The European Nations foresee a growing population and a trending urbanization that pose significant environmental and social concerns. To manage these concerns municipal decision makers’ attempt to leverage the smart city concept with collaboration between external actors as a means to maintain the prepossessed living standard in the city. By developing a framework based on existing literature ...

A novel coronavirus, MERS-CoV (NCoV, HCoV-EMC/2012), originating from the Middle-East, has been discovered. Incoming data reveal that the virus is highly virulent to humans. A model that categorizes coronaviuses according to the hardness of their shells was developed before the discovery of MERS-CoV. Using protein intrinsic disorder prediction, coronaviruses were categorized into three groups t...

Cite this article: Reinhold D, Kähne T, Brocke S (2016) Competitive Antagonists of Adenosine Deaminase versus Enzymatic Inhibitors: Complementary Approaches Targeting Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 (DP IV) and their Relation to MERS-CoV Infection. Ann Clin Cytol Pathol 2(3): 1028. *Corresponding author Stefan Brocke, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 0603...

Competing Interests and Disclosures: The author is a co-inventor on a patent application for MERS-CoV vaccines and monoclonal antibodies developed by the US National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center. The author is also the Principal Investigator of an upcoming first-inhuman Phase I clinical trial being conducted by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in collaboration with Gen...

Impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in the United States are threatening contexts for the development of youngsters during middle childhood and adolescence. Nevertheless, some African-American families living in such neighborhoods succeed in protecting their children from the risks of "the streets" and launch them on paths toward achievement. Using quotes and ethnographic material from many s...

Aims and Objectives This study was carried out to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of upper middle class toward the importance of a pediatric dentist in the city of Amritsar, Punjab. Materials and Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out among the parents of children belonging to upper middle class in the city of Amritsar. This proposed study was assessed by the Institution...

With the ever-deepening economic reform and international trend of ICT application in education, the Chinese government is strengthening its basic education curriculum reform and actively facilitating the application of ICT in education. Given the achievement gap of ICT infrastructure and its application in middle and primary schools between urban and rural areas, a divide exists between the ne...

Every student of city politics knows the class theory of city government—that middle-class voters supported municipal reform and working-class voters supported machine politics. Although historical narratives support this theory, systematic evidence has been elusive. Historians and political scientists alike have recognized very strong regional differences in styles of city government but lacke...

In 2000, wages of full time full year workers were over 30 percent higher in metropolitan areas of over 1.5 million people than rural areas. The monotonic relationship between wages and city size is robust to controls for age, schooling and labor market experience. In this paper, we decompose the city size wage gap into various components. We propose a labor market search model that incorporate...

Objective To retrospectively identify initial emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for Florida’s Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease (MERS-CoV) patients under investigation (PUIs) in the Florida Department of Health’s (DOH) syndromic surveillance system, the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-...