214 patients with genital herpes infection proven by culture and a control group of 410 other patients were included in a retrospective study devised to investigate the relationship of circumcision to genital HSV infection in the male. The percentage of patients circumicised in the control group was significantly larger than in the herpes group (P less than 0-01). The was not found to be the ca...

Loretta Jones, MA; Kenneth Wells, MD; Keith Norris, MD; Barbara Meade, MA; Paul Koegel, PhD This chapter provides an overview of Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) and introduces the articles in this special issue. CPPR is a model to engage community and academic partners equally in an initiative to benefit the community while contributing to science. This article reviews the his...

We examined the effect of prior victory or defeat in the same site as that of a subsequent encounter on the outcome of dyadic encounter of domestic hens by placing them in two situations: In the first set of dyads, two unacquainted hens having experienced prior victory were introduced in the site where one had experienced victory. In the second set, two unacquainted hens having experienced defe...

uniform, utilizes any tactic, and swears its allegiance not to a government, but an ideology. However, governmental entity since the city-state of Athens fought Melos over two thousand years ago. This enigma is asymmetrical warfare. The only way to truly study asymmetrical warfare is to take into account its long history. Thus, measure the relationship between the duration of asymmetrical war a...

Over the past few years, the world has witnessed the final engagement in a long and costly war against smallpox. It now becomes increasingly clear that the war has been won, that smallpox has been totally and we hope irrevocably eliminated from among the plagues of mankind. The last stages of the war were necessarily global-that is, involving cooperation of many nations. The story is unusual in...