Location or stock-specific landing data are necessary to improve management of shark stocks, especially those imperiled by overexploitation as a result of the international shark fin trade. In the current absence of catch monitoring directly at extraction sites, genetic stock identification of fins collected from major market supply chain endpoints offers an overlooked but potentially useful ap...

Tagungsband Der Tagungsband ist beim Shaker-Verlag unter dem Titel Büren et al.: Metrikon 2012 – Praxis der Software-Messung erschienen.

1. Green KY. Caliciviridae: the noroviruses. In: Fields BN, Knipe DM, Howley PM, Griffin DE, Lamb RA, Martin MA, et al, editors. Fields virology, 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; 2007. p. 949–79. 2. van Beek J, Ambert-Balay K, Botteldoorn N, Eden J, Fonager J, Hewitt J, et al. Indications for worldwide increased norovirus activity associated with emergence of a new variant ...

BACKGROUND Noncommunicable diseases, and especially cancers, are recognized as an increasing problem for low and middle income countries. Effective control programs require adequate information on the size, nature, and evolution of the health problem that they pose. METHODS We present estimates of the incidence and mortality of cancer in Africa in 2012, derived from "GLOBOCAN 2012," published...

The aim of this study was to review the literature published and the most important papers presented to meetings on Cushing's disease from October 2011 to September 2012. The selection has been performed according to the authors' criteria. Articles have been classified into five groups: quality of life and perception of the disease, clinical features and pathophysiology, comorbidity conditions,...

The Trauma Conference comprised of an international program encompassing civilian and military expertise in topical areas of trauma management from both a clinical and a systems-based perspective. Speakers challenged outdated systems or beliefs and presented alternatives in this evolving area of medicine. The conference opened with three speakers on the subject of severe pelvic trauma. Mr Mark ...

The term biologics have been used as a collective term for biological therapies. Therapeutic agents with biologic properties, including monoclonal antibodies and soluble cytokine receptors have been in use against rheumatic diseases for some time now. Treatment of rheumatic diseases has undergone a remarkable change over the last 10 years. This can be credited to an increased understanding of t...

An analysis of a nationwide registry in South Korea showed that oisonings were responsible for 4.4% of 20, 536 out-of-hospital ardiac arrest (OHCA) cases of non-cardiac aetiology.1 Poisons ncluded insecticides (15.5%); herbicides (13.2%); unknown pestiides (19.9%); non-pesticide drugs (16.8%); and unknown poisons 6%). The survival to admission rate was 22.5% for insecticides, .2% for herbicides...

C ase presentation: A healthy 32-year-old man presents for evaluation of exertional dyspnea and syn-cope. A murmur is noted, and echocardiography reveals marked sep-tal hypertrophy with a resting left ven-tricular outflow tract gradient of 68 mm Hg (online-only Data Supplement Movie I and Figure I). His father died of an MI at 38 years of age, and his paternal uncle died as the driver in a sing...

For this year’s 8 TeV run of the LHC we lay out different strategies to search for scalar top pairs. We show results for the hadronic and for the semi-leptonic channels based on hadronic top tagging. For the di-lepton channel we illustrate the impact of transverse mass variables. Each of our signalto-background ratios ranges around unity for a stop mass around 400 GeV. The combined signal signi...