Abstract Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common among persons who inject drugs. Treating HCV in patients present for treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) an opportunity to improve linkage and retention care. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Bridge Clinic serves a unique patient population that includes individuals with opioid recently presented VUMC complicat...

The continuing decline of many natural plant and animal populations emphasizes the importance conservation strategies. Hybridization as a management tool has proven successful in introducing gene flow to small, inbred populations, but can be also associated with health risks. For example, hybridization change susceptibility infection either direction due heterosis (hybrid vigor) outbreeding dep...

In Lee and Oh (Preprint, arXiv:1809.10995, 2018), we provided an algebraic proof of Zinger's comparison formula (Geom. Topol. 12 (2008), no. 2, 1203–1241; J. Differential Geom. 83 (2009), 407–460) between genus one Gromov–Witten invariants reduced when the target space is a complete intersection dimension 2 or 3 in projective space. this paper, extend 2018) to all dimensions descendant invarian...

Sodium uptake rates were measured in wild and hatchery reared Norwegian brown trout (Salmo trutta) exposed to media of a range of pH. Sodium uptake was strongly dependent on external acidity, being reduced in media of low pH. Wild fish from the naturally acid R. Tovdal (S. Norway) were more tolerant of acid media than hatchery reared fish. The effects of increasing external sodium concentration...

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a charismatic anadromous fish of high conservation and economic value. Concerns have been expressed regarding the long-term viability of fisheries throughout the species's distributional range because of abundance variations that cannot currently be explained or predicted. Here, we analyse long-term catch data obtained over a wide geographical range and acro...

In natural communities, prey often share their environment with many predators unequally distributed in space and time. Ecologists have recently incorporated this predator diversity into their studies, focussing on the response of prey to multiple and simultaneously occurring predators. In these cases, Correspondence Simon Blanchet and Julian J. Dodson, Département de biologie, Pavillon Vachon,...