BACKGROUND: Although work-exacerbated asthma (WEA) is a prevalent condition likely to have an important societal burden, there are limited data on this condition. OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were (1) to compare the clinical, functional, and inflammatory characteristics of workers with WEA and occupational asthma (OA) and (2) compare health care use and related costs between workers with WE

Invasive species pose a serious threat to native ecosystems. In eastern Washington brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans) is an important invasive species, especially at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, where they compete with waterfowl for food resources and are associated with declines in habitat quality. Understanding the invasion routes of this invasive species may help managers implement strategies to prevent further spread and mitigate damages caused by these fish. The objectives of this study were to identify the most likely point of brook stickleback invasion, to determine their most likely invasion routes, and to investigate landscape features and processes that may be impacting gene flow between populations. Genotypes at nine microsatellite loci from 560 brook stickleback from 20 putative populations were used determine the genetic variation within and among populations. Genetic diversity was highest in the headwaters of Pine Creek (HE = 0.753 in Kelley Creek, AR = 4.466 in Pine Creek) and on

Supplementary MaterialsSupplementary Information Supplementary Figures. mediator production. In mouse models of asthma, TNFRSF14 blockade with a neutralizing antibody administered after antigen sensitization, or genetic deletion of was one of the genes exhibiting higher expression during picorna virus-induced asthma exacerbations compared with values in specimens obtained 7C14 days after the contamination22. Like other receptors in the TNF superfamily, TNFRSF14 can have pleiotropic functions, including fostering or inhibiting immune responses23, for example, TNFRSF14:TNFSF14 interactions support the generation and longevity of TH2 cells and promote TH2 memory through Akt activation24. Because TH2 cells can enhance the production of Ag-specific IgE antibodies in response to sensitization with Ag, such effects of TNFSF14 on TH2 cells could contribute to the development of IgE-dependent features of asthma models. However, pharmacological blockade of TNFSF14 with an TNFRSF3-Fc fusion protein ...

Boosted by the introduction of multislice machines, CT has been steadily overtaking other imaging modalities in visualizing the chest. CT is far more specific than chest radiography and faster and more global than nuclear medicine scanning. Although MR imaging is more sensitive to differences in fat and soft-tissue contrast and provides more precise demarcations of tissue planes, it doesnt return much signal from pulmonary parenchyma.

Everything under IslamiCity is categorized under the major hubs you see in this panel. Due to overwhelming content, each of these hubs can be considered a home page of its own. Faith is where the tenets, pillars and spiruality related content is found. Science section features not just Science but also Nature and Technology. This section is more for the technologically minded. World section is for the News Buds. It covers day to day World Affairs, Politics & News. Life section is all about Society, Art, Culture, History, Sports, Food, Music and much more. Values section on the other hand is very special. We created it for only one thing in mind; to create a peaceful corner that features just inspiring and uplifting material, focused around Universal Values to be reflect upon -- at a time never needed more desperately than now ...

Everything under IslamiCity is categorized under the major hubs you see in this panel. Due to overwhelming content, each of these hubs can be considered a home page of its own. Faith is where the tenets, pillars and spiruality related content is found. Science section features not just Science but also Nature and Technology. This section is more for the technologically minded. World section is for the News Buds. It covers day to day World Affairs, Politics & News. Life section is all about Society, Art, Culture, History, Sports, Food, Music and much more. Values section on the other hand is very special. We created it for only one thing in mind; to create a peaceful corner that features just inspiring and uplifting material, focused around Universal Values to be reflect upon -- at a time never needed more desperately than now ...

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Typically, these assemblies require a more experienced workforce, more time for setup and extensive test capability. The company has been structured to excel in this area utilizing the correct mix of high-speed automated assembly and test equipment with experienced technical personnel. Highly complex assemblies may present an obstacle to high-volume producers, but they readily fit this EMS providers operation. The High Mix/Low Volume strategy has resulted in the companys steady growth for the past three years. In 2000, Semi-Kinetics moved to its current state-of-the-art, 32,000 square-foot facility in Lake Forest, California. Because of this strategic location in Orange County, one of the major hubs for electronic design and assembly, the company can draw from a large pool of experienced personnel ...

The movement to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) has taken off and the Oconomowoc Area School District is placing Itself on the map as a major hub.

Neisseria meningitidis is a human-specific pathogen with capacity to cause septic shock and meningitis. It has been hypothesized that invasion of the central nervous system (CNS) is a complication of a bacteremic condition. In this study, we aimed to characterize the invasion route of N. meningitidis to the CNS. Using an intranasally challenged mouse disease model, we found that twenty percent of the mice developed lethal meningitis even though no bacteria could be detected in blood. Upon bacterial infection, epithelial lesions and redistribution of intracellular junction protein N-cadherin were observed at the nasal epithelial mucosa, especially at the olfactory epithelium, which is functionally and anatomically connected to the CNS. Bacteria were detected in the submucosa of the olfactory epithelium, along olfactory nerves in the cribriform plate, at the olfactory bulb and subsequently at the meninges and subarachnoid space. Furthermore, our data suggest that a threshold level of bacteremia is ...

Deciphering invasion routes from molecular data is crucial to understanding biological invasions, including identifying bottlenecks in population size and admixture among distinct populations. Here, we unravel the invasion routes of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii using a multi-locus microsatellite dataset (25 loci on 23 worldwide sampling locations). To do this, we use approximate Bayesian computation (ABC), which has improved the reconstruction of invasion routes, but can be computationally expensive. We use our study to illustrate the use of a new, more efficient, ABC method, ABC random forest (ABC-RF) and compare it to a standard ABC method (ABC-LDA). We find that Japan emerges as the most probable source of the earliest recorded invasion into Hawaii. Southeast China and Hawaii together are the most probable sources of populations in western North America, which then in turn served as sources for those in eastern North America. European populations are genetically more homogeneous than North

Testing results show that their device can detect airborne molecules of a chemical called 2,4-dinitrotoluene, the primary vapor emanating from TNT-based explosives. The human nose cannot detect such minute amounts of a substance, but sniffer dogs have long been used to track these types of molecules. Their technology is inspired by the biological design and microscale size of the canine olfactory mucus layer, which absorbs and then concentrates airborne molecules ...

X-ray phase-contrast imaging is a novel technology that achieves high soft-tissue contrast. Although its clinical impact is still under investigation, the technique may potentially improve clinical diagnostics. In conventional attenuation-based X-ray computed tomography, radiological diagnostics are quantified by Hounsfield units. Corresponding Hounsfield units for phase-contrast imaging have been recently introduced, enabling a setup-independent comparison and standardized interpretation of imaging results. Thus far, the experimental values of few tissue types have been reported; these values have been determined from fixated tissue samples. This study presents phase-contrast Hounsfield units for various types of non-fixated human soft tissues. A large variety of tissue specimens ranging from adipose, muscle and connective tissues to liver, kidney and pancreas tissues were imaged by a grating interferometer with a rotating-anode X-ray tube and a photon-counting detector. In addition, we ...

CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): Cellular phenotypes are determined by the differential activity of networks linking coregulated genes. Available methods for the reverse engineering of such networks from genome-wide expression profiles have been successful only in the analysis of lower eukaryotes with simple genomes. Using a new method called ARACNe (algorithm for the reconstruction of accurate cellular networks), we report the reconstruction of regulatory networks from expression profiles of human B cells. The results are suggestive a hierarchical, scale-free network, where a few highly interconnected genes (hubs) account for most of the interactions. Validation of the network against available data led to the identification of MYC as a major hub, which controls a network comprising known target genes as well as new ones, which were biochemically validated. The newly identified MYC targets include some major hubs. This approach can be generally useful for

Intertek , a UK testing and certification company, has entered into an agreement to provide analytical laboratory services to Norwegian oil company Statoil , as part of which Intertek will acquire Statoils existing analytical laboratory. This laboratory, which Intertek plans to expand, is based in Kalundborg, Denmark, a major hub for oil...

Its all about connectivity and the strategic location of the facility to supply the Gulf Coast. The Phillips 66 Beaumont Terminal will soon realize its full potential as a major hub of crude storage with export capacity.

Located in the #2 French region in terms of the number of patents per inhabitant, and with an exceptional concentration of health technology companies, Grenoble Alpes stands out as a major hub for digital health technologies

Asthma is a potentially serious disease that is growing in prevalence in most developed countries.1 One of the factors that might have prompted this trend is the greater number of cases of asthma that develop in adults.2 In addition to a possible allergic origin, as occurs in childhood asthma, epidemiological studies indicate that occupational exposure may be the cause of up to 25% of all cases of adult-onset asthma.3 Asthma caused by exposure to a specific substance in the workplace is known as occupational asthma (OA), while pre-existing or concomitant asthma which is intensified by stimuli present in the workplace is known as work-exacerbated asthma (WEA). OA can be further subclassified as immunological and non-immunological, depending on the mechanisms causing the disease.2 Immunological OA requires time for sensitization to the causative agent to develop, while non-immunological OA refers to patients whose asthma is caused by irritants, the most obvious example of which is reactive airway ...

Work-related asthma (WRA) includes work-exacerbated asthma (preexisting or concurrent asthma worsened by factors related to the workplace environment) and occupational asthma (new onset asthma attributed to the workplace environment) (1,2). WRA is a preventable occupational lung disease associated with serious adverse health and socioeconomic outcomes (1,2). Among workers with similar occupational

As part of a tumour growth inhibition study, SK-N-SH xenografts were generated in BALB/c nu/nu mice. Mice (n = 8) were placed in a printed MR- and CT-compatible plastic cradle, imaged using a 4.7-T MRI scanner and then transferred to a small animal radiation research platform (SARRP) irradiator with on-board CBCT. MRI/CBCT co-registration was performed to enable RT planning using the soft-tissue contrast afforded by MRI prior to delivery of RT (5 Gy). Tumour response was assessed by serial MRI and calliper measurements.. ...

Conclusions While the meta-analysis provides evidence to support the use of antibiotics for acute rhinosinusitis in children, it is the assessment of this review that such efficacy has not been adequately demonstrated. There remains a clear methodological challenge in the examination of this important clinical question; this challenge relates to difficulties in the application of appropriate diagnostic and inclusion criteria which are also consistent between studies.. ...

During the day, patients might use a portable sinus lavage such as Ocean Plus nasal spray and in some situations to follow by the use of an inhaled nasal steroid (such as verimyst or the formulary equivalent such as nasonex, as each insurance has preferentially covers only certain inhalers). Benefits and risks of nasal irrigation/oral rinses. These ...

Online sex has become a fast-growing business in both developing and developed network, with advertisements of (not necessarily unique) individuals numbering in the hundreds of millions across different Web portals. One such major hub of sex advertisement activity, before it was shut down by US federal agencies, was backpage.com. The backpage.com website was a classifieds-advertising portal that had become the largest marketplace for buying and selling sex by the time that federal law enforcement agencies seized it in April 2018. Since then, investigations have been actively underway. However, the data (which has recently been made available to us for research on UK Backpage) also offers valuable insights into the nature of the online sex business, including complex properties that can be best studied using network science. One of the challenges, however, is a rigorous modeling of the data as a network, since the primary data are web advertisements and metadata (backend database) on accounts that posted

Appleton International Airport (ATW) 5 miles from campus with daily non-stop service to many major hubs (Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Twin Cities ...

Based in Stavanger, Norway, a major hub of European exploration and production technology, Shanor GeoSolutions draws on over 50 years of international experience, and continues to build associate member consultants globally to address clients needs in a period of massive staff reductions ...

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Throughout the procedure the patient must repeat the expression «ku-ku». The only way the tool will not penetrate into the cavity of the mouth, throat or ear. Keep in mind that failure to comply with these rules, the patient could be infection of the pharynx or ears.. Spend washing the nose slowly and very carefully. The entire procedure usually takes about fifteen minutes.. After washing by this method can not immediately get up, and go outside within the hour.. It is best to maintain the supine position for ten minutes.. If these rules are followed, the patient can be formed epistaxis. In addition, the effectiveness of rehabilitation will be broken at any cooling of the sinuses.. For the same wash procedure can not enter more than 350 milliliters of solution, but the required dosage of Antibacterials prescribed by a doctor. «Cuckoo» for the nose of children is granted only after personal consultation.. ...

Mechanisms underlying the development of virus-induced asthma exacerbations remain unclear. To investigate if epigenetic mechanisms could be involved in virus-induced asthma exacerbations, we undertook DNA methylation profiling in asthmatic and healthy nasal epithelial cells (NECs) during Human Rhinovirus (HRV) infection in vitro. Global and loci-specific methylation profiles were determined via Alu element and Infinium Human Methylation 450 K microarray, respectively. Principal components analysis identified the genomic loci influenced the most by disease-status and infection. Real-time PCR and pyrosequencing were used to confirm gene expression and DNA methylation, respectively. HRV infection significantly increased global DNA methylation in cells from asthmatic subjects only (43.6% to 44.1%, p = 0.04). Microarray analysis revealed 389 differentially methylated loci either based on disease status, or caused by virus infection. There were disease-associated DNA methylation patterns that were not

to the editor: Having just put together a lecture on acute rhinosinusitis, I eagerly opened the January 1, 2001 issue of American Family Physician to read Adult Rhinosinusitis: Diagnosis and Management.1 I was hoping to find validation of the conclusions I had drawn from my own weeks of study and synthesis on the subject. I also hoped to find new insights from an experienced author on the difficult issue of how we should approach patients with signs and symptoms that may be either viral or bacterial.. However, I was disappointed to find a review that relied heavily on the ear, nose, and throat and allergy literature and nearly ignored the research that has fueled multiple meta-analyses and new general practice studies of acute rhinosinusitis during the past few years.. To be specific, Dr. Osguthorpes discussion of the acute variety of rhinosinusitis fails to recognize studies that have reported which signs and symptoms have statistically significant correlations with bacterial infection and ...

PETALUMA, CA - The Casa Grande Post Office at 1601 Corporate Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954, will now serve as the hub for all Sonoma, Glen Ellen, Kenwood and Eldridge mail effective today.. Yesterday the Postal Service put contingencies in place for customers from El Verano, Vineburg and Boyes Hot Springs to get their mail at the Casa Grande Post Office.. Mail for customers from Sonoma, Glen Ellen, Kenwood,, Eldridge, El Verano, Vineburg and Boyes Hot Springs will be available for pick up at the Dutch door in the retail lobby area of the Casa Grande Post Office from noon to 6:00 PM. Photo ID is required. Signs are posted to guide customers to the mail pickup area.. Updates will be provided as soon as conditions change.. # # #. Please Note: For broadcast quality video and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS Newsroom at about.usps.com/news/welcome.htm.. For reporters interested in speaking with a regional Postal Service public relations professional, please go to ...

Stomata, surrounded by pairs of guard cells, regulate gas exchange between plants and the environment, thus being critical for plant growth. On the other hand, a variety of bacteria, oomycetes, and fungi exploit stomatal openings as major invasion routes (1, 2). To prevent microbe invasion, plants can recognize the so-called microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) that are highly conserved in the whole class of microbes, such as flagellin for bacteria and chitin oligosaccharides (CTOSs) for fungi, leading to stomatal immunity or stomatal defense, including stomatal closure and inhibition of stomatal opening (3⇓-5). Recent studies have focused on bacterium-guard cell interaction and found that pathogenic bacteria secrete phytotoxins and proteins, termed as effectors, to suppress bacterial MAMP-induced stomatal immunity (3⇓-5). Although many pathogenic fungi penetrate through stomata, posing major threats to crop production and consequently human nutrition, the fungus-guard cell ...

Weve been writing a lot about bugs lately. There was that front page story recently about may flies here in the Peoria area and Ive written recent stories on Japanese beetles, bugs that came in out of the rain along with updates on various farm pests.You cant take insects lightly. Dr. Walter Crinnion noted in the Huffington Post earlier this year that 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides are sprayed annually in the United States at a cost of $11 billion.Weve heard about disappearing bees, disease-bearing mosquitoes while following the invasion route of pests like the emerald ash borer thats already destroyed 25 million ash trees across the Midwest and is now closing in on central Illinois (the bug is moving this way from the north and has already been detected in McLean County).We worry about termites in our homes, fleas on our dogs and grubs in our yard. And farmers--they have an enemies list a mile long topped by villains such as the western corn borer, soybean aphid and wireworms.And thats just

Guinea-Bissau has become a major hub of cocaine trafficking between Latin America and Europe. But any wealth the West African nation has derived from its middleman status has been offset by increased violence and instability.

February 15, 2016. Welcome to the Department of Chemistry of the Georgia State University! We are a collection of talented graduate students, award-winning faculty, and devoted staffs pursuing cutting edge research on the frontiers of chemistry interfacing with biology, medicine, material, physics, and computational science. Our mission is to serve the citizens of the State of Georgia and the nation as a major hub for chemical research and education. Our contributions to the society are new knowledges of chemistry, and more importantly the confidence and the readiness of our graduates to pursue their independent careers after finishing our program.. We train our students through interdisciplinary programs covering analytical, biological, physical, organic and medicinal chemistry, and chemical education. Our department has been awarded NIH and NSF grants that total more than $7 million for the current fiscal year. Our NIH funding per faculty member tops other chemistry departments in southeast ...

By Bryan Spielman Dec 30 2015 This article is published in collaboration with Project Syndicate. On a recent visit to Jordan and Egypt, as part of a trade mission led by the United States Department of Commerce, I was struck by the potential for the surrounding region to become a major hub for cutti...

Background: Different treatments are performed for esophageal cancer, but surgery is still the base of treatment. Respiratory complication is the important postoperative complications of esophageal cancer.. Methods: In this study 40 patients who were candidates for surgery of esophageal cancer were placed into two groups of with or without neoadjuvant therapy. Before surgery, they underwent bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage. The samples were analyzed for airway colonization and then the patients underwent the surgery and were postoperatively evaluated in respiratory complications and the effects of preoperative neoadjuvant therapy.. Results: M/F=23/17 and mean age was 61 years. 22 cases had cancer in the middle and 18 in the lower part of the esophagus. 25 cases had SCC and 15 had ACC. In evaluation, no organism was found in 9 cases (22.5%) and positive cases of microbial culture was found in 31 cases (77.5%). Significant relation was observed between airway positive microbial colonization ...

The population of Afghanistan is around 33 million as of 2016,[1] which includes the roughly 3 million Afghan citizens living as refugees in both Pakistan and Iran.[5] The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multilingual society, reflecting its location astride historic trade and invasion routes between Central Asia, Southern Asia, and Western Asia. Its largest ethnic group is the Pashtun, followed by Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimak, Turkmen, Baloch and a few others.[1][6] Approximately 46% of the population is under 15 years of age, and 74% of all Afghans live in rural areas.[3] The average woman gives birth to five children during her entire life and 6.8% of all babies die in child-birth or infancy.[3] Life expectancy was reported in 2015 at 60.5 years[2] and only 0.04% of the population has HIV.[1] Pashto and Dari are both the official languages of the country.[4] Dari, which is known as the Afghan Persian, functions as the lingua franca. Pashto is widely used in the region south of the ...

Many people confuse the arrival of green mucus in nasal secretions with sinusitis. However, sinusitis strictly applies to the respiratory sinuses which, while communicating with the nasal passages (via openings called ostia), are anatomically different from them.. In acute rhinosinusitis, the lining of the nasal passages and the sinuses are all infected with the virus and produce excessive mucus. But unless the communications between the sinuses and the nasal passages become blocked, sinusitis has not occurred.. True sinusitis results from a blockage of the ostia, which traps harmful bacteria in the sinus(es). Its an uncommon complication of acute rhinosinusitis and occurs many days into a cold. As well as a prolonged cold, symptoms include fever, pain and tenderness over the sinuses.. Because acute rhinosinusitis is strictly viral, antibiotics have no benefit, even when the mucus is green.. However, true acute sinusitis does warrant antibiotic treatment. Such treatment should be considered ...

Plasma exudation is one cardinal factor in airways defence and inflammation. In inflammatory airway diseases such as rhinitis and asthma, however, plasma leakage may also have a pathogenetic role. Experimental data from animals indicate that highly sensitive, active, and reversible processes regulate the vascular and mucosal permeability to macromolecules. With the use of a nasal lavage model for the recovery of liquids on the mucosal surface the effect of histamine on the macromolecular permeability of the airway endothelial-epithelial barriers was studied in normal subjects. The concentrations of albumin, kinins, and N-alpha-beta-tosyl-L-arginine-methyl esterase (TAME) in nasal lavage fluid were measured and nasal symptoms assessed by a scoring technique. The reproducibility of three repeated challenges with 30 minute intervals on the same day was studied in 12 subjects and compared with the same procedure (three challenges) on a different day. Sneezing decreased significantly (p less than ...

Shot over a six-year period (2009-2015) in the industrial heartland of south China, a major hub in the global supply chain, We the Workers follows labor activists as they find common ground with workers, helping them negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions. Threats, attacks, detention and boredom become part of their daily lives as they struggle to strengthen worker solidarity in the face of threats and pressures from the police and their employers. In the process, we see in their words and actions the emergence of a nascent working class consciousness and labor movement in China.. On the front lines of Chinas record-level labor unrest, Wens film offers rare insight into how such collective action is planned and organized, and how hard NGO employees try to stay within the moving goalposts of what activism is permissible in China. - CNN. Reveals and supports the birth of collective action stripped of an ideology that long stifled it. - Cinéma du ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Gene exchange drives the ecological success of a multi-host bacterial pathogen. AU - Richardson, Emily J.. AU - Bacigalupe, Rodrigo. AU - Harrison, Ewan M.. AU - Weinert, Lucy A.. AU - Lycett, Samantha. AU - Vrieling, Manouk. AU - Robb, Kirsty. AU - Hoskisson, Paul A.. AU - Holden, Matthew T.G.. AU - Feil, Edward J.. AU - Paterson, Gavin K.. AU - Tong, Steven Y.C.. AU - Shittu, Adebayo. AU - van Wamel, Willem. AU - Aanensen, David M.. AU - Parkhill, Julian. AU - Peacock, Sharon J.. AU - Corander, Jukka. AU - Holmes, Mark. AU - Fitzgerald, J. Ross. PY - 2018/7/23. Y1 - 2018/7/23. N2 - The capacity for some pathogens to jump into different host-species populations is a major threat to public health and food security. Staphylococcus aureus is a multi-host bacterial pathogen responsible for important human and livestock diseases. Here, using a population-genomic approach, we identify humans as a major hub for ancient and recent S. aureus host-switching events linked to the emergence ...

Let Stars Be The Limit Through Better Education. The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is located in the Northern region of the country. This state has shown rapid development in every field of work. Today it is one of the fastest developing regions of India and is an important junction of finance, commerce, trade and education of the Northern region. Ever since its inception the education sector has shown significant development. Till date this region has established a number of prestigious and eminent educational institutions that include colleges, universities, and research academies.The city of Greater Noida is also located in the state of Uttar Pradesh. This city is one of the most successful industrial sectors of the state carbon rims china. It is a major hub of many multinational and outsourcing companies. The education sector of the region is quite strong and has founded a few top notch educational institutions of the state. Many people from all round the country do relocate to this part of ...

April 27, 2009. NYTimes update. Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga., called the European Unions advisory against traveling to the United States unwarranted, saying that only 20 cases had been diagnosed here, just one of which required hospitalization.. By DONALD G. McNEIL and ANAHAD OCONNOR. The New York Times, April 27, 2009 - Hoping to head off a global pandemic of swine flu that has surfaced in North America, the European Unions health commissioner on Monday urged Europeans to avoid traveling to the United States or Mexico if doing so was not essential.. The warning came as health officials in Spain confirmed early Monday that a man hospitalized in eastern Spain had tested positive for swine flu, becoming what appeared to be Europes first case of the disease. Health authorities were also testing 17 other suspected cases across Spain, a major hub for travel between Mexico and Europe.. Britain and other European Union nations ...

With almost 54,000 businesses, Anne Arundel County is a major hub of commerce and development. With a $35 billion economy, low taxes, a vast multi-modal transportation system, highly skilled workforce and excellent educational institutions, Anne Arundel County is the premier location to do business. ...

With almost 54,000 businesses, Anne Arundel County is a major hub of commerce and development. With a $35 billion economy, low taxes, a vast multi-modal transportation system, highly skilled workforce and excellent educational institutions, Anne Arundel County is the premier location to do business. ...

Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and reference lists were searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs). 10 RCTs providing 11 comparisons (n = 2782, median age 35 y [adolescents were included in 6 RCTs]) met the selection criteria. All trials were double-blinded; loss to follow-up was ,4% in all but 2 trials and 3.6% overall. Duration … ...

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Detection of viruses in clinical material. Detection of respiratory viral pathogens in clinical specimens (nasal lavages).M: size marker (GeneRuler 50-1000 bp

Background. Nasal lavage with mupirocin has the potential to reduce sinonasal morbidity in endoscopic endonasal approaches for skull base surgery. Objective. To evaluate the effects of nasal lavage with and without mupirocin after endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery. Methods. A pilot randomised, controlled trial was conducted on 20 adult patients who had undergone endoscopic endonasal approaches for skull base lesions. These patients were randomly assigned to cohorts using nasal lavages with mupirocin or without mupirocin. Patients were assessed in the out-patient clinic, one week and one month after surgery, using the 22- item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test questionnaire and nasal endoscopy. Results. Patients in the mupirocin nasal lavage group had lower nasal endoscopy scores postoperatively, and a statistically significant larger difference in nasal endoscopy scores at one month compared to one week. The mupirocin nasal lavage group also showed better SinoNasal Outcome Test scores at one month ...

981 patients ⩾12 years of age (mean age 35 y, 66% women) with signs and symptoms of acute rhinosinusitis for ⩾7 days but ⩽28 days and major symptom score (MSS) ⩾5 but ⩽12, with ⩽3 of 5 symptoms rated as severe (based on the sum of scores for rhinorrhoea, postnasal drip, nasal congestion/stuffiness, sinus headache, and facial pain/pressure/tenderness).. ...

About Chaco Canyon:. Chaco Culture National Historical Park preserves one of Americas most significant and intriguing cultural and historic areas. Chaco Canyon was a major center of Anasazi (now often called Ancestral Puebloan) culture between AD 850 and 1250. It was the major hub for trade in the Southwest. The Chacoan people traded with people all over the North, Central, and even South America. It was also the major center for ceremonies and administration of society for the prehistoric Four Corners area.. Chaco is significant for its monumental public and ceremonial buildings and distinctive architecture. The construction these buildings, along with related ramps, stairs, roads, dams, and mounds, required a lot of organization and skillful planning. The Chacoan people combined pre-planned architectural designs, astronomical alignments, geometry, landscaping, and engineering to create an ancient urban center with magnificent public architecture. ...

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Objectives : To study the relationships between dampness in concrete floors and building design on the one hand, and symptoms and medical signs of the eyes and nose in hospital workers, on the other. Methods : Four hospitals for geriatrics were selected to represent buildings with different ages and design, irrespective of symptom prevalence....