Treated or untreated, an addiction is not an island unto itself

Is Pathological Trading an Overlooked Form of Addiction?

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No Strategy is an Island to Itself: China First-Mover and Other FDI Strategies' Interaction Effects

Mineral Oils, Untreated or Mildly Treated

Mineral oils (also known as base oils, mineral base oils or lubricant base oils) are chemical substances prepared from naturally occurring crude petroleum oil. Crude oil is distilled first at atmospheric pressure and then under high vacuum to yield vacuum distillates and residual fractions that can be further refined to mineral oils. Mineral oils refined from petroleum crude oils are complex an...

Presence or absence of elevated acute total serum tryptase by itself is not a definitive marker for an allergic reaction.

713 March 2015 To the Editor: We read with interest the study by Laroche et al.1 who examined the value of plasma histamine and serum or plasma tryptase in evaluating severe perioperative anaphylaxis. We would like to add some thoughts to further explore and clarify the significance of tryptase as a “predictable marker of allergic reaction.” Indeed, elevated serum total tryptase associated with...

the modified hodge test: is it an appropriate method for detection of kpc enzyme or not?

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