T Swedish model for social security and health care was dependent on a growing economy and full employment. With some 8.5% of open unemployment and faced with growing national debt problems, severe cuts have been implemented in the system and more are to come. How has this affected rheumatologic care? The number of hospital based units remains intact but a general reduction in beds has taken ...

Speckled shrimp (Metapenaeus monoceros), is a commercially important prawn in the embayments and estuaries of the Mediterranean Sea. It is originally a Lessepsian species which had migrated from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. This study was carried out in the North-eastern Mediterranean Sea between November 2009 and October 2010 with monthly sampling of speckled ...

A study to evaluate the reproductive performance of Abergelle goat was carried out at Sekota District of Amhara National Regional State. On-farm flocks from two peasant associations were monitored for two years to collect data. Data collected included identification number of doe and kid, birth / kidding date, kid birth weight, sex of kid, post partum doe weight, litter size, parity of doe. Dat...

1 DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years Rob A. Rutenbar University of Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign How does one survey a quarter century of technical contributions at a world-­‐class venue like the Design Automation Conference? This was the daunting challenge I faced when asked to survey the second 25 years of DAC’s history at the 50th anniversary conference event in 2013. One can imagine severa...

Synopsis Since 1965, Medicare has provided millions of older and disabled Americans with guaranteed access to affordable health care. The broad popularity of the program, however, belies the intensely ideological struggle that preceded its creation and that continues in the debate over its future. In the first report of a two-part series published in the New England Journal of Medicine, David B...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (CBDE) is becoming more popular in the management of choledocholithiasis due to improved laparoscopic expertise and advancement in endoscopic technology and equipment. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and short-term outcome of laparoscopic CBDE in a single institution over a 3-year period. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective revi...

From the 1920s to the 1970s, a large body of principles and evidence accumulated about the existence and character of 'strains' among the Plasmodium species responsible for human malaria. An extensive research literature examined the degree to which strains were autonomous, stable biological entities, distinguishable by clinical, epidemiological or other features, and how this knowledge could b...