Introduction to the Special Forum on Critical Making as Research Program Matt Ratto a , Sara Ann Wylie b & Kirk Jalbert c a Faculty of Information , University of Toronto , Toronto , Canada b Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute , Northeastern University , Boston , Massachusetts , USA c Department of Science and Technology Studies , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy ...

CASE Steven Davis, the divorced father of Sara Davis, aged 7 years, called Dr. Francis, Sara’s pediatrician, with a sense of distress and urgency as he asked for “another opinion” about his daughter’s attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Mr. Davis asked if he could first speak to the doctor without Sara present. Dr. Francis agreed, and at a first meeting Mr. Davis explained that his ...

The aim of this study was to correlate magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) measurements, including that for the N-acetyl aspartate (NAA)/creatine (Cr) ratio in the vermis (denoted V-NAA), right cerebellar hemisphere (R-NAA), and left (L-NAA) cerebellar hemisphere, with the clinical scale for the assessment and rating of ataxia (SARA) score for patients with spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) types ...

The pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus has the ability to cause a wide variety of human diseases, ranging from superficial abscesses and wound infections to deep and systemic infections such as osteomyelitis, endocarditis and septicaemia. The ability to cause disease has been attributed to a large number of toxins and digesting enzymes as well as to proteins at the bacterial surface tha...

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Data have been presented indicating that Staphylococcus aureus cell surface protein can be degraded by extracellular proteases produced by the same bacterium. We have found that in sarA mutant cells, which produce high amounts of four major extracellular proteases (staphylococcal serine protease [V8 protease] [SspA], cysteine protease [SspB], aureolysin [metalloprotease] [Aur], and staphopain [...