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Chemical characterization of oligosaccharides in the milk of six species of New and Old World monkeys.

Goto, K; Fukuda, K; Senda, A; Saito, T; Kimura, K; Glander, KE; Hinde, K; Dittus, W; Milligan, LA; Power, ML; Oftedal, OT; Urashima, T (2010-10)

Human and great ape milks contain a diverse array of milk oligosaccharides, but little is known about the milk oligosaccharides of other primates, and how they differ among taxa. Neutral and acidic oligosaccharides were ...
Chemical composition and aerosol size distribution of the middle mountain range in the Nepal Himalayas during the 2009 pre-monsoon season

Shrestha, Prabhakar; Barros, Ana; Khlystov, Andrei (COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH, 2010)

Aerosol particle number size distribution and chemical composition were measured at two low altitude sites, one urban and one relatively pristine valley, in Central Nepal during the 2009 pre-monsoon season (May-June). This ...
Chikungunya and Dengue Fever among Hospitalized Febrile Patients in Northern Tanzania

Hertz, Julian T.; Morrissey, Anne; Bartlett, John Alexander; Crump, John Andrew (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012)

Consecutive febrile admissions were enrolled at two hospitals in Moshi, Tanzania. Confirmed acute Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Dengue virus (DENV), and flavivirus infection were defined as a positive polymerase chain reaction ...
Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties

Tarozzi, Alessandro; Mahajan, Aprajit (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007)

India experienced several years of fast economic growth during the 1990s, and according to many observers this period also saw a considerable decline in poverty, especially in urban areas. We use data from two rounds of ...
Child work and labour among orphaned and abandoned children in five low and middle income countries

Pence, Brian Wells; Whetten, Rachel; Messer, Lynne Corinne; Ostermann, Jan; Whetten, Kathryn; Buckner, Megan; Thielman, Nathan Maclyn; O'Donnell, Karen Jones (BioMed Central, 2011)

Background The care and protection of the estimated 143,000,000 orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) worldwide is of great importance to global policy makers and child service providers in low and middle income countries ...
Chimpanzees and bonobos distinguish between risk and ambiguity.

Rosati, AG; Hare, B (2011-02-23)

Although recent research has investigated animal decision-making under risk, little is known about how animals choose under conditions of ambiguity when they lack information about the available alternatives. Many models ...
Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit divergent spatial memory development.

Rosati, AG; Hare, B (2012-11)

Spatial cognition and memory are critical cognitive skills underlying foraging behaviors for all primates. While the emergence of these skills has been the focus of much research on human children, little is known about ...
Chiropteran types I and II interferon genes inferred from genome sequencing traces by a statistical gene-family assembler

Kepler, Thomas B.; Roach, Jeffrey; Haines, Albert (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: The rate of emergence of human pathogens is steadily increasing; most of these novel agents originate in wildlife. Bats, remarkably, are the natural reservoirs of many of the most pathogenic viruses in humans. ...
Cholera in Haiti and Other Caribbean Regions, 19th Century

Jenson, Deborah; Szabo, Victoria; Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Laboratory Student Research Team (Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011-11)

Medical journals and other sources do not show evidence that cholera occurred in Haiti before 2010, despite the devastating effect of this disease in the Caribbean region in the 19th century. Cholera occurred in Cuba in ...
Chondrogenesis and Mineralization During In Vitro Culture of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Three-Dimensional Woven Scaffolds

Brunger, Jonathan M.; Guilak, Farshid (MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, 2010)

Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) and three-dimensional (3D) woven poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL) scaffolds are promising tools for skeletal tissue engineering. We hypothesized that in vitro culture duration and medium ...
Chondrogenesis of Adult Stem Cells from Adipose Tissue and Bone Marrow: Induction by Growth Factors and Cartilage-Derived Matrix

Diekman, Brian O.; Rowland, Christopher R.; Guilak, Farshid (MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, 2010)

Objectives: Adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent adult stem cells with potential for use in cartilage tissue engineering. We hypothesized that these cells ...
Chrysogone’s Mother

Rigsby, Kent J. (2003-03)
Climate Change and the Future of California's Endemic Flora

Loarie, Scott R.; McMahon, Sean (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008)

The flora of California, a global biodiversity hotspot, includes 2387 endemic plant taxa. With anticipated climate change, we project that up to 66% will experience >80% reductions in range size within a century. These ...
Climate change, water resources and child health

Kistin, Elizabeth; Fogarty, John; Pokrasso, Ryan Shaening; McCally, Michael; McCornick, Peter (BMJ Publishing Group, 2010)

Climate change is occurring and has tremendous consequences for children's health worldwide. This article describes how the rise in temperature, precipitation, droughts, floods, glacier melt and sea levels resulting from ...
Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa

Sowers, J; Vengosh, A; Weinthal, ES (2010)

Through an examination of global climate change models combined with hydrological data on deteriorating water quality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), we elucidate the ways in which the MENA countries are ...
Climate variability from Florida Bay sedimentary record: possible teleconnections to ENSO, PNA, and CNP

Cronin, TM; Dwyer, Gary; Schwede, SB; Dowsett, HJ (2002)
Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Cryptococcal Disease: 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Perfect, John (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2010)

Cryptococcosis is a global invasive mycosis associated with significant morbidity and mortality. These guidelines for its management have been built on the previous Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines from ...
Clinical Reasoning in the Real World Is Mediated by Bounded Rationality: Implications for Diagnostic Clinical Practice Guidelines

Rajgor, Dimple; Shah, Jatin; Pietrobon, Ricardo (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Background: Little is known about the reasoning mechanisms used by physicians in decision-making and how this compares to diagnostic clinical practice guidelines. We explored the clinical reasoning process in a real life ...
Clinical Trials: Rethinking How We Ensure Quality

Landray, Martin J; Grandinetti, Cheryl; Kramer, Judith Mae; Morrison, Briggs W; Ball, Leslie (Sage Publications, 2012-11)

Concern is widespread that clinical trials are becoming increasingly costly and burdensome to conduct. The challenge is to find efficient and practical means of ensuring that trials provide conclusive answers while ...
c-Myc Is Required for Maintenance of Glioma Cancer Stem Cells

Wang, Jialiang; Wu, Qiulian; Lathia, Justin D.; Hjelmeland, Anita B.; Rich, Jeremy (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008)

Background: Malignant gliomas rank among the most lethal cancers. Gliomas display a striking cellular heterogeneity with a hierarchy of differentiation states. Recent studies support the existence of cancer stem cells in ...