Overcoming chromatin barriers

OvercOming barriers with prOducer OrganizatiOns

rising incomes are likely to continue to put pressure on food demand. International prices for most agricultural commodities are set to remain at 2010 levels or higher, at least for the next decade (OECD-FAO 2010). Small scale producers in many developing countries were not able to reap the benefits of high food prices during the 2007-2008 food price crises. And yet, this upward food price tren...

Overcoming Barriers and Unlocking Potentials

Overcoming Barriers in Unhealthy Settings

We investigated the phenomenon of sustained health-supportive behaviors among long-haul commercial truck drivers, who belong to an occupational segment with extreme health disparities. With a focus on setting-level factors, this study sought to discover ways in which individuals exhibit resiliency while immersed in endemically obesogenic environments, as well as understand setting-level barrier...

Overcoming Barriers to Evaluation of Terminological Systems

Evaluation of terminological systems has been demonstrated to be a complicated task. This is due to the broad range of terminological systems, their application, and the clinical contexts in which they can be applied. We propose an evaluation framework that explicitly distinguishes an application-independent description of terminological systems, methods to determine application-dependent requi...

Overcoming immunologic barriers to discordant organ xenotransplantation

time, reduced ischemic injury) may counterbalance the poor HLA matching in the ULD group. Although the arguments against the use of living donors must be considered, long-term prospects for kidney donors is reassuring provided there is careful evaluation of potential donors and the strict criteria for exclusion are respected [2]. The benefit for the donor must also not be ignored. Our current p...