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1. Concept • Aim – improve student’s literary confidence – in context – sports journalists. • Research focused – research a sporting event – interpreting events, ordering, critiquing data and re-telling the story for others. • Writing challenge – engage in a form of creative writing to re-write the history books or re-tell a story –or even perform it? • Concept of story-telling is an important aspect of socio-cultural research – interpreting data of the liv...

were found to be HIV seropositive and 33% of those who were found to be HIV seronegative did not return [2]. Similarly, 13% of adults who participated in the US National Health Interview Survey in 1994 and 1995 did not return to the HIV testing site to receive their results [3]. Extrapolation of the data led the investigators to conclude that as many as 2.3 million Americans undergo HIV testing every year but are not aware of their test results [3]. In Canada, 16.7% of individuals who ag...

Complex diseases or phenotypes like longevity may have multiple genetic and environmental causes. The complexity arises from the fact that many genetic and environmental factors may interact with each other such that the expression of the phenotype may not be accurately predictable based on knowledge of the individual effects for each of the component factors considered alone. Genetic interactions or epistasis could hold the key to understanding of complex conditions such as Alzheimer’s d...

The various Witness Protection Programmes in South Africa (for more detail on the background to South African Witness Protection Programmes see Spek 1998) have essentially not inspired enough confidence in witnesses to make use of them. Relatively speaking, witness protection is still in its infancy in South Africa though considerable progress has been made since the first attempts in the late 1980s and early 1990s to set up better and more effective programmes. Until 1992 a witness who ...

One of the interesting research field is to integarte human safety in the design process. Several publications like Coulibaly et al. (2008), Fadier, (2007), Fadier et al. (2003), (2006), Hasan et al. (2003) have appeared dealing with the approaches, concepts, methods and tools applied to the design for the purpose of integrating safety. Ghemraoui et al. (2009, 2010) proposed Innovative Risk assessment Design (IRAD) method for human-safety integration at the early design process. The ob...

T he Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ’88) require that laboratories evaluating patient samples for viruses be licensed and participate in annual proficiency testing (PT)1 . Proficiency testing programs for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) must include 5 challenges tested 3 times per year at approximately equal intervals. A score of 80% is required to successfully pass viral proficiency testing, and failure to participate is considered a score of zero. Whi...

The card agglutination test for trypanosomosis (CATT/ Trypanosoma brucei gambiense) is a serological test that detects T. b. gambiense specific antibodies in whole blood, serum or plasma [1]. Easy to use in field conditions, this low-cost test remains the mainstay for mass population screening for the gambiense form of human African trypanosomosis (HAT) since 1978. In case of positive CATT, blood centrifugation and lumbar puncture to obtain cerebrospinal fluid are subsequently performed f...

TICKS REMOVED FROM military personnel, military dependents, and Department of Defense (DOD) civilian employees are sent by DOD medical personnel and clinics to the Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, for identiÞcation and analysis. Results of tick identiÞcation and analysis are then reported back to the tickbite patientÕs health care provider. This service, called the Human Tick Te...

I nfection by high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) has been recognized as a necessary cause of cervical cancer.1 Evidence from randomized controlled trials showed that HPV testing is more sensitive than cytology in identifying high-grade precancerous lesions, even though it is less specific.2–4 At present, triage of borderline4,5 or low-grade cytology6 with HPV testing is universally accepted and only costeffectiveness limitations represent a matter of concern.6,7 There is also agre...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major human infectious diseases worldwide (Enarson and Chretien, 1999; Rusch-Gerdes, 1999; Zumla et al., 1999). It is Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 100 (2004) 61–71 Abbreviations: SEB, staphylococcal enterotoxin B; TB, tuberculosis; PPD, purified protein derivative; DTH, delayed-type hypersensitivity; IFN-g, interferon-g; CFU, colony forming units; EIA, enzyme immunoassay; OD, optical density; WB, whole blood *Corresponding author. Tel.: þ; ...

A causal link between human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical cancer has been well established (2, 12, 14, 23). A large number of HPV genotypes have been identified, and the mucosal HPV strains are divided into “high-risk” (HR) and “low-risk” (LR) categories on the basis of their association with cervical lesions. The HR types are more frequently found in premalignant or malignant lesions, LR types are found in benign lesions such as condylomata acuminata (18). Infection...

lntracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), also known as microinsemination microinjection into the cytoplasm (MIMIC), entails circumvention of all natural barriers to sperm penetration and removes all biological selecting from the process, such as sperm binding to the zona pellucida and fusion of the sperm with the oolemma. Since 1962, when early investigations on fertilization using micromanipulation of gametes were initiated, sperm has always been directly injected into the cytopl...

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) represents an established therapy [1, 2] for hematologic diseases but remains to be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Moreover, alloHSCT is associated with significant impairment of health-related quality of life (HrQoL) [3], impairment of physical functioning (like fatigue, impairment of muscle strength, and endurance or physical activity) [4] as well as psychological distress (anxiety and depression) [3]. ...

In 1975, Carswell et al.1 first identified tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-a as a cytokine involved in tumor necrosis. Since then, multiple studies have been performed to uncover the extent of its function and potential uses in human tumors. It has now been elucidated that TNF-a is a multifunctional, potent, tumoricidal cytokine released by macrophages.2–5 TNF-a can induce tumor cell death by several mechanisms. First, TNF-a binds to a number of possible receptors that activate a cascade...

Tissue engineering is a relatively new field that uses living cells, biocompatible materials, and suitable biochemical (e.g., growth factors) and physical factors (e.g., cyclic mechanical loading), as well as combinations thereof, to create tissue-like structures. Most frequently, the ultimate goal is implantation of this tissue constructs into the body to repair an injury or replace the function of a failing organ. The critical functions may be structural (e.g., bone, cartilage), ...

Abstract BACKGROUND: Transfemoral amputees experience a complex host of physical, psychological, and social challenges, compounded by the functional limitations of current transfemoral prostheses. However, the speci

Domestic use is responsible for a large portion of the worldwide consumed resources, namely electricity and water. For instance, in 2001 the USA housing sector alone was responsible for the consumption of 14% of the 2001-yearly production of electricity consisting of HVAC, home appliances and hot water. [1] While substantial research is aimed at reducing the energy consumed by domestic systems and appliances as well as improving the thermal capabilities of the buildings envelope,...

. Introduction In this paper, we discuss the issue for an artificial agent to take decisions in a social simulation. The type of social simulation that we refer to here is a social simulation populated by humans. More precisely, we consider a role playing game 2 (“serious game”) where humans play some role and discuss, negotiate and take decisions about a common domain, in our case environment management decisions. We are now in the process of inserting artificial agents into t...

The human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) is nowadays classified into four types: 1, 2, 3 and 4. The type 1 virus (HTLV-1) has been identified on all five continents, and its areas of great prevalence include Japan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean basin, South America, Melanesia and the Middle East1 . The type 2 virus (HTLV-2) is endemic in African and American Indian populations2,3, and its worldwide distribution has been ascribed to transmission among intravenous drug users. ...

Objectives: Validation of the Greek version of Mini Tinnitus Questionnaire (Mini-TQ-GR) as a Brief Screening Test for Assessment of Tinnitus-related Distress. Design: Questionnaire study. Setting: 401 General Military Hospital of Athens/Department of Audiology – Neurootology, Athens, Greece. Participants: Three hundred and one participants have anonymously completed the Mini-TQ-GR, comparing it to the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS 14) and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (...