Through the cooperation of different specialties and different interactive courses, the training programs were able to meet the initial education goals for medical emergency and radiation-related injury for medical students and health-care professionals.

Following the democratic elections in 1994 the South African private pharmaceutical…[Read more]

By combinatorial screening using H4 and molecules with defined targets, we demonstrated that H4 induces differentiation by the activation of protein kinase C (PKC) signaling pathway, and in line with this, activates PKC phosphorylation and translocation of PKC to the cell membrane. Furthermore, the combinatorial screening identified a bromo- and…[Read more]

5, confidence interval 2.5-12.3), sexual and psychological (odds ratio 9.2, confidence interval 6.7-12.8) or sexual, physical, and psychological violence (odds ratio 14.1, confidence interval 10.4-19.2) during childhood. Rape/attempted rape after 18 years of age was more common among women who were single, those with college-level education and…[Read more]

A bite from a La Crosse virus (LACV) infected Aedes mosquito can cause La Crosse encephalitis (LACE), which is a neuro-invasive disease that disproportionately affects children under the age of 16 in Southern Appalachia. The three vectors for LACV are Aedes albopictus (Skuse), Ae. japonicus (Theobald), and Ae. triseriatus (Say). Localized maps of…[Read more]

Computerized registration between maxillofacial cone-beam computed tomography (CT) images and a scanned dental model is an essential prerequisite for surgical planning for dental implants or orthognathic surgery. We propose a novel method that performs fully automatic registration between a cone-beam CT image and an optically scanned model. To…[Read more]

0 to 13.5‰. Our constructed sulfur isotopic mass balance of OCS revealed that anthropogenic sources, not merely oceanic sources, account for much of the missing source of atmospheric OCS.Living organisms expend metabolic energy to repair and maintain their genomes, while viruses protect their genetic material by completely passive means. We have u…[Read more]

Statistical evaluation demonstrated age-dependent methylation in normal tissue (R = 0.72, p less then 2 × 10-16), association with adiposity (P = 0.019) and tumor-specific hypermethylation (P = 6.1 × 10-19) for RCC tissues. Comparison of tumor and metastatic tissues revealed higher methylation in renal cancer metastases (P = 2.65 × 10-6). CO…[Read more]

These results, in combination with our paleoclimate species distribution modelling, support the idea that currently disjunct patches of dry forest were more connected in the recent past, probably during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. This notion fits the major predictions of the Pleistocene Arc Hypothesis and illustrates the importance of…[Read more]

This work provides a route to design arbitrary skyrmion patterns, thereby establishing the foundation for further exploration of topological magnetism.Molecular orientation plays a critical role in controlling carrier transport in organic semiconductors (OSCs). However, this aspect has not been explored for surface doping of OSC thin films. The…[Read more]