Ellis Island, histoire d'un rêve américain

The Ellis Island Effect

Objectives: Bacteroides fragilis, a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium, is alternately a gut commensal or virulent pathogen and is an important reservoir for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of bacterial resistance and virulence genes in the human gastrointestinal tract. We identified a unique conjugative transposon (CTn) in a multidrug resistant clinical isolate of B. fragilis (BF-HMW615); we nam...

A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island

Histoire Des Mathématiques

T he theory of rings has deep historical roots in several of the mainstream, classical disciplines of nineteenth-century mathematics, such as the theory of algebraic number fields, the theory of algebraic functions, the theory of polynomial forms, the theory of quaternions and hypercomplex numbers, and others. The unification of all these trends reached its peak with the works of Emmy Noether (...

From Ellis Island to assisted living: meeting the needs of older adults from diverse cultures.

Among the rapidly increasing population of older adults, the minority elderly have also been increasing in numbers and are projected to grow at a more rapid rate than the white population well into the next century (American Association of Retired Persons, 1989). This factor, together with the existence of substantial ethnic diversity among both white and minority elders, mandates that our prof...

Histoire de l'alcoolisme

The five papers collected in this small volume were first presented to the Seminar on the Foundations of the Sciences at the University of Strasbourg in 1978, to mark the centenary of the death of Claude Bernard. The focus of the seminar was not, however, the work of Bernard but the development of medicine, and its relationship with science and technology, in the hundred years since 1878. Thus ...