The medical profession always has been viewed as more than a business. Patients often view their physician as a counselor or friend, in whom they entrust their health and to whom they often reveal the most private matters. As with other relationships involving trust (e.g., attorney-client and priest-penitent), the law even recognizes a special privilege for communications between doctors and pa...

Since the 1970s, the share of U.S. children growing up in single-parent families has doubled, a trend that has disproportionately affected disadvantaged families. Paul Amato and Rebecca Maynard argue that reversing that trend would reduce poverty in the short-term and, perhaps more important, improve children's growth and development over the long term, thus reducing the likelihood that they wo...

Homocysteine is a sulfurated amino acid used for the synthesis of methionine. The last decade's researches proved that hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic vascular disease. The vascular injury induced by several mechanisms of hyperhomocysteinemia is the hallmark of homocysteine's atherogenic properties. Hyperhomocysteinemia is present in 85% of the patients wi...

Entre les recherches sur premiers divorces du xixe siècle et sociodémographiques actuels (en particulier à partir des années 1960), études historiques désunions judiciaires, surtout désunis, sont rares. Mais, avant d’entreprendre une histoire séparés divorcés, il est important de poser un vaste cadre compréhension l’&#...

thirtyfrieswal lactating cows were screened for clinical and subclinical mastitis and subsequently classified into healthy, subclinically affected and clinically affected groups each group comprising of 10 cows. polymorphism of cow lactoferrin (ltf) gene promoter was determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp). the results showed that lft gene pro...

In recent years, simulation using computer systems has been of increasing importance in the life sciences. We have developed a system called "Rokky-G" that facilitates a protein structure prediction strategy called "Rokky" on Grid systems. Rokky-G provides the framework of protein structure prediction on the Grid. In this paper we discuss the architecture of Rokky-G and implementation issues id...

The value of the ambulatory care nurse remains undocumented from a quality and patient safety measurement perspective and the practice is at risk of being highly variable and of unknown quality. The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing and the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes propose nurse leaders create a tipping point to measure the value of nursing across the continuum of n...