Economic disparity affects the health of persons around the world, and various societal, environmental, and economic factors influence the emergence of infectious diseases. Similarly, emerging infectious diseases have a social and economic impact, including diminished economic productivity, increased expenditures on public heath, deferred external investment and development, and reduced travel ...

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Background: A common feature of plant defense responses is the transcriptional regulation of a large number of genes upon pathogen infection or treatment with pathogen elicitors. A large body of evidence suggests that plant WRKY transcription factors are involved in plant defense including transcriptional regulation of plant host genes in response to pathogen infection. However, there is only l...

To understand the problem of multitasking, it is necessary to examine the brain's attention networks that underlie the ability to switch attention between stimuli and tasks and to maintain a single focus among distractors. In this paper we discuss the development of brain networks related to the functions of achieving the alert state, orienting to sensory events, and developing self-control. Th...

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Appropriate and sustainable intensive care practice is possible even in the resource-limited locations of sub-Saharan Africa. Data from seven sub-Saharan African countries indicates that the majority of patients served are surgical. Comparison between intensive care units is difficult due to lack of laboratory support, which precludes the severity sickness scores used internationally. Hospital ...

Hair dye poisoning has been emerging as one of the important causes of intentional self harm in the developing world. Hair dyes contain paraphenylene-diamine and a host of other chemicals that can cause rhabdomyolysis, laryngeal edema, severe metabolic acidosis and acute renal failure. Intervention at the right time has been shown to improve the outcome. In this article, we review the various m...

This paper discusses how the importance of social networks for performing everyday tasks in the developing world leads to new considerations of the utility of social networking software (SNS). The paper presents some results from a multi-year, multi-method study in Central Asia that tracks patterns of technology adoption and adaptation, as well as shifts in media consumption and information see...

Recent advances in computing, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have given rise to the computational network notion. One of these computing paradigms is the Internet, design as inter-connectivity that determines the establishment of the “info-society”, which has no territorial boundaries, is transnational, is represented by a species that becomes community, is planetary and globa...

September 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 9 | e381 A panel of experts at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has predicted that stem cell research will survive the fallout of the recent scandal involving falsifi cation of data by South Korean stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang [1]. As the fi eld of regenerative medicine regroups, it is important that recent eve...