In this paper we examine how New York City coped with the destruction of its Emergency Operations Center following the World Trade Center attack and how it reconstituted that center in a new location. We make the observation that, although the physical facility was destroyed, the organization that had been established to manage crises in New York City remained substantially intact, enabling a r...

in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 3 4 5 6 Matthew J. Rossman, Ryan S. Garten, H. Jonathan Groot, Van Reese, Jia Zhao, 7 Markus Amann , and Russell S. Richardson 2, 3 8 9 10 11 Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center 12 George E. Whalen VA Medical Center 13 Salt Lake City, Utah 14 15 Department of Exercise and Sport Science 16 University of Utah 17 Salt Lake City,...

All the internet services available these days are dependant and running in data centers. Companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft hosts millions of servers in their data centers to provide services to their users [19]. The enormous size of data centers leads to huge energy consumption. According to a news article, Google drew 260 MW of power in 2011 [6] that cost millions of dollars. Rec...

Introduction/Aim: In Belgrade, syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection most often occur among men who have sex with are stigmatized discriminated hesitate to come health institutions for testing these diseases. The aim of this study was assess prevalence HIV were tested in the "check-point" center association "Potent" Belgrade. Methods: This cross-sectional included 993 partic...

This study examines the effectiveness of remediating a well-recognized case of heavy metal pollution at Foundry Cove (FC), Hudson River, New York. This tidal freshwater marsh was polluted with battery-factory wastes (1953-1979) and dredged in 1994-1995. Eight years after remediation, dissolved and particulate metals (Cd, Co, Cu, Pb, Ni, and Ag) were found to be lower than levels in the lower Hu...

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA Correspondence to: Harold M. Burkhart, MD. Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 26901, WP...

Published, JBC Papers in Press, February 13, 2008, DOI 10.1074/jbc.R700043200 Jiwang Zhang and Linheng Li From the Oncology Institute, Department of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60153, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, K...

396. What is the Best Predictor for Vancomycin Nephrotoxicity? Kassem Hammoud, MD; Neil Goodloe, MD; Wael Haidar, MD; Michael Brimacombe, PhD; Wissam El Atrouni, MD; Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; Cox Health System, Springfield, MO, Uruguay; Adena Health Care, Chillicothe, OH; Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical...