GENDER AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PAY AND PROMOTION FOR NHS NURSES For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of covariate exogeneity inherent in the ...

Background: Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) remains problematic despite many new advanced diagnostic methods. A reliable and rapid diagnostic test, which could be performed in any standard pathology laboratory, would help to obtain definitive early diagnoses of TB. In the present study we describe a prospective evaluation for demonstrating Antigen (Ag) 85 complex in the sera from TB patients. Me...

The effects of the composition and rheology of the fermentation medium on the antibiotic production by Streptomyces hygroscopicus CH-7 were studied. To increase the yields of hexaene H-85 and elaiophylin, the basic fermentation medium was reformulated using different carbon (glucose, lactose, ribose, fructose and trehalose) and nitrogen (isatin-Schiff bases) sources. The maximum yields of hexae...

I-Chan Huang UFCOM [email protected] (352) 265-2514 Wendy Leisenring FHCRC [email protected] (206) 667-4374 Gwendolyn Quinn MCC [email protected] (813) 745-1359 Elizabeth Shenkman UFCOM [email protected] (352) 265-2547 Kelly Kenzik UFCOM [email protected] (352) 265-2572 Mandy Li BC [email protected] (617) 552-4534 Tara Brinkman SJCRH [email protected] (901) 595-5683 Christopher Rec...

Let q > 1 and E be a real q-uniformly smooth Banach space, K be a nonempty closed convex subset of E and T : K → K be a Lipschitz continuous mapping. Let {un} and {vn} be bounded sequences in K and {αn} and {βn} be real sequences in [0, 1] satisfying some restrictions. Let {xn} be the sequence generated from an arbitrary x1 ∈ K by the Ishikawa iteration process with errors: yn = (1− βn)xn + βnT...

OBJECTIVES The Newcastle 85+ Study aims to systematically study the clinical, biological, and psychosocial attributes of an unselected cohort of 85 year olds and to examine subsequent health trajectories as the cohort ages; health at baseline is reported. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis of baseline data from a cohort study. SETTING Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside primary care trusts,...

From nude mouse tumors, in which malignantly transformed Bloom's syndrome (BS) B-lymphoblastoid cell lines were successfully transplanted into s.c. tissues, we have detected strong expression of malignant lymphoma (ML)-associated antigen on the cell surface, by using diluted sera of ML patients and indirect immunofluorescence. Even though carcinogen-treated BS B-lymphoblastoid cell lines expres...

The sequences of the O-antigen and capsule gene clusters of the virulent Aeromonas hydrophila strain PPD134/91 were determined. The O-antigen gene cluster is 17,296 bp long and comprises 17 genes. Seven pathway genes for the synthesis of rhamnose and mannose, six transferase genes, one O unit flippase gene, and one O-antigen chain length determinant gene were identified by amino acid sequence s...

Seven commercial assays were evaluated to determine their suitability for the diagnosis of acute dengue infection: (i) the Panbio dengue virus Pan-E NS1 early enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), second generation (Alere, Australia); (ii) the Panbio dengue virus IgM capture ELISA (Alere, Australia); (iii) the Panbio dengue virus IgG capture ELISA (Alere, Australia); (iv) the Standard Diag...