ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVViewpointNEXTApparent Defect Densities in Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Single CrystalsJohanna SiekmannJohanna SiekmannIEK5-Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 GermanyMore by Johanna Siekmann, Sandheep RavishankarSandheep RavishankarIEK5-Photovoltaik, Ravishankar, Thomas Kirchartz*Thomas KirchartzIEK5-Photovoltaik, GermanyFaculty of Engineering CENI...

Background & Aim: Post-traumatic subdural hygroma can be associated with subdural or epidural hematoma. It is usually silent with mild symptoms and often disappears spontaneously needing no treatment. In this study, we investigated the clinical characteristics of subdural hygroma in patients with traumatic brain injury. Methods & Materials/Patients: In a cross-sectional study, data o...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic inequality in health has been a major concern in public health. This study examined socioeconomic inequality in regional mortality and the impact on inequality by cause of deaths in 1973-1977 and 1993-1998 using municipal statistics in Japan. METHODS The municipalities across the country (N = 3244 in 1973-1977 and 3334 in 1993-1998) were classified into quintiles acco...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine the burden of illness imposed by severe sepsis in Switzerland by evaluating the direct and indirect patient-related costs for critically ill patients with severe sepsis. METHODS In order to estimate the direct costs a retrospective analysis was undertaken using records from 61 adult patients treated in three intensive care units (ICUs) in three different...

BACKGROUND Currently, there are no comparable estimates of the short-term risk of disease progression in the absence of effective antiretroviral therapy for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults and children. METHODS A joint analysis of 2 large studies of children with vertically acquired HIV infection (the HIV Paediatric Prognostic Markers Collaborative Study) and adults with se...

BACKGROUND Several studies have reported that individualized residential place-based discrimination (PBD) affects residents' health. However, studies exploring the association between institutionalized PBD and health are scarce, especially in Asian countries including Japan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted with random two-stage sampling of 6191 adults aged 25-64 years in 100 cen...

Flagellar structures contribute to the virulence of multiple gastrointestinal pathogens either as the effectors of motility, as adhesins, or as a secretion apparatus for virulence factors. Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne, gram-positive pathogen that uses flagella to increase the efficiency of epithelial cell invasion (A. Bigot, H. Pagniez, E. Botton, C. Frehel, I. Dubail, C. Jacquet, A. ...

Brown, Colin H., Gareth Leng, Mike Ludwig, and Charles W. Bourque. Endogenous activation of supraoptic nucleus -opioid receptors terminates spontaneous phasic bursts in rat magnocellular neurosecretory cells. J Neurophysiol 95: 3235–3244, 2006. First published February 22, 2006; doi:10.1152/jn.00062.2006. Phasic activity in magnocellular neurosecretory vasopressin cells is characterized by alte...