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The rodent dorsal skin fold model is used routinely as a means to study changes in microvasculature flow and architecture (Barton et al., 2001; Friesenecker et al., 1994; Gourgouliatos et al., 1990; Mordon et al., 1997; Tsuzuki et al., 2000; Vargas et al., 2001; Wettstein et al., 2003). A method for high spatial and temporal resolution imaging of blood flow dynamics is required to provide objec...

Brugha and Bruen (2014) raise a number of compelling issues related to the interaction between politics and policy in the global health context. The first question that their views invite is whether this is, at heart, best characterized as a benign or malign influence. Many commentators have suggested that this overlap should be discouraged (see, for example, Marseille et al 2002; Thomas & Webe...

Findings From a Case Study of Swedish Residential Neighborhoods1 Collective efficacy theory is based on the notion that residents of a neighborhood may share a common sense of trust and willingness to act for the common good (Sampson et al 1997). It is strongly negatively correlated to fear of crime, disorder and several types of violent crime and as such an important theoretical concept (Samps...

Microsporidiosis is an emerging infectious disease among a rapidly-broadening clinical spectrum of diseases that can cause significant morbidity in immunocompromized and immunocompetent patients, especially in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Acquired infection seems to occur from personto-person transmission or from other sources (eg water, food, and animals). Several m...

The potential for size-selective fishing to cause contemporary evolutionary changes in adaptive traits has attracted considerable interest in recent years (Jørgensen et al. 2007; Kuparinen and Merilä 2007). Fishing-induced selection has been identified as having the capacity to change various life-history traits as well as morphological, behavioral, and physiological traits (reviewed by Polican...

OBJECTIVES To describe the morphological features of atherosclerosis in the aortas of autopsied patients (ranging from young adults to the elderly), thus providing new tools for a more sensitive morphological evaluation. METHOD We collected 141 aorta samples. We assessed the macroscopic degree of atherosclerosis, thickness of the intima and media, lipid and collagen depositions in the intima,...

General interpolating expressions, valid for nearand arbitrary overcritical sizes of clusters, are proposed for the nucleation fluxes and distributions. Results are expressed in terms of the deterministic growth rates, and are characterized by a non-Gaussian dependence on the size of nuclei. In a sense, the proposed approximations combine the positive aspects of the parabolic model by Trinkaus ...

One of the most critical problems that hospitality firms face in selecting employees is that the use of cognitive ability tests and other valid predictors of job performance lead to subgroup differences between majority and minority group members. The recent Ricci v. DeStefano U.S. Supreme Court case provides new implications for the adverse diversity-validity dilemma. This paper seeks to bridg...