Article history: Received 13 January 2014 Received in revised form 18 November 2014 Accepted 25 November 2014 Available online 22 December 2014 Prior studies on knowledge-sharing motivations mostly concentrate on discussing motivation in terms of level or amount, and thus, discussions regarding the quality of motivations, in terms of their levels of autonomy, are scarce. Additionally, while res...

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women in the United States and other countries, making it a major public health concern. Despite significant scientific evidence about its known or suspected causes, research and prevention measures to identify and eliminate occupational and other environmental hazards and risk factors for breast cancer remain largely overlooked. As a result, haz...

Heat-Preserving Structure of Proteins Lorenzo Livi, ∗ Enrico Maiorino, † Andrea Pinna, ‡ Alireza Sadeghian, § Antonello Rizzi, ¶ and Alessandro Giuliani ∗∗ Dept. of Computer Science, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics, and Telecommunications, SAPIENZA University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18 00184 Rome, Italy CRS4 Bioi...

In relation to the 8th European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18 November, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published the annual report of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) [1]. On the same occasion, an update with 2014 data of the EARS-Net interactive database on antimicrobial resistance [2] and the European Surveillance of Ant...

NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University 15 Medical Center+, PO Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands, phone: 16 +31 43 3881191, FAX: +31 43 3884134 17 e-mail: [email protected] 18 19 Author contributions 20 WHL, AMWJS, SEK, RCJL were responsible for conception and design of the 21 study. All authors participated substantially in da...

BACKGROUND Influenza typically comprises a substantial portion of acute respiratory infections, a leading cause of mortality worldwide. However, influenza epidemiology data are lacking in Egypt. We describe seven years of Egypt's influenza hospitalizations from a multi-site influenza surveillance system. METHODS Syndromic case definitions identified individuals with severe acute respiratory i...

Mailing Address: Mehmet Drogan • Gulhane Military MEdical Academy. Selimiye Uskudar. Postal Code 34688, Selimiye – Istanbul E-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received November 11, 2014; revised manuscript November 11, 2014; accepted January 19, 2015.