Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting. At IFPA Meeting 2010 there were twelve themed workshops, six of which are summarized in this report. 1. The immunology workshop focused on normal and pathological functions of the maternal immune system in pregnancy. 2. The transport workshop dealt with ...

This paper presents an overview of the project carried out by the Vascular Access (VA) Working Group of the Italian Society of Nephrology with the aim of developing 4 SPECIAL SECTIONs at the national level on how to choose, use, and implant the different, possible types of vascular access. The ...

On November 22, 2010, a simulation-based hands-on education course for medical staff in the neurosurgical fields was held in 8(th) Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The present education course called Primary Neurosurgical Life Support (PNLS) course had been started by the Japan Society of Neurosurgical ...

The welfare of farmed fish has attracted attention in recent years, which has resulted in notable changes within the aquaculture industry. However, a lack of communication between stakeholders and opposing ethical views are perceived as barriers to achieving consensus on how to improve farmed fish welfare. To address these issues, ...

Created in 2007, COMUSA is a multiprofessional committee comprising speech therapy, otology, otorhinolaryngology and pediatrics with the aim of debating and countersigning auditory health actions for neonatal, lactating, preschool and school children, adolescents, adults and elderly persons. COMUSA includes representatives of the Brazilian Audiology Academy (Academia Brasileira de Audiologia or ...

La evaluación de calidad en ensayos clínicos involucra múltiples consideraciones. Mientras que es obligatorio cumplir con las pautas de la Buena Práctica Clínica y asimismo con las normas de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Armonización, una serie de factores adicionales contribuyen a la calidad total de un informe de prueba. Principal ...

The second meeting of the French CEIP (Centres d'Evaluation et d'Information sur la Pharmacod?pendance) was organized during the annual congress of the French Society of Pharmacology Therapeutics and Physiology in 2008. The aim of this meeting was to update the knowledge on abuse and dependence of the anxiolytics and hypnotics ...

Little is known about the world's first sociological society, Emile Littré's Société de Sociologie (1872-4). This article, based on prosopographic research, offers an interpretation of the foundation, political-intellectual orientation and early demise of the society. As indicated by recruitment and texts by its founding members, the Société de Sociologie was ...

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BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have explored intrinsic factors that influence the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Extrinsic determinants of patients' choice of therapy have seldom been explored. OBJECTIVE: This study analyzes the effects of extrinsic determinants on the first-time use of CAM. Furthermore, it analyzes how extrinsic determinants influence ...

This thesis addresses one of the contemporary problems facing the sustainability of world’s fisheries---illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As a result of IUU fishing, it is estimated that Indonesia loses revenue in excess of US$4 billion annually. The Indonesian Government has identified IUU fishing as a priority policy issue ...

The Pre-survey Meeting to Plan the Year 2000 Survey with the R/V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN in the Western Gulf of Guinea (Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire) was held in Tema, Ghana, on 26 August 2000. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together the regional and international scientists ...

Le 6 octobre 1998 onze cas de trichinellose survenus, en France, dans les departements de la Haute Garonne et du Tarn ont ete declares aux autorites sanitaires de la region Midi-Pyrenees. Les toutes premieres informations fournies par les medecins suggera

Fish behaviour in relation to fishing operations : selected papers from a symposium held in Bergen, 11-13 June 1992: eds. C.S. Wardle and C.E. Hillingworth, ICES marine science symposia, ISSN 0906-060X ; 196, 36 - 40

Fish behaviour in relation to fishing operations : selected papers from a symposium held in Bergen, 11-13 June 1992: ed. by C.S. Wardle and C.E.Hollingworth, ICES marine science symposia ; 196, 54 - 56

This paper reports on recent epidemiological observations in western Colombia, which further demonstrate the presence of naturally-occurring goitrogens contaminating water supplies in areas where goitre persists despite prolonged and continuous iodine supplementation. 'Prospective' and 'cross-sectional' studies in 41 localities where the populations have been on a uniform and adequate iodine ...

1. The bovine isolated sphincter pupillae incubated in Krebs solution releases a biologically active substance tentatively identified as prostaglandin E(2).2. The prostaglandin did not appear to be of neural origin or to result merely from tissue degeneration.3. The spontaneous release of prostaglandin E(2)-like material was related to the tone of ...

Mouse promonocytes have been identified and studied in cultures of bone marrow cells. These cells have a diameter of 14-20 micro, and in stained preparations reveal a large, indented or folded nucleus, and basophilic, finely granular cytoplasm. The living promonocyte viewed by phase contrast shows additional features: nucleoli, small dense ...

In 1967 we admitted 339 cases of infantile gastroenteritis; one-third of these were dehydrated, and in this group the commonest biochemical abnormality found was hypernatraemia, sometimes with metabolic acidosis. A higher incidence of dehydration was found in the patients who had received oral glucose fluids before admission. EnteropathicEscherichia coliwere isolated ...

Published on the Web by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in April 2002, this annual report to Congress provides information on the status of US fish stocks in 2001, and areas and stocks which have been over-fished. Tables showing the fish species, area, and stock status are included.

On sporulation the slender vegetative rods swell and form larger spindle-shaped cells in which the spores are formed. When the spores mature they lie in a lateral position cradled in canoe-shaped parasporal bodies which are highly basophilic and can be differentiated from the surrounding vegetative cell cytoplasm with dilute basic ...