Impetigo is a highly contagious bacterial skin infection affecting children worldwide that is caused by the Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, or both. Staphylococcus species can quickly develop drug resistance rendering mupirocin, fusidic acid, and erythromycin ineffective. Preclinical and clinical studies demonstrated that NVC-422 (N, N-dichloro-2, 2-dimethy...

[1] in a recent issue of Arthritis Research & Th erapy: 'Compari son of laser Doppler imaging, fi ngertip lacti-cemy test, and nailfold capillaroscopy for assessment of digital microcirculation in systemic sclerosis'. Using the laser Doppler imaging (LDI) technique, the authors found lower digital blood fl ow in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients when compared with healthy controls. However, the...

This paper investigates lateral pressure on formwork indirectly by measuring deflection using an innovative device. device is fabricated from Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) cylindrical mold in a fashion allowing occurrence and measurement of movement at different depths dial gauges. The deflections for systems filling materials including water, sand, self-compacting concrete (SCC), flowing concrete. ...

In the present work, we investigate the potential of aqueous polymer microgels in membrane technology, especially for filtration applications. The poly(N-vinylcaprolactam)-based microgels exhibit thermoresponsive behavior and were employed to coat hollow-fiber membranes used for micro- and ultrafiltration. We discuss the preparation of microgel-modified membranes (by "inside-out" as well as "ou...

Nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) is one of the best diagnostic non-invasive imaging techniques to evaluate microcirculation in vivo and is increasingly employed in the field of rheumatology. Indeed, at present, the most important utility of NVC is in the identification of microvascular involvement in many rheumatic diseases, particularly in systemic sclerosis. More recently, this technique ha...

Abstract This paper focuses on practice insights derived from using nonviolent communication (NVC) as a method of conflict transformation. After describing the main principles and components NVC, we will present an example field: crisis in relationships between Arab‐Israeli educators staff members Jewish‐Israeli museum who established partnership for special project: to train Arab teach about H...

Adsorption of proteins on biological surfaces is a detrimental phenomenon that reduces the work-life implants in various biomedical applications. Here, we synthesized new class thermoresponsive zwitterionic poly(phosphobetaine) (PMPC) microgel with excellent surface antifouling property by macro-RAFT mediated thiol-epoxy click reaction. End-group modified PMPC homopolymers well-defined molecula...

BACKGROUND Vestibular paroxysmia (VP) is defined as neurovascular compression (NVC) syndrome of the eighth cranial nerve (N.VIII). The aim was to assess the sensitivity and specificity of MRI and the significance of audiovestibular testing in the diagnosis of VP. METHODS 20 VP patients and, for control, 20 subjects with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) were included and underwent MRI (constructive i...