a Gynecologic Oncology Service, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (CHUQ), L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada b Gynecologic Oncology Division, Texas Oncology, Austin, TX, USA c Radiation Oncology Division, Austin Cancer Centers, Austin, TX, USA d Texas Fertility Center, Austin, Texas, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA e Women Par...

TheWestAfricanEbolaepidemic is ahumanitariancrisis and a threat to international security.1 It is not surprising that isolated cases have emerged in Europe and NorthAmerica,buta largeoutbreak in theUnitedStates, with its advancedhealth system, is unlikely. Yet thehandling of the first domestically diagnosed Ebola case in Dallas, Texas, raised concerns about national public health preparedness.W...

Diego Hernando, Ihab Kamel, Li Pan, Ivan Pedrosa, Shreyas Vasanawala, Takeshi Yokoo, Qing Yuan, and Scott B. Reeder Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, MD, United States, Corporate Technology, Siemens Corporation, Baltimore, MD, United States, Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, Advanced I...

This internal medicine grand rounds is the first Elgin W. Ware Lectureship in Medical History (Figure (Figure11). Dr. Elgin Ware, a long-time urologist at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and chief of urology from 1986 to 1987, has spent his entire life in Dallas: he graduated from Highland Park High School, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medic...

Disruption management during the airline scheduling process can be compartmentalized into proactive and reactive processes depending upon time of schedule execution. The state art for decision-making in disruption involves a heuristic human-centric approach that does not categorically study uncertainty managing disruptions. Hence, this paper introduces an transfer function model (UTFM) framewor...

THIS SUMMER, DALLAS, TEXAS, HAS BEEN IN THE CENTER of its worst-ever regional epidemic of West Nile virus (WNV) infection, with one-quarter of the nation’s cases identified in Dallas County. With a record high number of trapped mosquitoes testing positive for WNV, from June 20 to August 21 WNV infections have been confirmed in 270 county residents; 160 have been hospitalized, 51 have required i...

In 2012, Texas experienced the largest outbreak of human West Nile encephalitis (WNE) since the introduction of West Nile virus (WNV) in 2002. Despite the large number of WNV infections, data indicated the rate of reported WNE among human cases was no higher than in previous years. To determine whether the increase in WNV human cases could have been caused by viral genetic changes, the complete...

Species of the genus Protelenomus Kieffer (Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) are phoretic egg parasitoids coreid bugs. The discovery, DNA sequencing, and molecular phylogenetic analysis a species on Cletus punctiger (Dallas) (Hemiptera, Coreidae) shows that is derived lineage Trissolcus Ashmead. treated as junior synonym new , T. siliangae Yan, Chen & Talamas, described from China.

Dallas Knight*, Alec Holt and Jim Warren