translation in China orthopedic regenerative medicine. Because of his outstanding achievements, Prof. Ouyang has gained great national and international reputation, he is currently the chair of China Orthopedic Regenerative Medicine and the vice chair of China Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society. He is also the council member of several international academic societies such as Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Asia Pacific Meeting (TERMIS-AP).Comment: Decades of experience indicated that manufacture of mature tissues with tissue engineering approaches for transplantation is difficult to be achieved. The most feasible and effective way is to apply one or all of the appropriate cell source, biomaterials/scaffold, growth factors according to particular tissues and diseases at the early or middle stage of diseases, which can prevent the tissue/organ from failure and avoid organ transplantation.Professor of Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, China. He obtained Ph.D. at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (CAS) in 2005, after which he worked as a postdoc in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, and RIKEN. In 2011, he was appointed as a professor at Tongji University. His research interests focus on the mild polymerized preparation of tough nanocomposite gel and the potential applications in tissue engineering and bio-imaging. His current group has published more than 20 Science Citation Index papers, including Advance Materials and Chemical Science.Comment: Hydrogels with synthetic or natural polymer are useful in cartilage tissue engineering due to their water-swollen networks and suitable microenvironment for tissue formation. Up to now, engineering cartilage tissue still remains a significant challenge due to the low mechanical strength and unsuitable component design. The in-situ hydrogelations via the mild enzyme-mediated radical polymerization can provide a tough artificial cartilage by the direct injection in the defect position.Professor in Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences . He completed his Ph.D. in 2006, and then he worked in the University of Sydney, Dresden University of Technology, Germany and Queensland University of Technology where he was awarded Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow, APDI Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. In 2012, Dr. Wu has been recruited to work in SIC, CAS, as One-Hundred Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then he was awarded Recruitment Program of Global Young Experts of China  and Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program. Prof. Wu\u2019s research focuses on bioactive inorganic materials for bone tissue engineering and drug delivery application. Up to now, Prof. Wu has published more than 110 SCI peer-review journal papers, including Adv Funct Mater, Biomaterials (14 Papers), Adv Mater Interface, Small, J Control Release, J Mater Chem (15 Papers), Acta Biomater (22 Papers), ACS Appl Mater& Interface, Bone, Tissue Eng. etc. The papers have been cited more than 2300 times, H Index 31. Prof. Wu has been awarded 11 patents, in which three of them have been transferred to company.Comment: Regeneration of large-size bone defects represents a significant challenge clinically, which requires the used scaffolds with the stimulation of osteogenesis and angiogenesis for stem cells. It is known that microenvironments of bioscaffolds play an important role to stimulate tissue regeneration. How to design and prepare bioscaffolds with favorable microenvironments for tissue regeneration is one of interesting topics in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering. To establish a beneficial microenvironment of biomaterials, it is of great importance to combine both nutrient elements and biomimetic structure of scaffolds to stimulate osteogenesis and angiogenesis of stem cells. Besides the microenvironment of bioscaffolds, macrophage plays an important role to induce immunomodulatory microenvironment for further influencing osteogenesis. Therefore, it is suggested that scaffolds and osteoimmunomudulation-induced microenvironments should be considered for bone tissue engineering.et\u00a0al. Currently, he has published over 60 original research papers.Dr. Zou is the director of the Orthopedic Research Institute and consultant surgeon of Spine Division at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). He graduated from Jiangxi Medical School, receiving the doctoral degree in Medical School of Aarhus University, Denmark. In 2008, Xuenong has been recruited as professor of the First Affiliated Hospital as One-Hundred Talent Program of SYSU. He has been focused on the interaction between biomaterials and host, the effect of ECM-biomaterials on bone formation, epigenetic mechanisms of osteogenetic progress induced by different biomaterials. His research has been supported by The State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, The National Key Basic Research Program (\u2018973\u2019 Program) and The Key Program of NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund, Comment: There exist three sequential biological events after implantation of biomaterials\u2014stress and homeostasis, immuno-inflammatory responses and bone formation or implantation failure. The clinical result of the implantation depends on the first two events, happening in the interaction between biomaterials and human body. Therefore, it\u2019s very important to elucidate the roles and mechanisms of early biological events caused by implantation of biomaterials, as a guide for synthesizing and designing biomaterials.Professor of Department of Orthopedics in China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, China. He graduated from the Norman Bethune Medical University in 1991. He got his Doctor degree from Jilin University in 2003. He had his visiting scholar experience in the University of New South Wales in Australia from 2008 to 2009. He has been engaged in orthopedic clinic for more than 20 years. His main research work is on spine surgery and bone tissue engineering and has published more than 60 papers. Now he is the member of the expert committee of Chinese national medical examination center, the member of the Chinese Medical Association Branch of minimally invasive Department of orthopedics and one of the China core members of Medtronic MMSG Association.Comment:At present, there are about 3 million patients with defect bone or injured bone needed to be treated each year in China. More and more biological materials are demanded in orthopedic clinical work. To meet substantial clinical demand, with the high speed promotion of biomedical materials science and engineering, a high-tech biomedical materials and its products industry has already formed. But the present products of biomaterials can\u2019t really biomimic the autologous grafts and the surgeons usually wondered that which was the best choice for a case when they face to a wide variety of products. Some of them will worry about the dissatisfied or even failed treatment and then refuse to accept the new products. One possible reason to affect the bone healing quality of a product might be the selection of operation indication or operation method but not the product itself. Thus, it is important for both researchers and surgeons that their frequent communication and cooperation will be conducive to the development of new biomaterials and the rapid development of orthopedic clinical technology."}
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{"text": "The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Sall Family Foundation via the Pan American Health and Education Foundation (renamed PAHO Foundation) and EUROHEALTH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. URL: The publisher apologizes for these errors."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by National Institute of Health Research Grants R01DE10742 and R01DE14183, and The Mary Kay Foundation Research Grant number 005\u201313 (to DKA). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Funding Statement is missing funding information from the NIH. Please see the full Funding Statement here.This study was funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award for Investigators in Pathogenesis (EEH) and the NIH T32-AI007422 (HGB). This work is based upon research conducted at the Northeastern Collaborative Access Team beamlines, which are funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences from the National Institutes of Health (P41 GM103403). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This research was supported in part by Judy Polshek Goodman Alzheimer's Disease Research and Prevention Fund, and a pilot grant from Philips Imaging.The complete, correct funding information is as follows: This research was supported in part by the Spitz Brain Health Innovation Fund, the G.R. Lincoln Family Foundation, Judy Polshek Goodman Alzheimer's Disease Research and Prevention Fund, and a pilot grant from Philips Imaging. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was supported in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, Partnerships for International Research and Education (OISE-0530174).Vibrio spp., and E. coli.There is an error in the first sentence of the third paragraph in the Introduction. The correct sentence is: In a study of bacteriological assessment of ballast waters of six ships docked at Singapore harbors, Joachimsthal et al. (2004) used fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) coupled with flow cytometry to enumerate total bacteria, and fluorescent tags to differentiate between Enterobacteria, There is an error in the caption for Please see the complete, correct"}
{"text": "There is a missing grant number in the funding statement for this article. Please refer to the correct funding statement below:Research at QHFSS was funded by an internal funds provided by Queensland Health and the US National Institutes of Health/NIGMS U01GM097661. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The identification number of the project was incorrect. The article was supported by the project DEC-2011/03/N/NZ5/00248 funded by National Science Centre.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "There is an error in the affiliation for authors Mosoka Fallah, Josephine Monger, and Kodjo Tehoungue. The correct affiliation is: the World Health Organization."}
{"text": "There is an error in the grant number in the Financial Disclosure (FD) statement for this article. Please refer to the correct FD statement below:This study was supported by grants 81071095, 81120108011, and 81361128010 (to XX) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Suzhou science and technology development program (SYS201232), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China, Jiangsu Province\u2019s Key Provincial Talents Program (to XX), and the National Basic Research Program of China . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "RRM was omitted from a grant in the Funding section. The correct Funding information is: This work was supported by the National Institute for Health Research , funds for consumables and WellChild (RRM and AD), funds were given to purchase the encapsulator used in the work. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The work was supported in part by grants from the Australian Research Council, Cancer Council Queensland to J.N. and the Internal Grant Agency (IGA) of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (IGA NT/14078-3), and the European Regional Development Fund  to JN. EAP was supported by the Douglas Francis Green PhD Scholarship provided by the Queensland Asbestos-Related Disease Society. LFD was supported by the Griffith University Research Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This research was supported by the Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012AA10A408 and 2012AA092203), the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (Grant No. 31072245 and 31372567), the special foundation under the Construction Programme for \u2018Taishan Scholarship\u2019 of Shandong Province of China, and Special Scientific Research Funds for Central Non-profit Institute, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute (20603022013010). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: Research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (206\u201308\u20130640), the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic (SVV260 087/2014), and the National Science Foundation (DEB0746560). Mouse pellets and genotyping of allopatric mice were reimbursed from the Czech Science Foundation (P506\u201311\u20131792). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Information is missing from the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health to CIG , JGF (PR-LSAMP and RISE Award 2R25GM61151), MHP and MM (R25GM061838). This publication was made possible by Grant P20 RR 016174 from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "To the Editor: After not finding any additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) for several weeks in South Korea, in July 2015, the South Korean government and the World Health Organization (WHO) discussed the appropriate time to declare the end of the outbreak in July 2015 . All possible contact with diagnosed case-patients in the late phase of the MERS outbreak in South Korea were traced (Epidemiologic data, probabilistic model, and supplementary discussion."}
{"text": "In Europe, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cancer, and the second most common cause of death from cancer . The vasGuidelines for staging of CRC have been developed by the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) , which r"}
{"text": "William B. Karesh is not included in the author byline. He should be listed as the tenth author and affiliated with Wildlife Health and Health Policy Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America. The contributions of this author are as follows: Collected and provided fecal samples analyzed in the manuscript."}
{"text": "After publication of this work , it has \u201cThe views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the HTA, NIHR, NHS or the Department of Health.\u201dThe full acknowledgements section can be found below:This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Programme (project number 10/104/06). Thank you to the trial coordinating staff at the LSHTM CTU. The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the HTA, NIHR, NHS or the Department of Health."}
{"text": "Conflict of Interest StatementES and AS are the creators of the software package Dr. Neuronowski\u00ae, realized as part of a project at the Nencki Institute with funding from the National Centre for Research and Development in Poland. The rights to the software lie with the Nencki Institute that has an agreement with Harpo Ltd., the company commercializing this software. ES and AS are not the owners of this technology nor do they have a direct financial arrangement with Harpo Ltd.The authors state that the correction does not affect the scientific validity of the results.ES: experimental design, data acqusition and analysis, manuscript writing. AD: data acqusition and analysis, manuscript writing. AS: data acqusition and analysis, manuscript writing. TW: guidance on MRI data analysis. AS: subject recruitment. ID: subject recruitment. AO: data acqusition and analysis, manuscript writing.The other authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "The second and third authors affiliation was incorrectly stated as both the University of York and the University of Sheffield, which requires amendment . This correction does not in any way affect the scientific validity of the results.GP conceived of, and designed, the study in consultation with PT, LE, and EM. GP conducted the study and analyzed the data with assistance and contributions from PT. GP drafted the manuscript with contributions from PT, LE, and EM. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.This research was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES-J500215-1] awarded to GP whilst at the University of Sheffield.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This work was also supported by an NSF award (MCB-1051350) to MCY.The complete, correct Funding statement is as follows: This work was supported by a Scientist Development grant (0830279N) from the American Heart Association and an NSF award (MCB-1051350) to MCY. The publication costs of this article were supported by the Julian Park Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo. The funders had no role in study design, data collection, data interpretation, or the decision to prepare and publish of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Authors who received the funding were CE and LF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The 2015 data collection was supported by the SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund ("}
{"text": "There is an error in the Financial Disclosure (FD) statement for this article. Please refer to the correct FD statement below:http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/) to the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry (PRCCR), by the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center and by the Department of Health Services Administration, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico. The ideas and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors, and endorsement by the funders is not intended nor should it be inferred. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.This work is supported by federal funds from the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR Award Number 5U58-DP 003863-02; URL:"}
{"text": "In the abstract, the name of cell line appears as SCH7072. The name of this cell line should read as SCH07072.The Funding statement should be corrected to read as follows: This study was supported, in part, by a grant from the Agenda (No. PJ0102012014) from the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of Korea and the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology project (No. PE99154) of Korea. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Sirs,et al. published in June 2014. We are conscious that, since the study was undertaken in 2010, the public health research landscape in the UK has developed considerably. A number of programmes were set up in 2009 which now have strong portfolios of public health research. All parts of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) support research in public health to provide significant opportunities for researchers and evidence for practitioners and decision-makers . Public health research is particularly funded by the NIHR through the Public Health Research programme, focusing on interventions outside of health care, and the School for Public Health Research. The Health Technology Assessment programme evaluates NHS interventions, while Programme Grants for Applied Research supports NHS research delivering findings with early practical application. While the remit varies by programme, covering England or the UK, the application of research findings could extend across Europe. Research for public health is also supported by other Department of Health funding schemes, such as the Policy Research Programme and other funding bodies; for example, a recent option for early-phase intervention research is the Medical Research Council's Public Health Intervention Development scheme. NIHR outputs are captured in a suite of five peer-reviewed, open access journals for anyone to use . We welcome contributions to identify research needs, deliver research to answer key questions and bring new evidence back into practice to strengthen public health research in the UK for the future.We read with interest \u2018Public health research in the UK: a report with a European perspective\u2019 by McCarthy"}
{"text": "A population-based cancer registry has been used for the planning and evaluation of cancer control activities based on administration and the care of individual cancer patients by those in the medical profession. The Japanese Breast Cancer Society (JBCS) registry was started in 1975. In 2004, the registry system was moved to a new system using web registration with the cooperation of the Non-Profit Organization Japan Clinical Research Support Unit and Public Health Research Foundation . Comprehensive individual patient data were recorded according to the Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum (UICC) TNM classification . Annual We herein report the results of a 5-year prognostic analysis of cases registered in 2005"}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the grant number 61370109 was omitted from the National Science Foundation of China. Please view the complete, correct Funding statement here.This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61272339 & 61370109, the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province under Grant No. 2012FFB04204, and the Key Project of Anhui Educational Committee, under Grant No. KJ2012A005. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Academic Editor field does not appear on this article. The Academic Editor is Stuart Humphries, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The affiliation for the fourth author is incorrect. Ruoling Chen is not affiliated with #3 but with #4 Centre for Health and Social Care Improvement (CHSCI), University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom."}
{"text": "A funder was omitted from the Financial Disclosure of the published article. The complete, correct, Financial Disclosure is: This work was partially supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Project No: 113M237 and Bogazici University Scientific Research Fund (BAP) Project No: 9360. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct funding information is as follows: GC was supported by the European Union European Regional Development Fund through the Centre of Excellence in Genomics to Estonian Biocentre and University of Tartu, by Estonian Personal grants PUT-766 and Estonian Institutional Research grants IUT24-1.The Acknowledgement section is missing from the text. The Acknowledgements are as follows: We thank both of the anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism. Computational analyses were carried out at the High Performance Computing Center (HPC), University of Tartu and the Core Computing Unit of the Estonian Biocentre."}
{"text": "As a follow up to OpenCon 2014, International Federation of Medical Students\u2019 Associations (IFMSA) students organized a 3 day workshop Open Access, Open Education Resources and Open Data in Kampala from 15-18 December 2014. One of the aims of the workshop was to engage the Open Access movement in Uganda which encompasses the scientific community, librarians, academia, researchers and students. The IFMSA students held the workshop with the support of: Consortium for Uganda University Libraries (CUUL), The Right to Research Coalition, Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), Makerere University, International Health Sciences University (IHSU), Pan African Medical Journal (PAMJ) and the Centre for Health Human Rights and Development (CEHURD). All these organizations are based or have offices in Kampala. The event culminated in a meeting with the Science and Technology Committee of Parliament of Uganda in order to receive the support of the Ugandan Members of Parliament and to make a concrete change for Open Access in the country. Librarians, academia and researchers in Uganda have shown a continuous and resolute interest in the Open Access movement. Open Access journal publishing initiatives and support to Open Access repositories can prove it. The Makerere University Library, for example, was the first library in Uganda to set up an institutional repository called the Uganda Scholarly Digital Library (USDL). Launched as a science repository but later changed to cover other disciplines, USDL has a total of 1,600 full text articles, reports, posters, and other scholarly materials [Next Generation of Medical Researchers workshops\u2019. The previous two were pre- General Assembly workshops focusing on Research Integrity. To follow up with those pre-GAs, more workshops have been planned for the regional meeting as well and As Africa was the first region to host the meeting, we decided to focus on: a core part of research data; on educational resources fundamental for students and researchers; and, on research outputs and how to share them. Our main aim is to build capacities to launch and sustain Open Access,  and OD (Open Data) activities, projects and policies in the region, especially at national and local level. For this reason we decided to create a network in Uganda with local Universities and personalities based in the capital of Uganda, Kampala. The 10th African Regional Meeting was held in Kampala, Uganda under the theme Human Resources for Health: A foundation for Universal Health Coverage and was organized by the Federation of Uganda Medical Students Association (FUMSA). We received support from: Consortium for Uganda University Libraries (CUUL), The Right to Research Coalition [The IFMSA participated in the OpenCon 2014 from 15-17 November 2014 in Washington DC, and the representatives  came back with lot of enthusiasm and a willingness to share their knowledge and new ideas with the medical students. In order to follow up with the OpenCon 2014 a pre Africa Regional Meeting Open Access, Open Education Resources and Open Data was held in Kampala, Uganda from 15-18 December 2014. This pre- ARM workshop was organized within the series of \u2018The students had the chance to meet and be trained by University Librarians from the International Health Sciences University and Makerere University Business School. The librarians are: Florence Mirembe who is also the Chairperson of the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL) which promotes access to e-resources to support education and research within universities and other research institutions, and she is also the EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) country coordinator; Alison Kinengyere who is also the outgoing president of Association of African Health Librarians-Uganda Chapter and Hassan Segooba who is a librarian at the Makerere University Business School Library. In this way medical students can join their effort to promote Open Access. The participants also had the chance to get also the perspective of a medical journal editor thanks to the participation of Allan Mwesiga from the Editorial Office of the Pan African Medical Journal who shared the experience and achievements of an African Medical Journal as an Open Access journal. Under the guidance of Nsereko Ibrahim from the Centre for Health Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) participants learned more on promoting Open Access and on how to organize initiatives in Uganda, but also in other Universities with A case for CC licensing opportunities in Uganda.Through this event facilitated by Meggie, Agostinho and Mohamed, the students developed critical skills as well as advocacy and practical skills and had the opportunity to share their backgrounds, their project, how they have been involved in OA, OER and OD and analyse examples of successful projects with a view to planning on how to improve them or how to adapt them to their backgrounds. They are now looking forward to spreading awareness about Open Access. The event culminated in a meeting with the Science and Technology Committee of Parliament of Uganda, where the workshop participants presented a statement. There will be a follow up on this with the Ugandan Members of Parliament in order to receive their support and to make a concrete change in the country."}
{"text": "The following funder is missing from the Funding section: Deutsche Herzstiftung. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Deutsche Herzstiftung. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The original Supporting Information files were published in error. The files were removed from the HTML and PDF versions of this article on March 11, 2016. The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under the grant agreement STREPSYNTH (project No. 613877). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC), established and supported under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program. The authors acknowledge the financial support of Curtin University to Melissa Scott through the Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There is information missing from the Acknowledgments. The Acknowledgments should read: Our sincere thanks go to Wilson Waters, the software engineer from Alintech. The online version of the Q sort would not have been possible without your development and innovation. We are grateful to all the participants, their families and businesses who participated. A special mention goes to EDGE Employment Solutions, EPIC Employment Service, Barkuma\u2019s Personnel Employment in South Australia, Autism Spectrum Australia and AIM Employment of the Autism Association of Western Australia, for their assistance with participant recruitment in this study.The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC), established and supported under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program."}
{"text": "The meteorological data was used to assess the PV, wind and hydropower system potentials on the islands. Furthermore, the reconnaissance study for hydro-potentials were conducted through topographic maps in order to determine the potential sites suitable for development of run-of-river hydropower generation. The stream data was collected for 14 islands in the South China Sea with a total of 51 investigated sites. The data from this study are related to the research article  Specifications TableValue of the data\u2022The data describes the meteorological and topographical conditions of the resort islands in the South China Sea\u2022This data contains key information for renewable energy assessments for resort islands in the South China Sea.\u2022This data can be used for other research fields that involve the usage of solar radiation, wind speed, rainfall and evaporation data.\u2022The topographic map data is valuable for determining the potential run-of-river hydropower sites in many resort islands in the South China Sea.1The data consists of meteorological and topographical data for resorts islands in the South China Sea.The selected resort islands location is shown in 2The meteorological data for the resort islands was obtained from the Malaysia Meteorological Department (MMS) and also the NASA Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resource (NASA POWER) database. If there is no meteorological station on the island, the meteorological data was collected from the nearest available meteorological station. The nearest station information\u05f3s also included in this article The topographic map obtained from Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (DSMM) was used for the study. The map is classified and must be used within the DSMM map library. The characteristic of the map used for this research is a Malaysian topography map (Series L 7030) with 1:50,000 scales and a contour interval of 20\u00a0m. The physiographic characteristics were extracted from the map for prediction of run-of-river hydropower potential sites. The important information extracted and analyzed from the map were: the name of streams and catchment areas, latitude and longitude of the location, lowest and highest elevation, the terrain and river profile, possible intake, diversion to fore bay, power house elevation, and the estimation of available head and catchment areas.Three key factors were considered for selecting catchment areas from a topographic map that were suitable for harnessing hydropower. The key factors were energy demand, accessibility and river profile. The catchment areas topographies were studied for determining the appropriate elevation for head and stream diversion. The river profile, which is the river\u05f3s tributaries and gradient, was considered for finding the availability of water resources and river flow. Based on the hydropower manual and guides"}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the first grant number from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is listed incorrectly. The correct number for the first grant is: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist (B) 25780404."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This project was supported by the President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief and the NIH Office of AIDS Research, through NIH Grant Number U01 AI100015 to author SR at Boston University, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIAID. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is an error in the \u201cAcknowledgements\u201d and \u201cFinancial Disclosure\u201d statements. Please refer to the correct statements below:Acknowledgments:We thank the more than 500 lay botanists who contributed to the Japanese Red Data Book project directed by the Japanese Society for Plant Systematics. We also thank Kazuo Somiya, of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, and Yasuhiro Ibaragi, Masato Nagatsu, and Kaori Sato, of the Japan Wildlife Research Center, for their help and encouragement during the project. This work was supported by theMinistry of the Environment of Japan and the Japanese Society for Plant Systematics.Financial Disclosure:This work was supported in part by the Environment Research and Technology Development fund (S9-1) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Funding Statement is missing an acknowledgment to the Advanced Molecular Detection Initiative at the CDC. The correct Funding Statement is provided here:ET is supported by an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Postdoctoral Fellowship. We acknowledge support from the Advanced Molecular Detection Initiative at the CDC, the Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA, and the CDC Antimicrobial Resistance Working Group. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: Dr. Tarr is also supported by the National Institutes of Health [5P30 DK052574 (DDRCC)]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work and survey components were supported by the High Impact Research Grant (UM.C/625/1/HIR/162) from the Ministry of Higher Education  and University Malaya Research Grant (RP004A-SUS). Studies design and data collections were done by the academic staff at the Institute of Biological Science, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Analyses undertaken and the decision to prepare and publish this manuscript were made by Institute staff in conjunction with the Chemistry Department of University Malaya."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows:This work was supported by the China 973 Project (Grant No. 2009CB941701) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31071316) to XL. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study was supported by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Public Health Ontario (PHO), which are funded by annual grants from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC). The opinions, results and conclusions reported in this paper are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources. No endorsement by ICES, PHO, or the Ontario MOHLTC is intended or should be inferred.The images for figures Figs There was information omitted from the Acknowledgements. The complete Acknowledgements is as follows: These datasets were linked using unique encoded identifiers and analyzed at ICES. Parts of this material are based on data and information compiled and provided by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). However, the analyses, conclusions, opinions and statements expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of CIHI. The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance of Danijela Draganic, Steven Janovsky and Lennon Li, Public Health Ontario, for assistance with preparation of figures for publication."}
{"text": "UK military personnel injured overseas are repatriated to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) in Birmingham UK. We report the demographics and outcomes of military patients treated on the ICU at RCDM using data from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre over a 6.5-year period.Data on 570 admissions of 527 patients to the ICU at RCDM/ QEHB were analysed by ICNARC using standard methodology.Some physiology and CCMDS data were missing for 175 patients. Age, sex and mortality are described in Table The data on resource utilisation for this group of patients may inform planning of critical care support for military operations overseas."}
{"text": "The contents of this manuscript are the responsibility of IAVI and co-authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding statement is as follows: This work was made possible by generous support from many donors including; The training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa Project (THRiVE), Grant Number 087540 of Welcome trust, UK, and the Canada-Africa Prevention Trials Network (CAPTN) Grant Number 1063357\u2013001. It was also funded in part by IAVI and made possible by the generous support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors. The full list of IAVI donors is available at"}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51378226). It had an important role in study design, data collection and analysis."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Competing Interests section. The correct competing interests information is as follows: This study was supported in part by the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials."}
{"text": "Mental Health and Deafness. At the World Congress of Mental Health and Deafness held in 2014, a prize for the best poster was established in his name.Nick Kitson, who died suddenly at the age of 64 while on holiday on 24 February 2014, was a pioneer and national expert in the psychiatric disorders of deaf people. He was the Founding Chair of the British Society for Mental Health and Deafness and the longest serving president of the European Society for Mental Health and Deafness (1990-1997), remaining honorary member and honorary vice president of each, respectively. He was clinical advisor to the Towards Equity and Access Implementation Panel  in 2006/2007 and \u2018responsible owner\u2019 of a National Deaf Mental Health Commissioning Project. He remained a trustee of and medical advisor to the Sign health charity and awarded the title of Pioneer. He was joint editor of the standard introductory textbook Nick completed his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1975. He was appointed consultant psychiatrist at Springfield University Hospital and honorary senior lecturer at St George's Medical School in 1984. He was clinical director for the Specialist Mental Health Services for the Deaf Community at Springfield and medical director of Pathfinder NHS Trust from 1994 to 1998. When he became responsible for the psychiatric care of people with deafness, his health authority gave him 9 months to learn sign language. He visited psychiatric units for deaf people in America and realised the importance of employing deaf people fluent in sign language. At the time he wrote about sign language: \u2018It is a very sophisticated language capable of expressing everything you can say in English.\u2019 The service for deaf people that he led and developed for 18 years, with his wife Karen, covered the southern half and then a third of England. He became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1980 and was elected a Fellow in 1996.While working as a consultant, he trained in short-term dynamic therapy in 1984 and group analytic psychotherapy in 1989. He became an associate member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy (British Psychotherapy Foundation) in 1989 and a Full Member in 1996, supervising short-term dynamic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and latterly at the London Centre for Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy was always an integral part of his clinical practice. He provided strong support for Jane Douglas, the first profoundly deaf person to train as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.Knowing the West Country well, Nick left London and moved to Cornwall in 2002. He initially worked as a community and in-patient psychiatrist covering the St Austell area but, wishing to reduce his workload owing to ill health, he became part-time consultant to the psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU). The service was awarded the National PICU of the Year in 2005. Formally retiring in 2009, he continued as his own locum for the PICU, regularly sailing and taking trips abroad with Karen and his family.Nick was a hugely respected consultant psychiatrist. His colleagues frequently sought his advice in difficult circumstances, and the advice he gave was wise and supportive. He was down-to-earth and sensible; he never pretended he knew the answer when he did not, but his advice was even sounder in these circumstances. He continued to use his therapeutic skills after retirement and remained enthusiastic and determined to help the most challenging and difficult patients.He will be sorely missed by his colleagues but his wise leadership will continue to be influential. He is survived by Karen, his two daughters and his grandchildren."}
{"text": "She is with the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden. The article has been corrected online ("}
{"text": "The role of medical schools is in a process of change. The World Health Organization has declared that they can no longer be ivory towers whose primary focus is the production of specialist physicians and cutting edge laboratory research. They must also be socially accountable and direct their activities towards meeting the priority health concerns of the areas they serve. The agenda must be set in partnership with stakeholders including governments, health care organisations and the public.The concept of social accountability has particular resonance for the Bar Ilan Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Israel\u2019s newest medical school, which was established with a purpose of reducing health inequities in the Region. As a way of exploring and understanding the issues, discussions were held with international experts in the field who visited the Galilee. A symposium involving representatives from other medical schools in Israel was also held to extend the discourse. Deliberations that took place are reported here.The meaning of social accountability was discussed, and how it could be achieved. Three forms of action were the principal foci \u2013 augmentation of the medical curriculum, direct action through community engagement and political advocacy. A platform was set for taking the social accountability agenda forward, with the hope that it will impact on health inequalities in Israel and contribute to discussions elsewhere. Closing the Gap in a Generation[, it reported that many of the differences in health between and within countries stem from the social environment where people are born, live and age. The Commission recommended a two-pronged approach to redressing health inequities \u2013 improving people\u2019s daily living conditions and tackling inequitable distribution of power, money and resources.In 2008 the World Health Organisation (WHO) published a report written by its Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Entitled eneration, it repoAlthough medical professionals can only have a limited role in implementing these recommendations, they nonetheless have a clear responsibility to address health inequities in the course of their work. This challenge was taken up by pioneering medical schools, many of whom were new schools. They were established with a paradigm shift - embedding improvement in community health with innovations in health professional education, with delivery and health policy at the core of their business. These schools engaged initially in establishing a network of community orientated medical schools, of which Ben Gurion University of the Negev was one, and evolved into an official relationship with the WHO as The NetWork.The concept was taken further at a groundbreaking international meeting in South Africa in 2009 bringing together representatives of 130 organisations and individual experts from around the world with responsibility for health education, professional regulation and policy making to produce a Global Consensus for Social Accountability of Medical Schools (GCSA 2010),5.Closing the gap in a generation[Global Consensus[eneration and the onsensus have speonsensus.This discussion document reflects some of the ideas and discussion that took place. Issues that were explored included: what is meant by social accountability; how it can be achieved; the role of medical education, direct action and advocacy; and how we can measure success over time.The World Health Organisation defines social accountability as the obligation for medical schools to direct their activities towards meeting priority health concerns that are agreed in partnership with stakeholders nationally and locally. In many ways it is the next stage in the service, research and education revolution started several decades ago by the Community Oriented Primary Care movement, developsocially responsible when they teach about health inequalities and the impact that social determinants have on health. Social responsiveness goes a step further as it involves taking action in response to societal or local community health needs. Abstracts submitted to the symposium  originally implying shared responsibility for proper social and moral conduct in the community, but used in more recent centuries to connote mutual responsibility for social welfare.\u201cTiqqun \u2019olam\u201d was translated in the title of Jonathan Sacks\u2019 book as \u201cTo heal a fractured world \u2013 the ethics of responsibility\u201d .None of the authors have declared competing interests.All the authors made substantial contributions to the discussions underpinning this paper. The manuscript was drafted by MCJR and the remaining authors contributed critical revisions and gave final approval of the version submitted to IJHPR. They all agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work and in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part are appropriately investigated and resolved. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.Professor Mary Rudolf is the lead for Public Health at the Bar Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee since 2012, and visiting Professor of Child Health at the University of Leeds, UK. Areas of special interest include childhood obesity, paediatric education and social accountability of medical schools. Professor Shmuel Reis is a Family Physician in a rural health center, head of the Faculty Development Unit and the Clinical Skills Course director of the Bar Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee. Professor Trevor Gibbs is an Independent and WHO Consultant in Medical Education, Primary Care and Adolescent Health. He also holds the position of Development officer for AMEE. His main areas of interest are in International medical curricula, Competency-Based Education, Social Accountability and Nutrition and Health. Professor Deborah Murdoch-Eaton is Dean of Medical Education, at The Medical School, University of Sheffield, UK. Her academic interests focus on Global Health, developing students' potential and individuality, embedding Social Accountability within medical education, and role of feedback in the development of learning skills. Professor David Stone is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Previous positions included Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and Senior Medical Advisor to the Scottish Government\u2019s Chief Medical Officer. Dr Michael Grady is an expert adviser to WHO and special adviser to the UK House of Commons Community and Local Government Select Committee. He advises Local authorities and municipalities nationally and internationally on implementation on action on the social determinants of health. Dr Anita Berlin is an inner London General Practitioner and a senior lecturer in primary care at University College London. She is curriculum lead for the new Social Determinants of Health Module and for Patient and Public Participation. Prof Mitch Blair is Consultant Paediatrician and Reader in Child Public Health Imperial College London and Northwick Park Hospital. He is undergraduate paediatrics course lead for Imperial medical students and has a strong interest in teaching Child Rights and Health Inequalities. Dr Jumanah Essa-Hadad has a PhD in Public Health from the University of Haifa. Research interests include web-based health education and health of minority groups and disadvantaged populations. Her background includes working with NGO's and civil society organizations at the grassroots level to promote public health programs. Ms Sivan Shohat holds a Master's degree in Sociology specializing in health care policy and the role healthcare organizations have in reducing health and healthcare disparities. Professor Michael Weingarten is Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Bar Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee. A family practitioner by background, he has a special interest in medical ethics."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: grant number LD13046 from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and the acknowledgment of funding from the EU COST action ES1103.www.daad.de) providing travel grants for VR and MS, from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic , from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic , and from the EU COST action ES1103, which provided funding for the author (AC) to attend a workshop.The complete, correct Funding statement is: This project was funded by a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD,"}
{"text": "In the Materials and Methods, an Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee (IACUC) protocol number was incorrectly cited. The authors wish to correct the record by reporting that there was no University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) IACUC protocol number for this research because the research was not conducted at UTA, with the exception of the dissection of the python, which took place without UTA IACUC approval. The corrected text and additional details and clarification are provided below for the tissue sample from the Burmese python, as well as the samples from two birds, the Gunnison Sage-grouse and Clark's Nutcracker.Python molurus bivittatus was obtained by the UTA Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center from a commercial breeder in August of 2007, immediately euthanized using a chloretone solution, and tissues preserved following animal protocols outlined in the Guidelines for Use of Live Amphibians and Reptiles in Field Research, established jointly by the American Society for Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Herpetologist's League, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles . Liver tissue from the python (snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80\u00b0C) was used as a source for genomic DNA.\"All specimens used in this study were obtained from collaborators and not collected by the authors. There was no University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) IACUC protocol number for this research as the research was not conducted at UTA, with the exception of the dissection of the python, which took place without UTA IACUC approval. A single The Gunnison Sage-grouse was trapped and blood was sampled by personnel from the Colorado Division of Wildlife. The trapping method and blood sampling was approved through their Animal Care and Use Committee; however, at the time, no permit was required to trap and sample the bird (the bird was still being actively hunted at the time when the sample was taken). There was no number issued in terms of an IACUC.The tissue from the Clark's Nutcracker was provided from a dead carcass of a bird that died of natural causes in the lab of Russell Balda at Northern Arizona University after more than a decade as an experimental bird for memory studies. The bird was originally caught in Logan Canyon in the 1990s by Stephen Vander Wall (University of Nevada Reno), under the IACUC protocol number 00\u2013006 Russell Benford, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the grant number from the funder the National Natural Science Foundation of China is listed incorrectly. The correct grant number is: 31072055. The complete, correct funding information is as follows: This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project no. 31072055) and The Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Project no. 2011BAD26B03-4). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding section of the published article. The Funding section should read: This study was supported by a grant of the Jeju National University Research Fund (2011). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the Acknowledgements section, the following information is missing: All data in this paper were provided by the TEAM Network, a partnership between Conservation International, The Missouri Botanical Garden, The Smithsonian Institution and The Wildlife Conservation Society."}
{"text": "The Acknowledgments section is incorrectly reported. The correct Acknowledgments section should read: We want to thank Dr. Rabie Mohammed Algdgad and Dr. Ahmed Bazza, Tripoli Medical Center for the contribution in collecting of data, and Prof. Michael Eddleston, Edinburgh, Scotland for his invaluable input and critical review of the manuscript. Study expenses were supported from the regular operation budgets of the MSF Kenya and Libyan missions as well as Oslo University Hospital, but had no role in the writing of the report as such."}
{"text": "India has the highest number of medical colleges in the world and subsequently the higher number of medical teachers. There is a dire need of adopting a systematic approach to faculty development to enhance quality education to meet health challenges for 21st Century. This manuscript provides a landscape of faculty development programs in India, identifying gaps and opportunities for reforms in faculty development. Conventionally, FDPs are organized by medical colleges and universities through Basic Courses and Advanced Courses focusing on pedagogy. Medical Council of India is facilitating FDPs through 18 selected regional centers to enable medical teachers to avail modern education technology for teaching from July 2009. Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research has three Regional Institutes in India. Recommendations include the need for formulating a national strategy for faculty development to not only enhance the quantity of medical teachers but also the quality of medical education; providing support for Departments of Medical Education/Regional Centers in terms of finance and staffing and incorporation of teaching skills in postgraduate training. Distance learning courses focusing on educational leadership and pedagogy for medical teachers can be an option to reach a wider audience. FDPs can be an asset in recruiting and retaining teachers as they offer valued professional development opportunities. The unprecedented growth of medical institutions in India in the past two decades, almost doubling in strength, has led to a shortage of teachers and created a quality challenge for medical education, Faculty Development Programs aim to improve the quality of medical education by training and sensitizing teachers about new concepts in teaching and assessment methods; develop knowledge and clinical skills required for performing the role of competent and effective teachers, administrators, researchers and mentors; assist clinicians to acquire competency in communication and behavioral skills and update knowledge using modern information and research methodology tools. HoweverConventionally, the FDPs in India have been organized by medical colleges and universities through Basic Courses and Advanced Courses on pedagogy envisaged to improve the quality of medical education by training the medical teachers. The purpose of the Basic Courses in Medical Education Technologies (MET) is to provide the basic knowledge, skills and eventually change the attitude of the faculty in medical colleges which the faculty can implement in their day to day practice in different areas of teaching and assessment . MCI, in 2014, started Advanced Courses in medical education with the aim to develop educational practitioners who can lead informative and instructional and educational changes in their institutions and thereby making the medical education responsive to the health needs of the society. . Bhore Committee recognized the need for training of medical teachers in as early as 1946 and made recommendations for major changes in medical education which included three months of training in preventive and social medicine to prepare \u201csocial physicians\u201d. Fifteen years later, Mudaliar Committee in 1961, re-emphasized the need for the \u201csocial physician\u201d. Patel Report, in 1971, described a \u201cbasic doctor\u201d of modern medicine who would be central to the delivery of primary healthcare and trained through a five-and-a-half years of university education. In 1974, Srivastav Committee advocated the set up for establishment of Medical and Health Education Commission for planning and implementing the reforms needed in health and medical education on the lines of University Grants Commission. An \u201cExpert Committee for Health Manpower Planning, Production and Management\u201d established in 1985 and known as Bajaj Committee, further urged for a formulation of national medical & health education policy  and the nodal agency was University of Illinois, United States. The IRTTC trained faculty from six Regional Teacher Training Centers (RTTCs). Two RTTCs were established in South-East Asia, one in Sri Lanka and one in Thailand supported by WHO. Government of India, constituted a Working Group on Continued Medical Education in 1974 which recommended National Teacher Training Centre (NTTC). The first NTTC was established in 1975 at JIPMER, Pondicherry and offered the National Courses on Educational Science for Teachers of Health Professions that are held twice a year. In March 2014, NTTC, JIPMER, Pondicherry organized its 69ew Delhi , 9. The ew Delhi .Consortium of Medical Institutions for Reform of Medical Education also played a crucial role in advancing the FDPs in India from 1989 to 1995. Four medical institutes, viz, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; Christian Medical College, Vellore; JIPMER, Pondicherry and IMS-BHU, Varanasi and the Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine at Chicago, University of Illinois, formed a consortium. Later this consortium was expanded to 16 colleges. The consortium contributed to curriculum development, built consensus and classified essential skills, into ''must know'' and ''good to know'' categories.K.L. Wig Centre for Medical Education and Technology was another strong catalyst in promoting faculty development in India. It was established at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1989-90. Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore and The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University has a separate department of curriculum development and promotes Health Professionals' Education and aims to develop need based curricula for the medical and paramedical education. The Indian Journal of Medical Education was launched as an official publication of the Indian Association for the Advancement of Medical Education. The Department of Medical Education of K.M.C. Manipal was established in 1985 to bring about improvements in medical education and health care and regularly holds Teaching-Learning Workshop and Student Evaluation Workshops. The National Knowledge Commission was established by the Government of India in 2005 to recommend and undertake reforms in order to make India a knowledge-based economy and society. An important constituent of the National Knowledge Commission functions was professional education, particularly education in the field of medical sciences .MCI has taken a major initiative of conducting FDPs in India by making regulations on Graduate Medical Education in 1997 which made it mandatory for all medical colleges to establish Department of Medical Education. MCI has also selected 18 Nodal Centers, since July 2009. These centers are located at institutions which have trained manpower in Medical Education Technologies (MET) . All theMore than 40000 faculty are estimated to be working in 387 medical colleges based on the MCI norms and 12141 teachers have been oriented by MCI under FDPs through 429 workshops. The Nodal Centers of MCI have trained 5946 medical teachers in 186 workshops since its inception. And through the Medical Education Unit/ Department, 243 workshops have been conducted and 6195 medical teachers have been trained is also assisting faculty development in India. The FAIMER Institute, started in 2001, is a two year fellowship focused on educational leadership and methodology. There are seven Regional Institutes in the world out of which three are in India, one in Brazil, one in Southern Africa, one in China and one in Colombia. In India, the first regional institute, Seth G S Medical College was started in July 2005 in Mumbai, India, The second CMCL-FAIMER Regional Institute, fellowship started in January 2006 based at the\u00a0Christian Medical College at Ludhiana, Punjab. It is based at\u00a0PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research\u00a0in Coimbatore in southern India.\u00a0 These three Regional Institutes are open to South Asia health profession educators and sixteen fellows are accepted each year. The proEducation for Health\u201d of The Network: Towards Unity for Health, a global consortium of health professions schools.Various training programs incorporating innovative models for faculty development are being conducted by various academies, associations, consortia and the deemed universities like Indian Association for Advancement of Medical Education, Consortium of Medical Institutions for Reform in Medical Education, Health Science University Initiatives, Consortium of Health Science Universities and Indian Academy of Health Profession Education. Apart from the MCI Nodal Centers, many other health sciences universities have initiated courses and programs in FDPs. Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nasik, Maharashtra has established the Institute of Medical Education Technology & Teachers\u2019 Training and has completed 12 trainings on \u201cAdvanced Certificate Course in Health Sciences Education Technology\u201d till January 2014. It aims to impart advanced educational skills to teachers in positions of academic responsibility in their own institutions. This certificate course is of six months duration in which there is a seven days contact session consisting of full day sessions followed by a six month educational innovation project(Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha established the Department of Health Professional Education in 2009 and offers an Advanced Course in Medical Education recognized by MCI and 30% of the faculty of Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences have been trained in Advanced Courses in Medical Education. DMIMS is also a MCI Regional Centre and has trained more than 1000 medical teachers from more than 15 medical colleges.\u00a0 The institute also has six FAIMER faculty and three National Faculty for Advanced Courses in Medical Education recognized by MCI. South East Asia Regional Association for Medical Education of the World Federation for Medical Education is also supporting in this endeavor by promoting partnerships and linkages with various local and regional associations to collaborate for medical education under the umbrella of World Federation for Medical Education. Though several initiatives are being undertaken by various agencies to build the pedagogy skills of medical teachers, the flipside is that the number of workshops, trainings and courses are too meager to address the huge need. In near future, in addition to the existing medical colleges, HLEG on UHC has proposed establishing new 187 medical colleges by 2022. These mAlthough the MCI Basic Course has been made compulsory for medical teachers to the level of professor and teacher administrators, it is also being recommended that the Medical Education Units in all medical colleges should train all existing medical teachers in Basic Course and conduct the Basic Course for newly inducted faculty twice a year. MCI UndNodal faculty development centers, Medical Education Units and Centers of Regional FAIMER Institutes in India have been able to do the capacity building and ultimately helping to increase the ability of systems to function on their own to meet local needs . MCI hasA big lacunae at present is in terms of creating and developing an educational leadership. Programs need to be designed to educate policy makers and update them about recent advances in medical education worldwide. These include engaging people\u2019s moral purposes, building capacity to generate forces for change, understanding the change process, developing the learning culture and the culture of evaluation and fostering development at all possible levels. This report highlights the need for strengthening faculty development as a vehicle for ensuring quality in medical education. There is evidence, in most countries, educators of health professionals are insufficiently prepared as teachers and trainers, even though their clinical knowledge and skills may be good. The success of educational reforms ultimately lies with the individual instructors and their capacity, individually and collectively to execute and implement some novel ways in teaching and training the future cadre of doctors and more importantly with India progressively becoming a new global hub of education. Faculty development efforts should empower the medical teachers and keep the passion in teaching going so that the lifelong learning never ceases."}
{"text": "The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.A grant number is missing in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The project is supported by the National Institutes of Health grants 5R01GM080646-09 and HHSN272201000053C ("}
{"text": "It has come to our attention that there was an omission in the Acknowledgements section in this article . The AckThe authors are grateful to the study participants, to the doctors and nurses at the Oxford Vaccine Group for assisting with sample collection, and to the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network. The authors thank Craig Waugh for help with cell sorting and the High-Throughput Genomics Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (subsidized by Wellcome Trust grant reference 090532/Z/09/Z) for the generation of sequencing data. Purified HBsAg was provided by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA, and conjugated to APC by Miltenyi Biotec."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number K08CA155035 and the Melanoma Research Alliance. The authors are also grateful to Timothy Dattels for his generous support. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Correction published on August 19, 2014. The affiliation for Samuel Ginsberg is incorrect. Samuel Ginsberg is not affiliated with #3, please refer to his correct affiliation here: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town."}
{"text": "There is an omission in the Funding Statement. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Delhi): Network Projects BSC 0114 and BSC 0120. MG, KR and DDM are thankful to CSIR for fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The present study was funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council Programme , and the R24 Alcohol Research Resource Award grant (R24 AA015512) from NIAAA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the name of the first funder is incorrect. The correct name is: Medical Research Scotland. The correct funding information is: This work was supported by Medical Research Scotland [grant 354FRG to AJC] and the Medical Research Council [grant G1100357 to RAA]. J.H. is supported by a University of Edinburgh Darwin Scholarship and K.S. is the recipient of a Society for Reproduction and Fertility Summer Vacation Scholarship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is a missing funder in the Funding section. Please refer to the complete funding statement here:We thank Karen Frutchey and Raymond Clarke of the Pacific Islands Regional Office, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who provided key funding towards this project. The funders were base funding and add-on funding from the United States government to NOAA and had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The grant funding from J. Juliano is missing from the original article. The correct funding statement is as follows:This study was funded by the Institute of General Medical Science\u00a0(R01 GM089932 to AFR) and Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease  of the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or the preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Alan Wilton is not included in the author byline. He should be listed as the 23rd author and affiliated with School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. The contributions of this author are as follows: sample collection.The following sentence should also be included in the acknowledgements. \"The authors also wish to thank the Australian Native Dog Conservation Society and the Dingo Sanctuary Bargo for generously providing the dingo sample used in this study.\""}
{"text": "The Weight Disorder Unit at Flinders Medical Centre was established in 1977 and in June 2014, the service was expanded under a rebranded name, the South Australian Statewide Eating Disorder Service (SEDS). Now, besides its inpatient unit, SEDS also has outpatient services and an eating disorder Day Program. This is the first Day Program in South Australia and besides providing nutritional support, the Day Program also focuses on helping participants to challenge disordered eating behaviours and thought patterns through group-based therapeutic interventions. To be admitted into the SEDS Day Program, clients need to be at least 15 years of age, have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 15 and above and be medically stable. In order to gain a better understanding of the profile of clients that get admitted to day programs and the effectiveness of the Day Program, we plan to present the clinical profile of the participants and information collected from the SEDS Day Program. Information presented will include sociodemographic and medical information, information collected from clients' psychological assessments pre, post and 3 months follow-up after completion of the Day Program, and the retention rate of the Day Program participants."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design,data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\" There are multiple errors throughout the Funding section. The complete Funding sectionshould read: \"This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(30972239 and 31130054,"}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The research was supported by National Institute of Health grant R21HL117652 and grants from University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the grant number for the Ministry of Education, People\u2019s Republic of China grant is incorrect. Please refer to the correct Funding section here.This research was financially supported by The National Natural Science Foundation as a key project (grant No. 21037002), and by the Ministry of Education, People\u2019s Republic of China as an innovative research team project (grant No. IRT13024). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: Publication of this article was funded in part by the George Mason University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund. Please refer to the complete funding statement here.http://ragnarsoderbergsstiftelse.se/, grant number: E56-10), Kungliga VetenskapsAkademin  and the Lab for Economics Applications and Policy at Harvard . Publication of this article was funded in part by the George Mason University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Financial support for this project is gratefully acknowledged from: the Ragnar S\u00f6derberg Foundation ("}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: Funding was provided in part by NIH/NIAID U01 AI075526 and in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OPP1066140. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Natural Resources Defense Council was omitted as a funder for this study. Please refer to the correct funding statement below:Dr. Hess's work on this project was via a consultancy arrangement with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) funded by the Climate and Knowledge Development Network (CDKN). This work was funded by a grant from the Climate Knowledge Development Network. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: DB acknowledges NSF grant 1354793. The complete, correct funding information is as follows: The genetics and biogeographic research in this paper was funded by an Australian Research Council grant ; the linguistic research was supported by a grant from the Kimberley Foundation Australia (awarded to McConvell), a US NSF Grant , and an AIATSIS grant . DB acknowledges NSF grant 1354793."}
{"text": "There is an error in the first sentence of the Funding section. The first sentence should read: This work was partially supported by grants  from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and partially from Integrated BioTherapeutics, Inc. (IBT) internal R&D research fund."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: Guoxin Zhang was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81072032 and No. 81270476) and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (JX10231801); Xiaoying Zhou was funded by Jiangsu postgraduate scientific research and innovation projects (CXZZ13_0574). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Marc Arbyn was supported by the seventh framework program of DG Research of the European Commission, through the COHEAHR Network (grant No 603019). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section of the published article. The correct funding information is as follows: Swedish Cancer Foundation  URL:"}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Korea Polar Research Institute (Grant PE14070). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "MK wishes to declare the following competing interest, which was omitted from the original article: MK is a founder of the Dog Aging Project, a University of Washington part-funded project that also solicits public donations through the University of Washington Foundation."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant HL114669.The complete, correct Funding statement is as follows: This work was supported by the Nebraska Research Initiative Grant, and the National Institutes of Health (HL114669). CM is a recipient of a postdoctoral research fellowship grant awarded by the Myocarditis Foundation, NJ."}
{"text": "The importance of scientific evidence to guide nutrition policy and programme design is well established.In an effort to address these evidence gaps, the Global Nutrition Report of 2014While in most countries governments regulate food fortification \u2013 i.e. what can be fortified, with which nutrients and at what levels \u2013 monitoring of compliance and enforcement of regulations needs to be strengthened considerably in many countries.The big question remains: how to garner the resources and political commitment needed for the generation and use of evidence for programme decision-making in nutrition broadly and food fortification specifically? This question was high on the agenda at the first Global Summit on Food Fortification in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania from 9 to 11 September 2015. Government delegations from 29 countries from Africa, Asia and Central and South America, and experts and representatives from donors, United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations working in food fortification and the private sector, met to discuss and debate the state of food fortification in their countries and globally. The Summit declaration"}
{"text": "There is an error in the name of the funding organization, Hans und Gerti Fischer Foundation. Please refer to the correct funding statement below:This research was supported by the Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Foundation and the Hans und Gertie Fischer Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Dr. John P. Hart is not included as the Academic Editor of this article. He should be listed as the Academic Editor and is affiliated with the New York State Museum, UNITED STATES."}
{"text": "The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is a Directorate-General (DG) of the European Commission (EC), it was established in 1957 and its mission is to provide independent, evidence-based scientific and technical support throughout the EU policy cycle. Health is a key European policy area and research on Rare Diseases (RD) is identified as a priority in both the Commission Communication on RD: Europe's challenges COMM (2008) 679 final and the Council Recommendation on an action in the field of RD (2009/C 151/02).The specificities of RD \u2013 limited number of patients and scarcity of information \u2013 single them out as a unique domain for which an action at European level has high potential added value. For this reason and in the context of developing a long-term EU strategy in the area of health information including RD data collection, DG Health and Consumers (SANCO) and the JRC started an initiative aimed to improve the sustainability of the results achieved over the past years. Taking into account that the current fragmentation of data sources is a key obstacle to steering EU policy and to performing high quality research  and in the end to advancing knowledge on RD, the two DGs agreed on the development of the European Platform for RD registries. The main purpose of the Platform which will be established at the JRC is to support the existing registries by promoting their interoperability and accessibility, by improving RD data comparability and reliability. It will also support the development of new registries. This 'hub' will facilitate data analysis within and across many RD and across Europe and provide sound information on RD for policy, clinical trials and research. The Platform is intended to provide a central access point for information on RD patients registries for all stakeholders \u2013 health professionals, researchers, patients, public health authorities, industry, etc. Thus the benefits of collaboration and maximisation of limited resources are most obvious in a concerted action with the final aim of improving the quality of care and the quality of life for RD patients."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Competing Interests section: \"The views expressed are those of Dr. Hamrick\u2019s, and should not be attributed to the Economic Research Service or USDA. \"The correct competing interest information is as follows.Dr. Hamrick, one of the co-authors, is employed by the USDA Economic Research Service. The views expressed are those of Dr. Hamrick\u2019s, and should not be attributed to the Economic Research Service or USDA. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials."}
{"text": "The outcome of different studies on the role of Zn & Mo in esophageal cancer (EC) is conflicting. Here, the levels of those elements in hair as well as food grain of two different ethnic populations across two continents have been studied to explore their role in EC. Two different ethnic populations are taken from (i) Eastern Cape, South Africa (RSA), an area of very high incidence of EC and (ii) West Bengal, India, an area of low incidence of that disease. Each ethnic population is divided into two groups: case and control . Hair samples from all groups and food grains from RSA and India are analyzed for Zn & Mo content. This study shows a strong correlation between reduced levels of those elements in hair and the development of EC in RSA (both Zn & Mo: p<0.0001), though it is only suggestive in Indian context (both Zn & Mo: p\u22650.05). Interestingly, control group of RSA shows significantly reduced level of those elements in hair even with respect to Indian case group (Zn: p<0.001 & Mo: p<0.00001). Food grain from RSA has significantly reduced level of those elements with respect to India (both Zn & Mo: p<0.0001). This deficiency of Zn & Mo in food grains can be correlated to the deficiency of those elements in hair of RSA population. The deficiency of Zn & Mo can be correlated to the development of EC. In South Africa, esophageal cancer (EC) is the third most common cancer in males  but the incidence is moderately high among black males  . WorldwiThe role of Zn & Mo has been studied by many investigators. Some studies from endemic area of EC reported that plasma zinc was significantly reduced in EC compared to age matched healthy controls . In ChinSeveral retrospective and prospective studies on humans and animals  have shoSome studies have indicated that dietary deficiency of Zn is associated with the development of EC but the role of other trace elements like Mo are not conclusive . ConflicHowever, it is found that outcome of different studies are conflicting and the literature in this field are also scanty indeed. So, the role of trace elements (Zn & Mo) in the etiology of EC needs to be explored. Zn & Mo are deposited in hair and one of the sources of these elements is food grains consumed. In the present work the role of Zn & Mo in the etiology of EC has been studied by analyzing the amount of Zn & Mo both in food grain and hair.Epidemiological studies indicate that Eastern Cape, South Africa is one of the hot spot and West Bengal, India is one of the cold spot for EC. That is why Indian population from West Bengal has been taken for this study.The study included the following groups:Thirty EC patients are taken from the Surgical Department of Frere Hospital, Eastern Cape, South Africa. They are all above 18 years age, from black ethnical background and have squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. They have resided for more than 15 years in Eastern Cape, South AfricaThirty self volunteered people from the general population are taken. They are all above 18 years, from black ethnicity and do not have any history of EC. They have resided for more than 15 years in Eastern Cape, South Africa.Case group: Thirty EC patients are taken from the Surgical Department of CCWHRI Hosp, Kolkata, India. They are all above 18 years age, from Indian ethnical background and have squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. They have resided for more than 15 years in West Bengal, India.Control group: Thirty self volunteered people from the general population are taken. They are all above 18 years, from Indian ethnicity and do not have any history of EC. They have resided for more than 15 years in West Bengal, India.Inclusion criteria for all case groups:a)Both males and females are above18 years.b)Their staple dietary source is from local crops grown .c)The weight of all the subjects is above 36 kg.d)The patients are able to swallow at least a liquid diet.Control Group is taken from volunteered participation of the respective population of the respective study area.Inclusion criteria for all control Group:a)Physically and clinically normal adult above 18 years whose weight is above 36 kg.b)Their staple dietary source is from local crops grown .c)None of the subjects has a previous history of taking Zn & Mo supplementation in the previous two weeks.Food grain from residing places of the case and control group from Eastern Cape, South Africa as well as West Bengal, India are taken for evaluation of Zn & Mo content. The staple diet of the people in these areas is maize and rice for RSA and India respectively. Number of samples for food grain analysis is thirty for both RSA and India. Hair samples are collected from all subjects by a doctor and kept in a special container for Zn & Mo analysis.Zn & Mo are analyzed according to the standard methods of American Public Health Association . Both foOur results shows that EC patient of South African case group has significantly reduced level of Zn & Mo in hair with respect to the South African control group (both Zn & Mo: p<0.0001) ; Table 1Zn & Mo concentration of food grain in RSA and India shows a correlative pattern (both Zn & Mo: p<0.0001) ; Table 4All the statistical evaluations are indicating a deficiency of Zn & Mo in hair among RSA population and the deficiencies of Zn & Mo may play a distinct role for the development of EC in Eastern Cape, RSA (hot spot) and this is also supported by other studies ("}
{"text": "Unfortunately, the original version of this article  containeThe authors gratefully acknowledge the funding of this research provided by the Ministry of Health and Consumers\u2019 Affairs - \u2013Spain (FIS Exp. PI13/01340 and FEDER funds) and the CHIR- Quebec Training Network in Perinatal Research (QTNPR). The study funders had no role in the study design, data analysis, data collection, data interpretation or the writing of the report. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of the funding bodies."}
{"text": "There is a grant number missing from the Funding Statement. Please see the corrected Funding Statement here.This work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI118732) to MMK and the training grant (5T32AI007046) to CJA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The following information is missing from the Funding section: JA received funding from Magnus Bergvall Foundation ("}
{"text": "The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. To this end, it grants more than 700 research fellowships and research awards annually. These allow scientists and scholars from all over the world to come to Germany to work on a research project they have chosen themselves together with a host and collaborative partner. Scientists or scholars from Germany can also profit from the support and carry out a research project abroad as a guest of one of well over 26,000 Humboldt Foundation alumni worldwide \u2013 the Humboldtians.Once a Humboldtian, always a Humboldtian. Even after the stay in Germany has come to an end, the Humboldt Foundation maintains close links with their alumni. The alumni sponsorship is tailored to the needs of every single Humboldtian, providing flexible support for the particular development and path in life as well as for cooperation with others. The Humboldt Network includes 49 academics who have been awarded the Nobel Prize. In 2011, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was divided among Humboldtians Bruce A. Beutler from the United States, Jules Alphonse Hoffmann from Luxembourg and Canadian Ralph M. Steinman. Beutler and Hoffman jointly received one half of the prize for their discovery of innate immunity. Steinman received the other half for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.From 2008 to 2012, a total of 2,830 fellowships were granted to academics abroad from all disciplines. For the same period, the Humboldt Foundation received 1,779 applications and approved 526 fellowships to researchers from the life sciences. The application and approval figures for medicine for the years 2008 to 2012 were 260 and 63, respectively.As an intermediary organisation for German foreign cultural and educational policy the Humboldt Foundation promotes international cultural dialogue and academic exchange. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety as well as other national and international partners.http://www.humboldt-foundation.de"}
{"text": "A grant from the Baxter Corporation was incorrectly omitted from the FundingStatement. The Funding Statement should read: \"This work is supported by grants fromthe Baxer Clinical Research Award and Renal Research Grant of Baxter Corp, China,and the ISN Research Award of ISN GO R&P Committee. The funders had no role in studydesign, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of themanuscript.\""}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decicion to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The following funder is missing from the Funding section: The Norwegian Council for Mental Health. The complete, correct funding information is as follows: This project has been financially supported by The Norwegian Council for Mental Health and the Norwegian ExtraFoundation for Health and Rehabilitation through EXTRAfunds. Grant number: 2.13/2/0021. URL:"}
{"text": "Details of correction: addition to acknowledgmentsExisting text:The authors would like to acknowledge the guidance of biostatistician Doctor Alison Bowling with the data analysis for this project; the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women\u2019s Health for access to their data sets; the support of Professor Gita Mishra the ALSWH liaison person for our study and Doctor David Giles from the Victorian Cancer Council who constructed the DQESv2 FFQ used in this study.This work was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Programme (RTP) stipend grant for PhD candidate Megan Lee. RTP funding is an Australian support grant for domestic or international students conducting PhD or Master of Research degrees. The project received no other grants from funding agencies, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.This manuscript came from a PhD project. M. L. formulated the research question, designed the study, requested data through an EOI from the ALSWH, cleaned and analysed the data with contribution from A. B. and J. B., interpreted the findings and wrote the article under the supervision of S. S., J. Y. and J. B.The authors acknowledge no conflicts of interest for this research project.Corrected text should read:The research on which this paper is based was conducted as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women\u2019s Health by the University of Queensland and the University of Newcastle. We are grateful to the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care for funding and to the women who provided the survey data.The authors would like to acknowledge the guidance of biostatistician Doctor Alison Bowling with the data analysis for this project; the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women\u2019s Health for access to their data sets; the support of Professor Gita Mishra the ALSWH liaison person for our study and Professor Graham Giles and Professor Roger Milne of the Cancer Epidemiology Centre of Cancer Council Victoria, for permission to use the Dietary Questionnaire for Epidemiological Studies (Version 2), Melbourne: Cancer Council Victoria, 1996This work was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Programme (RTP) stipend grant for PhD candidate Megan Lee. RTP funding is an Australian support grant for domestic or international students conducting PhD or Master of Research degrees. The project received no other grants from funding agencies, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.This manuscript came from a PhD project. M. L. formulated the research question, designed the study, requested data through an EOI from the ALSWH, cleaned and analysed the data with contribution from A. B. and J. B., interpreted the findings and wrote the article under the supervision of S. S., J. Y. and J. B.The authors acknowledge no conflicts of interest for this research project.Details of correction: changes to paper titleExisting text: Is dietary quality associated with depression? An analysis of the Australian longitudinal study of women\u2019s health dataCorrected text should read: Is dietary quality associated with depression? An analysis of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women\u2019s Health data"}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in affiliation [4]. Instead of \u201cBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, National Soybean Processing Industry Technology Innovation Center, Beijing, China,\u201d it should be \u201cBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, National Soybean Processing Industry Technology Innovation Center, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "The Data Availability Statement for this article  is updathttps://doi.org/10.34894/V9IGKJ with the permission of the ethics board of the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen (contact: dcc@rug.nl).The data that support the findings of this study are available from DataVerseNL. Because of ethical reasons, restrictions apply to the availability of these data . Data are available at"}
{"text": "Following publication of the original article , the autAcknowledgementsThe manuscript is based on the project \u201cOslo-Rajasthan Sick Newborn Care Training Programme\u201d which was originally designed by The International Collaboration Unit, Oslo University Hospital and FK Norway, along with J K Lone Hospital, Sir Padam Pat Mother and Child Health Institute, Jaipur and Department of Medical Education and Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan, India, with support from Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi, India. Special thanks to the leadership of and to all health workers from SMS Medical College, India and Oslo University Hospital, Norway who made tremendous contributions to enable and develop the project. The author wishes to acknowledge sterling everyday contributions of the dedicated exchanged nurses and is particularly grateful to Dr Ramesh Choudhary for excellent collaboration and for his collection of data on exclusive breastfeeding after discharge.The Acknowledgements section has been updated in this correction and the original article  has been"}
{"text": "The Funding statement is incorrect. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This project has been funded in whole or in part with MOH Indonesia and Federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, under contract Nos. HHSN261200800001E and HHSN261201500003I. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The funding statement did not use the text that is on the project agreement with the funder. The funding statement was displayed as: \u201cThe research project was funded by two grants: (1) The 2019 Early Career Fellowship Program of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and (2) The International Development Research Center (IDRC) with IDRC Grant Number: 109187-002 through the 2020 IndabaX-AI4D Innovation Grant.\u201dIn the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement appears below.The correct This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from UNESCO and the International Development Research Center, Ottawa, Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of UNESCO, IDRC, or its Board of Governors.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "The authors regret that an incorrect grant number was shown in the Acknowledgements section of the published article. The corrected section should read:We acknowledge financial support from the General Directorate of Research Grants, \u0623\u062a-34-405, from King Abdul-Aziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "The authors regret that the data availability statement was not correctly given in the original article. The correct statement is as shown below.10.15125/BATH-01212.Data supporting this work is freely accessible in the University of Bath research data archive at DOI: The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement.\u201cThis work was funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) Thuthuka Programme grant 128296 to SM-M. The North-West University, South African Medical Research Council and the University of Zululand is also acknowledged. All the content expressed in this review is the official views of the authors and do not represent that of the North-West University. FM acknowledges funding by the NRF, Thuthuka grant UID 128296 linked to SM-M.\u201dThe correct Funding statement appears below.\u201cThis work was funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) Thuthuka Programme grant 128296 to SM-M. Funding from North-West University and the University of Zululand is also acknowledged. The work reported herein was made possible through funding by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) through its Division of Research of Capacity Development under the Early Investigators Programme from the South African National Treasury (funding number: HDID8682/MB2022/EIP052). The content hereof is the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the SAMRC. Also, all the content expressed in this review is the official views of the authors and do not represent that of the North-West University or the University of Zululand. FM acknowledges funding by the NRF, Thuthuka grant UID 128296 linked to SM-M.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement.This study was supported by the NSCF (grant number 31870520) and China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA (grant number CARS-37).The correct Funding statement appears below.This study was supported by the NSCF (grant number 31872520) and China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA (grant number CARS-37).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The support of the National Science Foundation was omitted. The correct Funding statement appears below.In the original article, there was an error in the Funding\u201cThe authors thank the National Institutes of Health (R01-EB022592) and the National Science Foundation (CCF-2007807) for funding support.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Due to a production error, the Funding statement was not provided. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81903672), Peking University People\u2019s Hospital Research and Development Funds (RS2020-04), and China International Medical Foundation (Z-2018-35-2003). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The publisher apologizes for this mistake. The original version of this article has been updated. Your article has been copyedited to ensure that we publish the highest quality work possible. Please check it carefully to make sure that it is correct and that the meaning was not lost during the process."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The funding information was not included in the final publication. The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the \u201cThis research was funded by the National Key R&D Program of China , the National Natural Science Foundation of China .\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The authors regret that the funding information in the acknowledgements of the original article was incorrect. Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21671114 and U1804113), should be \u201cNatural Science Foundation of China (No. 21671114 and U1804131)\u201d.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10.1057/s41599-022-01097-5, published online 22 March 2022.Correction to: A change has been made to the Abstract to correct a statement about the merger of the Swedish Public Health Agency with the Institute for Infectious Disease Control.The original text read:In 2014, the Public Health Agency merged with the Institute for Infectious Disease Control; the first decision by its new head (Johan Carlson) was to dismiss and move the authority\u2019s six professors to Karolinska Institute. With this setup, the authority lacked expertise and could disregard scientific facts.The corrected text now reads:In 2014, the Public Health Agency, after 5 years of rearrangement, merged with the Institute for Infectious Disease Control, with six professors leaving between 2010 and 2012 going to the Karolinska Institute. With this setup, the authority lost scientific expertise."}
{"text": "We continue the practice of transparency of potential competing interests for us as editors of the Journal of Global Health, following the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals . As we eWe declare below the following conflicts of interest, in alphabetical order. We will regularly publish updated declarations when there is a change in editors\u2019 activities and relationships.Prof. Campbell is employed by the University of Edinburgh, where he holds a position as Professor in the Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. He is also co-Director of the NIHR Global Respiratory Health Unit. He currently receives research funding from the European Commission (Innovative Medicines Initiative), WHO, UK NIHR and the Baszucki Brain Research Fund. He has received consultancy payments, paid via the University of Edinburgh, from WHO, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Funding Councils (Research Excellence Framework) and Sanofi in the past 10 years.Prof. Campbell holds a position as the co-Editor in Chief. He occasionally reimburses expenses related to Journal\u2019s work, including travel and consumables. Prof. Campbell is a member of the International Society of Global Health (ISoGH) and a minority shareholder in the small publishing company JoGH LtdNumerous technical advisor appointments to WHO in the past 10 years.Prof. Rudan is employed by the University of Edinburgh, where he holds a position as Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Health Research. He is also co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre in Population Health Research and Training.Prof. Rudan holds a position as the co-Editor in Chief. He occasionally reimburses expenses related to Journal\u2019s work, including travel and consumables. Prof. Rudan serves as the President of the International Society of Global Health (ISoGH), and is also a minority shareholder in the small publishing companies JoGH Ltd and Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing LtdProf. Rudan has numerous technical advisor appointments to WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This study received funding from the Jiangsu Social Science Fund (18EYC006;"}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. Previously, it read: \u201cThis work was supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang, China (Grant No. LY20H020003) and Medicine and Health Science and Technology Plan Projects of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang China (Grant No. 2019KY377).\u201d However, two more fundings supporting this research, the National Natural Science Foundation of China , should also be added to the Funding section. The correct Funding statement appears below.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.This work was supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang, China (Grant No. LY20H020003), Medicine and Health Science and Technology Plan Projects of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang China (Grant No. 2019KY377) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China .All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "Correction: BMC Health Serv Res 22, 1004 (2022)https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08400-9Following publication of the original article , the autThe statement in the \u2018Funding\u2019 section originally read: This study is funded by the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Research Council of Norway. The funding bodies had no role in the design of the study, nor in data collection, analysis, or data interpretation.The statement in the \u2018Funding\u2019 section should read: This study is funded by the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Research Council of Norway. The funding bodies had no role in the design of the study, nor in data collection, analysis, or data interpretation.DGRdP was partially funded by the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH), a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Education and Research Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, and awardee of Grant No. 5T42OH008421 from the (NIOSH)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The original article  has been"}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding Disclosure. The correct Funding Disclosure reads:https://www.manchester.ac.uk/. CS and MS and the PCIE input were part-funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester (award number: NIHR200174). MS is a NIHR Senior Investigator. CS was part-funded and RW was funded by the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (award number: PSTRC-2016-003). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.This work was funded by an internal grant from the University of Manchester. University of Manchester website:"}
{"text": "The Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) is a UK-wide initiative, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Network facilitates safe access to linked de-identified administrative data for research which is aimed at providing a benefit to our society. Administrative data research can provide wide ranging and longitudinal evidence for policy makers which therefore has the potential to improve our society.Recognising the importance of public confidence and trust to the success of the ADRN, the ESRC commissioned a public consultation to gauge understanding of social research and the reactions to the use of administrative data in research. A comprehensive UK-wide communications and public engagement strategy has been developed. From this a number of initiatives been introduced over the past two years to address public concerns and these have been reviewed, revised and extended as the Network has evolved.Now to extend the Network's reach, the Administrative Data Research Network is developing a UK National Citizens Panel (CP). The panel will provide a representation of public views on potential changes to Network policy, procedures, governance and service provision issues. The CP will also assist with testing our public facing communications such as events, website and promotional materials.This paper presents the previous and current public engagement initiatives that the Administrative Data Research Network has incorporated within its policies and service that enables better knowledge for a better societywww.adrn.ac.ukFunded by the Economic & Social Research Council, the ADRN, set up as part of the UK Government's Big Data initiative, is a UK-wide partnership between universities, government bodies, national statistics authorities and the wider research community."}
{"text": "The correct affiliation details for Mariana Pinto Da Costa are as follows: Mariana Pinto Da Costa, MD, MSc, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UKThe correct wording in the declaration of interests should be \u201cMPC is a member of the Editorial Board of The British Journal of Psychiatry and of BJPsych Advances\u201d and \u201cHE is a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Psychiatry International\u201d.The authors would like to make two corrections to the above paper.The authors apologise for these errors."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The Funding statement that was published was missing a second source. The correct Funding statement appears below:In the published article, there was an error in the \u201cThe authors received funding from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Career Development Award (C210112056) and Singapore National Medical Research Council (OFYIRG19may-0007).\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "In \u201cComparing Online and On-Site Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Major Depressive Disorder: Protocol for a Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial\u201d :e29726), the following change was made:In the originally published article, the Conflicts of Interest section inadvertently appeared as follows:None declared.In the corrected version, the Conflicts of Interest section has been corrected as follows:NW is an employee of NexJ Health and holds stock in the company. NexJ Health provides in-kind subscriptions for the digital health platform of NexJ Connected Wellness, which enables the delivery of the CBT-M program and provides health coaching to the participants in the CBT-M intervention group. PR receives in-kind software support from NexJ Health for this investigator-initiated study, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). He also receives research support from NexJ Health through the Digital Health Research Fund administered by the Faculty of Health at York University. ZD has received research and equipment in-kind support for an investigator-initiated study through Brainsway Inc and Magventure Inc. He is also on the scientific advisory board for Brainsway Inc. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Brain Canada, and Temerty Family Foundation, and Grant Family Foundation.The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on April 21, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper :In the original published article, the Institutional Review Board Statement was not included. The Institutional Review Board Statement is added below.Institutional Review Board Statement: Ethics approval was obtained from each of the two institutions: The Internal Ethics Review Committee of the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Israel, certificate number KSVM-VTH/07_2015 and Veterinary Research Ethics Committee, University of Liverpool, UK, certificate number VREC237.The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. The original publication has also been updated."}
{"text": "The authors regret that the funder information in the Acknowledgements section is incorrect in the original article. The correct information is shown below.This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang, China, Grant No. 2016D01A073.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The funding number for Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Capital Medical University Young Scientist Program was incorrect. The corrected Funding statement appears below.\u201cThis study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81771094 and 82170980) and the Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Capital Medical University Young Scientist Program (No. YSP202106).\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation was incorrectly mentioned as a funding source. The correct Funding statement appears below:In the published article, there was an error in the \u201cThis study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 17-15-01051.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Capital's Funds for Research and Application of Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Technology (No. Z191100006619121), National Center for Clinical Research in Cardiovascular Diseases (No. NCRC2020015), and Capital's Funds for Health Improvement and Research (No. 2018-2-4031).There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct order for funding information is: The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "Funding statement. The published version of the Funding was, \u201cThis work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81970230 for WZ), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81870292 for JW), and Major Scientific Research Project of Zhejiang Lab (No. 2019MB0AD01 for HH).\u201d There was one funding source [National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (No. 62005248 for Z.F.)] that was omitted. The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the Funding\u201cThis work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81970230 for WZ), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81870292 for J\u2019aW), Major Scientific Research Project of Zhejiang Lab (No. 2019MB0AD01 for HH), and National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (No. 62005248 for ZF)\u201d.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusion of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in Funding statement. The grant number was incorrect. The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the th Nuclear Energy R&D Project (No. 20201192). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript\u201d.\u201cThis work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China , the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province , the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 82161160343 and 82002168), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University (No. 22qntd4813), the 111 Project (No. B12003) and the 6The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "There is information missing from the Acknowledgments section. It should read as follows:The authors would like to thank the study participants for their time and responses without which this paper would not have been possible to write. We also thank the regional, district, shehia and village authorities where the study was conducted for granting the permission and providing every support to successfully conduct this study. We are grateful to Prof. Jennifer A. Downs of the Center for Global Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States of America for her support in conceptualizing the project whose outputs include this paper. We also thank her for the reviews, comments and suggestions on the early drafts of this article. The authors would like to acknowledge that the article included qualitative data designed and collected in Tanzania as part of the study \u201cBringing Down Hurdles for Female Genital Schistosomiasis Access to Care: a Multi-Country Socio-Structural Integrated Approach to Developing a Community-Based Teaching Platform\u201d carried out in Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi, funded by The Task Force for Global Health NTD-SD, and led by Virginia Bond , Humphrey Mazigo  and Khumbo Kalua (Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach (BICO). The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the funding agencies. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the supporting offices."}
{"text": "In \u201cUsing Wake-Up Tasks for Morning Behavior Change: Development and Usability Study\u201d :e39497) the authors noted two errors.The affiliation of the author Jisu Ko was incorrectly mentioned as the following:Department of Human-Computer Interaction.This has been corrected to:Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence.Under \u201cAcknowledgments\u201d the original text read:This work was supported by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (Ministry of Science and ICT)  and Hanyang University ERICA.It has been replaced by the following:This work was supported by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (Ministry of Science and ICT) ).The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on October 3, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "In the original article, there were some errors in the funding part and in this correction, the correct funding text is as follows:This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China .The Original article has been corrected."}
{"text": "Funding statement. \u201cThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51708326), the Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment of China (Nos. 2017ZX07103007 and 2018ZX07111006), and the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program (No. 2018Z02ALB01).\u201d The correct Funding statement appears below.In the published article, there was an error in the This work was supported by the State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (22Y03ESPCT).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "The National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is the federally designated lead agency on aging research and supports research to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. In the last six years, NIA has experienced a tripling of its budget. In keeping with NIA\u2019s scientific mission, funding includes significant investments in Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias research, as well as in non-AD research. This symposium will provide a forum for exploration of the implications of the NIA budget for the general research community. NIA\u2019s senior staff will discuss research priorities and programs supported by the Institute. A question-and-answer session will follow these remarks on current funding and future priorities and research directions of NIA."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The grant number for the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China was displayed as \u201c202201011577\u201d. The correct grant number is \u201c202201011571\u2019\u2019. The correct Funding statement appears below.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82072196 and 81871573), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation\u2013funded project (2020M672721), and the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China (202201011571).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "Following publication of the original article , the autNamely, the funding declaration has been corrected to the following:\"This work is supported by the National Research Fund of Luxembourg (Grants # C14/BM/8225223 and C17/BM/11613033 to YD), the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Luxembourg, and the Heart Foundation - Daniel Wagner. FMS received a fellowship from the National Research Fund of Luxembourg for this work (Grant # C17/BM/11613033). This work is also supported by independent research grants from nonprofit or governmental agencies  and by governmental funding of clinical research within the Swedish National Health Service.\"The authors thank you for reading and apologize for any inconvenience caused."}
{"text": "The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding the ethics approval for this study. The authors have confirmed that approval from the National Ethics Committee for Health Research in Cambodia was not sought prior to the study.All authors agree to this retraction."}
{"text": "The authors regret the omission of a funding acknowledgement in the original article. This acknowledgement is given below.Ding Ding would like to acknowledge support from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) AME Young Independent Research Grant, project: A1884c0020.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. [This research was supported by a fund (code: 2019ER690200) by Research of Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]. The correct Funding statement appears below.This research was supported by a fund (code: 2022-ER0507-00) by Research of Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "Instead of Abcam it should have been Life Technologies, Bio-Rad and Life Technologies, respectively. The HTML and PDF versions of the Article have now been updated with the correct information."}
{"text": "In addition, the authors regret the omission of one of the authors, Stefan Krauss, from the original manuscript. The corrected author list and affiliations are as shown above.The authors regret that one of the affiliations  and SP from the Norwegian Cancer Society (grant No. 190257-2017). J. W. and S. K. were supported by the Research Council of Norway , by South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority  and from the Norwegian Cancer Society (grant No. 5803958).The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "Funding statement as published. The correct grant number for the Startup Fund for Scientific Research of Fujian Medical University is 2018QH1202. Corrected funding statement is given below:In the original article, there was a mistake in the \u201cThis work was supported by the Scientific Research Project for the Middle-aged and Youths of Fuzhou Health Department (grant number: 2019-S-wq9) and the Startup Fund for Scientific Research of Fujian Medical University (grant number: 2018QH1202).\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "An analysis of currently existing partnerships and cross-country collaboration for physical activity (PA) promotion is valuable for understanding how such partnerships operate, and how they impact national PA promotion efforts. This study aimed to outline the structure of the European Union's (EU) National Physical Activity Focal Point Network, to evaluate its outputs and benefits, and to describe its potential and challenges.We employed a mixed methods approach with three components: (1) document analysis of network meeting reports, (2) semi-structured interviews with key officials who were involved in establishing the network, and (3) an online evaluation survey with the national PA Focal Points.The PA Focal Point Network was founded in 2014, and its main task is to coordinate the collection of information for the EU's HEPA Monitoring Framework. Each of the EU Member States nominated a representative to the network. Focal Points usually meet twice a year to discuss issues related to the HEPA Monitoring Framework and to share best practices and plan activities for the promotion of PA within the EU. The results of the evaluation survey show that participation in the network helped members to specify goals for PA promotion, gain knowledge, and identify opportunities to promote PA in their country. From the perspective of the Focal Points, most helpful outputs of the Network activity are the country factsheets on physical activity, the connections within the Network and the opportunity to share their experience with colleagues during meetings and group discussions.The study shows that the PA Focal Point Network may serve as an example of successful cross-country collaboration in PA promotion. The network has supported the monitoring of the implementation of the EU Council Recommendation on HEPA across sectors in particular and of PA promotion in the EU in general. It also had positive effects on national PA promotion efforts and on cooperation between countries. All in all, the PA Focal Point Network can serve as an example for other world regions or policy areas that set up similar networks."}
{"text": "The Data Availability statement is incomplete. The complete Data Availability statement is:HAR is funded by a UNSW Scientia Program Fellowship and the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) under grant DE220101210. HAR was also supported by a WA Department of Health Near-Miss Merit Award to HAR.ARRF is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship APP1154524. ARRF was also supported by funds raised by the MACA Ride to Conquer Cancer and a Senior Cancer Research Fellowship from the Cancer Research Trust.HRR and RG were supported by IRN National Science Foundation (INSF), Grant No. 96006077.This work was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant to ARRF (DP160101960). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In 2015 the German Prevention Act was implemented. The National Prevention Conference published the first National Prevention Report in 2019 to evaluate the health promotion activities. The second National Prevention Report is planned for 2023. Development of a harmonized prevention reporting system for the German Federal States is needed to form the basis for the contribution of the Federal States to the next National Prevention Report. A working group mandated from the sub-national health authorities has developed a harmonized prevention reporting system for the German Federal States since 2018. The Robert Koch Institute collaborated as representative of the national level during the process. Subject areas for indicators were selected based on a survey in which all 16 State Ministries of Health participated. Indicator subgroups developed indicators for each subject area based on predefined indicator selection criteria. Final set of indicators was adopted by indicator rating and majority voting process. The German Health Ministers Conference acknowledged the indicator system in June 2021. The conceptual framework is adapted from the health determinants model of Dahlgren and Whitehead. The indicator system is divided into 14 subject areas categorized into upstream, midstream and downstream level of prevention indicators. Seventy-three prevention indicators were included as a whole. The indicator short list consists of 32 Core indicators. An overview of the prevention indicator system will be given. First results of a pilot data collection will be shown. Health promotion and prevention reporting tools are needed to monitor prevention policies and evaluate health promotion measures. The prevention indicator system of the German Federal States will be used for the National Prevention Strategy in Germany of which one component is the next National Prevention Report 2023.\u2022\u2002The prevention indicator system of the German Federal States is a useful tool to monitor prevention policies.\u2022\u2002The indicator system will form the basis for the German Federal States\u2019 contribution to the National Prevention Report 2023."}
{"text": "In \u201cGender-Specific Impact of Self-Monitoring and Social Norm Information on Walking Behavior Among Chinese College Students Assessed Using WeChat: Longitudinal Tracking Study\u201d :e29167), one error was noted.The foundation number of the National Natural Science Foundation of China was mistaken. In the originally published paper, under \u201cAcknowledgments\u201d, the foundation information was listed as follows:This research was supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation , the National Natural Science Foundation of China  \u2026This has been corrected to:This research was supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation , the National Natural Science Foundation of China  \u2026The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on March 31, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The Funding statement was not present in the original version. The correct Funding statement appears below.\u201cThis work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award number(s): 81971194, 82171421, 91949118) and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Award number(s): 2018SHZDZX01, 21S31902200); National Health Commission of the People\u2019s Republic of China.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "A. Rogers  The authors regret the omission of the following conflict of interest statement.Dr Martin J. T. Reaney is the founder of, and has an equity interest in, Prairie Tide Diversified Inc. . Dr Youn Young Shim is a Market Consultant for PTD in Korea. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by the University of Saskatchewan in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "Correction: BMC Public Health 22, 475 (2022)https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12777-xThe original publication of this article  containeThere was a problem concerning the variable denoting responder ID. For one panel used, all respondents were assigned unique IDs each time they completed a survey, regardless of whether they had previously completed the survey.Therefore, repeat respondents were not identified. This affected data in waves 8 to 57 (inclusive). The authors have since worked with the market research companies to rectify this problem. For another article, re-running generalised estimating equations (GEEs) using corrected responder IDs did not meaningfully change results  .This should not affect the results nor conclusions of this article .Funding statementThis work was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services and Delivery Research programme (NIHR project reference number (11/46/21)). Surveys were commissioned and funded by Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), with the authors providing advice on the question design and selection. LS, RA and GJR are supported by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Emergency Preparedness and Response, a partnership between the UK Health Security Agency, King\u2019s College London and the University of East Anglia. RA is also supported by the NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation, a partnership between the UK Health Security Agency and the University of Bristol. HWWP has received funding from Public Health England and NHS England. NTF is part funded by a grant from the UK Ministry of Defence. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR, UK Health Security Agency, the Department of Health and Social Care or the Ministry of Defence. The Department of Health and Social Care funded data collection (no grant number).Competing interests statementAll authors had financial support from NIHR for the submitted work. RA is an employee of the UK Health Security Agency; HWWP received additional salary support from Public Health England and NHS England; HWWP receives consultancy fees to his employer from Ipsos MORI and has a PhD student who works at and has fees paid by Astra Zeneca. At the time of writing GJR is acting as an expert witness in an unrelated case involving Bayer PLC, supported by LS. NTF is a participant of an independent group advising NHS Digital on the release of patient data. All authors were participants of the UK\u2019s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies or its subgroups."}
{"text": "Funding statement for this article was omitted:Due to a production error, the in vivo efficacy of fumarate for mitochondrial disease in vivo). Besides, we would like to acknowledge the UCLH/UCL for which PG works and receives a proportion of funding from the Department of Health's NIHR Biomedical Research Centers funding scheme, and the support given by the CRN: North Thames, National Institute for Health Research.\u201d\u201cWe would like to thank the funders that supported us, in particular FARA  and an NIH grant we received (4R33NS106719-03 Pharmacodynamics and The publisher apologizes for this mistake. The original version of this article has been updated."}
{"text": "Jadhav,  The authors regret the omission of the following conflict of interest statement.Dr Martin J. T. Reaney is the founder of, and has an equity interest in, Prairie Tide Diversified Inc. . Dr Youn Young Shim is a Market Consultant for PTD in Korea. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by the University of Saskatchewan in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers."}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The funding statement for the Key Development Project of the Department of Science and Technology was displayed as \u201cPS was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and Palack\u00fd University Grant Agency [IGA-2022_002]. JR work was supported by INTA PE-142 project. EW was supported by the USDA Hatch program through the Vermont State Agricultural Experimental Station.\u201d. The correct statement is \u201cPS was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and Palack\u00fd University Grant Agency [IGA-2022_002]. JR work was supported by INTA PE-142 project. EW was supported by the USDA Hatch program through the Vermont State Agricultural Experimental Station. EW was also funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation as part of World-class Research Center program: Advanced Digital Technologies (contract No. 075-15-2022-311 dated 20.04.2022)\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
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{"text": "In the original article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The funder \u201cLeibniz ScienceCampus SOEP RegioHub (Bielefeld University and SOEP/DIW Berlin)\u201d was missing. The correct Funding statement appears below.This research was partly funded by (a) the Leibniz ScienceCampus SOEP RegioHub (Bielefeld University and SOEP/DIW Berlin) and (b) the German Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) in the context of the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa) as well as the Research Association Discrimination and Racism (FoDiRa) of the DeZIM Research Community (German Center for Integration and Migration Research).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "After this article  was publThis study involved human stool samples that originated in Nepal. The samples were collected at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Microbiology and Public Health Research Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal; transferred to the University of Georgia in 2012; and provided to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2015. As of the time of this notice, PLOS has been unable to reach the National Health Research Council (NHRC) in Nepal to clarify if the study complied with Nepalese regulations for human subjects research and/or transfer of human fecal samples from Nepal to the University of Georgia and then to the FDA.Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts was approved by the FDA Research Involving Human Subjects Committee (RIHSC) in 2010\u20132013 (#10-095F). However, neither University of Georgia nor Tribhuvan Teaching Hospital were specified as potential sources for specimens in the RIHSC approval document; instead, another US-based institution was named. This discrepancy has not yet been resolved. PLOS has contacted the FDA.A protocol for collection and analysis of anonymized fecal specimens for the isolation of The University of Georgia Office of Research evaluated the study\u2019s compliance with applicable policies, regulations, and guidance, and noted that University of Georgia IRB concluded the study neither qualified as human subjects research  nor required further IRB review or approval. The project received approval of the University of Georgia Institutional Biosafety Committee in 2010 and 2015. The University of Georgia IRB and Biosafety Committee reviewed research conducted with these samples at the University of Georgia. The work conducted at the FDA and the use of the samples at the FDA were not assessed by the University of Georgia committees.PLOS ONE Editors issue this Expression of Concern to notify readers of the unresolved issues discussed above.The"}
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{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This work was supported by the UCLA AIDS Institute, the James B. Pendleton Charitable Trust, and the McCarthy Family Foundation."}
{"text": "Natalia Polouliakh. As well as having affiliation(s) Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan and Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Tokyo, Japan, Natalia Polouliakh should also have Scientista Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.In the published article, there was an error regarding the affiliations for In the published article, the Conflict of Interest for Natalia Polouliakh (NP) was not sufficiently disclosed. The Conflict of Interest should have contained the following disclosure:NP is an employee of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and also the president and CEO of Scientista Co., Ltd. These companies did not provide funding for this study. Scientista Co., Ltd. sells a cosmetic compounded with alpha-arbutin: however, this situation did not affect the results reported in this study.The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder Zhejiang Province Public Welfare Technology Application Research Project, Grant No. LGF21H090004 to Yuchen Ying, the funder Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan Project of Zhejiang Province, Grant No. 2021KY335 to Yuchen Ying, and the funder Science and Technology Innovation Activity Plan of Zhejiang University Student & XinMiao Talents Program, Grant No. 2021R464003 to Yuchen Ying. The updated funding statement appears below:This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China [Grant Nos. 2017YFC1310902 and 2018YFC1315305]; Ningbo Health Branding Subject Fund [Grant Nos. PPXK2018-01 and PPXK2018-02]; Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen [Grant No. SZSM201803080]; The Special Innovation Program  of Guangdong Education Department [Grant No. 2018GKTSCX077]; and Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Grant No. LQ20H020001], Zhejiang Province Public Welfare Technology Application Research Project [Grant No. LGF21H090004] to YY, Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan Project of Zhejiang Province [Grant No. 2021KY335] to YY, and Science and Technology Innovation Activity Plan of Zhejiang University Student & XinMiao Talents Program [Grant No. 2021R464003] to YY. The funding body had no further role in the study design, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, the writing of the manuscript and the decision to submit the paper for publication.In the published article, there was also an error regarding the affiliation(s) for Yuchen Ying. As well as having affiliation 1, they should also have Department of Elderly Health Care and Management, School of Health Services and Management, Ningbo College of Health Sciences, Ningbo, China.The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "The attention of the Chinese government on nutrition, exercise, and health refers to the attention degree of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals and reflects whether Central Government attach importance to Chinese nationals' nutrition, exercise and health or not and the distribution of resources, which influence the physical quality and health level of Chinese nationals. Based on the attention theory and attention distribution proposed by Herbert Simon, Dai Kai, et al., this study took 43 Central Government Work Reports from 1978 to 2020 as research samples, used literature reviews, and textual analysis methods, and applied the Nvivo12.0 software to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses about the contents of the Central Government Work Report concerning the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals. This research found the following: (1) There has been a relatively huge overall change in the attention of the Central Government, that is, the level of attention, to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals from 1978 to 2020, and the policies related to nutrition, exercise and health of Chinese nationals issued by the Central Government have been growing faster. (2) The income level of the urban and rural residents, the total production of various types of food, dietary structure, the total number of medical and health institutions, the average life expectancy of the Chinese population, and the number of sports venues have been constantly increasing since the reform and opening up, which has effectively promoted the improvement of the nutrition, exercise and health level of Chinese nationals, and it cannot be achieved without the attention and support of the Central Government. However, the change in the lifestyle of Chinese nationals has led to the growth of the modern \u201cCivilization Disease,\u201d which is also an important issue that the Central Government needs to handle urgently. The Outline and Plan of \u201cHealthy China 2030\u201d issued by the Communist Party of China of Central Committee  and the State Council of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as State Council) that is the Central Government of the People's Republic of China  proposed that \u201chealth is an inevitable requirement for promoting human beings' all-round development, and the realization of national health and longevity is an important symbol of the country's prosperity, strength, and national rejuvenation\u201d . Does thKey Points of Works\u201d that was issued by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China from 1987 to 2019 through five dimensions, and uncovered the characteristics of the attention distribution of the Central Government to vocational education, and put forward suggestions to optimize the attention distribution levels of the Central Government to vocational education \u201d and \u201cRegulations on the Work of Rural National Communes \u201d, which promoted the development of the production undertakings in China, such as agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, sideline, and fishery. In 1982, the attention level of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals reached 1.6% that because, in January 1982, the CPC Central Committee approved the \u201cMinutes of the National Rural Work Conference  No.1)\u201d, and pointed out that \u201cthe production team should make plans for the comprehensive development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline, fishery, industry, and commerce in accordance with local conditions, and improve the circulation of rural commodities\u201d. In addition, the Central Patriotic Health Campaign Committee and the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China jointly issued the \u201cNotice on Further Development of Patriotic Health Campaigns and the Construction of Socialist Spiritual Civilization.\u201d The attention level of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals was as low as.56% in 1984. The reason for this phenomenon was that the CPC Central Committee issued the \u201cSome Issues of Current Rural Economic Policy  No.1)\u201d and \u201cNotice on Rural Work in 1984  No.1)\u201d which have effectively promoted the all-round development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline and fishery in China, and the living standards of the urban and rural residents were further improved. As a result, the number of the literal expressions on nutrition in the Government Work Reports have declined in recent years, and the Central Government has laid its main attention on the system reform and opening up. Compared with 1984, the attention level of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals increased from 1985 to 1991 and reached a peak state of 1.61% in 1988. In October 1984, the CPC Central Committee issued the \u201cNotice on Further Development of Sports,\u201d which once again stressed that \u201csports is closely related to Chinese nationals' health, and we must adhere to the policy of combining popularization and improvement, focusing on school sports\u201d. In January 1985, the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued \u201cTen Policies on Further Activating the Rural Economy  No.1),\u201d which was beneficial in improving the tight supply of agricultural products and promoting the rationalization of the rural industrial structure and the diversification of the diet of the urban and rural residents. In April of the same year, the State Council approved the \u201cReport on Several Issues of Health Work Reform (Released by State Council (1985) NO.62)\u201d by the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, which unveiled the prolog of health reform and promoted the development of Medical and Health Care in China. In January 1987, the CPC Central Committee issued a notice on \u201cleading Rural Reform deeper  No.1\u201d) which was an important reason for the peak of the attention of the Central Government in 1998. In January 1989, the State Council approved and forwarded the \u201cOpinions on Issues Related to the Expansion of Medical and Health Services\u201d issued by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Personnel, State Price Bureau, and State Administration of Taxation of the People's Republic of China. However, the attention level of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals fell to 0.51% in 1992, for the reason that: In the 1990s, the State Council approved the \u201cRegulations on School Sports Work and Regulations on School Health Work\u201d that was beneficial to improving the physical health level of the youth, so as to enhance the physical quality and health level of Chinese nationals; In October 1991, the State Council issued a \u201cNotice on Further Invigorating the Circulation of Agricultural Products\u201d, which was beneficial to solving the problem of the lag in the circulation of agricultural products and laying the foundation for the urban and rural residents to purchase diversified food, obtain the nutrients that their bodies need, and promote good health. Hence, the level of attention of the Central Government was low in 1992.Bryan Jones believed that \u201call kinds of factors in the decision-making situation have an effect on decision-making\u201d . In diffOpinions on Deepening the Reform of the Health and Medical System\u201d in 1992, which proposed to reform the health management system and the price system of Medical and Health Services. In addition, according to the general goal of establishing a socialist market economy system proposed by the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the State Council issued the \u201cNotice on Accelerating the Reform of Grain Circulation System\u201d to promote the reform of the grain circulation system toward commercialization and market-oriented operation in February 1993. In 1995, the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals increased to 1.18%. The main reasons are as follows: In May 1993, State Council issued the \u201cOutline for the Reform and Development of China's Food Structure in the 1990s (Released by State Council (1993) NO.40),\u201d which was the first document on food nutrition that was issued by the country since the founding of the People's Republic of China; the State Council issued the \u201cRegulations on the Administration of Medical Institutions (Released by State Council (1994) No.194)\u201d; the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the \u201cOpinions on Agricultural and Rural Work in 1994  No.4)\u201d and \u201cOpinions on Doing the Work in Agriculture and Rural Work well in 1995  No.6).\u201d From 1996 to 1999, the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals varied little and the trend remained relatively stable. The following reasons could explain this phenomenon: Firstly, in June 1995, the \u201cOutline for the National Fitness Program (Released by State Council (1995) No.14)\u201d proposed that \u201cby 2010, the Chinese national physique and health level will be comprehensively improved, and National Fitness system with Chinese characteristics will be basically built\u201d, and in August of the same year, the 15th plenary session of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress adopted the \u201cSports Law of the People's Republic of China\u201d, which clearly put forward the requirement that \u201csports work should adhere to the development of National Fitness Activities as the basis for the development of mass sports activities to improve the physical fitness of the whole nation\u201d; secondly, in January 1997, the CPC Central Committee and State Council promulgated the \u201cDecision on Health Reform and Development  No.3)\u201d, which explicitly proposed the goals and guidelines of health work and the principles that need to be followed; thirdly, in October 1998, the \u201cResolution on Several Major Issues in Agriculture and Rural Work\u201d adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee proposed that \u201cwe must adhere to market-oriented reforms, steadily develop food production, combine agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and ensure the effective supply of agricultural products\u201d. From 2000 to 2002, the reasons for the low attention level of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals were: the National Sports Work Conference held in Beijing in 1999, which discussed the \u201cOutline of Sports Reform and Development from 2001 to 2010\u201d; In December 2000, the \u201cOutline of Sports Reform and Development from 2001 to 2010\u201d mentioned that \u201cthe main goals of sports reform and development including an obvious increase in the popularity of mass sports, the full realization of the National Fitness Plan, and the effective enhancement of Chinese nationals' physical quality\u201d; In November 2001, the General Office of State Council issued the \u201cOutline for the Development of Food and Nutrition in China from 2001 to 2010  No.86),\u201d which pointed out that \u201centering the new century, accelerating food development, improving food structure, raising the nutritional level of the whole people and improving people's physical health are the urgent needs for the improvement of the national overall quality\u201d; In January 2002, the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the \u201cOpinions on Doing the Agricultural and Rural Work Well in 2002  No.2)\u201d, which put forward that \u201cby 2010, the rural health service system and the rural cooperative medical system adapted to the requirements of the socialist market economy system will be basically established in national rural areas\u201d. From 2003 to 2012, the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals was high and peaked in 2008 at 2.21%. In July 2002, the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving Sports Work in the New Era which stated that \u201ccarrying out National Fitness Activities and enhancing nationals' physical quality is the fundamental task of sports work\u201d. In October of the same year, the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the \u201cDecision on Further Strengthening Rural Health  No.13).\u201d As the key point of Chinese health work, rural health work was linked to the development of the rural productivity and influenced the overall physical fitness and health level of Chinese nationals. In 2003, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic situation strengthened the construction of the national public health system and increased the investment of medical and health resources. In January 2005, the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the \u201cOpinions on Several Policies to Further Strengthen Rural Work and Improve Comprehensive Agricultural Production Capacity  No.1\u201d, which put forward new requirements for Chinese agricultural and rural work. The reasons for the peak level of the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals in 2008 were that: the CPC Central Committee and State Council promulgated the \u201cOpinions on Developing Modern Agriculture and Solidly Promoting the Construction of a New Rural  No.1)\u201d and \u201cOpinions on Effectively Strengthening Agricultural Infrastructure and Further Promoting Agricultural Development and Increasing Farmers' Income  No.1),\u201d both of which emphasized the issues about agriculture, rural, and farmers  and the agricultural product safety question; the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the \u201cOpinions on Strengthening Youth Sports and Enhancing Youth Physical Fitness  No.7),\u201d which promoted the healthy growth of the youth and played a role in pushing the development of national health. In March 2009, the \u201cOpinions on Deepening the Reform of Medical and Health Care System  No.6)\u201d was issued, which promoted the development of medical and health care and ensured the health of the urban and rural residents in China. In August of the same year, the release of the \u201cNational Fitness Regulations\u201d not only promoted the development of national fitness activities but also improved the physical quality and health level of Chinese nationals. In January 2010, the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the \u201cSeveral Opinions on Increasing Efforts to Coordinate Urban and Rural Development and Further Strengthening the Foundation of Agricultural Rural Development  No.1),\u201d which put forward \u201caccelerating the construction of the quality and safety supervision system and inspection and detection system for agricultural products, and actively developing pollution-free agricultural products, green food, organic agricultural products.\u201d Therefore, the Central Government has paid high attention to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals since 2003.The convening of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China marked that the reform and opening up of China has entered a new stage, and the goal of establishing a socialist market economic system has been made. In this context, the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals had also changed. Overall, the attention intensity of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals has changed greatly during this period. In 1993, the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals was as low as.56%. The main reason was that the State Council issued the \u201cOutline for the Development of Food and Nutrition in China from 2014 to 2020  No.3),\u201d proposing that \u201cChina's food production is not able to meet the nutritional needs yet, the residents are undernourished and surplus coexist, and the lack of nutritional and health knowledge, which must be given great attention\u201d. In October 2016, the CPC Central Committee and State Council issued the \u201cOutline and Plan of \u2018Healthy China 2030'.\u201d The outline proposed that \u201cwe should formulate and implement a national nutrition plan, deeply carry out the research on the evaluation of the nutritional functions of food, comprehensively popularize dietary nutritional knowledge, issue dietary guidelines suitable for the characteristics of different groups of people, guide residents to form scientific dietary habits, and promote the construction of a healthy diet culture\u201d. In July 2017, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cNational Nutrition Plan from 2017 to 2030  No.60),\u201d which put forward that \u201cnutrition is an important material basis for human beings to maintain life, growth, and health, and nationals' nutrition is related to the improvement of nationals' quality and economic and social development.\u201d Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Government has also made a series of new deployment arrangements for the work of national fitness. In October 2014, the State Council issued \u201cSeveral Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Sports Industry And Promoting Sports Consumption  No.46\u201d) that put forward \u201cpromoting National Fitness as the national strategy of China\u201d, which marked a significant leap in the concept and practice of mass sports development in China, recognizing national fitness as the rightful meaning of national health. National fitness is a significant means of national health, it is inevitable to promote the development of national health. In June 2016, the State Council issued the \u201cNational Fitness Plan from 2016 to 2020  No.37).\u201d In October of the same year, the \u201cOutline and Plan of \u2018Healthy China 2030\u201d' was issued by the CPC Central Committee and State Council which was a program of action to promote a healthy China, and \u201cCo-construction and sharing, national health\u201d was the strategic theme of building a healthy China. To accelerate the construction of sports power and to vigorously promote the in-depth integration of national fitness and national health, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cNotice on Printing and Distributing the Outline of Building Sports Power  No.40\u201d in September 2019. In September of the same year, for the sake of actively implementing the national fitness initiative and making regular participation in physical exercise a way of life, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cOpinions on Promoting National Fitness and Sports Consumption and Pushing the High-Quality Development of the Sports Industry  No.43).\u201d In October 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cOpinions on Strengthening the Construction of National Fitness Facilities and Develop Mass Sports  No.36)\u201d to boost the construction of fitness facilities, promote the vigorous development of mass sports, and enhance the level of public services for national fitness. The Central Government has also carried out a comprehensive reform in the development of the medical and health services in China. In September 2013, the State Council issued \u201cSeveral Opinions on Promoting the Development of Health Service Industry  No.40),\u201d which proposed that \u201caccelerating the development of the health service industry is an inevitable requirement for deepening medical reform, improving Chinese nationals' livelihood and enhancing the health quality of the whole Chinese.\u201d In March 2015, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cNotice on Printing and Distributing the Outline of the National Medical and Health Service System Planning from 2015 to 2020  No.14)\u201d to promote the further optimal allocation of the Chinese medical and health resources and build an integrated medical and health service system. In August 2018, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cNotice on Printing and Distributing the Reform Plan for the Division of Financial Affairs Powers and Expenditure Responsibilities between the Central and Local Governments in the Field of Medical and Health  No.67).\u201d In June 2019, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cNotice on Printing and Distributing the Key Work Tasks for Deepening the Reform of the Medical and Health System in 2019  No.28),\u201d proposing that \u201cputting Chinese national health at the center, implementing prevention as the main work, strengthening disease prevention and health promotion, deepening the linkage reform of medical care, medical insurance and medicine, and firmly promoting the reform of the Medical and Health System effectively implemented and benefiting the Mass\u201d. In July 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cKey Work Tasks for Deepening the Reform of the Medical and Health System in the Second Half of 2020  No.25),\u201d which put forward \u201cstrengthening the construction of the public health system and further implement the Healthy China Initiative\u201d.The convening of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China marked a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics . The attFrom the above, it can be seen that since the new era, although the Central Government has paid less attention to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals compared with the previous decade, there has been an increasing number of policies at the central level related to nutrition, exercise, and health after entering the new era, most of which were macro-policies and planning programs. On one hand, the promulgation of these policies showed that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals, and to a certain extent promoted the improvement of national nutrition, exercise, and health in China. On the other hand, it indicated the lack of micro and detailed measures on nutrition, exercise, and health. The nutrition policy and action plan of China have promoted the overall nutritional status of Chinese residents to some extent, but there are still some deficiencies that need to be improved. For example, the lack of laws and regulations on nutrition policy protection, lack of long-term mechanism and sustainability, inadequate nutrition policy system, and so on . In addiSince the reform and opening up, the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals has changed significantly. The number of policies related to nutrition, exercise, and health issued by the Central Government has increased, and the level of nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals has also changed constantly. The per capita income of the Chinese urban and rural residents has been increasing since the reform and opening up. As shown in Outline for the Reform and Development of China's Food Structure in the 1990s (Released by State Council (1993) NO.40).\u201d From the early 1990s to the beginning of 2000s, the average daily intake of other cereals, fruits, and salt declined slightly, while the average daily intake of tubers, flour and its products, dark-colored vegetables, and light-colored vegetables decreased sharply. The average daily intake of rice and its products, milk and its products, livestock and poultry meats, and vegetable oils increased significantly, while the average daily intake of legumes, eggs and its products, fish, and shrimp, and animal oils increased slightly. In addition, the average daily intake of Chinese residents when it comes to energy, protein, carbohydrates, and dietary fiber declined, while the average daily intake of fat rose. After entering the 21st century, to promote the development of the Chinese national dietary structure into a nutritious and scientific way, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cNotice on Printing and Distributing the Outline for Chinese Food and Nutrition Development from 2001 to 2010  No.86).\u201d From 2002 to 2012, the average daily intake of other cereals, tubers, rice and its products, and legumes decreased. Meanwhile, the average daily intake of dark-colored vegetables, light-colored vegetables, fruits, fish and shrimp, milk and its products, animal oils, and salt decreased slightly. On the contrary, the average daily intake of flour and its products, eggs and its products, livestock and poultry meats, and vegetable oils all increased. Moreover, the average daily intake of energy, protein, fat, carbohydrates, and dietary fibers of Chinese residents decreased. To address the coexistence of under-nutrition and over-nutrition and to optimize the dietary structure of Chinese residents, in January 2014, the General Office of the State Council issued the \u201cOutline for the Development of Food and Nutrition in China (2014\u20132020) No.3).\u201dChina respectively conducted five national nutrition surveys in 1959, 1982, 1992, 2002, and 2012, and the researchers analyzed the changes in the dietary structure of Chinese residents by using the data of national nutrition surveys comprehensively since the reform and opening up. As seen in Notice on Printing and Distributing China's Mid-and Long-term Plan for the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases (Released by State Council Office (2017) No.12)\u201d in February 2017, which mentioned, \u201cstrengthening health education and improving the health quality of the whole people, implementing early diagnosis and treatment to reduce the risk of disease among high-risk groups, promoting the coordination of medical treatment and prevention, realizing the whole process of health management and other measures\u201d (Notice on the adjustment plan of temporary import tariff rate in 2020 (Released by State Council Customs Tariff Commission (2019) No.50),\u201d which put stated \u201cimplementing zero tariff on several new diabetes drugs.\u201d  No.6)\u201d issued by the Central Government and State Council in March 2009, which has not only promoted the development of medical and health undertakings in China but also laid a foundation for the improvement of the whole national health. In addition, the average life expectancy of the Chinese population has increased from 68 years old in 1978 to 77.3 in 2019. The thought of \u201cexercise is a valuable medicine\u201d has existed since ancient times. The leaders of the past generations of the Chinese nation have attached great importance to the physical quality and health level of Chinese nationals and emphasized the importance of exercise and fitness. In June 1952, Chairman Mao Zedong wrote an inscription for the foundation of the All-China Sports Federation which stated to \u201cdevelop sports and build up the people's physical fitness.\u201d In August 1997, Chairman Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for the national fitness work which stated that \u201cnational Fitness benefits the country and Chinese nationals and contributes to the present and future generations\u201d. In October 2005, when General Secretary Hu Jintao attended the 10th National Games in Nanjing, he proposed that \u201ccarrying out national physical fitness activities to improve the health quality of the whole nation.\u201d In August 2013, when meeting with the national mass sports advanced units and advanced individual representatives, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that \u201cnational fitness is the foundation and guarantee for all people to enhance their physical fitness and lead a healthy life, national fitness is an important connotation of building moderately prosperous society in all respects, and it's also a vital basis for every person to grow up and live a happy life\u201d. It can be seen from Besides the income of urban and rural residents, dietary structure, and lifestyle, many other factors are affecting the health of Chinese nationals, such as health care, sports, and fitness. Medical and health care are related to the health of hundreds of millions of people. Since the reform and opening up, the development level of medical and health care in China has gradually increased, and the average life expectancy of the Chinese population has also risen. As can be seen in In conclusion, there has been a relatively huge overall change in the attention of the Central Government, that is, the level of attention, to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals from 1978 to 2020, and the policies related to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals issued by the Central Government have been growing faster. The income level of the urban and rural residents, the total production of various types of food, dietary structure, the total number of medical and health institutions, the average life expectancy of the Chinese population, and the number of sports venues have been constantly increasing since the reform and opening up, which has effectively promoted the improvement of the nutrition, exercise, and health level of Chinese nationals, and it cannot be achieved without the attention and support of the Central Government. However, the change of the lifestyle of Chinese nationals has led to the growth of the modern \u201cCivilization Disease,\u201d which is also an important issue that the Central Government needs to handle urgently. Therefore, the research can not only offer a window into the changes of the attention of the Central Government to the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals since the reform and opening up, but also verify the hypothesis that the attention of the government influences the level of the nutrition, exercise, and health of Chinese nationals. Furthermore, the research also summarizes the progress and defects of the development in nutrition, exercise, and health in China to lay a good foundation for the promotion of a healthy China.The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author/s.TZ and JL: data analysis and review and editing. JL: methodology. YZ: check the data. WZ and YZ: draft the paper. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.This research was funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant Number: 17BTY077) and the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant Number: 2016M591116).The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in the study design, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This work was supported by Trond Mohn foundation, grant number TMS2019TMT02. The hosting for the computations were performed on the Norwegian Research and Education Cloud (NREC), using resources provided by the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo ("}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper . In the Dr. SangJoon Lee has been requested by Ulsan National Institutes of Science and Technology (UNIST) that his affiliation of UNIST be removed from the Affiliations, because Dr. Lee\u2019s position was not officially assigned by UNIST when the paper was published.2: Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan. The corrected affiliation section should be: SangJoon LeeThe authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. The original publication has also been updated."}
{"text": "Following publication of the original article , the aut31770104, 31970065, U1902214).This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China ("}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas, RP200023, to JI.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Following publication of the original article , the autInstituto de Salud Carlos III through the project RD16/0001/0010 . Funding has allowed the evaluation work package of the project to design the study, collect and analyse data and in writing the manuscript. AM was supported by the UK Medical Research Council (grant number MC_UU_12017/14) and the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (grant number SPHSU14).This project was funded by research grants of the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme  and of the The original article  has been"}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for Foundation of National Facility for Translational Medicine (Shanghai) is TMSK-2020-116.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The National Academy for State Health Policy hosts both the RAISE Act Family Caregiving Resource and Dissemination Center and the Hub for State Strategies to Build and Support Palliative Care, with generous funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation. The value of supporting individuals with serious illness and complex conditions as well as their family caregivers through telehealth, care management, advance care planning, and other added family caregiver supports has been especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Policymakers are now grappling with how to restructure hard-hit health care and long-term services and supports systems to better support these individuals and their family caregivers. The State Hub provides concrete resources for states working to implement and expand high-quality palliative care, and the RAISE Center is assisting the Family Caregiving Advisory Council with creating the country\u2019s first national Family Caregiver Strategy."}
{"text": "The authors regret that the original version of this paper This study was supported by funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China  and National Key Research and Development Program in China (No. 2016YFB1101100 to Dr. Yubo Fan). Other funds were obtained from Grant-in-Aid from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Research and Development, Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Washington, DC (No. I01BX000282 to Jawahar L Mehta). Additional support was provided by Stebbins Chair in Cardiology funds to Jawahar L Mehta."}
{"text": "There is an error in affiliation 5 for authors Melissa Selb and Michaela Coenen. The correct affiliation 5 is: ICF Research Branch, Nottwil, Switzerland.The ICF Research Branch is no longer a cooperation partner of the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Family of International Classifications (at DIMDI)."}
{"text": "There is an error in the affiliations for author BR Ansil. Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India, should not be listed. The correct affiliation for BR Ansil is as follows: National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.Additional information is provided regarding study methodology. The anonymity of human participants was maintained throughout the study. No live animals were handled or euthanized for the purpose of this study and only dead bats collected from villagers following an annual community event were used.A land use permit from Government of Nagaland, Office of the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Pungro, Nagaland, India;Security and sensitivity clearance of the competent authority, Department of Atomic Energy, the parent funding body of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR);Permission from the Bomrr Clan for research at the privately owned study site;Approval for an exemption from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Institutional Review Board;Approval from the NUS Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee;Approval from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Institutional Ethics Committee (Human Subjects);Approval from the NCBS Institutional Animal Ethics Committee;Approval from the NCBS Institutional Biosafety Committee.The authors confirm that the study received all necessary approvals from the necessary national statutory bodies. The following permits and approvals were obtained:Copies of documentation for the above permits and approvals have been provided to the journal editors.At the time of publication of this notice, PLOS has been unable to reach the Indian Council of Medical Research to discuss the government-level regulations and permits relevant to this study. However, the Director of NCBS-TIFR confirmed to the journal editors that this study complied with all local regulations and received all necessary permissions, permits and had necessary approval of the parent Department i.e. the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funding information. The corrected Funding statement is shown below:This study was supported by the Department of Education in Guangdong Province of China, Grant No. 2016WQNCX130; Educational Science Research Institute of Shenzhen, Grant No. zdfz18007; and Shenzhen Social Science Association, Grant No. SZ2019D055 to XL.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "In this profile, Kristine M. Alpi, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association (MLA) president, 2021\u20132022, is described as committed to public health, professional development, and the growth and evolution of MLA. She teaches and speaks on the shared health impact from interactions among animals, humans, and the environment, and she mentors graduate students and fellows in librarianship and informatics. Alpi earned her PhD in educational research and policy analysis in 2018 and directs the Oregon Health & Science University Library. It's a distinct honor to be able to tell you about the career of Kristine Markovich Alpi, Medical Library Association (MLA) president for 2021\u20132022.I first met Kris when she arrived at the New York Academy of Medicine, where she was starting a job as education coordinator for what was then the Region 1 Regional Medical Library. She had, however, already begun preparing herself for excellence in library services, having worked as a hospital librarian in Indiana and then participating in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Associate Fellowship Program.Once settled in New York, Kris pursued her master's in public health, enrolling in the Hunter College School of the Health Professions. After working as an information services librarian and lecturer at the Weill Cornell Medical College, she took on the position of library manager at the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene's Public Health Library, where she directly served the public health professionals that served the largest city in the United States. She also continued as a lecturer in public health at Weill Cornell, teaching students in evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics.With her relocation to North Carolina as director of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University (NCSU), Kris entered a new area of public health\u2014that of the shared health impact from interactions among animals, humans, and the environment. Her recent coauthored article that appeared in the NLM's Director's Blog outlines the importance of One Health\u2014these shared public health impacts . She conDecember 2018 began a new phase in Kris's career as she moved to Portland and assumed the directorship of the Oregon Health & Science University Library. As part of her responsibilities as university librarian and associate professor in the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, she still educates students on informatics and epidemiology and serves as a mentor to graduate students and fellows.Kris's work in public health has extended to educating consumers by locating accurate and timely web-based information. From 1998 to 2009, she used her expertise in Spanish to build the Spanish side of the bilingual web portal NOAH . After grant funding ceased, NOAH became a volunteer-driven project\u2014Kris managed the Spanish content, as well as volunteering to work on the redesign committee so that the new interface was user-friendly to Spanish speakers. For that work, she was one of the awardees when NOAH was given the Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award in 2006.Journal of the Medical Library Association. In 2021, Kris was selected as a Fellow of MLA.MLA has benefited from Kris's service. She has been a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) since 1997. She served on the National Program Committee three times and has been elected to the Nominating Committee twice and to the MLA Board. As a member and eventual chair of the Public Health and Health Administration Section (now Caucus), Kris worked with a committee to create a comprehensive list of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) that would benefit searching for the public health community; many of these terms have been added to the MeSH vocabulary. She also chaired the Research Caucus and served on the editorial board of the I look forward to Kris Alpi's presidential year. Her commitment to professional development and to the growth and evolution of MLA will benefit all members. Please join me in welcoming her to her new position."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: HK was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany (BMBF) within the project PROVID (FKZ 01KI20160C). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The affiliation for the first author is incorrect. The correct affiliation is not indicated. Wang Jiatong is not affiliated with #1 but with: Postdoctoral College of Teacher Education, Zhejiang Normal University, China."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This study was supported by the Open Project of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research (G818330002). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is the federally designated lead agency on aging research and supports significant research on aging as a lifelong process. In the last six years, NIA has experienced a tripling of its budget. Although much of this funding is targeted to Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias research, there has been an increase in funds allocated to non-AD research in keeping with the overall growth of NIH. This symposium will provide a forum for exploration of the implications of the budget increases for the general research community. NIA\u2019s senior staff will discuss research priorities and programs supported by the Institute. A question-and-answer session will follow these remarks on current funding and future priorities and research directions of NIA."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funders, \u201cKey Medical Discipline Construction Project of Tianjin, Science and Technology Project of Tianjin Medical Health Commission (TJWJ2021MS001), Tianjin Key Research and Development Plan, Key Project of Science and Technology Support (20YFZCSY00010).\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "This presentation describes the unique collaboration between The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Administration or Community Living (ACL), and the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) in supporting the RAISE Act Family Caregiver Resource and Dissemination Center, and the goals and activities of the RAISE Act Family Caregiving Advisory Council. Most importantly, she will present the the development of recommendations for a national strategy to support family caregivers involving all levels of government as well as private-sector actors. These recommendations fall into five primary areas, which Fox-Grage will discuss in detail. She will also discuss the Center\u2019s development of family caregiving resources for state and federal policymakers and other stakeholders as well as next steps in turning the Council\u2019s recommendations into concrete action."}
{"text": "The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in Funding section. The correct Funding section is given below.This publication is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) in the form of an advanced investigator award to SHR under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 787270). The publication was also supported in part by a Grant to OMEA from the European Research Council (311723-GENEPAD) and a Grant to SHR from Arthritis Research UK (19799)."}
{"text": "Several factors have been proposed for the geographic variation in the impact of the virus including differences in population age distribution, underlying host genetic and immunological mechanisms . The DELTAS Africa Initiative is an independent funding scheme of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)'s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa and supported by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Planning and Coordinating Agency with funding from the Wellcome Trust (grant No. 107752/Z/15/Z) and the UK government.There are no conflicts of interest."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province is no. 2018A030313610, and the correct number for National Natural Science Foundation of China is no. 81872409.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper :The Funding and Acknowledgments sections need to be corrected. The updated information is provided below:Funding: The team would like to express their thanks to the Deputyship for Research & Innovation, \u201cMinistry of Education\u201d in Saudi Arabia for financial support through the project number IFKSURG-1438-089. Acknowledgments: We thank technical facilitation offered by laboratories of Xianbao Wang and Hongrong Li for support in experimental work. Moreover, the team author extends their appreciation to the National Key R&D Program of China. This change does not affect the scientific results or conclusions in the original published paper.The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by these changes."}
{"text": "There is an omission in the Institutional Review Board Statement and Conflict of Interest statements of the paper . The autInstitutional Review Board Statement: Mouse care and experimental procedures were performed under pathogen-free conditions in accordance with approved protocols from the institutional animal care and use committee of the City of Hope National Medical Center (City of Hope IACUC protocol # is 13053 approved 2 November 2014).Conflicts of Interest: D.A.H. and L.E.O. are cofounders of Novonco Therapeutics Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA. The other authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.We apologize for this error and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the original article, there was an error in the Funding statement. \u201cMT\u201d should be removed from \u201cBTI MT.\u201d The corrected Funding statement should read:meimei@bioasis.us), a grant from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation (RR161038), and donations from the Sullivan Urology Foundation at Vancouver General Hospital. TA was supported by NIH grants 1S10OD010756\u201301A1 and 1S10OD018124\u201301A1. BE was supported by Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, the Centre for Blood Research at the University of British Columbia and the Pacific Alzheimer's Foundation. CS was supported by an Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Outstanding Young Investigator Scholarship, and by a William and Dorothy Gilbert Graduate Scholarship in Biomedical Sciences at the University of British Columbia and a scholarship from the Centre for Blood Research Graduate Student Award at the University of British Columbia.\u201d\u201cFunding for this work was provided to WJ in the Michael Smith Laboratories, at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Prostate Centre, at Vancouver General Hospital, by a grant from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (MOP-133635), a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (CRDPJ 452456\u201313) in collaboration with Bioasis Technologies Inc. (BTI, Additionally, there was a mistake in the COI section, which should now read:\u201cThe authors declare that this study received funding from Bioasis Technologies Inc. The funder did not influence the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article or the decision to submit it for publication.\u201dThe authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder \u201cthe National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), No. 81274000 and No. 2010CB530600 to Fengmei Lian\u201d.Furthermore, there was a mistake in the legend for \u201cThe correct legends appear below.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The lecture will be given by the 2020 recipient, Sara Czaja, PhD, FGSA of Weill Cornell Medicine. The 2020 M. Powell Lawton Award recipient is David Roth, Phd, FGSA, of Johns Hopkins University. The M. Powell Lawton Award is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions from applied research that has benefited older people and their care. The Lawton Award is generously funded by the Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life."}
{"text": "People with disabilities face a diverse array of health care and support needs. These needs can vary by disability type, degree, and timing of the advent of functional limitations. These differences have implications for needed health care service use and related expenditures. The symposium will open with a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored analysis of adult disability-associated health care expenditures, both nationally and by U.S. state, in total, by per adult, by per adult with disability, and by payer, to illustrate the contribution and variation of these expenditures to individual states and the health care system. We will next present a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation effort to identify onset and patterns of reduced functional ability at end of life for older adults with and without dementia as related to other comorbidities. The last paper will present a Commonwealth Foundation study on older adults with functional disabilities and multiple chronic conditions, comparing those with high health care needs versus the subset of those people who are also high cost. Patterns of utilization differed between these two groups, and by state. These findings have implications for the development of care models that might best meet people\u2019s needs. Our discussant will respond to the studies\u2019 findings and discuss the important role that efforts to understand the nature of disability and functional status and the scale and scope of service use and costs have for people with disabilities."}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following correction to this paper :The original version of our article  did not include the complete funding acknowledgement. The authors wish to change the information in the Funding section from:Funding: This research was funded by the United States Institute of Education Sciences, grant number R305A180290.to:Funding: The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through grant R305A180290, to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.The authors apologize for any inconvenience."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the following funding information:\u2018Ministry of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Youth Project, China, 18YJC190023.\u2019The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: CURACLE Co, Ltd., provided support for the study in the form of salary for HZ, and provided the CU06-1004 sample. The specific roles of this author are articulated in the \u2018author contributions\u2019 section. This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government , and the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning . This work was also supported in part by the Brain Korea 21 (BK21) PLUS program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Bioengineering and Translational Medicine \u2010mimetic hydrogels, which support cell encapsulation to enable regenerative medicine applications.For her scientific achievements, Prof. West has received numerous awards and honors. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). West is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and in 2015 she received the Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials, which is bestowed upon those who have advanced knowledge of material/tissue interactions. In 2017, she was an invited lecturer at the annual meeting of the President's Circle, an honorary association that engages with the Presidents of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine to ensure they have the necessary resources to further their work.In addition to her scientific accolades, Prof. West is also known for her outstanding teaching and mentoring. At Duke University, West has been honored with the 2019 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring and with the 2016 Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research.These sentiments were echoed by other alumni of the West Lab who were contacted for comment. They described Prof. West as \u201can exemplary leader and mentor\u2026who is always willing to share her experience and knowledge to guide her trainees\u201d and as someone who \u201cnot only promotes the accomplishments of her own trainees but is more broadly dedicated to championing people and raising others up. She is an exemplar of generosity and positivity.\u201d Many noted that Prof. West's guidance extends well beyond the years her students work in the lab, and that she is unwavering in her support. One alumna stated, \u201cIt was her confidence in me that enabled me to develop confidence in myself as a scientist.\u201d On behalf of all of Prof. West's former and current mentees, I thank her for her moral support, guidance, and advocacy, which has positively impacted numerous individuals and contributed greatly to their success.Finally, Prof. West has performed outstanding service to the profession. She has served on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals and participated in several grant review panels for the NIH and NSF. She was Treasurer of BMES from 2011 to 2015 and served on the BMES Diversity Committee from 2014 to 2017. Prof. West was Vice Chair and Chair Elect of the Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering from 2015 to 2019 (Figure\u00a0Prof. West has had an immense impact on biomaterials and nanomedicine research, and on the field of biomedical engineering more broadly. She is a remarkable leader who has nurtured the careers of many in the field, including both former trainees and those not affiliated with her lab. On behalf of the scientific community, I am honored to thank her for her research contributions, selfless service, and dedication to inspiring and empowering others through meaningful mentorship.Emily Day: Conceptualization; writing\u2010original draft; writing\u2010review & editing.https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/btm2.10225.The peer review history for this article is available at"}
{"text": "In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The correct Funding appears below.\u201cThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81603204) and National Science and Technology Major Project of China (Grant No.2020ZX09201-009)\u201d.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "This special issue comprises papers based in a meeting of the Nuclear Dynamics Special Interest Group of the Society for Experimental Biology. The session was entitled \u2018Functional organisation of the nuclear periphery\u2019 and was held at the Society\u2019s Annual Main Meeting in the beautiful city of Firenze (Florence) in July 2018. Organized by Katja Graumann and David Evans from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK and Roland Foisner, Medical University Vienna, Austria, the session highlighted novel research in plant, animal and fungal nuclear biology since the previous meeting of the group in Brighton, UK in 2016[https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA16212/). A review article in this special issue of Nucleus by members of Workgroup 1 of the COST Action provides insights into microscopy methods for studying 3D nuclear architecture in plants and accompanying challenges being addressed in the consortium[C. elegans[The meeting was supported by attendance of members of the INDEPTH (Impact of Nuclear Domains On Gene Expression and Plant Traits) COST Action CA16212 (onsortium, the cononsortium, and theonsortium with a f. elegans. The fin. elegans providesAs editors, we are grateful to all the contributors, both to the meeting and to this special issue. Their enthusiasm and willingness to share their insights and expertise with others was reflected in their presentations and is evident in the resulting papers. The cross-kingdom format of these meetings provides a fertile environment for generating research ideas and for development of collaborations and this is evidenced in the progress made by the members of the Group."}
{"text": "In the original article, the following was accidently omitted from the acknowledgements section: JB and RLM are members of SPECTRUM a UK Prevention Research Partnership Consortium. UKPRP is an initiative funded by the UK Research and Innovation Councils, the Department of Health and Social Care (England) and the UK devolved administrations, and leading health research charities. This has now been corrected. The title of Emily Thomson was also missing from the author designation box section. Her title of Medical Student has now been added."}
{"text": "Family Physician Dr Cherifa Sururu died of Covid-19 related complications at Mater Dei Hospital, Bulawayo, on Wednesday 27 January 2021.Cherifa was born on 18 March 1970 in Karoi district, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe. His parents originally came from the Yao people of neighbouring Malawi, so he was brought up a Muslim, speaking Yao at home, but later became fluent also in Shona, Ndebele and English. He grew up on a commercial farm, one of 11 children, where his mother was a farm worker and the third wife of his father. His schooling in Karoi and later A-levels in Harare were made possible by a series of scholarships including from the Islamic Development Bank and other well-wishers. He contributed to the family income by joining with seasonal agricultural activities at commercial farms, and supplemented their food supplies with fishing and hunting.Cherifa joined the University of Zimbabwe to study medicine and qualified with MBChB in 1997. He did his house jobs (internship) at Mpilo Central Hospital (1998\u20131999) and then embarked on a long career as a private general practitioner (GP) in Bulawayo. The entrepreneur spirit that saw him selling vegetables, sugar cane and wire toys as a young person, guided him in setting up several successful private surgeries in Bulawayo.Cherifa was a founding member, trustee and second Chairperson of the Islamic Medical Association in Zimbabwe, over a 12-year period. He was active in the College of Primary Care Physicians of Zimbabwe (CPCPZ) where he was the National Treasurer 2006 to 2014 and Honorary National Secretary 2014 to 2017. He was also the CPCPZ representative for the Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZiMA) Matabeleland Branch for 2015 and 2016; Branch Vice President from 2016 to 2017; member of the Social Responsibility Committee from 2014 and organized several medical outreaches to underserved communities in districts. He represented the CPCPZ in the Medical & Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe from July 2020 to his time of death. In the international arena he was the Zimbabwe country representative for Primafamed, a Primary Care and Family Medicine network in Africa, and through CPCPZ, a member of WONCA the World Organization of Family Doctors.Cherifa was one of four private GPs who enrolled with the University of Stellenbosch Family Medicine MMed programme, with the ambition of setting up a similar programme in Zimbabwe. He gained his MMed in March 2017. A register of Specialist Family Practitioners was established at the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe in 2015 and the four pioneers of Family Medicine in Zimbabwe were the first to be entered into that register. Family Medicine MMed training programmes were established at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), and at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, which enrolled their first intakes in 2020 and for whom Cherifa was a committed educator.Cherifa was involved in philanthropic work through Green Crescent Zimbabwe in partnership with the career guidance and counselling department of the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, to support a schools\u2019 programme to prevent drugs and substance abuse, teenage pregnancies and suicide. The programme was launched in December 2020. At the time of his death, Cherifa was involved in research on factors influencing substance abuse among school children in Bulawayo and on quality of care in the Zimbabwe district health system.Cherifa felt strongly connected to his parents\u2019 country of origin and managed to visit Malawi in 2017 as part of a Training for Clinical Trainers in Family Medicine run by Stellenbosch University. As a child, he loved listening to the stories about Malawi told by his grandmother by the fireside at night.His death is a sad loss to Family Medicine in Zimbabwe and he will be deeply missed. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Chipendo and his five children."}
{"text": "Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-021-99908-3, published online 14 October 2021Correction to: The original version of this Article contained an error in the Acknowledgments section.\u201cThe authors would like to thank the Henan Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center for providing the data. The data in this study is publicly available and accessible. The information in this paper does not represent the opinion of Henan Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center or national centres. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72074088) and the Young Scientists Fund (No. 72804052) supported this research. We would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Young Scientists Fund for the funding for this research.\u201dnow reads:\u201cThe authors would like to thank the Henan Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center for providing the data. The data in this study is publicly available and accessible. The information in this paper does not represent the opinion of Henan Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center or national centres. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72074088) and the Young Scientists Fund (No. 71804052) supported this research. We would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Young Scientists Fund for the funding for this research.\u201dThe original Article has been corrected."}
{"text": "The project title cited in the first sentence of the Acknowledgements is incorrect. The correct title is:\u201cDynamics of Economy and Finance from the Economic Network Point of View\u201d and not \u201cMacro-Economy under COVID-19 influence: Data-intensive analysis and the road to recovery.\u201dwww.editage.com) for English language editing.The correct Acknowledgements should read: This study is conducted as a part of the Project \u201cDynamics of Economy and Finance from the Economic Network Point of View\u201d undertaken at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). The authors are grateful for helpful comments and suggestions by Discussion Paper seminar participants at RIETI. The authors appreciate the support by INTAGE Inc. to make the data available. The authors would also like to thank participants of the conferences of Computational Social Science Japan, Japan Institute of Marketing Science, and Japan Society for Evolutionary Economics for their helpful discussions and comments. We would like to thank Editage ("}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: The authors received no specific funding for this work.The US National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust did not provide any funding for this research and any such claim was made in error.There is an error in the Ethics statement. The correct Ethics statement is as follows: The maintenance of animals and the experimental procedures used in this research program followed the Animal Care and Use Protocol which is approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia (2018/01/I/ES/IPT/V0). Infected dogs used in this research program were obtained from a previous industry sponsored study that was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia (IPT/UESV/27/2012). The Institut Pasteur de Tunis complies with the European Directive for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes (2010/63/EU)."}
{"text": "In the abstract, in the methodology section, line number 1, the following sentence: \u2018This study was conducted prospectively at the Gezira Hospital for Renal Disease and Surgery and at the National Cancer Institute at the University of Gezira, Sudan, for an 11-year period\u2019 should be replaced with \u2018This study was conducted retrospectively at the Gezira Hospital for Renal Disease and Surgery and at the National Cancer Institute at the University of Gezira, Sudan, for an 11-year period.\u2019"}
{"text": "In the original article, there was errors regarding the biographical data of \u201cHelen S. Mayberg, Zelma Kiss and Andrea K\u00fchn.\u201dNeuropsychiatric Surgery, Helen S. Mayberg, Neurologist, paragraph 1:A correction has been made to the section Helen S. Mayberg  is a neurologist born in 1956. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles at the age of 20 and a Medical Doctor degree 5 years later from the University of Southern California. After this, she obtained her certification as a neurologist from Columbia University in New York and a research fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Among her multiple honors outstand her election as a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the United States of America, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors of the USA. Currently, she is Director and Professor at The Center of Advanced Circuit Therapeutics at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.Neurotechnology, Zelma Kiss, Neurosurgeon, paragraph 1:A correction has been made to the section Zelma Kiss  is a neurosurgeon born in 1964. She graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Ottawa, Canada at the age of 24. She completed her neurosurgical training at the University of Toronto, where she also received her Ph.D. After winning the Van Wagenen fellowship, she had the opportunity to continue her postdoctoral education under the supervision of Alim Louis Benabid in Grenoble, France. In 2000, she was appointed at the University of Calgary, where she is currently an associate professor of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and is the Head of the Neuromodulation program of southern Alberta.Neuroimaging, Andrea K\u00fchn, Neurologist, paragraph 2:A correction has been made to the section In 2010, upon her return to Berlin, she worked as a neurologist at the University Hospital Charit\u00e9 where she became head of the Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit. Her primary research interest became pathological oscillatory activity in patients with movement disorders under deep brain stimulation (Barrow et al., The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "In the original article, there was an error in the Funding statement as published. Instead of \u201cSchool-level special project of Sichuan Normal University,\u201d the correct name for the Funder is \u201cSichuan Normal University's School-level Special Funding Project for \u201cResearch and Interpretation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China\u201d \u201d. The funder \u201cNational Social Science Foundation of China (21BGL189)\u201d has also been removed from the statement. The corrected Funding statement is shown below.The work described in this manuscript was supported by the Sichuan Normal University's School-level Special Funding Project for \u201cResearch and Interpretation of the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China\u201d  (SNU19J4Z2019-14), the Sichuan Soft Science Research Project (2019JDR0345), the 2020 Sichuan International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Project (2020YFH0160), and the Social Science Planning Project of Sichuan Province (SC19TJ026 and SC21B097).The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "In the original article, there was an error in the Funding statement as published. The correct Name for the Funder \u201cHangzhou Normal University (2020QDL006 and 20JYXK035)\u201d is \u201cthe Starting Research Fund from Hangzhou Normal University (No. 2020QDL006), and the cultivation project of the province-leveled preponderant characteristic discipline in the College of Education of Hangzhou Normal University (20JYXK035)\u201d. The corrected Funding statement is shown below.This research was supported by grants to CW from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32000780), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Q21C090027), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (no. 2018M630655), the Starting Research Fund from Hangzhou Normal University (no. 2020QDL006), and the cultivation project of the province-leveled preponderant characteristic discipline in the College of Education of Hangzhou Normal University (20JYXK035), and grants to YY from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (no. BK20190937) and Natural Science Foundation for Universities of Jiangsu Province (no. 19KJB19005).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder \u201cThe National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81670735 to FC, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81400802 and Outstanding Youth Training Project from Shanghai Ninth People\u2019s Hospital the National Natural Science Foundation of China, jyyq 08201607 to HL\u201d.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following change to the funding section in their paper . The oriThe authors extend their appreciation to the Deputyship for Research & Innovation, Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia, for funding this research work through the project number IFKSURP-59.We apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by this mistake."}
{"text": "Youth Project of Anhui Natural Science Foundation is 2108085QH372. The corrected funding statement appears below.There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81530096), Shanghai E-Research Institute of Bioactive Constituent in TCM plan, the Opening Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Compound Chinese Medicines (17DZ2273300), Youth Project of Anhui Natural Science Foundation (2108085QH372), Key Program for International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81920108033).There is an error in the article title. The word \u201cderivation\u201d in title should be corrected as \u201cdeprivation.\u201dThe authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "NRF-2019R1A2C1084033. The corrected Funding statement is shown below.In the original article, there was an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning is NRF-2019R1A2C1084033 to JJ).This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (grant number The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher."}
{"text": "The affiliation of the corresponding author Sharon A. Tooze to the Institute of Cancer Research, Olso, Norway was incorrectly added. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder Humanities and Social Science Project of Hefei University, 18RW12ZDA, to Difei Liu. The updated Acknowledgments section is shown below.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The Great Influenza, John M. Barry describes how the distinguished innovators of American medical education and academic public health traveled to Europe at the end of the 19th century to glean all they could for creating a more advanced model for U.S. schools of medicine  the interface between public health and health care provision: the Scandinavian welfare state, the German health insurance model, and the British National Health Service. In contrast, the United States has long held the opposite understanding of the role of the state in health: that health is the responsibility of the individual, not of the state  \u2014 is moving forward in adopting the social paradigm outlined in the Ottawa Charter. Three recent developments illustrate how Europe is adopting the model.Enabling Good Health for All \u2014 A Reflection Process for a New EU Health Strategy by the former European Commissioner of Health and Consumer Protection   . The cons (HiAP) . The cous (HiAP) .Three, an exemplar for a national determinants-based health policy is the Swedish public health policy, Health on Equal Terms, which was adopted by the Swedish Parliament in 2003 . The ove10 Statements on the Future of Public Health in Europe  conference held in Montreux, Switzerland, in November 2006 was \"Politics, Policies and/or the Public's Health,\" and the EUPHA has issued n Europe . Perhaps"}
{"text": "Current Oncology that Dr. Richard J. Ablin, from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the Arizona Cancer Center, has agreed to join Dr. Phil Gold as co-deputy editor. We welcome Richard, who has served on the editorial board of Current Oncology since 1998 and who is currently co-editor with Phil Gold of our section on Updates and Developments in Oncology.We are delighted to inform the readership of In their respective roles, Phil and Richard will work together, with the help of our section editors, to expand the base of submissions from across Canada and the United States. In this regard, we look to you, our readership, for input about the kind of material that you would like to see\u2014and indeed for original articles for publication in your specific areas of interest and expertise, and for reviews of areas that have experienced rapid progress on the clinical side.Current Oncology and working to further enhance the impact value of the journal.Furthermore, Phil and Richard, together with other members of our staff, will be interfacing with industry and other stakeholders in the oncology community throughout North America while promoting Current Oncology to the next level, thereby filling a niche for not only for specialists in clinical oncology, but also for family physicians who have taken on major responsibilities in meeting the needs of cancer patients. In the process, we trust that Current Oncology will become an invaluable resource for the Canadian oncology community.We anticipate that these exciting changes will bring her2 protein overexpression. Overexpression of her2 is predictive of response to particular therapies, including trastuzumab  treatment in the meta-static and adjuvant settings, and updated Canadian guidelines for her2 testing are published in this issue of the journal. Two additional clinical practice guidelines are also included: one on the management of solitary brain metastasis, and another on the value of ifosfamide-based combination chemotherapy in advanced soft-tissue sarcoma. Stephen Sagar, in his role of section editor of Integrative Therapies, introduces a manuscript from Edzard Ernst titled \u201cHomeopathy for cancer?\u201d describing the evolution of the art of homeopathy over the last 200 years or so. And the National Cancer Institute of Canada (ncic) Clinical Trials Group\u2019s article \u201cPhase ii testing of sunitinib: the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group IND Program Trials IND.182\u2013185\u201d leads off a new section of selected Canadian Centre Activities.The gene for human epidermal growth factor 2 is amplified in approximately 20% of breast cancers, and the amplification is the primary mechanism for"}
{"text": "The following treatise includes review chapters from presentations of distinguished scientists at a symposium held August 16\u201317, 2005, in Portland, Oregon, entitled \"Basic and applied biology of the primate reproductive tract: in Honor of the career of Dr Robert M Brenner\". As a prelude to the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, outstanding scientists from Europe and America assembled to present the current state-of-research in primate reproductive tract biology and to recognize Dr. Brenner's tremendous impact on this research field. In addition, numerous other peers and former students attended and contributed to the scientific exchange and social festivities. Generous support from the National Center for Research Resources (R13 RR018799) and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), Division of Reproductive Sciences, made this event possible.In 2005, Bob Brenner Figure  retired So, Bob, we applaud your extraordinary accomplishments during 40 great years at ONPRC! On behalf of your many colleagues and friends at the Center and around the world, we wish you the best and look forward to your continued activities as Scientist Emeritus."}
{"text": "The funding statement for this article should read as follows:We acknowledge financial support through the German Research Foundation DFG . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The National Integrated Project for Prospective Observation of Non-communicable Disease and its Trends in the Aged (NIPPON DATA) is a series of cohort studies on representative Japanese populations that participated in national surveys in Japan. These studies are unique because their participants are general Japanese adult populations from 300 randomly selected areas throughout Japan. NIPPON DATA80 and NIPPON DATA90 are cohort studies of the National Survey of Circulatory Disorders and the National Nutrition Survey in 1980 and 1990. These long-term cohort studies have provided a large amount of important evidence on the risk factors for non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases, and this information has been used in public health policy making, clinical guidelines, and health education in Japan.1 This is a cohort study of participants in the National Health and Nutrition Survey in 2010. NIPPON DATA2010 also includes original examinations and questionnaires added by our research group, as the successor of the National Survey of Circulatory Disorders. Study participants had also participated in the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions in 2010; therefore, the data of this national survey were merged with the NIPPON DATA2010 dataset. Thus, the dataset of NIPPON DATA2010 provides a range of information on the socioeconomic status of a representative Japanese population in 2010.A new cohort study, NIPPON DATA2010, was initiated in 2010.Journal of Epidemiology, 11 studies on the relationships among socioeconomic status and obesity, dietary habits, and health-related behavior and knowledge, which are related to cardiovascular risk factors, are published, including the study profile paper of NIPPON DATA2010. Reductions in heath disparities in Japan are one of the main goals of the National Health Promotion Movement in the Twenty-first Century  (the second term).2 We hope that the information discussed in this issue will lead to important and effective measures that reduce health disparities and prevent cardiovascular diseases in Japan and worldwide.In this special issue of the Journal of Epidemiology, for his useful instructions and support.We thank Drs. Nobuo Nishi, Nagako Okuda, Takayoshi Ohkubo, and Aya Kadota for their important contribution in editing this issue, and Dr. Keitaro Matsuo, the Editor-in-Chief of the"}
{"text": "Unfortunately, after publication of this article , it was AcknowledgmentsThis study is supported by a grant from the Chinese 973 project (No.2012CB517702) and four grants from the National Natural Science Fund . The authors are very grateful to Prof. Xue-Ying Li for the advice on statistical analysis.They gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University First Hospital."}
{"text": "Overall Abstract: Lawrence J. Seidman was born and grew up in New York City. He obtained a PhD from Boston University in Psychology and stayed in Massachusetts to work for many years in the Harvard affiliated Hospitals, such as the VA-Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts General Hospital and at his untimely passing, he was Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He was about to move to a new phase in his career, assuming a position at Children\u2019s Hospital, Boston. He was a pioneer in the fields of the neuropsychology of schizophrenia, ADHD and related disorders, of using the tools of cognitive assessments and brain imaging to understand the genetic predisposition for serious mental illness, and in the last several years\u2014prediction of conversion to psychosis in individuals at high risk. He contributed to many multicenter collaborations and had several collaborators world-wide, playing an important role in their work. This symposium is conducted in his honor with contributions from key collaborators on different aspects of his work. Drs. Tyronne Cannon and Elaine Walker will both represent the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS) consortium by reviewing its findings in brain imaging and cognition. Dr. David Braff will review the work of the Consortium on the Genetics of Schizophrenia (COGS) multicenter collaboration, in which Dr. Seidman led one of its sites, and Dr. TianHong Zhang from Shanghai will present current data from the Shanghai-Boston SHARP collaboration on early detection of psychosis. The symposium will be concluded by Dr. Keshavan from Beth Israel-Deaconess, who was a close colleague of Dr. Seidman for the last decade. Together they worked side by side exploring many aspects of early detection of schizophrenia and educating trainees and the public on their findings. He will sum up the legacy of Dr. Seidman to the field and how we can continue it into the future."}
{"text": "The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently posted new information on its website: \u201cPhysical Activity: Built Environment Approaches Combining Transportation System Interventions with Land Use and Environmental Design.\u201d This information is available at  Established in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the task force is an independent, nonfederal, panel of public health and prevention experts whose members are appointed by the director of CDC. The task force provides information for a wide range of persons who make decisions about programs, services, and other interventions to improve population health. Although CDC provides administrative, scientific, and technical support for the task force, the recommendations developed are those of the task force and do not undergo review or approval by CDC."}
{"text": "The Data Availability statement for this paper is incorrect. The correct statement is: This paper uses unit record data from Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. The study is conducted in partnership between the Department of Social Services (DSS), the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The findings and views reported in this paper are those of the author and should not be attributed to DSS, AIFS or the ABS.http://www.growingupinaustralia.gov.au/data/dataaccessmenu.htmlData are available from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children authors. They are contactable via: Users may apply for individual or organisational licenses. There is a fee for the licenses and release of data. The data analysed in this project were accessed via an organisational license. SRZ is the Data Manager for the Telethons Kids Institute and is responsible for maintaining the organisational deed. DC and CLT signed a Deed of Confidentiality to access these data, which SRZ returned for authorisation to the Department of Social Services. No data were analysed  which are not available to licensed users of the data.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council (CE140100027). The publisher apologizes for the errors."}
{"text": "The affiliation for the eighth author is incorrect. Shane Crotty is not affiliated with #2 but with #1 La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America."}
{"text": "Dr. Cornelia L. Trimble is not included in the author byline. She should be listed as the twenty-second author and affiliated with Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. The contributions of this author are as follows: Conceptualization, methodology and formal analysis.The following information is missing from the Funding section: This study was supported by the Dana Foundation and the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund to CT and by the NCI grant 1K23CA85437."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This research was suppported through funding from The Funds for Creative Research Groups of Heilongjiang Province of China (JC2016004), Project of outstanding academic leaders in Harbin (2015RQXXJ018), and National Key Research Program of China (2016YFD0100201-21). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The publisher apologizes for the errors."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder(s) for this article. We gratefully acknowledge financial support as follows. Research support: the Medical Research Council  and the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR BRC) Cambridge . Authors\u2019 support: PH\u2014NIHR Research Professorship, Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation Senior Surgical Scientist Fellowship and NIHR Cambridge BRC. AY is supported by an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship. JD is supported by a Woolf Fisher Scholarship. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The original article was updated.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "There is, however, approximately 20 to 25 % of Earth\u2019s higher plant species in this area  was established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. It is an international scientific research and education organisation managed by the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG). With financial and personnel support from Chinese Academy of Sciences, SEABRI seeks to substantially improve our understanding and conservation of biodiversity in Southeast Asia by cooperation with all CAS institutes, international agencies and government of ASEAN countries.In order to understand and conserve the biodiversity in Southeast Asia, the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute  and a new species of Didymocarpus (Gesneriaceae) from Vietnam, a new species of Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae), a new species of Dendrobium (Orchidaceae), a new species of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae), a new species of Hedychium (Zingiberaceae) and two new species of Trivalvaria (Annonaceae) from Northern Myanmar, a new species of Primulina (Gesneriaceae) from southwest China and seven species of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from Northern Vietnam and Southern China. The description of the little known species, Begoniakingdon-wardii (Begoniaceae) in Myanmar was also included. Results of molecular phylogenetics of tribe Neottieae (Orchidaceae) are also reported. Most studies are financially supported by the CAS .This special issue of Phytokeys, entitled \u201cPlant diversity in Southeast Asia\u201d represents a new effort by"}
{"text": "In the original research article, Juan Wang and Zengping Gao were not included in the author list. They have now been included along with the affiliation: School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.In addition, Zengping Gao has been included as a corresponding author.Finally, the authors unintentionally did not acknowledge funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China No.31270400.The authors apologize for these oversights. These errors do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The original article has been updated.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "Medicines Travel Award 2018, we received a total of 41 applications from all over the world, of a very high quality. After preselection from the managing editorial staff of Medicines, scientific decision has been performed by four experts from Asia, Australia, and America and by the editor-in-chief of Medicines from Europe. Therefore, the jury included experts from four different continents.For the Medicines, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Medicines Travel Award for 2018. The travel award was granted to Dr. Amie Steel, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Research Center in Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend any academic conference during 2018.As Editor-in-Chief of Dr. Steel is also Associate Director Research at Endeavour College of Natural Health. In the four years since she has received her PhD, she has published over 100 research contributions, including 75 journal articles, two books, and 20 book chapters. She has attracted a large amount of research funding for complementary medicine (CM) research in the last 12 months, the majority of which is directed towards clinical trials involving medicinal cannabis and other natural health products.Her research interests fit within the broad remit of health services research, with a particular focus on understanding clinical practice and supporting clinical research which is embedded in and reflects daily routine care. She is a member of the Steering Committee for three national CM practice-based research networks in Australia, and she has led the formation of the International Research Collaborative for Naturopathic Academic Clinics\u2014a network of research sites in naturopathic educational institutions which crosses four countries. This research infrastructure supports pragmatic clinical research within CM. She is also a peer mentor on the ARCCIM Research Leadership Programs for both CM and Naturopathy, and is a member of the World Naturopathic Federation Research Committee through which she has also contributed to policy development for the World Health Organization.In recent years, she has turned her attention to the evolving field of implementation science. In particular, she is interested in exploring the most effective way to integrate and implement different forms of knowledge. Within CM scholarship, the concept of the \u201cembodied knowledge of the experienced clinician\u201d is defended and criticized in equal measure, and she would like to explore the possibility of drawing upon the strategies being developed within implementation science to address this challenge within her own topic area.Medicines editorial and publishing teams! Congratulations to Dr. Amie Steel on behalf of the international jury and the"}
{"text": "It has been brought to our attention that one funding project of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic LO1417) was missing in the Acknowledgement section of our published paper [417 was mAcknowledgments: The support of the Czech Science Foundation (14-11782S and 16-21053S), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (LO1305 and LO1417), and Palack\u00fd University Olomouc (IGA_PrF_2017_020) is gratefully acknowledged.This addendum does not cause any changes to the results and conclusions in the original published paper."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This publication is partly supported by grant #1 U54 CA221205-01 from the National Cancer Institute. The publisher apologizes for the error. The complete, correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by a training grant #D43TW009575 from the NIH Fogarty International Center and the National Cancer Institutes. This publication is partly supported by grant #1 U54 CA221205-01 from the National Cancer Institute. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIH Fogarty International Center and the National Cancer Institute."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the second grant number from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic is missing and should read: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic , Czech Science Foundation (grant no. P501-12-G090) and supported by Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, Project No. MZE \u010cR RO0417 and Project No. QK1710302."}
{"text": "Bioengineering & Translational Medicine, I must express my deep gratitude to the members of our Editorial Advisory Board. Their expertise and experience provide a strong foundation supporting the broad range of bioengineering topics that will be covered in the journal. To highlight this strength, we plan to feature one of our distinguished Editorial Advisory Board members in each issue. In this inaugural issue, we are proud to feature Prof Nicholas A Peppas.On the launch of this inaugural issue of AIChE's and SBE's Nicholas Peppas holds a Cockrell Family Regents Chaired Professorship in Engineering, Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin, with appointments in the departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, in Surgery in the Dell Medical School, and in the College of Pharmacy. He received his Diploma in Engineering from the National Technical University in Athens and an Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemical Engineering. He has also received numerous honorary doctorates, including those from the University of Ghent (Belgium), the University of Parma , the University of Ljublijana (Slovenia), the University of Athens (Greece), the University of Patras (Greece), and an honorary professorship from the Sichuan University (China).Professor Peppas' research has made a transformative impact on drug delivery, which has leaped to the forefront of science and technology. In particular, Prof Peppas' research on mathematical models and novel biomaterials has yielded not only new insights into drug release mechanisms and new technologies to control them, but has also provided a new paradigm for research conducted at the interface of medicine and engineering. His early studies on drug diffusion in polymeric systems provided the much needed quantitative tools to describe drug release,Journal of Controlled Release on mathematical models of solute diffusion.Journal of Controlled Release in its 30\u2010plus year history.In 1987, Prof Peppas published two seminal papers in the Responsive hydrogels represent another area where Dr Peppas' work has made a pioneering and transformative impact, especially for applications in diabetes treatment.Encapsulation of glucose oxidase in hydrogel adds another layer of \u201csmartness\u201d to gel\u2010based systems.Professor Peppas has been recognized with numerous awards, including elections to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), National Academy of Medicine (NAM), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), National Academy of France, Royal Academy of Spain and the Academy of Athens. He is also an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS), Society for Biomaterials (SFB), among others. Professor Peppas has been recognized by the NAE Founders Award, the Giulio Natta Medal, the Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal, AIMBE's Pierre Galletti Award, and the Maurice Marie Janot Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences, among others. His teaching accomplishments have been recognized through the Benjamin Garver Lamme Excellence in Engineering Education Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. In 2016, Prof Peppas was included in the 100 Power List by the medicinemaker, comprising the most influential individuals making medicines.AIChE and SBE have been particularly proud to recognize Prof Peppas with several of their distinguished awards, including Materials Engineering and Sciences Award (1984); Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Bioengineering Award (1992); Nanoscale Science and Engineering Award (2014), Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to Chemical Engineering (2008); William H. Walker Award (2006); Jay Bailey Award (2006); and Institute Lecturer (2007). In 2008, Prof Peppas was listed among the \u201cOne Hundred Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era by AIChE\u201d on the occasion of the Institute's centennial.As towering as these accomplishments and recognitions are, if we ask Prof Peppas, he would say that his proudest professional achievements are his students. To date, he has supervised more than 875 researchers, including 105 PhDs, over half of whom are now professors at various Universities. His students are advancing various frontiers of bioengineering and biotechnology in their own ways in academia as well as industry.AIChE Journal (2009\u20132012). Professor Peppas' pioneering research, along with his active and inspiring leadership in various professional organizations, has advanced the visibility of drug delivery in the scientific landscape, and has inspired young professionals to follow the suit.Over the years, Prof Peppas has played a central role in advancing the cause of bioengineering in various organizations, especially in AIChE. He was director of AIChE (1999\u20132002); chair of the AIChE's Materials Engineering and Sciences Division (1988\u20131990); director of AIChE's Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division (1994\u20131997); and founder of AIChE's Bionanotechnology programming area. Even outside AIChE, Prof Peppas has been extremely active in various professional organizations. He was director of the BMES (2008\u20132011), Chair of the College of Fellows of AIMBE (2006\u20132007), President of the SFB (2003\u20132004), president of the Controlled Release Society (1987\u20131988), and chair of the Engineering section of AAAS (2014\u20132015). He is presently the President of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Sciences and Engineering (2008\u20132016). Among many of his editorial responsibilities, he was Associate Editor of the Bioengineering & Translational Medicine and look forward to his continued support.On behalf of AIChE and SBE, I thank Prof Peppas for his strong support in the launch of Dept. of Chemical Engineering Center for Bioengineering University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email:samir@engr.ucsb.eduSamir Mitragotri Editor\u2010in\u2010Chief"}
{"text": "CDC joins the American Public Health Association (APHA) in celebration of National Public Health Week, April 3\u20139, 2017. Since 1995, APHA has led the observance of National Public Health Week during the first full week of April. The week recognizes the impact of public health on the health of the nation. The 2017 observance focuses on making the United States the Healthiest Nation in One Generation by 2030 by spotlighting the importance of prevention, employing successful strategies for collaboration, and promoting the critical role of a strong public health system. http://www.nphw.org/.In conjunction with this year\u2019s observance, CDC is partnering to promote APHA\u2019s National Public Health Week themes, events, tools, and resources. Additional information is available at"}
{"text": "There is information missing from the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This research was supported by JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (23\u20132815) and special funding for the promotion of internationalization of research activities by the Japanese Group Dynamics Association to RA. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The grant in the Funding Section is incorrect. The correct funding information is as follows: The authors would like to acknowledge the support provided by The College of Engineering Research Center at King Saud University, for providing funds through the research grant, grant no 438/12, for the current research."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was partially supported by JST CREST, Grant Number JPMJCR14D2, Japan and the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology and the Center of Innovation Program, the Japan Science and Technology Agency. This work was also partially supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency KAKENHI Grant Number 15H05707. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The TNM classification for retinoblastoma, which is developed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), has recently been updated from TNM7 to TNM8. The newest dataset for retinoblastoma from the UK's Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), released in early 2018, reflects the changes in the TNM classification."}
{"text": "It is with great sadness that we share that Jean St. Germain, our colleague, friend, and integral member of the Medical Physics Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) for over 50\u00a0yr, passed away on December 7, 2017. She died peacefully and was with her brother, Amos, at the time.Jean St. Germain 1945\u20132017Following completion of graduate study at Rutgers University and a fellowship at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Jean was appointed, in November 1967, as a Fellow in the Department of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan Kettering under John Laughlin and Garrett Holt. At the end of her fellowship, she was appointed to the faculty and rose to the rank of Associate Attending Physicist, and subsequently, to Attending Physicist. She served as the Corporate Radiation Safety Officer, guiding and presiding over the incredible growth of the institution. She served as an interim chair of the Department of Medical Physics from 2007 to 2010 and subsequently as a Vice\u2010Chair for Clinical and Educational Affairs and Clinical Member. Jean was a licensed medical physicist in New York State and was certified in Comprehensive Health Physics in 1974 by the ABHP and in 1991 in Medical Health Physics by the ABMP. Jean was also appointed a Lecturer, Instructor, and ultimately Assistant Professor of Physics in Clinical Radiology, Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University and served as the Radiation Safety Officer at the NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center for more than 35\u00a0yr.Jean's contributions to the field of medical physics and health physics were vast and significant. She has served several professional societies in key leadership roles. She served AAPM as National Secretary, Chair of the Rules Committee, Parliamentarian, founding Chair of the Development Committee, Member of the Governing Board of the AIP, Treasurer of the American Academy of Health Physics, Chair of the Examining Panel\u00a0in Medical Health Physics and Vice\u2010Chair of the American Board of Medical Physics. She has served four terms on the AAPM Board of Directors. In the Greater New York area, she served as the President of the Radiological and Medical Physics Society  and served three terms as the President of the Greater NY Chapter of the HPS.Jean was a member of the Scientific Committee (SC) for the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) that produced NCRP Report No. 105 on radiation protection of medical and allied health personnel. Jean later served as the Chairman of the SC that produced NCRP Report No. 155 on the management of radionuclide therapy patients. In addition, Jean served as a member of several New York State advisory committees on medical and radiological health. She also served as a special examiner for the New York State Civil Service Commission.Jean received many honors and awards during her career. She was a Fellow of the Health Physics Society and of AAPM. She was presented the Failla Award by the Greater NY Chapter HPS and RAMPS. She received the AAPM Distinguished Service Award in 2001 as well as the Varian Award for best professional paper in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics in 2004. And in 2015, Jean was presented with the Marvin M. D. Williams Professional Achievement Award by the AAPM. The award recognizes AAPM members for an eminent career in medical physics with an emphasis on clinical medical physics.Jean was an excellent lecturer and teacher. She taught Health Physics and Radiation Safety to generations of medical physicists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, radiotherapists, radiologic technologists, lab scientists, and others at MSKCC, Weill Cornell Medical Center and throughout the medical physics and radiological community.Beyond physics, Jean's great passion was music. She took vocal lessons at Julliard and was an operatic soprano soloist who gave many recitals and concerts throughout her life. She was also a regular attendee of performances at the Metropolitan Opera. Her commitment to service extended to her church, St. Joseph's in Yorkville, where she was a Trustee.\u00a0She was also an active member of the National Society of Arts and Letters, serving on the Winston Scholarship Committee, and the Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarships in Voice.Jean considered Marie Curie a heroine as she was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and then became the first person to attain a second Nobel prize. Jean had the pleasure of spending time with Marie Curie's daughter, Eve Curie Labouisse, who had written an extensive biography of her mother.She is survived by her brother, Amos St. Germain, his wife, Susan, and their three children. Jean was particularly delighted with her two grand\u2010nieces, Natalie and Maren, and shared photos of them with her colleagues at every opportunity.www.mskcc.org, click on the \u2018Giving\u2019 tab. For additional information, please contact Wei Lui, MSKCC, Department of Medical Physics, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10065 (lui1@mskcc.org).In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center \u2013 John Laughlin Research & Education Fund, in memory of Jean St. Germain. The website is Jean was an accomplished person of wide\u2010ranging interests and service, with a distinct sense of professionalism and honor, who was engaged with the world and loved by friends and family members. She will be greatly missed."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: The Atlanta BEST Program is supported, in part, by the Laney Graduate School at Emory University."}
{"text": "Scientific Reports7: Article number: 41149; 10.1038/srep41149 published online: 01272017; updated: 07172017.The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete.\u201cThis article is submitted as an observational study in the category of original articles. A small sub-set of information from this article has been presented at the annual congress of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons\u201d.should read:\u201cThis article is submitted as an observational study in the category of original articles. A small sub-set of information from this article has been presented at the annual congress of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. Marian Knight is funded by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Professorship. Benjamin Allin is funded by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Doctoral Research Fellowship. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. The NIHR had no role in design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication\u201d."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Competing Interests section: The tools and methods described in this manuscript are included in a PCT patent application PCT/PT2009000046, which is owned by University of Algarve and the Center of Marine Sciences (CCMAR). Dina C. Simes and Carla S.B. Viegas are cofounders of GenoGla Diagnostics; Cees Vermeer is founder of VitaK. This does not affect our adherence to PLOS's policies on sharing data and materials."}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (FIRB CAROMICS RBAP11B2SX_008) and by the Interuniversity Consortium of Chemistry Research in Metals in Biological Systems (CIRCMSB), Bari, Italy."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: Genotyping of the GS:SFHS samples was carried out by the Genetics Core Laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Edinburgh, Scotland and was funded by the Medical Research Council UK and the Wellcome Trust  Reference 104036/Z/14/Z).These additional funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This study was supported by the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna  to PM and KS, and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF P29397) to PM and SW.In the Author Contributions section, all four authors should be listed as contributing to the methodology (CM SW KS PM).The publisher apologizes for these errors."}
{"text": "The health, economic and social impacts of disease outbreaks are persistent and manifold. Lessons learnt from the 2013\u20132016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa demonstrate how far-reaching the cost of pandemics can be. Beyond the devastating death toll of 11\u2009310,Various studies have assessed the systemic failures in the Ebola response, revealing that only about one third of countries in the world can prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies. These studies have also shown, among other issues: (i)\u00a0inadequate financing for pandemic preparedness; (ii)\u00a0rigid instruments for emergency response; and (iii)\u00a0slow and costly delivery of aid.To support countries to better understand their capacity gaps in pandemic preparedness and response, in 2016 the World Health Organization (WHO) established the joint external evaluation, a voluntary and collaborative process to assess a country\u2019s capacity under the International Health Regulations (2005) to prevent, detect and rapidly respond to public health threats.Even though the World Bank mobilized US$\u00a01.62 billion to support the countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak, these efforts were constrained by the lack of flexible instruments for channelling emergency resources in a timely fashion.The World Bank is supporting countries through corporate-level prioritization of pandemic preparedness and response. The International Development Association of the World Bank Group provides loans on soft terms and grants to the 77 poorest countries in the world. The association is replenished every three years.The World Bank is also engaging in strategic partnerships, for instance through its partnership with the governments of Australia and Japan, to support 13 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to develop preparedness plans and coordination mechanisms.The World Bank has also set up a Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility. In June 2017, the World Bank launched this facility to offer surge funding in the form of grants and insurance pay-outs, allowing funds to reach countries and international responders more quickly and effectively, and in so doing, prevent outbreaks from becoming pandemics.The World Bank is also using high-level advocacy to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response. Since 2016, the World Bank \u2013 in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation \u2013 has informed decision-makers at the national, regional and global levels about the importance and urgency of investing in pandemic preparedness. Two simulation exercises (October 2016 and January 2017) have informed pandemic preparedness discussions during the Annual Meeting of Ministers of Finance at the World Bank and chief executive officers in the private sector during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. The World Bank is also leveraging its convening role to mobilize resources for regional projects and initiatives, such as the Regional Disease Surveillance and Enhancement Project for West Africa and the World Bank\u2019s collaboration with the Australian government to implement a regional technical assistance programme to ensure sustainability of health security in east Asia. In addition, the World Bank\u2019s International Working Group on Financing Preparedness proposes ways in which national governments and development partners can collaborate to finance investments that will strengthen country preparedness and response capacities for health emergencies.In February 2018, the World Bank in partnership with WHO, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a regional event to define the core elements of a multisectoral pandemic preparedness plan, including planning and coordination mechanisms. In addition, during the Prince Mahidol Award ConferenceTo ensure the success of pandemic financing preparedness, countries should engage in dialogue on the importance of investing in such preparedness. The World Bank\u2019s early successes need to continue through partnerships to renew and sustain national, regional and global commitment and investments for pandemic preparedness and response."}
{"text": "Professor Matthew Tirrell is the founding Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and he received a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.Prof. Tirrell began his academic career at the University of Minnesota in Chemical Engineering where he earned the Shell Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering and established himself as a leader in the study of the polymer interfaces, adhesion, and self\u2010assembly. In the early 1990s, he was named the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Minnesota and later held the Earl E. Bakken Chair of Biomedical Engineering while also serving as the Director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute. In 1998, he moved to the University of California\u2014Santa Barbara to become the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering. After a few years as the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California\u2014Berkeley, Prof. Tirrell moved to the University of Chicago to build the completely new Institute for Molecular Engineering. The Institute currently comprises sixteen faculty, with diverse research interests focused on innovative technologies in nanoscale manipulation and design at a molecular scale, with potential for societal impact in such areas as energy, health care, and the environment. Among his many talents, he has a knack for defining important scientific problems and assembling powerful, interdisciplinary groups to go about solving them.AIChE, including the Allan P. Colburn Award, the Professional Progress Award, the Charles M.A. Stine Award, an Institute Lecturer Award, and the William H. Walker Award. He has co\u2010authored over 300 papers and one book, and has supervised over 80 PhD students and 40 post\u2010docs.Prof. Tirrell has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received both the John H. Dillon Medal and the Polymer Physics Prize from its Division of Polymer Physics. He has received several awards from AIChE Journal from 1991 to 2000. His ability to work at the interface of the scientific, engineering, and medical communities both as a researcher and as an administrator has resulted in an atypical breadth of publications and awards. He is world\u2010renowned in two distinct areas of research: polymers at interfaces and peptide amphiphile self\u2010assembly. These two areas are tied together by his ability to quantitatively manipulate, measure, and thoughtfully understand the fundamental structural and biological properties of macromolecules.Prof. Tirrell served as the fifth Editor of the Chronologically, his contributions in the area of polymer physics preceded his work with peptide\u2010amphiphiles. As an assistant professor at Minnesota, he began his career working on polymeric surface phenomena, making key contributions in the area of self\u2010healing polymeric interfaces,Prof. Tirrell made a significant departure from his earlier work in polymer physics when he began exploring the area of bioengineering and translational medicine in the 1990s. Together with Prof. Gregg Fields, he worked on the synthesis of a class of self\u2010assembling peptide\u2010based molecule called peptide\u2010amphiphiles.Recent examples include the use of peptide\u2010amphiphile hydrogels for peripheral nerve regeneration, where the Tirrell group synthesized peptide amphiphiles capable of co\u2010assembly with Type I collagen, forming mechanically stable hydrogels and quantifying the enhanced activity of Schwann cells.As students in Prof. Tirrell's lab, we had the unique perspective of learning about the culture of research in an evolving interdisciplinary environment, where Prof. Tirrell encouraged curiosity and collaboration, creating a deep community of engaged scientists and engineers. In the Tirrell research group, Matt was always faithful to his values as an educator, passing on his sense of respect for science and all the people around him. His adventurous nature and willingness to enter new research areas has inspired dozens of his former students to pursue careers in industrial and academic research.Raymond Tu1, James W. Schneider21Dept. of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York \u2010 CUNY, New York, NY 100312Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213Matt pictured with selected PhD students and post\u2010docs from the 1980s. From his 60th birthday celebration at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis"}
{"text": "The above mentioned funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This research is part of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry and the Global Comparative Study on REDD+, with funding support from the USAID (grant number MTO069018,"}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the State of Sao Paulo Research Foudation , by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development , and by the Rio Preto Research Foundation , Brazil. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the MEXT  (15K21554 to KY), a Wellcome Trust Career Development fellowship and funding under the MRC-CLIMB initiative (to SKS and DF), and a United States National Institutes of Health Research grant R21CA182822 (to IK). DJL is funded by Wellcome Trust and Royal Society grant WT104125AIA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "This data article provides spatiotemporal patterns of the foundation of Japanese companies in China. The data for companies in the food manufacturing, wholesaling, and service industries were collected from published lists of Chinese companies founded through the investment of Japanese companies. The data are provided in a matrix heatmap format, a two-dimensional visualization of data using color to represent the magnitude of two variables: year of foundation and area in China where the company is located. Specifications TableValue of the data\u2022The data in a heatmap format concomitantly visualize two company variables (year of foundation and area in China where the company is located), allowing researchers to capture an overview of the trends in each industry, and to compare the trends specific to each industry.\u2022The data can be used by researchers to examine the effects of historical events, geographical features, and Chinese policies on industrial exchanges between countries for Japan and other countries.\u2022The data can aid discussion on the business partnership between China and Japan.1To date, there have been four booms in Japanese companies\u2019 investments in China: in 1985\u20131990, 1991\u20131999, and 2000\u20132007, and after 2008 22.1According to a previous report, the food industry was included in all booms of Japanese companies\u2019 investments in China 2.2The number of Chinese companies founded through investment of Japanese companies was collected from references of the 21st Century China Research Institute 2.3The number of such companies was obtained from the list in the source, and filled into a Microsoft Excel for Mac worksheet  as shown in"}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for the National Natural Science Foundation of China is 31660282.In the published article, the following affiliation should be added for Xiaoxi Wang: \u201cCollege of Preschool Education and Special Education, Kunming University, Kunming, China.\u201dAlso, the correct affiliation for Yan Liu should be: \u201cFaculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China.\u201dThe original article has been updated.The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work has also received funding from the Medical Research Council (MR/M02010X/1) to MJB. The funders had no role in the in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This research was funded by Columbia University through a donation from the Lavine Family. The funder (Lavine Family) had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the grant number from the funder National Natural Science Foundation of China, China is listed incorrectly. The correct grant number is: 81200716. The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "There is information missing from the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was funded by Canada Research Chair funds to LS and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada Grant (#317359) to LS, the Orsino Chair in Leukemia Research, Marvin and Linda Barnett leukemia Research Fund, Brian Steck Leukemia Research Fund to MDM and an Innovation Grant of the Canadian Cancer Society, and Brain Canada with the financial support of Health Canada (# 705166) to JR. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The funding statement for this article should read as follows:\u201cWork was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research , the German Research Foundation , the Max Planck Society and the caesar foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This research has been supported by the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The following information is missing from the Competing Interests section: This research was presented in part at the 20th International AIDS Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 20\u201325 July, 2014. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials."}
{"text": "Daniel Shek was born in Hong Kong. He has one elder sister and four younger sisters. His father died when he was in Grade 8. He obtained his bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology in 1979 at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He then worked as a full-time demonstrator and pursued his full-time PhD study at HKU for four years.After he obtained his PhD degree, he taught at City Polytechnic of Hong Kong from 1984 to 1987. He then moved to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) teaching social work for 22\u00a0years. In response to the severe lack of studies on quality of life of Chinese people, he has gradually developed his research programs on the well-being of Chinese adolescents and families since 1980s.Daniel Shek is currently Associate Vice President (Undergraduate Programme) and Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He is also Advisory Professor of East China Normal University, Honorary Professor of Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, and Adjunct Professor of University of Kentucky College of Medicine. To promote holistic development of Chinese university students, he has helped to develop the leadership and service learning components of the new 4-year undergraduate curriculum at PolyU.Professor Shek is a psychologist with research interests in positive youth development, family process, scale development, quality of life, program evaluation, addiction, spirituality, leadership and university social responsibility. He has conducted extensive research on the well-being of Chinese adolescents and Chinese families. In the past decade, he has been leading a research project entitled \u201cP.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme\u201d (Project P.A.T.H.S.) which is financially supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. In this project, he worked together with his colleagues to develop a positive youth development program for junior secondary school students in Hong Kong, trained potential program implementers, provided support in program implementation and conducted comprehensive evaluation of the program. Because of the overwhelming success of the project, the program has been transplanted to mainland China with the financial support of Tin Ka Ping Foundation.Journal of Youth Studies and Applied Research in Quality of Life, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Child Health and Human Development and past Consulting Editor of Journal of Clinical Psychology. He is an Editorial Board member of Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research published by Springer, Series Editor of The Quality of Life in Asia published by Springer and an Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Family Studies published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is an Editorial Advisor of The British Journal of Social Work and Editorial Board member of several international journals, including Social Indicators Research, Journal of Adolescent Health, International Journal of Behavioral Development, and Journal of Child and Family Studies.Daniel Shek is Chief Editor of Professor Shek has to date published more than 600 articles in international refereed journals. His research project on the adjustment of Chinese midlife people has been rated \u201cexcellent\u201d by the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. He was awarded the CUHK Research Excellence Award 2007 by The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition to his research interests, Professor Shek is passionate about teaching. He was awarded two teaching awards during his stay at CUHK. In 2016, he was awarded the Bronze Award in the category of \u201cEthical Leadership\u201d and the Bronze Award in the category of \u201cSocial Enterprise\u201d at the QS Reimagine Education Awards. In 2017, he was further awarded the Silver Award under the category of \u201cEthical Leadership\u201d and the Silver Award under the category of \u201cSustainability\u201d in the QS Reimagine Education Awards.Professor Shek has served on many high-level governmental advisory committees in the Hong Kong Government, including the Action Committee Against Narcotics, Commission on Youth, Women\u2019s Commission, Fight Crime Committee, Beat Drugs Fund Association, Independent Commission Against Corruption, Mental Health Review Tribunal, and Committee on Child Fatality. Professor Shek served as the past Chairman of the Action Committee Against Narcotics (2009\u20132014) and is currently Chairman of the Family Council, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He has also been Chairman of Heep Hong Society and Society of Boys\u2019 Centres. He was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star and Silver Bauhinia Star by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 and 2013, respectively. He is also a Non-official Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong.Daniel Shek lives in Hong Kong with his wife, Jennifer Lee, and their two children, Moses and Esther."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This article was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China . The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The Funding statement is incorrect. The publisher apologizes for this error. The correct statement is: This work was supported by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Phoca vitulina stejnegeri) and phylogenetic relationship between the seals in Japan and other countries. Our results suggested that Japanese harbour seals possibly consisted of more than two lineages and secondary contact of populations after a long isolation. Furthermore, one of the lineage was made only by Japanese harbour seals (Group P1). The proportion of Group P1 was the highest at the South West and gradually decreased towards the North East of Hokkaido, Japan. On the other hand, the haplotypes do not belonged to Group P1 showed close relationship to the seals in the North Pacific. Based on the fossil record of harbour seal in Japan and the range of sea ice during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), Group P1 might have entered Japan before the LGM and became isolated due to the geographical boundary, and gradually extended its range from the South West towards the North East of Hokkaido after the disappearance of the sea ice, while the seals which are not in Group P1 immigrated into Japan from the North Pacific.In this study, we used relatively large number of samples (n = 178) and control region of mtDNA (454bp) to clearify the divergence history of Japanese harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina) is an amphibious mammal that distributes across more than 16,000 km of the northern hemisphere (Phoca vitulina richardsi), the southernmost limit in eastern Pacific .,32.31,32These factors suggest the history of Japanese harbour seals: the haplogroup made up only by Japanese harbour seals (Group P1) might have entered Japan before the LGM and became isolated due to the geographical boundary-sea ice, and gradually extended its range from the South West towards the North East of Hokkaido after the disappearance of the sea ice, while the seals which are not in Group P1 immigrated into Japan from the North Pacific, which are the descendent of the seals in refugia in North Pacific.S1 Table(PPTX)Click here for additional data file.S1 FigFinal 369bp of 255 haplotypes were used after alignment. Colouration for the haplotypes of our data and Stanley et al(1996) are same as (PDF)Click here for additional data file.S2 FigFinal sequences of 356bp 381haplotypes were used after alignment ,33,34. C(PDF)Click here for additional data file."}
{"text": "Information was omitted from the Funding statement. The correct version of the Funding statement is available below.\"This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China  and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2013121026<tel:2013121026> and No.2011121052) and Xiamen University 985 Project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "E/V Nautilus, I would like to further thank the Galapagos National Park Directorate for providing joint collection permit PC-45-15 in collaboration with the Charles Darwin Foundation, and thank the government of Ecuador, the Ecuadorian Navy, and its Oceanographic Institute (INOCAR) for their support and permission to operate in their territorial waters. This publication is contribution number 2189 of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands.Regarding the specimens collected by the"}
{"text": "The full name of the funder is missing from the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/H024891/1]. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Correction to:Cell Discovery (2015) 1, 15040; doi:10.1038/celldisc.2015.40; published online 8 December 2015In the initial published version of this article, there was an inadvertent omission from the Acknowledgements that the contribution of John P Cooke to this work was funded in part by a Core Facility Support Award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (RP150611). This omission does not affect the description of the results or the conclusions of this paper."}
{"text": "There are errors in the funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: Support was provided by National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary No. K116506 to I.L., the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary No. K109109 to R.M. and the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities to \u00c1.L. The publisher apologizes for the errors."}
{"text": "On behalf of everyone at PR&P, I convey the passing of our Editor\u2010in\u2010Chief, Dr Darrell Abernethy. Darrell has been part of PR&P since its inception, initially as Deputy EiC and since 2016 as EiC. He was a stalwart of the journal and assisted in the recruitment of a strong editorial board and the communication with editors of its supporter journals. From a professional perspective, Darrell had a distinguished career as a clinical pharmacologist and geriatrician. Darrell completed MD / PhD degrees at the University of Kansas, followed by training in Internal Medicine at the University of Miami (Florida) and in Clinical Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital. He had a number of academic positions and also directed an NIH program regarding the effects of drugs in the elderly. His last appointment was with the FDA where he investigated ways to predict adverse effects of therapeutic drugs. Darrell's excellence was recognized by his peers with numerous awards, including the Nathaniel T. Kwit Memorial Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the William B. Abrams Award in Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology and the Rawls\u2010Palmer Progress in Medicine Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.Darrell contributed back to the discipline at a high level. He was EiC of Pharmacological Reviews and Associate Editor of the Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics as well as Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. This experience was brought to bear during his tenure with PR&P. In addition to his editorial responsibilities and leadership, Darrell was also a leader within the broader pharmacology community being a key contributor to the Clinical Division of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR).Darrell's major pastimes included sailing and music. He was an affable person and a great encourager of his juniors. He will be sorely missed.Professor Andrew J Lawrence BSc(Hons), PhD, FBPhSCurrent EiC of PR&P"}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include relevant animal protocols belonging to Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (H28-068 and H29-083). A correction has been made to Materials and Methods, Animals, the second paragraph. All care of experimental animals was in accordance with the institutional guidelines of University of Washington and Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, and experiments were performed as approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at the University of Washington (protocol #4359-03) and Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (protocols H28-068 and H29-083). The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The original article has been updated.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "Acta Horticulturae Sinica. This retraction was approved by the Field Chief Editor and the Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Plant Science. The authors concur with the retraction and sincerely regret any inconvenience this may have caused to the reviewers, editors, and readers of Frontiers in Plant Science.The journal retracts the 23 February 2016 article cited above. Following concerns regarding the originality of the article, Frontiers conducted an investigation. The investigation determined an unacceptably high level of similarity with an article published by Diao et al.  in Acta"}
{"text": "The authors of the original article  would liThe updated text should read as follows:We are particularly grateful to Prof. Francis  for his valuable feedback on our submission for human samples to the Brain Bank for Dementia, UK. We would like to gratefully acknowledge all donors and their families for the tissue provided for this study. Human tissue samples were supplied by the Brains for Dementia Research programme, jointly funded by Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK, the Alzheimer\u2019s Society and the Medical Research Council, and sourced from the Oxford Brain Bank. The Oxford Brain Bank is also supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Units.We are sorry for any inconvenience caused."}
{"text": "BioMed Research International has retracted the article titled \u201cAnalysis of the Influence of Complexity and Entropy of Odorant on Fractal Dynamics and Entropy of EEG Signal\u201d  due to cThe authors say the research was approved and conducted at Dr. Ahmadian Clinic, 3/22 St., Third Niroo Havaie Ave., Piroozi Ave., Tehran, in September 2015. This was not stated in the article and we cannot find further details of this clinic or Dr. Ahmadian. An ethical approval document for the project \u201cAnalysis of the Influence of Complexity and Entropy of Odorant on Fractal Dynamics and Entropy of EEG Signal\u201d was provided by the first author, dated July 2, 2015, with the approval number D/A/36990 and signed by Dr. Shahaab Ahmadian. The authors also provided blank consent forms in English and Farsi. The institution asked for the article to be retracted and this is supported by the editorial board. The authors do not agree with retraction."}
{"text": "Dear Sir:The article published by Quispe and others2Malaria has devastating effects on the health and way of life of the people all over the world; however, it can be prevented and treated. In America, cases of malaria have been reduced by 58%, and malaria deaths have decreased by 70% since 2000.To analyze the current situation in Peru compared with the rest of South America, we created a chart using World Health Organization data on cases of malaria and the total population, analyzing the incidences by year (Multidisciplinary strategies"}
{"text": "To the Editor: We thank Dr Sasse for his interest in the conclusions of our rapid communication, in which we used the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) HIV Modelling tool to estimate for the number and proportion of persons living with HIV who remain undiagnosed in the European Union/European Economic Area [mic Area . In respmic Area . We agre"}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The publisher apologizes for the errors.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 41501219;"}
{"text": "Over the last two decades, the concept of self-regulated learning (SRL) has guided scientific approaches to understand successful learning in different fields. Self-regulatory processes were shown to explain achievement differences in students, and SRL may effectively improve achievement in students of different proficiency levels  at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, Germany, and is a full professor paid by the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber. He has received funding from the Dystonia Coalition . He has received speaker honoraria from the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany , from the Hof Symphony Orchestra and the Association of Musicians High Franconia, Germany (2015), from the International Summer Academy L\u00fcneburger Heide, Germany (2015), from the Saxony State Music Council, Germany (2015), from the Klinik Bosse Wittenberg Alexianergemeinschaft GmbH (2015), and from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2015). The IMM has received free pharmaceutical samples from IPSEN PHARMA GmbH. The IMM has received funding from a private donor without ties to the psychological field.The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was supported by the Postgraduate Pro-rectory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Postgraduate Program in Nutrition of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (PPGNUT), and Improvement Coordination of Higher Level Personnel . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The author noted that major part of Acknowledgements section was inadvertently missing in the original article . The new\u201cI am grateful to Morimasa Takayama M.D., the President of Tokyo CCU Network, the Vice-director of Sakakibara Heart Institute, for his expert insight and advice in the ischemia-associated mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction, and to Ken Nagao M.D., the Chairman of the scientific committee, Tokyo CCU Network, Division of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, for his great suggestions in the scientific interpretation of the large data from Tokyo CCU Network. I also express a special gratitude to all the member hospitals of Tokyo CCU Network for their great contributions to the registry study of acute myocardial infarction in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Finally, I thank Mr. John Martin for his linguistic assistance\u201d."}
{"text": "Reason for erratum:y-axis of Figure Due to a typesetting error, some information went missing on the The publisher apologizes for this error, and the correct version of Figure The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The authors of this article would like to request the following replacement to the section ACKNOWLEGEMENTS:We are grateful to Mrs. Jin Xu for her assistance in flow cytometry. This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31270032), the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) (No. 2013CB945604), and SJTU Interdisciplinary Research Grant (YG2012ZD05)."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the funding statement: This work was partially supported by the UIC Research Open Access Article Publishing (ROAAP) Fund. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding statement is: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China  and Tianjin applied-basic & cutting-edge research program (09JCZDJC17700). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "An account is provided of a UK national seminar series on Arts, Health and Wellbeing funded by the Economic and Social Research Council during 2012\u201313. Four seminars were organised addressing current issues and challenges facing the field. Details of the programme and its outputs are available online. A central concern of the seminar programme was to provide a foundation for creating a UK national network for researchers in the field to help promote evidence-based policy and practice. With funding from Lankelly Chase Foundation, and the support of the Royal Society for Public Health, a Special interest Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing was launched in 2015. Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and PracticeThe Journal of Applied Arts and Health. A further marker of the maturing of this field is the publication of the Oxford Textbook for Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing  encouraged the development of this field. The Department of Health (DH) broadly supported this work and in 2007 various policy documents were published to support it  has played a substantial role in promoting the value of the arts for health, through its journals, organising and supporting conferences and the annual Arts and Health Awards inaugurated in 2008. In advance of the First International Conference for Culture, Health and Wellbeing in Bristol, 2013(1) To review the field of arts, health and wellbeing research and debate aims, methods and achievements.(2) To advance and deepen theoretical, conceptual and methodological developments in researching the role of the arts in health and wellbeing.(3) to develop strategies for advocacy and knowledge exchange with policy-makers, funders, arts agencies and practitioners.(4) to establish the foundations for a national network for arts, health and wellbeing research and evidence-based practice.Research on arts, health and wellbeing is found across many academic disciplines and creative agencies, but remains fragmented, and stands in a developing relationship with the creative arts therapies Hogan,  and the The first task of the seminar series was to reflect on the range of academic engagement within the field of arts, health and wellbeing. This was addressed throughout the seminar series, with attention to the range of methodologies applied in research .The final aim, to establish a UK network for arts and health research was fully met as during the programme, funding was acquired from Lankelly Chase Foundation to establish such a network. On an interim basis the steering group for the seminar series acted as a steering group to support the establishment of a new network.Funding from Lankelly Chase Foundation has been of considerable value in helping to maintain the momentum of the ESRC-funded seminar series and build a UK network of researchers working in the field of arts, health and wellbeing.An innovative feature of the work of the RSPH SIG for arts, health and wellbeing is the organisation of webinars on arts and health topics. The first of these in November 2015 focused on two UK arts on prescription initiatives run by Arts and Minds in Cambridge and Pathways2Wellbeing a spin-out initiative from the University of Hertfordshire.In terms of political engagement, the Special Interest Group is acting as the research partner for the UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry on Arts, Health and Wellbeing which will run over two years 2016\u201317. The secretariat for the APPG is provided by the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing, supported by the London Arts and Health Alliance. Management of the APPG secretariat is provided by Alex Coulter, Director of Arts and Health South West. A webpage for the APPG is maintained on the National Alliance website and details of their activities can be found there.The RSPH SIG for Arts, Health and Wellbeing has made an auspicious start and it represents a very welcome initiative in helping to further establish the place of the creative arts in health care and the promotion of health and wellbeing in the wider context of public health. Membership of the SIG is open to anyone with an active interest in arts and health research and the development of evidence-based practice in this field. Further details of membership can be obtained from RSPH (see endnote 8 below).The Seminar Series was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant reference: ES/J022527/1]. Funding from Lankelly Chase Foundation [grant reference: 10290/13564] has supported the development of a UK national network for arts, health and wellbeing."}
{"text": "On Friday 16 June 2017, Dr Andrea Ammon took up office as the third Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) following her election by the Centre\u2019s management board earlier the same year. The appointment follows a two-year tenure as acting director during which Dr Ammon steered the ECDC steadily and calmly through a challenging period when besides the Centre\u2019s day-to-day work, expertise and resources were requested for the European preparedness and response to global threats such as the Ebola and Zika virus disease outbreaks in Africa and the Americas [Dr Ammon joined the newly established ECDC already in May 2005, as one of its first employees and Head of the Surveillance Unit . While sFrom April 2011 to April 2015, Andrea Ammon was Deputy to the Director and ECDC\u2019s Head of Unit for Resource Management and Coordination. She was a member of the scientific committee for the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) and in 2014 and 2015, she headed the committee.A medical doctor by training, Dr Ammon discovered her passion for public health early in her career and she has extensive experience in working in public health authorities at differing levels. Starting at the local and then regional level in the German federal state of Bavaria, she moved to the national public health institute, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in 1996, where she was among the first national Field Epidemiology Programme trainees and simultaneously a member of the first cohort of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET). At RKI, she became the Head of Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and State Epidemiologist for Germany from late 2002 to 2005. Besides coordinating the national outbreak response team for current and emerging infections, she directed the national field epidemiology training programme and coordinated emergency planning for influenza and epidemiological research programmes in infectious diseases. Furthermore, she provided scientific advice for government ministries, Members of Parliament and the public. In 2003, she coordinated the German response to Europe\u2019s first imported case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). During her time at RKI, Dr Ammon also became a nationally and internationally respected expert in the field of food- and waterborne diseases. Her PhD was on the synergy between epidemiology and microbiology in the prevention and control of food-borne diseases.Dr Ammon\u2019s professional and leadership skills are complemented by other strong characteristics such as a mind open to suggestions, a capacity for motivating staff and an acute sense of fairness.Eurosurveillance journal and its editors benefited from Dr Ammon\u2019s strategic vision and sense for quality between 2007 and 2015, when she was an associate editor and a strong supporter of the journal. She resigned from this position when taking up her post as ECDC Director to mark the editorial independence of the journal from its publisher and its Director.The"}
{"text": "In the Funding section, one of the grant numbers from the funder National Science Foundation is not listed. The correct funding information is as follows: This research is based upon work supported by National Science Foundation Grants DBI-1046052 and DEB-1554181. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The complete Acknowledgements are as follows: The authors are grateful to the National Statistics Office of Mongolia, the Statistics Department of Ulaanbaatar, and the Health Development Center of the Ministry of Health and Sports which provided access to various demographics and health databases. We are grateful to Social Impact and the Millennium Challenge Corporation for their open access databases of household measurements conducted as part of the impact evaluation of the Energy and Environment Projects. We thank Maria Hernandez, Ajay Pillarisetti, Paul Chung, and Alan Hubbard of the University of California, Berkeley and Nick Lam of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  for their advice and generous assistance during the project. We acknowledge Boldkhuu Nanzad of the Ministry of Energy of Mongolia for advocating for our research, and appreciate Berkeley Air Monitoring Group for facilitating financial arrangements. We also acknowledge that the final analysis benefits from comments made by many participants at a workshop presenting preliminary results conducted as part of the impact evaluation of the Energy and Environment Projects. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship under Grant No. DGE-1144885. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. LDH was supported by this NSF traineeship during part of the write up and analysis phases of this project. This NSF traineeship support was generously provided through the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry. During the peer-review process, a modified version of this paper was included as a chapter in a doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley. The full dissertation, which includes five total chapters and is titled \u201cA breath of fresher air: improving methods for PMThere is an error in the Methods section in the subsection called Estimating health effects. The correct term for \u201cchronic obstructive pulmonary disorder\u201d is \u201cchronic obstructive pulmonary disease.\u201dThere is an error in the third sentence of the Abstract. The word \u201cassesses\u201d should read \u201cassess.\u201d"}
{"text": "After publication of this work , we noteAcknowledgementsThe authors are very grateful to all members of the 1000 Bull Genomes Consortium for provision of data. This paper is part of the collection \u2018ISAFG2015\u2019 . The publication of the papers in this collection was partly sponsored by OECD Co-operative Research Programme: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems (CRP). Ben J Hayes\u2019s participation in ISAFG2015 was financed by the OECD Co-operative Research Programme. The opinions expressed and arguments employed in this paper are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or of the governments of its member countries."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This study was supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER award (grant 1453549) to JC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "A funding organization and grant given to the first author were incorrectly omitted from the Funding Statement. The first sentence of the Funding statement should be: \"Work on this research by CES was supported, in part, by Award Number T32HD007109 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.\""}
{"text": "The Funding section contains incomplete information. The complete funding information is as follows: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China , Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Major Project (6030701073 to HZ) and Anhui Provincial Education Department (KJ2015ZD12 to YY). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Anhui Siping Food Development Co. Ltd. provided support in the form of salaries for authors YHL and HPL, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the 'author contributions' section."}
{"text": "There are two errors in this article.The affiliation for the 32nd author is incorrect. Mary A. Marovich, is not affiliated with #13 but with #1 U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America.The following information is missing from the Disclaimer in the Acknowledgements section: This research was accomplished by Mary Marovich while employed at USMHRP. Dr. Marovich is currently with Division of AIDS, NIAID. The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not reflect the view of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the United States government."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Guangxi Key Technologies Research and Development Program (0992033\u20135), Guangxi Government Senior Scientist Foundation (2011B020), and Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (2016GXNSFCA380003). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Missing FundingIn the original article, we neglected to include the funder Medical Research Council, Grant No. G1002277, ID98489 for this study. We neglected to include the Medical Research Council in our list of funders in the Acknowledgements section. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.Text CorrectionIn the original article, there was an error. We neglected to include the Medical Research Council in our list of funders in the Acknowledgements section.A correction has been made to the Acknowledgements, page 17:via an award to the Cambridge NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. MM is funded by the Medical Research Council. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The authors thank T. V. Veenith, P. J. Coles, and D. K. Menon for providing images for Figure 2. The authors also thank D. K. Menon for helpful comments. Our cerebral metabolism studies were funded by the Medical Research Council . The following funding sources should also be acknowledged: PH is supported by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Professorship, Academy of Medical Sciences/Health Foundation Senior Surgical Scientist Fellowship and the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge. PH and KC are supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge. MS is supported by PH\u2019s NIHR Research Professorship. AS is funded by the NIHR The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently posted new information on its website: \u201cDiabetes Management: Team-Based Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.\u201d The information is available at Established in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the task force is an independent, nonfederal panel of public health and prevention experts who are appointed by the director of CDC. The task force provides information for a wide range of persons who make decisions about programs, services, and other interventions to improve population health. Although CDC provides administrative, scientific, and technical support for the task force, the recommendations developed are those of the task force and do not undergo review or approval by CDC."}
{"text": "Due to a typesetting error, a funding statement which does not apply to the article was added. The following text has, therefore, been removed from the article:This work was supported by Natural science outstanding youth fund of Shandong Province (JQ201607), Taishan Young Scholar Program of Shandong Province, AoShan Talents Program supported by Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (No.2015ASTP), \u201c100-Talent Project\u201d of Chinese Academy of Sciences for CS.This error does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The publisher apologizes for the mistake.The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Information was missing from the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This project was supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (RO1A1073745 and RO1AI080799). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Over the past two decades, genomics has evolved as a scientific research discipline. Genomics research was fueled initially by government and nonprofit funding sources, later augmented by private research and development (R&D) funding. Citizens and taxpayers of many countries have funded much of the research, and have expectations about access to the resulting information and knowledge. While access to knowledge gained from all publicly funded research is desired, access is especially important for fields that have broad social impact and stimulate public dialogue. Genomics is one such field, where public concerns are raised for reasons such as health care and insurance implications, as well as personal and ancestral identification. Thus, genomics has grown rapidly as a field, and attracts considerable interest.One way to study the growth of a field of research is to examine its funding. This study focuses on public funding of genomics research, identifying and collecting data from major government and nonprofit organizations around the world, and updating previous estimates of world genomics research funding, including information about geographical origins. We initially identified 89 publicly funded organizations; we requested information about each organization's funding of genomics research. Of these organizations, 48 responded and 34 reported genomics research expenditures . The figures reported here include all the largest funders and we estimate that we have accounted for most of the genomics research funding from government and nonprofit sources.Aggregate spending on genomics research from 34 funding sources averaged around $2.9 billion in 2003 \u2013 2006. The United States spent more than any other country on genomics research, corresponding to 35% of the overall worldwide public funding . When adjusted to genomics funding intensity, however, the United States dropped below Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Canada, as measured both by genomics research expenditure per capita and per Gross Domestic Product. Genomics research, as a field of study, is largely a creature of the past two decades and is generally defined as the study of whole genomes. The term genomics came into common use in 1987 to distinguish \"high throughput\" data- and technology-intensive approaches to studying DNA structure and function from the more established approach of studying DNA structure and function of individual genes. The history of genomics research is embedded in the Human Genome Project and its parallel private sector components. In 2003, with the completion of a high-quality sequence of the human genome, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that \"the genomic era is now a reality\" , Human Genome, and Functional Genomics/Health Effects -36. The Genomics funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) increased from US$3.85 million (2003) to US$6.95 million (2006) ,38; partThe US Department of Defense supports research and development through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high , and thrTo estimate the completeness of the United States spending on genomics research reported here, we determined the percentage of federal and nonprofit funding on R&D that is covered by the entities in this survey. Of the US$1,023 \u2013 1,064 million per year in federally funded research and development in all disciplines (2003 \u2013 2006), six of the entities included in this survey  accounted for 84 \u2013 86% . AlthougThe European Commission funds genomics research in the European Union, plus Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Israel, and Turkey. In the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission, covering 2002 \u2013 2006, the major funding areas that included genomics research were Advanced Genomics and its Applications for Health, and Combating Major Diseases . EuropeIn an effort to include the European countries funded through the European Commission but not otherwise covered in this world survey, we contacted organizations from Austria (Fonds zur Forderung der Wisenschaftlichen Forschung), Denmark , Estonia (Estonian Genome Foundation), Finland (Academy of Finland), France , Hungary , Iceland (Rannis), Italy , Poland (Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology), and Sweden , but we received no response from any of these except for the Academy of Finland and Centre National de la Recherche Scientique  of Canada, the National Research Council (NRC) and the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy (CBS). The CBS includes six departments and agencies that are building capacity for new research  ), althouJapan's spending on genomics research steadily increased between 2003 and 2006, when it reached 5% of worldwide public funding Table . AlthougThe values reported in this world survey for Japan are likely a near-complete representation of the government's investment in genomics, since the four Japanese ministries reported in this survey  are the main government funders of life science and genomics research -60. One Our source for China indicated that the central government funded about US$40 million per year of genomics research through the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and two programs at the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST): the National High-tech Development R&D Program (863 Program) and the National Key Basic Research Program (973 Program). The source also indicated that an equal amount of funding was provided by local governments , yielding a total of US$80 million per year \u2013 or about 3% of worldwide public genomics research funding Figure . Since oIn Germany, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research  coordinates the R&D initiative for the federal government . AnalysiThe primary funder of genomics research in the Netherlands is the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI), which was established by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research  and five government ministries in 2001. The NGI was created to combine existing strengths into one initiative composed of core activities  and research programs . NetherlIn South Korea, which accounted for 2% of total genomics research funding in 2006 Figure , the MinAccording to the Office of Science and Technology of the Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, three government agencies are responsible for most of the genomics funding in Ireland . These three agencies \u2013 the Higher Education Authority, the Science Foundation, and the Health Research Board \u2013 are included in this survey. The Irish government has recently increased its investment in R&D with the goal of meeting or exceeding the average R&D investment of European Union countries . Indeed,Genoma Espa\u00f1a is the Foundation for the Development of Genomic and Proteomic Research, and is backed by the Spanish State through the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs (Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo), and the Ministry of Education and Science (Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia) . Genoma In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the \"peak body\" for supporting health and medical research  and provThe government agency responsible for supporting basic and applied research in South Africa is the National Research Foundation , while mThe three main funders of genomics research in New Zealand are the Foundation for Research in Science and Technology (FRST), the Royal Society, and the Health Research Council . Only FRST, which represents half of the New Zealand government-funded R&D , respondAs described by the World Health Organization, genomics research is beginning to occur in developing countries and regions such as Brazil, China, India, and the Asia-Pacific Region . We contThis study represents only government and non-profit \"public\" funders of genomics research. The previous survey in 2000 included private companies, and showed a roughly 2:1 ratio of private genomics R&D to public funding . In 20There are two major caveats to consider when interpreting the figures reported in this world survey. First, many organizations and countries are not included in this study, either because we did not know to contact them or because they did not respond. Thus, the full amount of genomics research funded by public sources is certainly higher than the estimates reported in this study.genomics, \"the study of genes and their function\" \" including \"interactions of those genes with each other and the person's environment\" ,79). Intunction\" , that ishe NHGRI ,27 and rAlthough this survey is an estimate of funding for genomics research, and necessarily fuzzy and approximate, it represents the only attempt to perform such a survey to our knowledge, and therefore provides patterns and trends as a rough indicator for planning among researchers, science administrators, policymakers, and the general public.This world survey would not have been possible had we tried to gather funding information for genomics research according to a strict and consistent definition. If governments and private funders believe that genomics as a funding category is permanent and worth retaining as a separate category for analysis, it will need a more uniform definition. This is particularly relevant for the NIH, the world's largest biomedical research funder, which, except for two constituent institutes, (the NHGRI and the NCI) does not track funding of genomics research. And these two Institutes report widely different figures for genomics as a fraction of genetics research, reflecting some real differences but probably also reflecting different definitions of genomics research. Furthermore, the closest research category that the NIH does track, genetics, is not defined centrally.The NIH is in the process of developing a \"portfolio analysis\" web-accessible tool that will allow the public to access information about NIH projects by research area, the definitions of which will be \"laboriously crafted with input from hundreds of scientists\" . The effThe NCI, a component of the NIH, provided a definition of genomics: \"the identification, characterization and quantification of all genes involved in a particular pathway, organelle, cell, tissue, organ or organism that can be studied in concert to provide accurate and comprehensive data about that system\" . This is a detailed definition that encompasses and expands upon the definition of genomics already in use by the NHGRI and the CDC (see above). If the NIH includes genomics as a research area in its new portfolio analysis tool, the NCI definition could serve as a starting point for the development of a trans-NIH definition of genomics research.Genomics research has become incorporated into scientific and medical research, and is beginning to be applied in medicine and commerce. Genomics captures the attention of the general public because of its technological power to study the structure and function of DNA, with the consequent potential to reveal intimate details about individuals, populations, and associations between genotype and phenotype.The amount of funding provided for genomics research is of interest to both scientific and lay communities worldwide. This world survey indicates that overall public funding for genomics research, as a minimum estimate, averaged around US$2.9 billion annually (2003 \u2013 2006). Government and nonprofit funding of genomics research is likely to comprise between one-third and one-half of the total funding (where the remainder is for-profit private funding), based on the worldwide distribution of funding for health research , with the understanding that estimates were acceptable. In some cases, initial contact was by phone. Follow-up email correspondence often occurred, with the most effort being expended on procuring figures from the largest public funders. In a few cases, such as China, we were able to obtain funding information only from intermediaries familiar with science budgets because of their role in national planning and as performers of genomics research.Data were requested by fiscal year and are reported in the tables for the calendar year that encompassed most of that fiscal year. Specifically, the calendar year at the beginning of the fiscal year was used when the fiscal year began on April 1, while the calendar year at the end of the fiscal year was used when the fiscal year began on October 1. When funding amounts were supplied in a currency other than US$, they were converted to US$, using the purchasing power parity (PPP) indices provided by the OECD , except To determine per capita genomics funding, the amount of funding per country (in US$) was divided by the estimated population in the middle of the year, as provided by OECD for 2003\u20132005 . The popRankings listed in the tables were determined by ordering 2006 values, except in the two instances where the 2006 data were not reported. In those cases, an average of the three previous years determined the ranking order for 2006.AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science; ATIP: Asian Technology Information Program; BBSRC: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom); BMBF: Budesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung (Germany); CAS: Chinese Academy of Sciences; CBS: Canadian Biotechnology Strategy; CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States); CDMRP: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (United States); DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (United States); DFG: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany); DHHS: Department of Health & Human Services (United States); DHS: Department of Homeland Security (United States); DNA: Deoxyribonucleic Acid; DOD: Department of Defense (United States); DOE: Department of Energy (United States); FAPESP: Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Amparo \u00e0 Pesquisa do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil); FRST: Foundation for Research in Science and Technology ; FY: Fiscal Year; GDP: Gross Domestic Product; HHMI: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (United States); IMF: International Monetary Fund; MAFF: Ministry of Agriculture: Forestry and Fisheries (Japan); METI: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan); MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan); MHLW: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan); MOST: Ministry of Science and Technology (Japan); NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States); NCI: National Cancer Institute (United States); NGFN: National Genome Research Network (Germany); NGI: Netherlands Genomics Initiative; NHGRI: National Human Genome Research Institute (United States); NHMRC: National Health and Medical Research Council ; NIH: National Institutes of Health (United States); NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States); NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United States); NRC: National Research Council (Canada); NSERC: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada); NSF: National Science Foundation (United States); NSFC: National Natural Science Foundation of China; NOW: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands); OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; PPP: Purchasing Power Parities; R&D: Research & Development; TIGR: The Institute for Genome Research (United States); UK: United Kingdom; US: United States; USDA: United States Department of Agriculture.JRP generated the research question, contacted the organizations listed in this survey, generated and analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript. RMCD participated in study design and coordination, contributed the initial contact list from the 2000 World Survey, and helped to draft the manuscript. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.Identified organisationsClick here for file"}
{"text": "Public Health in Rajasthan, published in 2007 has 227 pages, divided into 25 chapters and 5 Appendices. Book has attractive title page and is printed on good quality paper with a comfortable font size. Chapters cover wide range of subjects related to National Rural Health Mission, Reproductive and Child Health, Integrated Child Development Services, National programs on Tuberculosis, Leprosy, HIV/AIDS, Blindness, National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Integrated Disease Surveillance Project, Computerization and Management Information System, Medicolegal aspects, Consumer Protection Act, and Behavior Change Communication for Health, etc. There are two chapters devoted to role of The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) in Rajasthan. Brief description of the projects undertaken through these agencies is useful. Galaxy of 21 prominent experts have contributed in this book. Each chapter provides a brief description of the state-specific program and has been written to act like an operational guide for the implementation of the program. Authors have nicely and succinctly compiled the information available at various places, and have also given resource references for further reading at the end of each chapter. Editor has very rightly claimed that the book can be labeled as a rapid reader for the doctors working at peripheral facility. This can also be good resource for public health students undertaking Masters of public health (MPH) or Doctorate in Medicine (MD) in the specialty. This would also be a good resource for all States to enable them to draft their own State-specific resource books and to have a ready reference for the programs that are operational in Rajasthan.The book shiv_mathur@hotmail.com.Prof. Shiv Chander Mathur, The Editor of the book is a prominent public health expert with national and international teaching training and research experience. He has published more than 50 papers and two monographs on public health. He has also received Government of India merit award for his writings on primary health care. For any further queries readers may contact the editor. E-mail:"}
{"text": "The funding information for this paper was omitted. The complete funding information should say: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, the corresponding author has informed the journal that this article had been accepted and previously published by Acupuncture and Electro-therapies Research [Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research. The authors apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to the editorial staff and readers.Following the publication of this article  in JournResearch . Since i"}
{"text": "There was an error in the fifth author's name and affiliation. The fifth author's name should be Ruben C. Gur and he is additionally affiliated with Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America."}
{"text": "County Health Rankings and deputy director of its parent project, Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She also directs the Making Wisconsin the Healthiest State project, a research and translation effort funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. In this interview, Dr. Booske gives an overview of the MATCH articles in the September 2010 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease and talks briefly about the role of incentives in public health.Bridget Booske is the project director of  podcast - \"Can Incentives Improve Population Health?\""}
{"text": "To the Editor: Chikungunya is a disease caused by an arboviral alphavirus transmitted to humans by Aedes mosquitoes . Symptoms include fever, myalgia, rash, and joint pain  , Europe, and the Middle East   reported around the world. A literature review was undertaken on Medline by Pubmed and websites provided by the World Health Organization, Eurosurveillance, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Health Protection Agency (United Kingdom), Institut de Veille Sanitaire (France), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States) were searched for information on imported chikungunya cases. Data were then mapped and compared with the known and theoretical geographic distributions of he world  (4\u20138). TThese facts underscore the need for clinicians to consider the possibility of chikungunya disease in patients who experience acute unexplained fever with joint pain and live in regions where mosquito vectors are established. The presence of imported cases and well-established vectors also confirms the need for an active surveillance system; early detection of unexpected new diseases by physicians will enable the timely implementation of suitable control measures that can interrupt the transmission chain.Aedes albopictus and Ae. aegypti mosquitoes. World repartition of Ae. albopictus mosquitoes (tan areas) and theoretical dispersion of Ae. aegypti in 2008  according to the World Health Organization. Areas where imported cases of chikungunya have been reported during 2005\u20132008 are marked with a purple circle  or a purple triangle when the number of imported cases was unknown. Data sources: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and literature review on Medline by Pubmed (www.esri.com/software/arcgis).Imported cases of chikungunya virus infection and known and theoretical geographic distributions of"}
{"text": "Preventing Chronic Disease, CDC's online journal on public health policy, practice, and research (http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/). The Matthews discussion focuses on the importance and challenges of connecting with private-sector stakeholders and the strategies necessary to develop private networks to assist public health in the 21st century.Gene Matthews, former chief counsel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a senior fellow with the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, was interviewed by Elizabeth Majestic with CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for The interview summarizes the successes of early private-sector partnerships with the public health community. During the past 50 years, however, public health has become more internally focused and less engaged with both the business community and the political process. Matthews suggests that in an atmosphere of doing more with less, public health has to face the rigors of accountability and to think in different ways about strategic partners and how to match purposes ethically.The interview was filmed in November 2008.Public health has a long history of working successfully with the business sector. Initial efforts focused on providing basic health services through a partnership with the Rotary Club and expanded to fighting infectious diseases with a variety of private-sector partners. In the last 50 years, however, as public health has become increasingly isolated from the private sector, achieving public health objectives has been more difficult. Two examples of a new type of business relationship are highlighted from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health: 1) the tripartite agreements that called for the unions, company leaders, and CDC staff to work together to improve worker safety and 2) the National Occupational Research Agenda.Urgent threats such as those caused by terrorists tend to unite the public health community with all sectors, including the business sector. When these threats arise, the public and private sectors provide an initial influx of resources. These resources tend to be cyclical, but they can be sustained by forming relationships that address not only the urgent health threats such as bioterrorism, but also chronic diseases.Public health needs to develop new partnership models that take into account modern health problems. By building credibility with business and community leaders on issues such as preparedness, public health can gain support for its chronic disease efforts. Initiatives that are considered desirable by communities, such as those to build recreational facilities, can help limit obesity. Public health leaders need to find this common ground.Underlying the discussion of partnerships and the debates over definitions, motives, and processes are basic questions of ethics. Which partnerships should be considered? How can their accountability be assured? To help public health professionals develop productive and ethical public-private partnerships, Matthews highlights 3 strategies that should serve as the cornerstone for partnership development.The economic downturn will increase the demands on public health. The public health community needs to prepare for the likely budget cuts, report the impact of these cuts on the public's health, and expand the range of stakeholders that influence the body politic. The Department of Agriculture is highlighted as an agency that has met these challenges by creating relationships with the private sector.Gene W. Matthews is a senior fellow at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, the outreach and service unit of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. He also holds faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and the Georgia State University College of Law. Since 1999, Mr Matthews has provided leadership in the development of CDC\u2019s internal Public Health Law Program, an effort to reach out to the legal community and to public health practitioners. In June 2004, Mr Matthews received the Distinguished Career Award of the Public Health Law Association \u201c\u2026 in recognition of a career devoted to using law to improve the public\u2019s health.\u201d Mr Matthews is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law and is a member of the North Carolina Bar."}
{"text": "To the Editor: In a recent letter  and ELISA for immunoglobulin G, as were the current Brazilian HPS cases (Rattus rattus and R. norvegicus ) are the only Old World rodents ubiquitous in the New World and thus a potential source of SEOV infection in the Americas (Wild rats (The clinical syndromes of HFRS and HPS can appear identical, with pulmonary edema, shock, and renal insufficiency with marked proteinuria and thrombocytopenia ("}
{"text": "Dr. Pritam Singhth October 2009. Apart from being the President of the ISA in 1970 and the Editor of IJA from 1964 to 1970, he held various prestigious posts like visiting Professor of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio, USA; Professor and HOD of Anaesthesiology at CMC, Ludhiana; Principal of Govt. Medical College, Amritsar and Director of Research and Medical Education of Punjab. He had served the Indian Army Medical Corps from 1942 - 1946 and rose to the rank of CaptainDr. Pritam Singh, ex-president and editor ISA breathed his last at Cincinnati USA on 16Dr. G Subramanianth November 2009 at the age of 70 years. An ISA life member, Dr G. Subramanian was the founder President of Dindigul ISA, TN state. He is survived by his wife and a son.With profound grief, Dindigul City Branch of the TN Chapter ISA reports the sad demise of Dr. G Subramanian on 29"}
{"text": "The World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Canadian Public Health Association developed the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) to assist WHO member states in establishing continuous tobacco control surveillance and monitoring. The GTSS provides a flexible system that includes common data items but allows countries to include important unique information at their discretion. It also uses a common survey methodology, similar field procedures for data collection, and similar data management and processing techniques. The GTSS includes collection of data through three surveys: the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) for youth, and the Global School Personnel Survey and the Global Health Professional Student Survey for adults.Countries can use data from the GYTS to monitor and evaluate National Tobacco Control Action Plans and articles from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The WHO FCTC was adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003 and became international law on February 27, 2005. It is the world's first public health treaty on tobacco control and encourages countries that ratify to develop and implement tobacco control policies, such as bans on direct and indirect tobacco advertising, tobacco tax and price increases, promoting of smoke-free public places and workplaces, and placement of health messages on tobacco packaging.The WHO FCTC, National Tobacco Control Action Plans, and the GYTS share the same goal: the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective tobacco control programs in all WHO member states. What the WHO FCTC and National Tobacco Control Action Plans ask countries to monitor, the GYTS can help to measure. The GYTS provides indicators for measuring achievement of several WHO FCTC articles .The synergy between the WHO FCTC, National Tobacco Control Action Plans, and GYTS offers countries a unique opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate their comprehensive tobacco control programs. The reports included in this publication from Peru, Thailand, and Turkey are presented as examples of 'linking' GYTS data to the national tobacco control program efforts in each country.FCTC: Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; GTSS: Global Tobacco Surveillance System; GYTS: Global Youth Tobacco Survey; WHO: World Health Organization.The author declares that they have no competing interests."}
{"text": "Preventing Chronic Disease, CDC's online journal on public health policy, practice, and research (http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/). The Eriksen discussion focuses on whether the tobacco industry has forfeited its opportunity to participate in a traditional public-private partnership \u2014 the type that is sought by other industries \u2014 and if not, how it can partner successfully with the public health community. In the second half of his interview, Dr Eriksen considers the lessons learned from the tobacco control experience and how the public health community might work with the food and beverage industry to mitigate the obesity epidemic.Dr Michael Eriksen, former director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University, both in Atlanta, Georgia, was interviewed by Elizabeth Majestic with CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for The interview was filmed in November 2008.The tobacco industry has forfeited its opportunity to participate in traditional public-private partnerships, but does that mean that the public health community and the tobacco industry cannot work together to achieve a common objective of reducing the harm caused by tobacco use?Partnerships with the private sector should not be about money, but rather, should be considered when they support the achievement of public health objectives. The public health community also needs to hold the food and beverage industry accountable for its actions. For example, food and beverage companies should focus their efforts on both physical activity and good nutrition and they should evaluate efforts based on public health outcomes.Michael Eriksen has been director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University since 2002. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at the Johns Hopkins University and has had a long and distinguished career in public health. Dr Eriksen has been employed in academia , the private sector (Pacific Telephone), state government , federal government (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and international organizations . He has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles on tobacco control, cancer prevention, and health promotion and is coauthor of The Tobacco Atlas with Judith Mackay. In 2004, the Georgia Cancer Coalition designated him as a Distinguished Cancer Scholar. Professor Eriksen teaches classes in the social and behavioral sciences, urban health, tobacco control, and global health. He is director of Georgia State University\u2019s Partnership for Urban Health Research."}
{"text": "The third AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics built on the success of the 2008 and 2009 Summits. The Summit continues to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of this rapidly maturing research field and provides the opportunity to forge new transdisciplinary collaborations as the finest minds of the academia, industry, government and non-profit sector are brought together. The six tracks spanned the range from methods for the analyses of molecular through clinical measurements and informatics methods in genetics discoveries and clinical practice.1: Informatics Methods for the Integrative Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Measurements2: Computational Approaches to Finding Molecular Mechanisms and Therapies for Disease3: Informatics Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Enable Integrative Translational Bioinformatics Research4: Relating and Representing Phenotypes and Disease for Translational Bioinformatics Research5: Informatics Methods Bridging Genetics Discoveries and Clinical Practice6: Dissecting Disease through the Study of Organisms, Evolution, and TaxonomyThe breadth and depth of the Summit continues to grow with twenty-five 90-minute scientific sessions. Original research was presented in forty-nine papers and abstract presentations covering all six tracks and spanning from methods to applications. Ten late breaking sessions covered work in press or published since the 2009 Summit including for example a presentation of the analysis of a full human genome in the clinical context. Six of the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing presented on the relationship of their work to the themes of the Summit along with five other panels covering topics ranging from CTSAs to the eMERGE network. Four keynote presentations addressed the theme of paths toward genomic medicine. Spyro Mousses of TGen presented on \u201cUsing BioIntelligence to Search and Understand Individual Genomes\u201d illustrated the ideas in the context of individualized cancer therapy. Serge Saxonov of 23andMe presented on \u201cConsumers, Genomes and Research\u201d demonstrating how this approach could replicate findings from other studies and contribute to new genomic knowledge. Andrew Kasarskis of Sage Bionetwork presented on \u201cGetting from Heterogeneous Data to Actionable Shared Models of Biology\u201d and how these approaches can advance our fundamental understand of the underlying biology. Finally in what has become an annual tradition Russ Altman of Stanford presented a recap of some key developments and papers in his \u201cTranslational Bioinformatics Year in Review\u201d.http://summit2010.amia.org/session-details.Slides from selected tutorials, papers, and panels are publicly available at BMC Bioinformatics are extended and improved versions of the best papers accepted to the 2010 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. These papers were nominated by members of the Scientific Program Committee and the Track Chairs and then subject to revision and additional peer review in collaboration with BMC Bioinformatics. These papers illustrate the span of the Summit and range from bioinformatics approaches to new knowledge discovery to informatics approaches to foster the application of this type of knowledge. In the following paragraphs we present an overview of the papers in this special issue and their organization.The eleven papers selected for this supplement to We start with three papers that describe original informatics methods for the integrative analysis of molecular and clinical measurements. The first paper deals with representing temporal processes in biology, while the other two deal with reasoning across molecular and clinical measurements. Chang and colleagues  describeOne article focuses on computational approaches to finding molecular mechanisms and therapies for disease. More specifically, Zhang and collaborators  investigThe next two articles discuss techniques to enable integrative translational research. The paper by Morgan et al.  discuss The paper that follows is in the area of representing phenotypes and disease for translational bioinformatics research. The study by Lacson et al. assessesTwo papers focus on the important topic of informatics methods bridging genetics discoveries and clinical practice. Tatonetti and collaborators  describeFinally, the last two papers present research work in the area of dissecting disease through the study of organisms, evolution, and taxonomy. The paper by Yang et al.  focuses The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Both authors wrote and approved the manuscript. Mendon\u00e7a was a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2010 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics and the Guest Editor for this special issue; Tarczy-Hornoch was the Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2010 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics.The authors and AMIA would like to dedicate this special issue to Marco Ramoni who played a vital role in the establishment of the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics having served as Track Chair for the 2008 and 2009 Summits and having served as a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2010 Summit. Prior to his sudden passing on June 8, 2010 Marco was one of the leading lights of the young field of translational bioinformatics. Marco was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and research faculty at Children\u2019s Hospital, Boston and Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital. Most recently he was the Director, Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Director, NLM Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital Informatics Program., and Associate Director of Bioinformatics, Harvard - Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. He was also the Director of the course \u201cBiomedical Informatics\u201d at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, core faculty of the course Genomic Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the curriculum committee of the Cellular and Molecular Medicine track of the Medical Physics and Medical Engineering graduate program at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He was co-founder of Bayesware LLC, a software company developing machine-learning programs based on Bayesian methods. He received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and a BA in Philosophy (Epistemology) from the University of Pavia  and his postdoctoral training from McGill University, Montreal (Canada). He held academic and visiting positions at the University of Massachusetts, the University of London (United Kingdom), the Knowledge Media Institute (United Kingdom), and the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He is author of well over 100 publications in genetics, biomedical informatics, statistics and artificial intelligence."}
{"text": "Twenty-six cases of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) were recorded by the New South Wales Central Cancer Registry between 1972 and 1982, prior to the first AIDS diagnoses in Australia. The overall annual incidence was 0.47 per million. Incidence was three times higher in males. The highest incidence was in people born in the Middle East and in males born in southern and eastern Europe."}
{"text": "In early 1999, more than 160 senior physicians, public health officials, and nurses met to discuss London's tuberculosis (TB) control program. The program was examined against the public health response of New York City's Bureau of Tuberculosis Control during a 1988 to 1992 epidemic. This article outlines TB epidemiology and control in New York City 10 years ago and in London today to assess whether the kind of epidemic that occurred in New York could occur in London."}
{"text": "This is the second time I have come to England to the MRC Prion Unit. I have been working for the Kuru Research Project in the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research for 6 years. Now, I am the Community Liaison Officer. I am also the community leader of Waisa Village. In our kuru studies, I work closely with Jerome Whitfield and Michael Alpers.In the early 1960s, when I first saw Michael Alpers in Waisa, I was 7 years old. Michael has always been a good friend of our family. The kuru research work went ahead successfully. Later Michael became the Director of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research. The Institute studies all the sicknesses of Papua New Guinea and we are pleased to have Prof. Peter Siba now as its Director.My late father Mr Puwa helped Michael with his work and supported him personally. He assisted with the examination of patients and the collection of samples from patients and others. He explained to the family and community why these samples of blood, brain and the like were needed. Working together, my father and Michael made a film on traditional salt making, a skill and technology that has now died out, since my father was the acknowledged salt maker of the village.Although most people still believe that kuru is caused by sorcery, there are a few of us who understand how it came to our people. I am very happy about all the research work for the last 50 years that has given us this understanding."}
{"text": "An automatic system for the determination of Zn, Cd, Pb and Cu by anodic stripping potentiometry using the oxygen dissolved in the sample as oxidant is reported. The system relies on the use of a PC-compatible computer for instrumental control and data acquisition and processing."}
{"text": "Trends in eye cancer mortality are presented for the USA and England and Wales during the period 1955-89. Mortality rates have fallen by 58% in the USA during this period. The fall in mortality is paralleled by an equal fall in incidence rates in the USA. In England and Wales, mortality rates and incidence rates have remained relatively constant during the last three decades. The explanation for these differences between the USA and England and Wales is unknown."}
{"text": "EHP was fortunate to have Steve Kleeberger and Matt Longnecker step up to serve with me as interim deputy editors in the absence of a full-time permanent editor. Steve and Matt have given generously of their time, expertise, and energy in helping to maintain EHP \u2019s scientific quality during a time of transition. Given EHP\u2019s broad scope of coverage, however, we felt the need to likewise broaden the scope of our science editorial expertise. Thus, we are pleased to welcome aboard two additional interim deputy editors.In January 2007, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology since 2000 and serves on the editorial boards of Toxicology, the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, and Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods.Michael P. Waalkes is a senior research toxicologist with the National Cancer Institute, where he serves as chief of the Inorganic Carcinogenesis Section, which is part of the Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis stationed at the NIEHS campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Mike received his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology from West Virginia University. His postdoctoral studies at the University of Kansas School of Medicine focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of acquired tolerance to metal toxicity. His current research involves defining the mechanisms of action of the carcinogenic inorganics, including arsenic, lead, and cadmium. Mike is currently an adjunct professor of molecular toxicology at Duke University and an active member of the Society of Toxicology. He has been the editor of Epidemiology and has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology.Stephanie London is a senior investigator in the NIEHS Epidemiology Branch with a joint appointment in the Laboratory of Respiratory Biology. She received her MD and her DrPH degree in epidemiology from Harvard University. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a residency in occupational and environmental medicine at Harvard, and is board certified in both fields. Stephanie was an assistant professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine from 1989 through 1995, where she was part of a small team of investigators who founded a landmark study of health effects of air pollution in schoolchildren known as the Children\u2019s Health Study. She came to the NIEHS in 1995. Her work focuses on genetics and interactions between genetics, diet, and environmental pollutants in relation to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Stephanie is an editor for Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, and is chair of the Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce our new medical editor, Russ Hauser, who succeeds Brian S. Schwartz. Russ is an associate professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology in the departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He graduated from Clark University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he received his MD. He received his MPH and ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he completed a residency in occupational medicine. He is board certified in occupational medicine. From 2000 to 2004, he served as deputy director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center. Russ\u2019s research focuses on the effects of environmental and occupational chemicals on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. He is on the editorial board of the EHP \u2019s Grand Rounds and Environmental Medicine submissions, allowing the journal to advance in its mission of delineating relationships between the environment and human health. We are most grateful for his service to the journal.Finally, we bid a fond farewell to Brian, our outgoing medical editor. Brian served in this role from July 2004 through July 2007. During this time he significantly raised the bar for EHP. As always, we welcome your feedback.Stay tuned for news of a permanent editor-in-chief for"}
{"text": "Although we have excellent sources of information at the national level in the National Health Interview Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and at the state and county levels in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, each source has inherent limitations. More serious, however, are the issues raised by the 2002 report from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) . That reThe Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) project  is a sigCommunity indicators.\u00a0The National Academy of Sciences and other organizations are involved in developing a set of key national indicators for the United States. These indicators would include health as one of their dimensions. Although this project is national, similar efforts are under way in U.S. communities, literally from coast to coast . The rapid growth of indicators or measures that inform the public and professionals alike in an easily accessible form is encouraging.Electronic health records. The use of electronic health records received a major boost from President George W. Bush and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt with establishment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Public health information is one of the foci of this organization and others, including the American Health Information Community (AHIC), a federally chartered advisory committee on the use and adoption of electronic health records. To assess the potential impact of electronic health records on health statistics and on public health decision making, the office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the National Center for Health Statistics sponsored a workshop, and the report is available online (www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhcs/EMRworkshopsummaryjuly30.pdf).Healthy People program, now in its third decade. Although the Healthy People focus is national, it places a strong emphasis on developing data for local use. A recent paper shows that this goal is indeed feasible with a strong research base (Healthy People. Perhaps the leading force in developing new data sources and emphasizing the importance of standardization in definitions and methods is the Health and Human Services rch base .\u00a0Although these developments herald progress, critical gaps remain in our knowledge and data. As the nation grows more diverse in race, ethnicity, and various other factors, the need for adequate data to address health problems will multiply with each distinct population group. Furthermore, our definition of health must be broadened so that functioning is included as a part of our health assessment.Unfortunately, the current supporting resource base needs to be strengthened. CDC Director Julie Gerberding noted in CDC's Professional Judgment Budget Request that \"CDC's mission-critical health statistics and similar data systems are currently on life support. Investments have simply not kept pace with expenses and technological advances.\" As we work to achieve the promise of new sources and new tools, we also need to ensure that we do not damage the critical\u00a0national data infrastructure. Our investments in standards development must be balanced with investments in tools, training, analysis, and research.\u00a0Despite these constraints on resources, we continue to make progress in collecting and disseminating information crucial for public health decisions. The year 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the National Health Interview Survey, an appropriate time to stress the gains we have made in health data and a commitment to working toward a future of relevant and high-quality information at every level of health decision making."}
{"text": "Felix D. Battistella, Professor and Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery at UC Davis Medical Center, died from cancer on January 22 at his home. He was 48.Dr. Battistella's unselfish dedication to his field, his colleagues and to the UC Davis Health System community was widely known.\" said Claire Pomeroy, Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences and Dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine. \"The many contributions he made have forever shaped the way we provide compassionate care for patients in their hour of need.\"\"magna cum laude. He received his medical degree from the UC Davis School of Medicine in 1985. For his postgraduate training, Battistella continued his association with UC Davis, completing an internship in the Department of Surgery in 1986, and finishing his residency in the department in 1990. He served as Chief Resident in the department from 1990 to 1991.Battistella figure  was bornBattistella joined the Faculty of the Department of Surgery as an Assistant Professor in 1991. In addition to serving as Professor and Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Battistella was the Director of the department's residency program. He also served as the Chief of Staff from 2004 to 2006.In 1991, the senior class at the School of Medicine selected Battistella for its Outstanding Resident Teaching Award. That same year, he was voted Outstanding Chief Resident by his fellow residents in the Department of Surgery. In 1997, the Friends of Nursing at UC Davis Medical Center chose Battistella as its Physician of the Year.Dr. Battistella will be remembered most by any nurse who worked with him as the kindest, most compassionate surgeon. He was a highly skilled surgeon, but what set him apart was that he treated every one of his patients with compassion and caring. All of our nursing staff greatly admired Dr. Battistella.\"Carol Robinson, Senior Associate Director, Patient Care Services Administration, said, \"Dr. Battistella was a great teacher. In working with him and watching him with residents and students, you could see that he had a passion for teaching and mentoring. He also truly cared about the well-being of his patients.\"Cheryl Wraa, Manager of the UC Davis Trauma Program, said, \"Battistella is survived by his wife, Christine; daughters Claire and Mary; his mother, Amalia; and his sister, Nedra.World Journal of Emergency Surgery lost a great Editor and all emergency surgery science lost a great contributor.We think that"}
{"text": "A Funding Statement was incorrectly omitted from the article. The Funding Statement is: \"This work was supported by grant No. MH-3-7224 from the Chief Scientist\u2019s office of the Ministry of Health, Israel to AA and by Grant No. 2009179 from the United States-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF) to TH and AA. We are also thankful for the support from the Jees & Midred Fisher Family\u2019s Cardiology Research Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\""}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: Researcher Marcus Sheaves was supported by the Marine Biodiversity Hub through funding from the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the Model for analyzing individual events subsection of the Methods, there are errors in third and fourth equation of Model (2). Please view the complete, correct equations here:The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The Funding section for this paper is incorrect. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Grant for Specially Promoted Research from Kanazawa Medical University , the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)-Supported. Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities , and the 4th Community Medicine Promotion Grant of the Sugiura Memorial Foundation (Dr. Yukihisa Matsuda). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The authors of \u201cUsing Behavioral Intervention Technologies to Help Low-Income and Latino Smokers Quit: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial\u201d :e127) would like to change the Acknowledgements section of their paper to the following:\u00a0\u201cThis project was partially supported by funds provided by The Regents of the University of California, Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Program, Grant Number No. 24RT-0027. The opinions, findings, and conclusions herein are those of the authors and not necessarily represent those of The Regents of the University of California, or any of its programs.\u00a0Programming and development of the web app for this project is being carried out by the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.\u201dThe originally published acknowledgement has only the first sentence. This correction has been made in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Research Protocols website on September 23, 2016, together with publishing this corrigendum.A correction notice has been sent to PubMed, and the publication was resubmitted to Pubmed Central and other full-text repositories."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: The National Institute of Health, R01 MH079406 (RES) and New Jersey Health Foundation (RES). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, General Research Fund (GRF/HKU/17609417), to Temmy Lee Ting Lo and Rainbow Tin Hung Ho.Due to this omission, the following Funding statement will be added to the original article:This work was supported by the General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong .The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The authors of \u201cHow Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities\u201d :e238) wish to add the following sentence to the Acknowledgments:The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR website on September 4, 2018, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, Pubmed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article also has been re-submitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-21140-3, published online 09 February 2018Correction to: In the original version of this Article, Kuan-Yi Wu and Ing-Tsung Hsiao were incorrectly listed as equally contributing authors.In addition, the Acknowledgements section in this Article was incomplete.\u201cWe thank Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc.  for providing the precursor for the preparation of 18F-florbetapir. This study was carried out with financial support from the National Science Council and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan , in addition to grants from the Research Fund of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital  and the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging and Translation.\u201dnow reads:\u201cWe thank Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc.  for providing the precursor for the preparation of 18F-florbetapir. This study was carried out with financial support from the National Science Council and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan , in addition to grants from the Research Fund of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital  and the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging and Translation. This study was also supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan .\u201dThese errors have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the paper, and in the accompanying Electronic Supplementary Material."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Following publication of the original article , the autThe acknowledgments currently read:We would like to thank the Simmons Center for Cancer Research for the financial support, Dr. Juan Arroyo (BYU) for his assistance in tissue staining and confocal microscopy, Dr. Himelda Chavez , for her pathology expertise and help in IHC analysis, and a team of surgeons at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center for providing normal and malignant colon tissue.The corrected acknowledgements would read:http://cancergenome.nih.gov).We would like to thank the Simmons Center for Cancer Research for the financial support, Dr. Juan Arroyo (BYU) for his assistance in tissue staining and confocal microscopy, Dr. Himelda Chavez , for her pathology expertise and help in IHC analysis, and a team of surgeons at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center for providing normal and malignant colon tissue. Results from this study are in part based upon data generated by The Cancer Genome Atlas and managed by the United States National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute (see"}
{"text": "In the original publication, the funding information was incorrectly published. The correct funding information is provided in this correction.This work is supported by grants from the Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013DFG32390) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31472059) to X.S. X.S is a recipient of the Young Thousand Talents program (KJ2070000026)."}
{"text": "Hadley Weiss is not included in the author byline. Hadley Weiss should be listed as the 25th author and affiliated with LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. The contributions of this author are as follows: Investigation and Writing\u2013Review & Editing.The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There is an error in the Funding statement. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct Funding statement is: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (URL:"}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This research was supported by grants from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea . The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Sudre, and Sebastien Ourselin. These authors\u2019 affiliations are now correctly noted as School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King\u2019s College London, London, UK. Additionally, a statement from the Acknowledgments section was omitted. The Acknowledgments have been updated to include the following: \u201cWe are grateful to the MS Society for its support of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Centre at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology where this work was completed.\u201d The HTML and PDF versions of the Article have been corrected."}
{"text": "Polymers,Dear readers of Polymers Young Investigator Award to:Finally, after an extensive voting period, we are proud to present the first winner of the Polymers Investigator Award from 38 candidates who were proposed by at least two colleagues in their field of expertise. Fifteen of the candidates are working in the United States, 13 in Europe and 10 at universities in Asian countries. The proposed candidates represented a diverse range of fields in polymer science. Dr. Campos received his Ph.D. with Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and Professor Kendall N. Houk at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016 and did his postdoc training at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the supervision of Craig J. Hawker. At the age of 37, Dr. Campos has already achieved an extraordinary standing in the polymers community. His excellent work focuses on the design and application of polymeric materials, for example, solar cells and organic light emitting diodes; all topics of high societal and economic impact. His research has been featured in highly ranked journals such as the Nature family, Angewandte Chemie, and Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), to name a few. To date, he has co-authored over 60 articles and has received numerous awards, including the American Chemical Society (ACS) Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, The National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, The Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS) Young Faculty Award, the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Award for Early Excellence. This finally led to invitations to numerous prominent lectures all over the world. Moreover, his work constitutes not only high level basic research, but has proven to be highly relevant in industry which is reflected in 10 patents filed by him and his coworkers.who is an assistant professor at the Chemistry Department of Columbia University, USA. He was selected by the evaluation committee of Polymers conference.In addition to the cash prize and plaque, Dr. Campos will be an invited speaker at the 2018 Polymers Editorial office staff and editorial board members, I wish to congratulate Dr. Campos on his excellent performance and wish him all the best for his future career.On behalf of the"}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study is part of the research project \u201cResistance Training in Youth Athletes\u201d that was funded by the German Federal Institute of Sport Science (ZMVI1-08190114-18). In addition, we acknowledge the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Open Access Publishing Fund of University of Potsdam, Germany. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Competing Interests statement: WHO-IARC: Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization.Norwegian Immunization Registry SYSVAK  provided data, but is not responsible for the analyses and interpretation in this article.The publisher apologizes for the error."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by a grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to DJ (DFG Je 152/17-1) and Vikas Sharma is a recipient of a research fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India ("}
{"text": "S2 Text in the original article to disclose the role of the funder Illumina in this study, the financial disclosure was not updated to reflect the same information. The Funding should read:Following the inclusion of S2 Text. The other funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.REC, CMD, TCR, and AM had funding from the Department for International Development from the United Kingdom award (204074\u2013101) and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Government award (70957). TCR had funding from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (grant number: R21AI135756). MS was supported from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health (grant number: T32HL134632). Illumina supplied early-access iSeq100 sequencing reagents; some experiments were conducted at Illumina by Illumina employees; the role of the funder Illumina is further described in"}
{"text": "This article has been retracted: From the The First Hospital of China Medical University Professor Committee, in response to the Journal\u2019s request:The First Hospital of China Medical University Professor Committee convened the 14th plenary meeting to investigate Yu-Ji Li\u2019s paper published in Oncotarget , in response to the Journal\u2019s editorial board\u2019s request. A thorough investigation and open discussion was held in the meeting that included all department members in charge of scientific affairs.At the meeting, Dr. Yu-Ji Li reported all events in the production of his paper. He admitted the problems in the publication that were identified by the Journal and acknowledged that he was responsible for the incidents. The chairman of Dr. Li\u2019s department also detailed on the incidents and pointed out the loopholes in the paper. Inquiries were made and documents were carefully checked by the Committee members. The Professor Committee agreed that Yu-Ji Li was negligent in his research attitude and was unable to offer complete original materials. After the discussion, the decision was made as the following:1) Due to repeated and manipulated use of figures that misled the scientific conclusion, we ask for retraction of the paper by Dr. Yu-Ji Li from the Journal. (Dr. Li himself previously attempted to retract but his plea was unclear in expression).2) Apologies must be issued to the Journal and its readerships for the authors\u2019 negligence and lack of rigorous academic integrity.3) The University will take strict measures against the misconduct by the authors of the paper according to relevant institutional regulations.https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.8289Original article: Oncotarget. 2016; 7:31993-32005."}
{"text": "In the original article, there was an error in the funding section.Funding section and now states:A correction has been made to the \u201cThis work was funded by the EPFL Blue Brain Project Fund and the ETH Board Funding to the Blue Brain Project. The work has been performed as an in-kind contribution to the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 604102 (Human Brain Project) and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under Grant Agreement No. 720270 (Human Brain Project SGA1).\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The author Mabel Kwong was inadvertently omitted from the list of authors during the production stage of the paper \"Internet Protocol Television for Personalized Home-Based Health Information: Design-Based Research on a Diabetes Education System\" :e13). The author Mabel Kwong  should have been added after Ken Clarke in the original published manuscript. This error has been corrected in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Research Protocols website on March 18, 2014, together with publishing this correction notice. This was done before submission to Pubmed Central and other full-text repositories."}
{"text": "Qualifying researchers may apply to access the data by contacting Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) of California, Information Services Division (dataandreports@oshpd.ca.gov).The Data Availability statement for this paper is incorrect. The correct statement is: There are ethical and legal restrictions on sharing the data set due to patient privacy. Therefore, legal restrictions related to agreements made with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) of California ("}
{"text": "There are errors in the Funding statement. The publisher apologizes for the errors. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This study was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University (1053320182836). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder \u201cNational Natural Science Foundation of China, 71872102.\u201d The updated funding statement is mentioned below:This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71872102).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for the Foundation for Science and Technology  I&D 472 is (UID/DTP/00447/2019). The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the original article, we incorrectly used the university internal grant code which should be replaced by the Chinese Medicine Research Fund in University of Oxford. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.The funding statement should read:This work was supported by the Chinese Medicine Research Fund in University of Oxford. The grant was sponsored by Shaanxi Momentum Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Shaanxi Momentum Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. had no involvement in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. All authors declare no conflict of interest."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: Publication of this article was funded in part by the Kansas State University Open Access Publishing Fund.In the Methods section, there is a typographical error in equation 3. Please view the complete, correct equation here:"}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was partly funded by the Marine Biodiversity Hub, a collaborative partnership supported through funding from the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Programme. The funding body was not involved in the process of study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There is an error in the Acknowledgments section. The name \"Ashley Leeman\" is spelled incorrectly. The correct spelling is: Ashley Leedman."}
{"text": "The authors of the published article \u201cInternet Search and Krokodil in the Russian Federation: An Infoveillance Study\u201d  wish to add additional information to the \u201cAcknowledgments\u201d section, so it now reads as follows:The work of Peter Meylakhs was funded by the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia.\u00a0The authors would also like to thank Ms Svetlana Chernova in Ukraine for her assistance with data collection and coding, Associate Professor James Gillespie at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney for his advice and support, and Ms Anya Sarang from the Andrey Rylkov Foundation in Moscow for facilitating contacts within Russia.The first sentence was unintentionally omitted in the original submission. The publication on the JMIR site was amended accordingly, and a new version was submitted to PubMed Central."}
{"text": "On September 25 2017, Jay A. Siegel, PhD died at his home in Mt. Arlington, New Jersey at the age of 71. At the time of his death due to heart failure, Dr Siegel was highly regarded internationally as a forensic chemist, educator and prominent advocate for quality in the forensic sciences. Jay was born in Washington, DC, USA on April 16 1946. He received a PhD degree in chemistry from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA in 1975. Early in his career, Jay developed strong interest in the forensic applications of chemistry. Following employment as a forensic chemist with the Virginia Bureau of Forensic Sciences, Jay launched decades of professional activity as an educator and research scientist with Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado, Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan and Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, IN, USA. His university experience included serving as department chair but primarily focused on educating many undergraduate and graduate students who have in their own subsequent careers made many contributions to forensic science. His international recognition included visiting professor roles at universities in Australia and China.Journal of Forensic Sciences from 1983 to 2008 and the Forensic Sciences Research from 2016 to 2017 and as a commissioner for the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC) for six years beginning in 2003.Jay received many prestigious honours and awards during his long career. These include the Paul L. Kirk Award in 1975 from the Criminalistics Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). Jay was named Distinguished Fellow by the AAFS in 2009. Also in 2009, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from The George Washington University and in 2012 the Distinguished Service Award from the Midwest Association of Forensic Scientists. Jay served on the editorial boards of the Throughout his career, Jay was a strong advocate for quality and scientific rigour in the practice of forensic science. He was selected to serve on the National Research Council Committee that led to the 2009 publication of the influential \u201cStrengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward.\u201d Jay authored books and numerous publications in relevant scientific journals within his interests in forensic chemistry and the forensic sciences in general. He was an editor (with Pekka J. Saukko) for the Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences published in 2012 by Academic Press.Journal of Forensic Sciences. During this time, I recall many conversations with Jay concerning the quality of publications in the forensic sciences, especially relating to his own specialty of forensic chemistry. In my additional role as Chair of the Forensic Science in Focus Book Series for AAFS, I called Jay, challenging him to organize a quality, edited book on forensic chemistry to be published in the series that would address many of the shortcomings we had discussed previously. Jay accepted this challenge and responded with a carefully edited manuscript with contributions from many of his colleagues. The volume \u201cForensic Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications\u201d was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2015.Over the years, I enjoyed many discussions with Jay regarding issues within the forensic sciences and developments relating to AAFS. He could always be counted upon for strong, thoughtful positions on topics of mutual interest. From 2008 to 2016, I served as the Book Review Editor for the In my view, Jay Siegel represents an ideal role model for all of us in the forensic sciences. His work demonstrated how academia and forensic practice are not mutually exclusive. Like Jay, we should all strive for the highest quality in forensic science possible and embrace the challenges of constructive criticism and the advances of new research."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the grant number from the National Science Foundation, China is listed incorrectly. The correct grant number is: 71801089."}
{"text": "The Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging recognizes instances of practice informed by research and analysis, research that directly improved policy or practice, and distinction in bridging the worlds of research and practice. The award lecture will be presented by the 2018 recipient, Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, PhD, University of Washington. This award is generously funded by The New York Community Trust."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funders. HA-K acknowledges the Higher Education Committee for Education and Development (HCED), Office of Prime Minister, Iraq for financial support. AA and HA acknowledge the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia \u2013 Cultural Bureau (UK) for financial support. RE-G acknowledges WELMEC, a Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering funded by the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC, under grant number WT 088908/Z/09/Z for financial support.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The original article has been updated.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)Prof. Samuel Fehrsen see  and 2 waHe was the first head of the Department of Family Medicine at the former Medical University of Southern Africa \u2013 MEDUNSA  from 1977 to 1996, spanning a period of 20 years. During his tenure at MEDUNSA, Prof. Sam Fehrsen established a family medicine department that trained and produced many family physicians in South Africa, Southern Africa and Central Africa. In 1995, through his visionary leadership, in collaboration with the Evangelical Church of the Congo (ECC), the very first and only Family Medicine postgraduate training programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was established. Some of our collaborators from the Democratice Republic of the Congo (DRC) include Prof. Leon Kintaudi and Dr Philippe Lukanu \u2013 both based at the Protestant University of the Congo (UPC). The DRC programme has matured to the extent that the department continues to support the local training of family medicine registrars through the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding with the UPC in 2011.In addition, he played a pivotal role in the establishment of the first Family Medicine programme in Kenya at the Moi University, Eldoret. Most of the first cohort of family physicians who graduated from that university are now heads of departments (HODs) (Family Medicine) in at least three universities in Kenya. In southern Africa, close to 200 family physicians from Swaziland, Namibia, Lesotho, Zambia and Botswana trained under his leadership through the vocational Family Medicine postgraduate programme at MEDUNSA. A number of family physicians have further emigrated to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The current HOD of Family Medicine at the University of Namibia (Dr Felicia Christians) is an alumnus of University of Cape Town.SA Family Practice Journal as well as a role model, mentor and friend to many. Late Prof. Sam Fehrsen has left footprints on the sands of time that we will never forget. In his quiet way, he succeeded in establishing and spreading the specialty of Family Medicine in South Africa, southern Africa and Africa. May his gentle soul rest in peace!In South Africa, the Family Medicine programme that the late Prof. Sam Fehrsen ran for 20 years produced many prominent family physicians. The current HODs of Family Medicine at Walter Sisulu University (WSU), University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), University of Limpopo (UL), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and my humble self  are all his mentees and products. He was awarded an honorary degree \u2013 Doctor of Medicine (MD) \u2013 by the WSU in 2009 for his tremendous contributions to rural health services and training in the former Transkei. What an achievement for someone who was always soft-spoken, affirmative, disciplinarian and a missionary at heart. His command of the isiXhosa language amazed us all the time from his earlier medical professional life at Mt Ayliff Hospital, Eastern Cape. He was a pioneer of the South African Academy of Family Practitioners that later transformed to the South African Academy of Family Physicians, a past president of the Academy, past editor of the"}
{"text": "In \u201cPredictors of Patients\u2019 Loyalty Toward Doctors on Web-Based Health Communities: Cross-Sectional Study\u201d by Wu et al :e14484), a minor error in the typesetting stage of publication resulted in the Acknowledgments section not being included in the final version of the article.The Acknowledgments section has been added to the paper and appears as follows:This work was partially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China .The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR website on November 7, 2019, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "The author wishes to make the following corrections to this paper . Due to with:Moreover, in the published article , the autFunding: This research was funded by the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Science, Wroc\u0142aw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, grant number B030/0003/1 and under the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education \u201cStrategy of Excellence University of Research\u201d in 2018\u20132019 project number 0019/SDU/2018/18 in the amount of PLN 700 000.The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by the change. The change does not affect the scientific results. The manuscript will be updated, and the original will remain online on the article webpage, with a reference to this Correction."}
{"text": "The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Information was missing in the acknowledgements section. The correct information is given below.Acknowledgements We thank the Mountain Rescue South Tyrol (Bergrettungsdienst im Alpenverein S\u00fcdtirol) for putting their indoor climbing facility at our disposal. Furthermore, we thank the companies Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Masimo Corporation, Akern and Salewa for lending the equipment. We would like to acknowledge the support of Prof. Luciano Bernardi in interpreting the data on baroreflex sensitivity. The authors thank the Department of Innovation, Research and University of the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano for covering the Open Access publication costs."}
{"text": "The affiliation for the second author is incorrect; the correct affiliation is not indicated. Liam Bailey is not affiliated with #2, but with: Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany."}
{"text": "The M. Powell Lawton Award is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions from applied research that has benefited older people and their care. The lecture will be given by the 2018 recipient, Carol Whitlatch, PhD, Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. The session will also include the presentation of the 2019 Lawton Award. The 2019 Lawton Award recipient is Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FGSA, of the University of Maryland. Supported by the Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life."}
{"text": "Perl\u201d was not included as an author in the published article and has now been added. All authors listed have made a substantial, direct and intellectual contribution to the work, and approved it for publication.Acknowledgments section:Additionally, due to the addition of the author Scott M. Perl, a correction has been made to the \u201cA portion of this research took place at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. General ideas presented here developed out of various NASA and NSF grants to the authors, along with partial support from the NASA Astrobiology Institute (project: Rock Powered Life) to JS, NSF Coupled Natural Human Systems (Award #1617473) to BB, and NSF National Robotics Initiative (Award #IIS-1526667) for DT. We thank the reviewers for input that improved this manuscript.\u201dThe authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Addendum to: npj Schizophrenia 10.1038/npjschz.2015.16, Published online 6 May 2015In the original published version of the manuscript, no data availability statement was included. This addendum has been added to include the following data availability statement \u201cData obtained from the patients in the Taiwan cohort were used with agreement from National Taiwan University Hospital. Data acquisition was funded by grant NSC99-3112-B-002-030 and was collected at National Taiwan University Hospital around 2010. Data obtained from the patients in the Huaxi cohort were used with agreement from Sichuan University. Data acquisition was funded by National Nature Science Foundation of China (81130024), National Key Technology R & D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012BAI01B06). Reasonable requests for access to the data should be directed to Tao Li, The Mental Health Center and the Psychiatric Laboratory, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Data obtained from the patients in the Xiangya cohort were used with agreement from the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in China. Reasonable requests for access to the data should be directed to Zening Liu, Institute of Mental Health, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University. Data obtained from the patients in the Nottingham cohort were used with agreement from Nottingham University. Data acquisition was funded by MRC (grant reference G0601442). Reasonable requests for access to the data should be directed to Peter F Liddle, Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, University of Nottingham.\u201d"}
{"text": "In the publication of this article , there iThe error: In the initially published version of this article, the caption for Figs. The correct captions for Figs."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement for GY. GY was supported by grants MH107367 and HD085902 from the National Institutes of Health and the Seed Grant BRFSG-2014-14 from the Brain Research Foundation.Funding:As a result, a correction has been made to the \u201cThis work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Rubicon Fellowship (019.163LW.032) (to MvdH); the Brain Foundation, the Walker Family, and the Perpetual Impact Philanthropy (grant IPAP2017/0717) (to CB); the G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, JPB Foundation, and the NIH  (to FG). GY was supported by MH107367 and HD085902 from the National Institutes of Health and the Seed Grant BRFSG-2014-14 from the Brain Research Foundation.\u201dAdditionally, in the original article, there is an error. The conflict of interest statement is incomplete.Conflict of interest statement:A correction has been made to the \u201cGY is co-founder, member of the Board of Directors, on SAB, equity holder, and paid consultant for Locana. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by the University of California, San Diego in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "Correction to: Mol Autism (2019) 10:29https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-019-0280-6Following publication of the original article , we haveAll EEG studies and analyses were performed with institutional review board (IRB) and/or National Research Ethics Service approval.The Ethics statement should read:The EEG data collected for subject 801\u2013015 was collected at University of Tennessee Health Science Centre (UTHSC) under an IRB approved protocol with informed consent, the transfer of this EEG data to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for analysis was not approved by the UTHSC IRB. The data transfer was approved by the UCLA IRB with the understanding that the data file was de-identified, however, patient identifiers were included on the EEG disk in error. The EEG data for this subject are now stored on the UCLA server fully de-identified. All other subjects were collected at UCLA under an IRB approved protocol. The data and results presented in this article remain unaffected, and this correction has been published at the request of the Research Integrity Officer at UTHSC.The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Economic & Social Research Council . Prof Mark Hawley is a Theme Lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Devices for Dignity MedTech Co-operative (MIC). The work of the Devices for Dignity MIC is funded by the NIHR. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care."}
{"text": "The Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) is the Swedish national authority responsible for regulation and surveillance of the development, manufacturing and marketing of medicinal products. Relenza, a neuraminidase inhibitor used in the treatment of influenza, has been evaluated by both the Swedish MPA and the United States Food and Drug Administration.In a paper by Mulinari et al. , the div"}
{"text": "Subscribe to the newsletters and see the WONCA Africa page there at https://www.wonca.net/AboutWonca/Regions/Africa.aspx.As the new president of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA) Africa, I realise that many family doctors in Africa know very little about WONCA. I hope that this editorial and other communications will begin to ensure every family doctor in Africa knows and supports WONCA. WONCA was set up in 1972. It built up a great brand value over the years. This was retained in developing a short name for the organisation: WONCA, the World Organisation of Family Doctors. WONCA Council is made up of 118 member organisations from colleges, academies and associations of family doctors in 131 countries across the world. The mission of WONCA is to improve the quality of life of people of the world through defining and promoting its values, including respect for universal human rights, including gender equity, and by fostering high standards of care in general practice/family medicine. It represents and acts as an advocate for its members at an international level where it interacts with world bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO). A small WONCA Executive team meets regularly between biannual WONCA Council meetings. The 13 members of WONCA Executive team are the world president, president-elect, immediate past president, regional presidents from each of the seven WONCA regions \u2013 Africa, Asia Pacific, East Mediterranean, Europe, Iberoamericana-CIMF, North America and South Asia \u2013 and three members-at-large. The WONCA World Secretariat is currently located in Bangkok. WONCA has rich resources on its website, WONCA Africa Region is made up of ten paid-up member organisations as of October 2018: Association of Family Physicians of Uganda, Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, College of Primary Care Physicians of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Family Medicine in the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Kenya Association of Family Physicians, Lesotho Medical Association, Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria, South African Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Family Physicians of Ghana and the Faculty of Family Medicine (Ghana Chapter) in the West African College of Physicians. Africa was right there in WONCA in 1972. Recent presidents included Bruce Sparks, Khaya Mfenyana, Sylvester Osinowo, Matie Obazee and Henry Lawson. Africa has been a very difficult terrain for growing WONCA and is recognised as such by WONCA. WONCA had a memorable world onference in South Africa in 2001 and elected Bruce Sparks as its world president for 2004\u20132007. The first WONCA Africa conference was held in Nigeria in 2000, with a second conference held after many years in South Africa in 2009. This continued with Zimbabwe (2012), Ghana (2015) and South Africa (2017). Much of the recent success in holding conferences has come from Belgian support for African family medicine, especially the Primafamed Network and its collaboration with WONCA conferences.I was elected as president-elect at the WONCA Africa Council Meeting before the WONCA Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016) to serve under President Henry Lawson (2016\u20132018) and to then serve as President from 2018 to 2020. WONCA Africa Council met again before the WONCA Conference, Seoul, South Korea (October 2018) to elect the new WONCA Africa Executive Committee see : Dr Dan www.WoncaAfrica2019.com. Register and come to Uganda to interact with an array of international speakers on the theme \u2018People-centred PHC\u2019. The year 2019 will be a momentous year, with the implementation of the Astana Declaration becoming a key issue amongst governments. We intend to engage with the WHO globally and in Africa to facilitate relationships between ministries of health and WONCA member organisations in Africa. We will be inviting the WHO Regional Director to speak at our Regional Conference and to meet leaders of our member organisations. There is a number of other plans: building membership of WONCA Africa, especially academic departments of family medicine; building resources for academic departments including research collaborations; improving women and young doctor participation in WONCA Africa and member organisations; strengthening African involvement in WONCA working parties and special interest groups; improving funding of WONCA Africa; adopting regional bylaws to ensure good governance of WONCA Africa; and improving communications with ordinary family doctors as well as member organisations.There are many plans but the first priority is to ensure that the next WONCA Africa Conference in Kampala, Uganda, 06\u201308 June 2019, is a success. The website is available at https://www.woncaafrica.org, and @WoncaAfrica on Facebook, Twitter and Telegram to keep abreast of things at WONCA Africa.This is the first editorial from WONCA Africa. There will be more details on these plans as we proceed. Check the WONCA Africa website at"}
{"text": "The authors wish to make the following corrections to their paper :The middle initial has been added to the name of co-author Sanghamitra Misra. The correct name is Sanghamitra M. Misra.https://imconsortium.org/about/introduction/ (accessed on 27 August 2018).Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health. Available Online: The citation website link to the first reference in the original paper is now unavailable. The correct reference is as follows:In addition, we found that the organization name listed in Section 4 (p. 5) and in the acknowledgments section is incorrect\u2014the reference to the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (ACIHM) is incorrect. The correct organization name is the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH). The corrected last sentence of the second paragraph in Section 4 is as follows:Specifically, with organizational support by John Weeks, a pioneer in collaborative interprofessional IM efforts over several decades, representatives from the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH) participated in a comprehensive pre-summit survey.The corrected acknowledgments are as follows:Acknowledgments: The Pediatric Integrative Medicine Leadership Initiative would like foremost to thank the Marino Health Foundation for its generous support of the 2015 and 2016 summits and related work. The PIMLI would also like to acknowledge the American Academy of Pediatrics, in particular Teri Salus and Anne Gramiak, for their logistical support coordinating and facilitating the 2015 PIMLI Summit. PIMLI leaders are extremely grateful to John Weeks and the ACIH committee who helped in preparation for the 2015 summit, and to Kiwi Magazine and the Moms Meet Network for assistance with the 2015 Parent Survey. Finally, the PIMLI group thanks the members of the PIM community who participated in the 2015 and 2016 professional surveys. Thank you to all the PIMLI leaders involved, in addition to the authors: Michelle Bailey, David Becker, Anu French, Scott Shannon, David M. Steinhorn, Minal Vazirani, and Ana Maria Verissimo.The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by these changes that do not affect the scientific results. The manuscript will be updated and the original will remain on the article webpage, with a reference to this Correction."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funder \u201cNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Health (NIAID-NIH), R01AI138230\u201d to WD.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "In the Funding section, the grant number from the funder European Research Council is missing. The correct funding information is as follows: This research was funded by CEPREMAP and the European Research Council. Yann Algan received financial support for this work from the European Commission\u2019s Horizon 2020 program under European Research Council Consolidator Grant no. 647870. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "Prenatal diagnosis, care and management are involved in mortality and morbidity of every country. A high prevalence is estimated in Africa. We use bibliometrics and mapping tools to explore the area studies and countries involved in scientific research on prenatal diagnosis, care and management in Africa. We used two databases: Web of Science and Pubmed. We extracted sets of data as publication years, organizations, funding agencies, countries from Web of Science core collection database and Medical Subject Headings from Pubmed database. We mapped the data using VOSviewer. We performed keyword analysis. We accessed 463 articles published between 1956 and 2015 in Web of Science Core collection Database and 3372 from Pubmed database. The majority of which were after 2004. The main countries involved in research on prenatal field in Africa were the USA, the United Kingdom, France and South Africa. Two main keywords are relevant: fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV. Prenatal diagnosis, care and management are leaded by South Africa. Some new countries are merging such as Rwanda. The main fields are fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV. It is funded by NIH but also Cape Town University. Maternal and child survival is one of the main goals for the World Health Organization , 2. The We used previously described methods -7. BriefUsing WOS core collection database, we obtained 463 records. More of the records were after 2004 . The maiMost articles were published after 2004 according to the analysis of two databases Pubmed and WOS. This is in accordance with indexation and publication rates of previous studies -7. On thSouth Africa is the main African country involved in prenatal diagnosis, care and management. This is a confirmation of previous general studies on the leading role of South Africa in the continent . In WestKeyword analysis, Web of Science Category analysis and MeSH analysis reveal two main topics: fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV. In fact, public environmental health  is one oFetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are a range of disabilities due to materno-fetal alcohol exposure . Main feThe second main topic is HIV . Old stuIn conclusion, prenatal diagnosis, care and management are leaded by South Africa. Moreover, some new countries are merging such as Rwanda. The main fields are fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV, funded by NIH (USA) but also Cape Town University (South Africa). Coordination of national health policies are required to improve prenatal diagnosis, care and management.The authors declare no competing interest."}
{"text": "In the original article, there was an error in Acknowledgements section. We need to add an acknowledgement of Dr. Robert X. Smith for his contributions towards Figure 1.A correction has been made to the Acknowledgements section.This work was partially supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Data from the Human Connectome Project, WU-Minn Consortium  were funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; This work was also supported by NIH grant (UH2-NS100614). The authors are grateful to Drs. Michael Breakspear and Stewart Heitmann for their help with the Brain Dynamic Toolbox. The authors are also grateful to Dr. Robert X. Smith for his contribution of Figure 1.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The original article has been updated.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."}
{"text": "In addition, the correct number for The National Institute of Biological Resources of Korea is \u201cNIBR201631201\u201d.There is an error in the Funding. The correct name for the funder is \u201cThe National Institute of Biological Resources of Korea\u201d. Website: The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The authors of \u201cVideo-Delivered Family Therapy for Home Visited Young Mothers With Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Quasi-Experimental Implementation-Effectiveness Hybrid Trial\u201d :e11513) wish to add the following funding statement to their Acknowledgments section:Research reported in this publication was supported by The Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute, under award number UL1TR001086 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR website on March 7, 2019, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article also has been resubmitted to those repositories."}
{"text": "Johan Delport is not included in the author byline. Johan Delport should be listed as the seventh author and affiliated with Department of Medical Microbiology, London Health Sciences Center, London, Canada. The contributions of this author are as follows: Methodology and Validation."}
{"text": "Hosung Kang was supported by the Postdoctoral Research Program of Sungkyunkwan University (2015) and Philip M. Graybill was supported by Virginia Tech's BIOTRANS IGEP. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by"}
{"text": "The authors would like to add the funding number to the published article . The corFunding: This research was funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, agreement number MSMT-5727/2018-2 and by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, agreement No14.587.21.0049 (unique identifier RFMEFI58718X0049).The manuscript will be updated, and the original will remain online on the article\u2019s webpage. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by these changes."}
{"text": "There is an error in the Funding statement. One of the grant numbers is incorrect and should be BE 5601/4-1 instead of BE 5604/1-1.The corrected statement should read: \u201cThis research was supported by German Research Foundation , the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , the National Eye Institute  and the Max Planck Society . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparations of the manuscript.\u201d"}
{"text": "AbstractEditorial of special issue of plant diversity in southeastern Asia. BRI) is a long term programme to connect the world with the aim of increasing trade and economic growth and accerelating regional integration. BRI extends into global biodiversity conservation. SE Asia is one of the BRI regions. In order to conserve high biodiversity and promote sustainable development in SE Asia, the Southeast Asian Biodiversity Research Institute (SEABRI) was established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Nay Pyi Taw in 2015  from the Neogene of South-Western China and Northern Vietnam, a new genus and species of temperate bamboo  from Central-Southern Vietnam and a new species of paleotropical bamboo genus Schizostachyum  from Vietnam, a new species and two new records of Goniothalamus (Annonaceae) from Laos and studies of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from Laos and Myanmar, a new species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae) from Indonesia, two new species of Alseodaphnopsis (Lauraceae) from South-Western China and Northern Myanmar, a new species of Ainsliaea (Asteraceae) from near the border of Myanmar and China, new species of Colocasia (Araceae), Ophiorrhiza (Rubiaceae), Blumea (Asteraceae) and Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar and taxonomic studies on Amomum (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar, an annotated checklist of Orchidaceae and notes on Gastrochillus (Orchidaceae) from Myanmar and a new species and two new combinations of Monolophus (Zingiberaceae) from Indo-Burma. All these studies were financially supported by the CAS.The documentation of the rich biodiversity in SE Asia is the very first step towards understanding and conservation of biodiversity . The fir in 2018 . This su"}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "In the original article, we neglected to include the funders Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy , Ministry of Science and ICT , and Ministry of Health and Welfare , who provided funding under the Technology Development Program for AI-Bio-Robot-Medicine Convergence (20001650).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, New York."}
{"text": "In the version of this article published earlier, the funding information was omitted. The note is hereby provided as: \u2018The authors acknowledge the funding support provided by the Maternal Mental Health Fund, Rural Health Fund, National Research Foundation and the National Health Scholars Programme\u2019. This correction does not alter the study\u2019s findings of significance or overall interpretation of the study results. The publisher apologises for any inconvenience caused."}
{"text": "The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."}
{"text": "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [grant number BB/J015660/1]; and the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research [grant number NC/N003071/1]"}