The Danish Lock-Out

Lock-Out Valve to Decrease Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

Patients with long-term indwelling urinary catheters are at an increased risk for urinary tract infection due to bacteriuria. Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are a significant source of morbidity and mortality in long-term care facilities as well as in ambulatory patients requiring long-term catheterization. There is increased interest in the financial impact of CAUTI as M...

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Breaking Out from Lock-In: Regional Innovation Srategies in the German Ruhrgebiet

This chapter discusses strategies aimed at regional-economic structural change in the German Ruhrgebiet. The Ruhrgebiet used to be the largest industrial area in Western-Europe. After the crisis in the coal and steel industry the region pursued re-industrialisation policies in the 1960s and 1970s. These attempts were largely unsuccesful. Therefore, since the 1980s the involved actors gradually ...

Morphological Analysis, Diffusion and Lock-out of Technologies: Ferrous Casting in France and the Frg

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Bacteria diversify nfectious bacteria often grow in their hosts as biofilms. Blaise Boles, Matthew Thoendel, and Pradeep Singh (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA) now report that growth in biofilms causes Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria to diversify. The resultant diverse populations are probably more able to cope with changing environmental conditions, providing a bacterial correlate of the re...