infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...

This article provides data and a method related to a research paper entitled "Assessing vitamin D nutritional status: is capillary blood adequate?" (Jensen et al., 2016) [1]. Circulating 25OHD, the accepted biomarker of the vitamin D nutritional status, is routinely measured by automated immunoassays, that although may be performed in hospital central laboratories, often suffer from a lack of s...

This article contains animal experimental data associated with the research article entitled "GTS-21 reduces microvascular permeability during experimental endotoxemia" (Schmidt et al., 2017) [1] (supplementary datasets of baseline intravital microscopic measurements, baseline TNF-α levels and vital parameters of the evaluated experimental groups are provided). Beneficial anti-inflammatory effe...

In the Communications of the ACM article entitled ”Why On-Chip Cache Coherence Is Here to Stay”, Martin et al. argue that on-chip cache coherence can scale for the foreseeable future, with only modest impact on performance, even for very large systems. Unfortunately, a number of the authors’ arguments apply only to real-fast systems. Although some might argue that real-time response is importan...

In the paper entitled "The effect of varying routing probability in two parallel queues with dynamic routing under a threshold-type scheduling", Kojima et al. derive an expression in the form of a product of powers for the state probabilities of a thresholdtype shortest queue problem. In this note it is demonstrated that this expression is essentially more complicated and has the form of an inf...

We would like to submit the following response to the authors on the commentary submitted: Neuropeptide Y: biomarker and intervention for surgical recovery. The authors thank Zhao et al. for their interest in our review of neuropeptide Y as a pharmacological target for psychiatric disease and for their commentary entitled “Neuropeptide Y: biomarker and intervention for surgical recovery”. As no...

The data reported in this article refers to input and output information related to the research articles entitled Assessment of cost-optimality and technical solutions in high performance multi-residential buildings in the Mediterranean area by Zacà et al. (Assessment of cost-optimality and technical solutions in high performance multi-residential buildings in the Mediterranean area, in press....

The data presented in this article were the basis for the study reported in the research articles entitled "Statistical assessment of experimental observation on the slug body length and slug translational velocity in a horizontal pipe" (Al-Kayiem et al., 2017) [1] which presents an experimental investigation of the slug velocity and slug body length for air-water tow phase flow in horizontal p...

This book traces the influence of an important body of international literature on the development of post-apartheid policies in higher education and training (HET) and in science and technology (S&T). This literature, as well as the discussion it has triggered in South Africa, has come to be known as the 'Mode 2' debate. Two books in this body of knowledge stand out as seminal. The first, publ...