Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, July 29 - August 2, 2012.

Abstract We evaluated helminth parasites of the introduced North American raccoon in Poland. From June 2006 through May 2007, 91 raccoon fecal samples were collected in the Warta Mouth National Park situated in western Poland near the Polish-German border. Coprological analyses involved flotation and sedimentation. A total of 7 helminth ...

This cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted in order to assess the frequency of misconceptions present in societies of low socioeconomic status so that healthcare providers can pay due attention to whichever misconceptions are most prevalent and work towards eradicating them. The study was conducted in Sultanabad and Rehri Goth areas ...

It is essential for the practicing physician to keep up-to-date with knowledge and reading medical journals is an important component in achieving this. Menopause Live, an e-service for IMS members prepared by IMS members, is issued weekly, bringing a short abstract of a recently published study or review followed by ...

We are implementing a new feature in this issue of JVI centered on Commentaries....

This commentary highlights some of the most important discoveries in the field of nuclear receptor control of metabolism that occurred over the past year (2009 to 2010). As might be expected in a field that encompasses several hundred active laboratories, the task of providing a balanced look at these discoveries ...

It is essential for the practicing physician to keep up-to-date with knowledge and reading medical journals is an important component in achieving this. Menopause Live, an e-service for IMS members prepared by IMS members, is issued weekly, bringing a short abstract of a recently published study or review followed by ...

Peter T. Dorsher, MS, MD, provides an interesting commentary on the findings of a study by Tan and colleagues that was highlighted in the December issue of the Archives as displaying potential deficiencies in a number of sham acupuncture devices. Dr. Dorsher's comments, while focused on acupuncture, are interesting in ...

There is a longstanding body of literature that describes how states' civil commitment statutes have been stretched or circumvented to accommodate institutional and systemic needs. The paper by Levitt and colleagues provides yet another example of this phenomenon: Arizona's use of its civil commitment statutes to detain unrestorable, incompetent criminal ...

This is an accompanying commentary on the article by Gert Bronfort and colleagues about the effectiveness of manual therapy. The two commentaries were provided independently and combined into this single article by the journal editors.

We are grateful to the editors of Healthcare Papers for bringing the issue of integration and retention of internationally educated healthcare professionals (IEHPs) to the fore. We thank the authors for their careful reading and thoughtful observations on our work, as well as their commentaries on themes that were not ...

Among the cardiovascular diseases and after ischemic heart disease and stroke, venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. (3). Although VTE is seen across most ethnic groups in the U.S. as well as throughout the world, the rate varies. In the U.S., American Indians/Alaskan ...

In this commentary I respond to points raised in the commentary by Mushak [Ad hoc and fast forward: the science and control of hormesis growth and development. Environ Health Perspect 117:1333-1338 (2009)], which principally concerns studies by me and my colleagues concerning the frequency of hormesis in toxicology. In this ...

Technology development in, and the application of, proteomics are emerging areas among chemical engineers and others who presented at the 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting. Overall, the centennial meeting offered a broad current perspective on the discipline of chemical engineering as it enters its second century. ...

Ruth Hubbard Cousins was the director of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, for 33 years, she transformed the organization from a simple record-keeping club into a vibrant association. Most of what Psi Chi is today can be traced to her leadership. In 1981, Ruth joined her daughter ...

I am honored and pleased to accept Damian Doria's (ARTEC) invitation to speak about my relationship to the late Russ Johnson at the November meeting of the ASA in Miami honoring Russ. I propose to speak about my relationship as an architect working with Russ, the acoustician on two major ...

There are compelling reasons why primary care physicians concerned about the well-being of their patients should strive to become competent in recognizing the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Despite lingering social controversy, the existence of ADHD among a portion of the adult population is well accepted among medical experts. Attention ...

Provides the minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council of Representatives February 16-18, 2007, Washington, DC, and August 9 and 13, 2007, San Francisco, CA, and minutes of the February, June, August, and December 2007 meetings of the Board of Directors. These minutes are the official record of the ...

Presentations at the 2007 meeting of the American Electrophoresis Society covered many aspects of this key separation technology. In total there were three plenary speakers, two invited talks, 85 technical talks and 14 posters in a 5-day meeting. The three plenary speakers presented their work with each of them discussing ...

The R. Bruce Lindsay Award (formerly the Biennial Award) is presented in the Spring to a member of the Society who is under 35 years of age on 1 January of the year of the Award and who, during a period of two or more years immediately preceding the award, ...

Will an expansion of access to cognitive-behavioural therapy lead to greater happiness? Summerfield and Veale debate this question by focusing on the nature of mental distress and the best evidence for ameliorating it. Stimulating though it is, their debate left me wondering about the wider philosophical and ethical implications behind ...

Cough is a major cause of disability and distress worldwide. In June 2007, the First American Cough Conference was held in New York City and covered a spectrum of topics of interest to the basic scientist as well as the clinician. The conference was organized by Dr. Peter Dicpinigaitis and ...

The following essay was written by a freshman undergraduate student majoring in Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, Mr. Zachary Russ. Mr. Russ was one of 94 students who submitted a 1000 to 1200 word essay to the 3rd Annual Bioethics Essay Contest sponsored by the Institute of Biological Engineering ...

This study uses orbital decomposition to analyze the patterns of how governments lose their monopolies on violence, therefore allowing those societies to descend into violent states from which it is difficult to recover. The nonlinear progression by which the governing body loses its monopoly is based on the work of ...

As the 2008 joint meeting of the European Pancreatic Club and the International Association of Pancreatology commences, it is appropriate to highlight the enormous benefits pancreatic societies, such as these, and their meetings offer. In the pancreas field, our strengths are in our societies, which bring us together as a ...

Ever since the Journal of Neurosurgery (JNS) published its first volume in 1944, the journal has reflected the scientific, technical, and clinical evolution of our specialty and parent organization, first called the Harvey Cushing Society and later the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. The JNS has been an uncompromising arbiter ...

Twenty-five years ago, a major article by Professor Alan Stone on ethics in forensic psychiatry was published. It caused reverberations on a national scale. After the seismic shocks that he had provoked settled down, several thoughtful forensic psychiatrists set out to take serious stock of his critique and to articulate ...

Almost 700 scientists met in the historic city of Seville, September 17-20, 2007, to attend the 21st National Congress of the Spanish Society for Microbiology (SEM). The attendees--from Spain and other European and American countries--had an opportunity to share the newest discoveries in their fields of research and to learn ...

The year 2007 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Microbial World, the seminal microbiology textbook that shattered the microbiology world and whose first edition was coauthored by Roger Y. Stanier, Michael Doudoroff and Edward A. Adelberg. The year 2007 marks also twenty-five years of Stanier's passing away. ...

Samia Hurst and Marion Danis provide a thoughtful framework for how to judge the morality of bedside rationing decisions. In this commentary, I applaud Hurst and Danis for advancing the level of debate about bedside rationing. But when I attempt to apply the framework to my own clinical practice, I ...

In this commentary we refer to the new data recently published by Adami et al. [Adami, G., Larese, F., Venier, M., Barbieri, P., Lo Coco, F., Reisenhofer, E., 2006. Penetration of benzene, toluene and xylenes contained in gasolines through human abdominal skin in vitro. Toxicol. In Vitro 20, 1321-1330], which ...

After reviewing the available classifications for groin hernias, the European Hernia Society (EHS) proposes an easy and simple classification based on the Aachen classification. The EHS will promote the general and systematic use of this classification for intraoperative description of the type of hernia and to increase the comparison of ...

The Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand (JSSH) selects one young hand surgeon under 40 years of age, as a representative to participate in the annual meeting of the JSSH. In previous years, one Indian and one Vietnamese surgeon were selected as traveling fellows and had the opportunity to ...

The International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD) has, as one of its major societal goals, the development and promulgation of nomenclature and classification of vulvar disease. A committee of the ISSVD has developed new nomenclature and classification for the specific area of vulvar dermatoses. This classification was ...

Teachers' reflections are often narrowly focused on technical questions ('how to') and less on the underlying moral, political and emotional aspects of their functioning. However, for a better understanding of teaching practice it is important to uncover beliefs and values that usually remain implicit. Meeting with others is considered crucial ...

This paper represents a meeting report for the Fifth International Workshop on Cestode Systematics and Phylogeny held at the Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceské Budejovice, 18-22 July 2005. The major topics discussed included (i) the progress in cestode systematics during 2002-2005, (ii) the use ...

Dialogues in Dermatology, a monthly audio program from the American Academy of Dermatology, contains discussions between dermatologists on timely dermatologic topics. Commentaries from the Dialogues Editor-in-Chief, Warren R. Heymann, MD, are provided after each discussion as a topic summary. These highlights are provided as a special service to JAAD readers.

Martin Winckler, born Marc Zaffran in 1955, is a French family doctor, a writer, a translator, and a cultural critic. Since the publication of La Vacation (Paris: POL, 1989), a novel based on his experience in an abortion clinic, he has published more than 20 books (fiction and non-fiction), including ...

Life-extension was the focus for the 10th annual Congress of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology, held last September at Cambridge University. This scientific convention included a panel of several bioethicists, including Art Caplan, John Harris, and others. The presentations on the ethics of life-extension are reviewed here.

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics--FIGO--has been striving hard to carefully attend to women's well-being, and respect and implement their rights, the status and their health, which is well beyond the basic obstetric and gynecological requirement. FIGO is deeply involved in acting as a catalyst for the all-round activities ...

Following a description of both scenarios involved in the Battle of Solferino (1859), and the consequent horrors which spurred Henry Dunant to set up the International Red Cross organisation, for which he received the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, the present paper discusses the meeting between Henry Dunant and ...

The 2nd International Symposium on Obesity and Hypertension (ISOH'01) was held on October 28-30, 2001 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Germany. The meeting, which consisted largely of invited lectures, presented a state-of-the-art overview of the genetic and molecular mechanisms that link obesity and hypertension. The ...

In a concluding session, David Knight (University of Durham) took the title '"One great slaughter-house the warring world"--living in revolutionary times'. He pointed out that Darwinian thought had to contend with three revolutions. First, the political revolutions of 1776 and 1789, leading to the terror of the 1790s that washed ...

The Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicology (SSCT) has arranged annual scientific meetings since 1983. These workshops were the forum for the Multicentre Evaluation of In Vitro Cytotoxicity (MEIC) programme. Along with the MEIC programme, which was completed in 1998, a wide range of topics relating to cytotoxicity have been discussed. ...

As Kenneth Pimple points out, scientists' responsibilities to the larger society have received less attention than ethical issues internal to the practice of science. Yet scientists and specialists who study science have begun to provide analyses of the foundations and scope of scientists' responsibilities to society. An account of contributions ...

The Royal Entomological Society International Symposium on Insects and Disease was held at the University of Aberdeen on 10-12 September 2001. The symposium was run alongside the society's Annual Meeting (the first time this meeting has been held outside England) in association with the International Union of Forest Research Organisations ...

This was a large meeting, attracting over 4000 delegates, the majority of whom came from Japan. For the first time, the meeting had an international program, featuring invited speakers from Europe, Asia and the US. The Japanese Respiratory Society plans to continue the international program to encourage its young scientists ...

This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 ISBRA Meeting in Yokohama, Japan. The chairs were David S. Janowsky and Jan Fawcett. The presentations were (1) The tridimensional personality questionnaire: Predictor of relapse in detoxified alcoholics, by Kurt Meszaros; (2) Novelty seeking predicts clinical trial attrition in ...

Prof Dr Med Erich Mühe of Böblingen, Germany, performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy on September 12, 1985. The German Surgical Society rejected Mühe in 1986 after he reported that he had performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy, yet in 1992 he received their highest award, the German Surgical Society Anniversary Award. ...

The 15th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Biological Therapy (SBT) was held at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel in Seattle, USA. The meeting was organised on behalf of the society by John A Thompson from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), Michael B Widmer of Immunex Corp. (Seattle, ...