Scientific abstracts presented at the International Congress for Clinicians in Complementary & Integrative Medicine 2013 This poster includes a discussion of the use of acupuncture in a community setting for various conditions. Logistics, staffing, and financial aspects of community style acupuncture will be discussed. Rationale: Community style acupuncture is an economical, high volume techniq...

Neisseria meningitidis is hosted only by humans and colonizes the nasopharynx; it survives in the human body by reaching an equilibrium with its exclusive host. Indeed, while cases of invasive disease are rare, the number of asymptomatic Neisseria meningitides carriers is far higher. The aim of this paper is to summarize the current knowledge of survival strategies of Neisseria meningitides aga...

The metabolism of catechols often involves their oxidation to quinones and subsequent nucleophilic addition reactions with sulfur-containing compounds. Adducts formed during these reactions may play important roles in many biological systems. We have studied the electrochemical oxidation of N-acetyldopamine (NADA) and N-beta-alanyldopamine (NBAD) in the presence of two sulfur-centered nucleophi...

BACKGROUND Due to an increasing number of elderly people suffering from major depression and potential side effects of the prescribed drugs, the introduction of new therapeutic approaches is needed. Currently, in Germany, auricular acupuncture is no part of clinical care for gerontopsychiatric patients. Based on promising clinical experiences and existing evidence for treating addiction and tra...

Over the past 13 years, Lincoln Hospital, New York City, has used acupuncture as the primary method of treatment for drug-addicted persons. The programme receives, on a daily out-patient basis, 200 drug-addicted persons for detoxification. Acupuncture relieves withdrawal symptoms, prevents the craving for drugs and increases the rate of participation of patients in long-term treatment programme...

The effectiveness of a vaccine is determined not only by the immunogenicity of its components, but especially by how widely it covers the disease-causing strains circulating in a given region. Because vaccine coverage varies over time, this study aimed to detect possible changes that could affect vaccine protection during a specific period in a southern European region. The 4CMenB vaccine is li...

The transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) channel is involved in the development and maintenance of pain and participates in the regulation of temperature. The channel is activated by diverse agents, including capsaicin, noxious heat (≥ 43°C), acidic pH (< 6), and endogenous lipids including N-arachidonoyl dopamine (NADA). Antagonists that block all modes of TRPV1 activation elicit h...

The aim of this thesis is to develop a tool able of detecting, classifying and identifying trafficanomalies. Such occurrences are disturbing since they have potential to deviate networkoperations from their normal behaviour. Network Anomaly Detection Algorithm – NADA – isthe approach developed. The use of NADA and its accuracy are guaranteed by considering three axis of action: mult...

Resenha do livro João Guimarães Rosa: a ficção à beira nada, de Jacques Rancière.

This article examines the use of grotesque in Griselda Gambaro’s play, Nada que ver, and her novel ver con otra historia. The discussion first establishes key intertextual connections between work other literary theatrical antecedents, to then focus detail on own grotesque. Particular attention is paid ways which acts as a differentiating trope built around discrepancies dictatorial state monst...