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“They Are Underpaid and Understaffed”: How Clients Interpret Encounters with Street-Level Bureaucrats
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Plerixafor (a CXCR4 antagonist) following myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation enhances hematopoietic recovery.
(J Hematol Oncol, 2018-03-04)BACKGROUND: The binding of CXCR4 with its ligand (stromal-derived factor-1) maintains hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) in a quiescent state. We hypothesized that blocking CXCR4/SDF-1 interaction after hematopoietic ... -
Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians.
(BMC Fam Pract, 2018-03-01)BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic overuse worldwide. We previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka with ... -
Qualitative analysis of palliative care for pediatric patients with cancer at Bugando Medical Center: An evaluation of barriers to providing end-of-life care in a resource-limited setting
(Journal of Global Oncology, 2018-03-01)Purpose Palliative care remains an urgent, neglected need in the developing world. Global disparities in end-of-life care for children, such as those with advanced cancers, result from barriers that are complex and largely ... -
Clinical features of three patients with paradoxical immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with Talaromyces marneffei infection
(Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018-03-01)© 2016 The Authors Talaromyces marneffei infection is a major cause of death in HIV-infected individuals in South and Southeast Asia. Talaromycosis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome has not been well described. ... -
Captivity humanizes the primate microbiome.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018-03-01)The primate gastrointestinal tract is home to trillions of bacteria, whose composition is associated with numerous metabolic, autoimmune, and infectious human diseases. Although there is increasing evidence that modern and ... -
Global health humanities: defining an emerging field.
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The specificity of reciprocity: Young children reciprocate more generously to those who intentionally benefit them
(Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2018-03-01)© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Young children engage in direct reciprocity, but the mechanisms underlying such reciprocity remain unclear. In particular, prior work leaves unclear whether children's reciprocity is simply a response ... -
Clinical features of three patients with paradoxical immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with Talaromyces marneffei infection
(Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018-03-01)© 2016 The Authors Talaromyces marneffei infection is a major cause of death in HIV-infected individuals in South and Southeast Asia. Talaromycosis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome has not been well described. ... -
Being a Generalist and Donor Advocate: Seeing Both Sides of Transplantation
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Geometric Cross-Modal Comparison of Heterogeneous Sensor Data
(Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2018-03)In this work, we address the problem of cross-modal comparison of aerial data streams. A variety of simulated automobile trajectories are sensed using two different modalities: full-motion video, and radio-frequency (RF) ... -
Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought.
(Plant Cell Environ, 2018-03)From 2011 to 2013, Texas experienced its worst drought in recorded history. This event provided a unique natural experiment to assess species-specific responses to extreme drought and mortality of four co-occurring woody ... -
Solitary mastocytoma in the eyelid of an adult.
(Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep, 2018-03)Purpose: To describe the ophthalmic symptoms and histopathological findings in a rare case of an eyelid mastocytoma in an adult. Observations: A man in his early 60s developed a painless, non-tender, non-pruritic, mobile ... -
A Program's Analysis of Communication Methods With Clinical Preceptors.
(J Physician Assist Educ, 2018-03)PURPOSE: Preceptors value communication with physician assistant (PA) educational programs. This study describes preceptors' perspectives about one PA program's established and new communication strategies to promote ... -
Children's reasoning with peers in cooperative and competitive contexts.
(Br J Dev Psychol, 2018-03)We report two studies that demonstrate how five- and seven-year-olds adapt their production of arguments to either a cooperative or a competitive context. Two games elicited agreements from peer dyads about placing animals ... -
Enhancing Radiation Therapy Through Cherenkov Light-Activated Phototherapy.
(International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2018-03)This work investigates a new approach to enhance radiotherapy through a photo therapeutic agent activated by Cherenkov light produced from the megavoltage photon beam. The process is termed Radiotherapy Enhanced with ... -
Digital chalk-talk videos improve knowledge and satisfaction in renal physiology.
(Advances in physiology education, 2018-03)The authors began a curriculum reform project to improve the experience in a Renal Physiology course for first-year medical students. Taking into account both the variety of learning preferences among students and the ... -
Influence of Reported Penicillin Allergy on Mortality in MSSA Bacteremia.
(Open forum infectious diseases, 2018-03)Penicillin allergy frequently impacts antibiotic choice. As beta-lactams are superior to vancomycin in treating methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia, we examined the effect of reported penicillin ... -
Thirty years of great ape gestures.
(Anim Cogn, 2018-02-21)We and our colleagues have been doing studies of great ape gestural communication for more than 30 years. Here we attempt to spell out what we have learned. Some aspects of the process have been reliably established by ...
