In a recent year, hospital emergency departments (EDs) in Rhode Island provided care to over 380,000 patients who did not require subsequent admission to an inpatient or observation bed.1 Many ED visits are for true emergencies that could not be treated in other health care settings, but there has been much discussion among providers, payers, and policy makers on whether some of these patients ...

PATRICK PAYAN, LEON GOLDSTEIN, AND ROY P. FORSTER Groupe de Biologie marine du Dlpartement de Biologic du Commissariat ci I’Energie Atomique, Station Zoologique, 06-Villefranche-sur-Mer, France; Division of Biomedical Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912; Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755; and Mount Desert Island Biological ...

1 Atlantic Ecology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI, USA, 2 Economics and Environmental Sciences Departments, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA, USA, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA, 4 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, USA, 5 Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, College o...

The field of urology has experienced tremendous advances in the new millennium. Technological innovations in optics and instrumentation have helped shape the area of minimally invasive urologic surgery (MIUS). In the past, operations for prostate cancer, kidney cancer and stone disease involved large incisions, significant blood loss and long hospitalizations with high patient morbidity. The ev...

Abstract Background Invasive arthropod vectors and the range expansions of native can lead to public veterinary health concerns, as these may introduce novel pathogens or spread endemic new locations. Recent tick invasions expansion in USA has been attributed climate land use change, an increase global travel, importations exotic animals. Methods A 10-year surveillance study was conducted on Bl...

The present study aimed to assess impact of selection based on microsatellite-genotypes at ADL0176 and the association MCW0044 located chromosome number-2 with growth layer economic traits in RIR chicken could reveal when sire component influenced progeny-birds different genotypes microsatellites. DD, EE CC/AD-genotypes microsatellite had corresponding higher BW28, BW40 EW40 progeny than other ...

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the thermal response of three strains hens housed in a cage-free system at Amazon rainforest order how feather coverage influences exchange with environment. The experimental method was completely randomized and treatments comprised (Rhode Island Red (red feathers on neck), alternative strain FCI without FCIII (white neck)), 20 (replicates) analyzed per str...