BACKGROUND Alveolar echinococcosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the metacestode of Echinococcus multilocularis. Many species of small mammals, including arvicolid rodents or Ochotona spp., are natural intermediate hosts of the cestode. The main aim of this study was to identify natural intermediate hosts of E. multilocularis in Chenaran County, Razavi Khorasan Province, northeastern Iran, wh...

Received: July 15, 2005 Accepted for publication: November 16, 2005 From the Department of Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital Taitung Branch, Taiwan Address for reprints: Dr. Ruey-An Chiang, 1 Lane 303, Changsha Street, Taitung City, Taitung County 950, Taiwan, R.O.C. Department of Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital Taitung Branch, Taiwan Tel: (089) 310150 Fax: (089) 321240 E-mail: [email protected]....

STEPHEN A. KATZ,1,2 JOHN A. OPSAHL,3 SHANE E. WERNSING,3 LYNN M. FORBIS,2 JULINE SMITH,4 AND LOIS J. HELLER4 Departments of 1Physiology and 3Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455; 2Division of Nephrology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis 55415; and 4Department of Medical and Molecular Physiology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Duluth, Minnes...

a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 21228, USA c Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228, USA University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA e Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent...

D. Blackwood1, R. Santhirapala2, M. Mythen3 and D. Walker4,* 1 Department of Anaesthetics, Barnet Hospital, Royal Free Foundation Trust, London, UK, 2 Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey, UK, 3 Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University College London, London, UK, and 4 Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University College Hospi...

BACKGROUND Antioxidants may protect the aging brain against oxidative damage associated with pathological changes of Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between antioxidant supplement use and risk of AD. DESIGN Cross-sectional and prospective study of dementia. Elderly (65 years or older) county residents were assessed in 1995 to 1997 for prevalent dementia and AD,...

1 Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, 3535 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, USA 2University of California, Los Angeles, Environmental Health Sciences, 650 Charles E. Young Dr. S, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 3Orange County Sanitation District, 10844 Ellis Avenue, Fountain Valley, CA 92709, USA 4Virginia Tech, Department of Crop & Soil Environmental Sciences, 330 Smyth Hall,...

Received: September 9, 2008 Accepted for publication: July 4, 2009 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr Min-Po Ho Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital 21 Section 2, Nanya South Road, Panchiao 220, Taipei County, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel: (02)89667000 ext 1122 Fax: (02)896604...

E-government service delivery performance has been discussed in literature as a way governments use information technologies (IT) to deliver valuable services to their citizens at a lower cost. This article examines the effectiveness of Web site-supported Balanced Scorecard’s four dimensions (innovation and learning, internal process, veteran value proposition, and financial) in improving e-gov...

EDWINA LAWSON, KATHARINE BOND, DUNCAN CHURCHILL, KAREN WALKER-BONE Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton and Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Euan Keat Education Centre, Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, UK Accepted 22 December 2008 Correspondence to: Karen Walker-Bone, Euan Keat Education Centre, Princess Royal Hospital, Lewes Road, Haywards Hea...