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Increasing Single And Multi-Antibiotic Resistance In Shigella Species Isolated From Shigellosis Patients In Sana'a, Yemen, Khaled A. Al-Moyed, Nabil S. Harmal, Abdulilah H. Al-Harasy, Hassan A. Al-Shamahy

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility of Shigella species changes over time. Updated susceptibility knowledge is necessary for appropriate empirical antibiotic treatment. Thus, this research aimed to study these changes in 2 time periods with an interval of 10 years. METHODS: Two hundreds and three Shigella strains, isolated from stool samples of diarrheic patients at the Central Health Laboratory in Sana9a, Yemen in 2 time periods (1993 and 2003) with a 10-year interval, were examined for serotyping and drug resistance pattern. Resistance patterns of the strains to 12 commonly used antimicrobial agents and minimum inhibitory concentrations of the antibiotics were …

Predictors Of Cesarean Section Following Elective Post-Dates Induction Of Labor In Nullipara With Uncomplicated Singleton Vertex Pregnancies, Fawaz E. Edris, Peter Von Dadelszen, Laurie M. Ainsworth, Robert M. Liston

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Although post-dates is among the most common indications for induction of labor, no studies have identified the predictors of cesarean section (C/S) in that population. The high cesarean rate in our institution for this group of women triggered us to assess different induction practices to elicit potential causes. METHODS: We conducted a hospital-based retrospective cohort analysis using chart reviews of all nullipara women with induced labor at the Children9s and Women9s Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, during the 2-year period, April 1998 to March 2000. The C/S rate was compared among 3 groups of women who were …

Adolescent Pregnancy In West Turkey. Cross Sectional Survey Of Married Adolescents, Aysun Ozsahin, Mehmet Zencir, Birsen Gokce, Nurhan Acimis

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this research was to determine both the fertility characteristics of married adolescent women in Denizli province center and the adolescent pregnancy rate and also some factors that could occur with adolescent pregnancy. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Denizli province center in the year 2001. According to the Turkish Demographic Health Survey 1998 statistics, the percentage of married adolescents between 15-19 years of age who have begun to give birth is 9.3-10.2%. The sample size of 3471 was determined using Epi Info software. To reach this sample size, 5 of the 25 health clinics …

Twisted Mixed Germ Cell Tumor Of The Ovary In A Child, Abdulqadir M. Zangana

Saudi Medical Journal

We report an 8-year-old female patient with a mixed germ cell stromal tumor MGCT of the left ovary. Exploration revealed that the tumor had been twisted around its pedicle. These ovarian tumors are classified among interesting type of tumors due to the variability of neoplastic tissues in the same tumor mass, in the twisted ovarian tumor. Four histological types of tumor tissues were found: well-differentiated adenocarcinoma, dysgerminoma, immature teratoma, and focus of papillary serous cyst adenoma as well. During our review of the literature, this reported case of MGCT of the ovary was among the extremely rare cases, which had …

Successful Use Of Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation In A Complicated Flail Chest, Mariam A. Al-Ansari

Saudi Medical Journal

The current advanced trauma life support manual states that patients with significant hypoxia namely, SaO2 <90% on room air as a result of pulmonary contusion should be intubated and ventilated within the first hour of injury. Recently, several researchers have shown improved outcomes when patients with acute respiratory failure are managed with non-invasive positive pressure ventilation NIPPV. Trauma patients may also benefit from this therapy. We report a case of 15-year-old boy with isolated flail chest and pulmonary contusion, who was intubated in the emergency room, and was managed successfully with the NIPPV in the intensive care unit ICU despite, having had aspiration pneumonia early in the course of his stay. After initial stabilization, he failed a spontaneous breathing trial. Due to absence of contraindications to the use of NIPPV, the patient was extubated on day 7 from pressure support ventilation of 15 cmH2O and positive end expiratory pressure of 8 cmH2O to immediate NIPPV use. Three days later after a total of 50 hours of NIPPV use in the ICU the patient was successfully discharged home.

Ensuring The Quality Of Peer-Review Process, Mustafa Afifi

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Different Bolus Doses Of Remifentanil On Laryngeal Mask Airway Insertion During Day-Case Surgery, Seval Izdes, Ezgi Erkilic, Mehmet Simsek, Tulin Gumus, Tulin Gumus, Orhan Kanbak

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Can Incision Barrier Decrease The Risk Of Surgical Site Infection After Appendectomy?, Mustafa T. Ozer, Taner Yigit, Ali I. Uzar, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Orhan Kozak, Sadettin Cetiner, Ismail Arslan, Turgut Tufan

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Erythropoietin On Fracture Healing In Rats, Murat Bozlar, Aydiner Kalaci, Bahadir Aslan, Lutfu Baktiroglu, Ahmet N. Yanat, Arzu Tasci

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

A Study On Children And Adolescents With Disabilities In Kahramanmaras, Turkey, Lale Donbak, Mustafa Celik, Mustafa Celik, Ilter Demirhan

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Brucella Seropositivity In South And Southeast Turkey, Gurol Emekdas, Gonul Aslan, Seda Tezcan, Pinar Ciragil, Mehmet R. Bayraktar, Yusuf Onlen, Esin Aktas, Vusiat Bosnak, Arzu Kanik

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Epidemiology Of Travel-Related Malaria In A Non-Malarious Area Of Saudi Arabia, Abiola C. Senok, Abdulrahman Y. Ismaeel

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Neoliberalism, Hegemony And Community Imaginings, Boone W. Shear

Masters Theses

The idea of "community" evokes many long held, positive imaginings. Community implies neighborliness, togetherness, helping each other, tolerance and understanding. Community is set against modem society and is commonly understood to be a solution to the deleterious impacts of capitalism and the state. Although community can be a site of resistance, I am also interested in the ways in which the ideology of community assists in facilitating capitalist inequalities.

The latter part of the twentieth-century saw a significant restructuring of capital in the United States as privatization and deregulation were accompanied by a decline in the welfare state. These efforts …

Baylisascaris Procyonis (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) In Raccoons (Procyon Lotor) From Duval County, Texas, David B. Long, Tyler A. Campbell, Scott E. Henke

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Baylisascaris procyonis, or the raccoon roundworm, primarily utilizes the raccoon as its definitive host, and has been found in >90 species of North American animal intermediate hosts (mostly birds, lagomorphs, and rodents) (Kazacos 2001). In non-raccoon hosts, including humans, larvae of this parasitic nematode can cause severe neurological disease (cerebrospinal nematodiasis) and often damage visceral and ocular tissues (Kazacos 2001). Formerly, B. procyonis was not thought to occur in Texas (Chandler 1942; Schaffer et al. 1981). However, it was recently discovered in raccoons occurring in moist environments of coastal areas (Kerr et al. 1997) and in eastern portions of …

The Clinical Research Forum And Association Of American Physicians Disagree With Criticism Of The Nih Roadmap, William Crowley Jr, John Courtney, Larry Jameson, Herbert Pardes, Jay Moskowitz, Eugene Orringer, Arthur Rubenstein, Alastair Wood, Richard Rettig, Dennis Ausiello, David Brenner, Francis Collins, Jack Elias, Warner Greene, Ralph Horowitz, Larry Jameson, Elliott Kieff, Craig Thompson, Judith Swain

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Social Network Dynamics For Open Source Software Projects, Y. Long, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Drawing on social network theories and previous studies, this research is an initial effort to explore the dynamics of the social network structure in Open Source Software (OSS) teams. Three projects were selected from SourceForge.net in term of their similarities as well as their differences. Monthly data were extracted from the bug tracking system in order to achieve a longitudinal view of the interaction pattern of each project. Social network analysis was used to generate the indices of network structure. The finding suggests that the interaction pattern of OSS projects evolves from a single hub at the beginning to a …

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: August 2006, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2006

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from August 2006. These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

National Survey Evidence On Disasters And Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, And Compassion, W. Kip Viscusi, Richard J. Zeckhauser

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

A nationally representative sample of respondents estimated their fatality risks from four types of natural disasters, and indicated whether they favored governmental disaster relief. For all hazards, including auto accident risks, most respondents assessed their risks as being below average, with one-third assessing them as average. Individuals from high-risk states, or with experience with disasters, estimate risks higher, though by less than reasonable calculations require. Four-fifths of our respondents favor government relief for disaster victims, but only one-third do for victims in high-risk areas. Individuals who perceive themselves at higher risk are more supportive of government assistance.

Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #32, August 2006

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters

CONTENTS:
President’s Message
Gamma Sigma Delta Calendar
OOPs: Correction to March, 2006 Newsletter
Treasurers Ballot
Big News from GSD
News from the National Conclave
In Memoriam
Call for Nominations for Awards
Award of Merit
Teaching Award
Research Award
Extension Award
Gamma Sigma Delta Annual Meeting and Seminar

Acceptance Of Technological Change: Do Age, Expertise And Self-Efficacy Matter?, Cheryl Fernandez

Student Work

This study was designed to examine the acceptance of change by employees of different ages, in different contexts. This study challenged the stereotypes held against older individuals by proposing that factors other than age contribute to the acceptance of changes. It examined two context-specific variables, self-efficacy and expertise which contribute to acceptance of technological changes. The findings indicated that older individuals with computer experience had higher self-efficacy. On the other hand, younger individuals had higher self-efficacy, regardless of computer experience. Also, individuals who felt younger than they actually were had higher self-efficacy when they had experience with computers, compared to …

August 2006 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Course Schedule Fall 2006, William & Mary Law School

Course Information

No abstract provided.

What Light Do Professional Doctorates Throw On The Question Of What Counts As Knowledge In The Academy At The Start Of The Twenty-First Century?, Sandra Fisher

Articles

In their article, ‘Professional Doctorates in England’, Bourner et al. (2001: 81) pose the question ‘What light do professional doctorates throw on the question of what counts as knowledge in the academy at the start of the twenty-first century?’ This article attempts to address this question. The article provides some background to the development of professional doctorates. It looks at forces, such as the rise of the knowledge society, economic drivers, and the demands of lifelong learning, that are shaping knowledge in the academy in the twenty-first century. I attempt to interpret these forces in the context of the development …

Effect Of Ozone And Calcium Lactate Treaments On Browning And Textured Properties Of Fresh-Cut Lettuce, Daniel Rico, Ana Belen Martin-Diana, Gary Henehan, Jesus Maria Frias, Catherine Barry-Ryan

Articles

The effects of three treatments, 1 mg L⁻¹ ozone at 18–20 °C, 15 g L⁻¹ calcium lactate (CLac) at 50 °C and a combination thereof, were compared on fresh-cut lettuce over 10 days of refrigerated storage. Respiration rate, browning and texture were examined as main quality indicators. The use of ozone produced a significantly (P < 0.05) higher oxygen decline than the use of CLac (from day 3 to day 10). At the end of storage, CLac (alone or combined with ozone) samples had higher oxygen content (∼9%) than ozone samples (∼6%). Enzymatic activity decreased significantly (P < 0.05) in ozone samples. Polyphenol oxidase activity in fresh-cut lettuce treated with ozone (alone or combined with CLac) showed lower values on day 1 (−1) and at the end of storage (g⁻¹) than CLac samples (4000–4800 units g⁻¹). Ozone also reduced peroxidase activity to ∼300 units g⁻¹ after treatment. Finally, pectin methylesterase activity was also reduced with ozone, showing a negative effect on textural properties. Data suggested that …

99mTc-Labeled C2a Domain Of Synaptotagmin I As A Target-Specific Molecular Probe For Noninvasive Imaging Of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Ming Zhao, Xiaoguang Zhu, Shundong Ji, Jundong Zhou, Kutlan S. Ozker, Wei Fang, Robert C. Molthen, Robert S. Hellman

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Abstract: The exposure of phosphatidylserine (PtdS) is a common molecular marker for both apoptosis and necrosis and enables the simultaneous detection of these distinct modes of cell death. Our aim was to develop a radiotracer based on the PtdS-binding activity of the C2A domain of synaptotagmin I and assess ^99mTc-C2A-GST (GST is glutathione S-transferase) using a reperfused acute myocardial infarction (AMI) rat model. Methods: The binding of C2A-GST toward apoptosis and necrosis was validated in vitro. After labeling with ^99mTc via 2-iminothiolane thiolation, radiochemical purity and radiostability were tested. Pharmacokinetics and biodistribution were studied in healthy rats. …

Lord Byron’S Feminist Canon: Notes Toward Its Construction, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

Lord Byron took a highly ambivalent attitude toward female authorship, and yet his poetry, letters, and journals exhibit many proofs of the power of women’s language and perceptions. He responded to, borrowed from, and adapted parts of the works of Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Lee, Madame de Staël, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, Joanna Baillie, Lady Caroline Lamb, Mary Robinson, and Charlotte Dacre. The influence of women writers on his career may also be seen in the development of the female (and male) characters in his narrative poetry and drama. This essay focuses on the influence upon Byron of Lee, …

Information Outlook, August 2006, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2006

Volume 10, Issue 8

Visitor Profile Of Snowcoach Passengers In West Yellowstone, Mt, Norma P. Nickerson, Robert G. Dvorak, Jim Wilton

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

The purpose of this study was to provide an understanding of who is using the West Yellowstone snowcoach, why they are visiting, and what encouraged them to take a snowcoach trip.

Establishing A Historic Benchmark For Rimrock Pine Communities At New River Gorge National River, West Virginia, Richard Stockton Maxwell

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The structure and composition of a rimrock pine community was studied in the New River Gorge National River, West Virginia. A forest survey found that the overstory was dominated by Pinus virginiana, Nyssa sylvatica, Oxydendrum arboreum, Acer rubrum, and Quercus spp. The importance of Pinus virginiana decreased rapidly with increasing distance from the cliff edge and was replaced by hardwood competitors. Regeneration of Pinus virginiana (∼4,200 stems/ha) was deemed inadequate to sustain a pine forest except on the harshest sites near the cliff edge. A 108-year (1897-2005) fire chronology was constructed from 51 fire scars recorded by 23 pines along …

Modeling Small Business Growth, Migration Behavior, Local Public Services And Household Income In Appalachia: A Spatial Simultaneous Equations Approach, Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In an effort to analyze the interdependences among small business growth, migration behavior, local public services, and median household income, this study developed a simultaneous-equation system under the assumptions of profit maximization of firm and utility maximization of households as well as the neoclassical assumption of equilibrium growth in a partial lag-adjustment growth-equilibrium framework. This model is an extension of the "jobs follow people or people follow jobs" literature and it improved previous models in the growth-equilibrium tradition by explicitly modeling local government and regional income in the growth process. It also explicitly modeled gross in-migration and gross out-migration separately …