January 4th, 1836

4th Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference: Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Interventions, January 16-17, 2015.

Invitation to Submit Abstracts REQUIREMENTS:  Research topic must have a cultural aspect / theme and address the objectives of the conference, which are to: 1.Identify the role of culture in the delivery of care in various healthcare settings (e.g., clinic, hospital, community-based); 2.Demonstrate whether healthcare information (both verbal and written) is presented in a culturally and lingui...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

4th International Research Conference

This paper develops dynamic structural models --an option value model and a dynamic programming model-of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins to affect the kind or amount of work that a currently employed person can do. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) augment...

1836 Passenger Cells in Rat Kidney

It has already been shown (1, 2) that long-surviving, passively enhanced (AS × AUG)F1 rat kidneys originally transplanted to AS strain recipients are not rejected acutely if retransferred to a normal second AS recipients. This contrasts with the fate of normal (AS × AUG)F1 primary kidney allografts transplanted to AS recipients that are always rejected within 12 d, and suggests that in this str...

Bodies of stone: Girolamo Segato (1792-1836).

The life, activity and specimens of Girolamo Segato (Sospirolo 1792--Firenze 1836), as well as the mystery still surrounding his petrifaction method are outlined in this paper with the aim of shedding some light on one of the most controversial naturalists of the 19th century. Even if after his death many preparations became scattered or even destroyed, the greatest nucleus of them is now colle...