Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Design–Directory
Source: Dexigner Design Portal
DesignDirectory
Hierarchical-style “international design links database.” Keyword searchable. Anyone may submit links for inclusion; all submissions are reviewed by editors. Database currently contains about 4,900 links in 1,650 categories. See the newest and most popular links.
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Plant Pathology–Glossary
Source: American Phytopathological Society
Illustrated Glossary of Plant Pathology
From abaxial to zygospore. Many terms have a clickable icon that displays an illustraton. Nice. See Education Center for K-12 resources, Plant Disease Lessons and more.
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Food Safety and Nutrition–Terminology
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
CFSAN Technical Lexicon: Version 0.9
“This is an electronic text file derived from the CFSAN Thesaurus, which installs into most word processors or email clients in a few minutes. It contains a comprehensive list of approximately fifteen thousand technical and scientific terms commonly used in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in correspondence and regulatory documents. Once installed, spell-checkers will not flag correctly spelled technical terms as misspellings. In addition, misspelled technical terms will be flagged, and the correct spelling offered as suggested spellings by the spell-checking tools of the word processor.”
Download and install the lexicon.
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Cigarette Smoking–United States
Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (via DocuTicker)
Cigarette Smoking Among Adults — United States, 2003
“One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults to 12%. To assess progress toward this objective, CDC analyzed self-reported data from the 2003 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The results of that analysis indicated that, in 2003, approximately 21.6% of U.S. adults were current smokers. Although this prevalence is lower than the 22.5% prevalence among U.S. adults in 2002 and significantly lower than the 22.8% prevalence in 2001, the rate of decline is not sufficient to meet the national health objective for 2010 (2). Comprehensive, sustained interventions that reduce the rate of smoking initiation and increase the rate of cessation are needed to further the decline in cigarette smoking among adults.”

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