In an effort to offset the effects of increasing levels of global competition, demanding customers and employees, shrinking product lifecycles, and decreasing acceptable response times on success in the marketplace, many organizations have become members of formalized extended enterprises known as supply chains. These entities can be described as organizational networks designed to help firms a...

Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the association of permanent neonatal or early-infancy insulin-dependent diabetes, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia and growth retardation, and other variable multisystem clinical manifestations. In the present study, we analyzed the EIF2AK3 gene in a 64 day-old-girl WRS patient and his parents to study the cli...

When a local medical library is not available, it is often necessary for physicians to discover alternate ways to receive medical information. Rural physicians, particularly, can make use of a computer program called Grateful Med that provides access to the same literature available to physicians in large cities. This program permits the user to perform database searches on the National Library...

Jia Chen, Rong He, Richard D. Minshall, Mary C. Dinauer, and Richard D. Ye From the Dpartment of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612; Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46020 Running title: Regulation of NADPH oxidase by the PX domain of p40 Address correspon...

Wolcott-Rallison Syndrome is the commonest cause of neonatal diabetes in consanguineous families. It is associated with liver dysfunction, epiphyseal dysplasia, and developmental delay. It is caused by mutations in eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 3 (EIF2AK3).We report 4 children with WRS and Os Odontoideum resulting in significant neurological compromise. This cervical spine...

Kerry Grosch, MA; Louis Medvene, PhD; and Hannah Wolcott, MA AbStrAct This research describes the development and evaluation of a 2-hour program that taught geriatric nursing assistant students person-centered caregiving skills. The person centeredness of caregiving skills among students who completed the training, as well as those who did not, was evaluated by coding their videotaped interacti...