Rubicon's Top Ten of 2008

Gene_Hobbs

This has been an interesting year of growth from the Rubicon Foundation. We managed to collect and add over 2,000 new items to the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR), we have seen the web site traffic grow from just over 3,000 unique IP addresses a month last January to over 10,000 last month, we held our first two formal fund raisers totaling a combined $US3,900.00, and we have seen a large growth in the number of people receiving The Rubicon Review.

As a few of you know, I had a laptop hard drive crash over the weekend. In working on the RRR from the server terminal this evening, I thought it might be interesting to see what papers have been downloaded the most this year. It may come as no surprise that the most searched term was "decompression" but what about the papers actually downloaded?

10. Eatock, BC; Nishi, RY. Procedures for Doppler Ultrasonic Monitoring of Divers for Intravascular Bubbles. Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM™) Technical Report DCIEM-86-C-25 RRR ID: 7899

9. DCIEM. Defence Research and Development Canada Doppler Demonstration Tapes. 1986. RRR ID: 7900

8. Richardson, D; Menduno, M; Shreeves, K. (eds.) 1996. Proceedings of Rebreather Forum 2.0. Diving Science and Technology, Santa Ana, CA. RRR ID: 7555

7. Mitchell SJ, Doolette DJ, Wachholz CJ, Vann RD (eds.). 2005. Management of Mild or Marginal Decompression Illness in Remote Locations Workshop Proceedings. Durham NC: Divers Alert Network. 240 pages. RRR ID: 5523

6. Acott, CJ. (2001) 457 Equipment incident reports. South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal 31(4) RRR ID: 7743

5. Pollock NW, Uguccioni DM, Dear GdeL, eds. Diabetes and recreational diving: guidelines for the future. Proceedings of the UHMS/ DAN 2005 June 19 Workshop. Durham, NC: Divers Alert Network; 2005. RRR ID: 5538

4. Vann RD, Pollock NW and Denoble PJ. Rebreather Fatality Investigation. In: NW Pollock and JM Godfrey (Eds.) The Diving for Science…2007, Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), Twenty-sixth annual Scientific Diving Symposium, University of Miami, Miami, FL. RRR ID: 6997

3. Hamilton RW, R. Dunford, M.P. Spencer, and D. Richardson. 1994. Development and validation of no-stop decompression procedures for recreational diving : the DSAT recreational dive planner. : Hamilton Research. RRR ID: 4228

2. Acott CJ. 1999. Oxygen toxicity: A brief history of oxygen in diving. South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal 29(3) RRR ID: 6014

and thanks to Cambridge University Press, number one appears 100 years after it was first published:

1. Boycott AE, Damant GCC, Haldane JS. The prevention of compressed air illness. J Hyg. 1908;8:342–443. RRR ID: 7489 NOTE: Permission was granted to The Rubicon Foundation, Inc and this paper should NOT be added to your own web site. Violation of this "trust" will make it harder for us to deal with this and other publishers going forward.

The page within our main site that has had the most attention this year is the suggested reading list on In-water Recompression.

The outside web page that referred the most traffic to our site is the Wikipedia Oxygen Toxicity article (With a close second from the Wikipedia DCS article).

With the year drawing to a close quickly, we thank you for our success in 2008 and look forward to serving you in 2009.

If you have found our work helpful and interesting, we also hope that you will please consider a tax-deductable donation to support our work. The Rubicon Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and we NEED your support.

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Hope more people use ultrasonic devices to monitor and adapt their decompression strategies...

jean-marc

Thank you for the good job.