suicide rate in physicians has been reported to be higher than general population or other academics. previous studies found that 85-90% of people who commit suicide had been suffering from some type of psychiatric disorder. suicide prevention is the key element in lowering the numbers of physicians who destroy themselves and end their lives each year. it is needed to provide some educational p...

Flagellin-sensing 2 (FLS2) is a leucine-rich repeat/transmembrane domain/protein kinase (LRR-RLK) that is the plant receptor for bacterial flagellin or the flagellin-derived flg22 peptide. Previous work has shown that after flg22 binding, FLS2 releases BIK1 kinase and homologs and associates with BAK1 kinase, and that FLS2 kinase activity is critical for FLS2 function. However, the detailed mec...

This paper deals with the Aw--Rascle--Zhang [A. Aw and M. Rascle, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 60 (2000), pp. 916--938; H. Zhang, Transp. Res. B Methodol., 36 (2002), 275--290] model for traffic flo...

Xuan Feng,1,2 Yue Yu,1 Cai Liu1 and Michael Fehler2 1College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, No. 938 Xi MinZhu Street, Changchun 130026, China. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] 2Earth Resources Laboratory, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 54-225 Cambridge, MA 02139,...

In an earlier paper [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. vol. 30 (2008), 925–938] we gave sufficient conditions in terms of an energy seminorm for the convergence of stationary iterations for solving linear systems whose coefficient matrix is Hermitian and positive semidefinite. In this paper we show in which cases these conditions are also necessary, and show that they are not necessary in others.

Using immunofluorescence and neutralization assays, we detected antibodies to human severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and/or animal SARS-CoV-like virus in 17 (1.8%) of 938 adults recruited in 2001. This finding suggests that a small proportion of healthy persons in Hong Kong had been exposed to SARS-related viruses at least 2 years before the recent SARS outbreak.

Physician assistants (PAs) were introduced in the Netherlands in 2002 and are now widely deployed. However, little is known about patient satisfaction with Dutch PAs. A comparative study of patient satisfaction was undertaken in the primary care setting. Patients seen by general practitioners (GPs) and PAs were surveyed using the Consumer Quality Index, a European quality survey instrument. Qua...

Belleau begins to answer the question left to the lower courts in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Grady. The court opined, in the Belleau case, that Wisconsin’s GPS monitoring program is reasonable, after considering numerous factors, including the purpose of the program, the invasiveness of the search that a GPS poses, studies on sex offender recidivism, and the reasonableness of the se...

OBJECT The authors investigated return-to-play duration for initial and recurrent concussion in the same season in 2 teams of junior (16-21-year-old) ice hockey players during a regular season. METHODS The authors conducted a prospective cohort study during 1 junior regular season (2009-2010) of 67 male fourth-tier ice hockey players (mean age 18.2 ± 1.2 years [SD], range 16-21 years) from 2 ...

BACKGROUND Myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD 88) is an intracellular adapter protein that mediates the early immune response to pathogens. Toll-like receptors (except TLR-3) induce the immune response through a MyD 88-dependent signal pathway. AIMS We aimed to investigate the MyD 88 polymorphisms that play important roles in the immune response in septic children and to ev...