In a world where there are increasing concerns of resource scarcity, the emergent phenomenon of ICT enabled Collaborative Consumption Services (CCS), is becoming relevant as it presents a more efficient allocation of resources and is associated with the generation of social capital. There has been little research on CCS and how social capital is generated. This study aimed to address this gap i...

OBJECTIVES Cancer is a growing concern for HIV-infected people, and screening plays a major role in alleviating the burden it causes. We sought to investigate the levels and determinants of breast cancer screening (BCS) and cervical cancer screening (CCS) in HIV-infected women as compared with the general population. METHODS The Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida et les Hépatites Viral...

The copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase (CCS) binds to both the β-site AβPP cleaving enzyme (BACE1) and to the neuronal adaptor protein X11α. BACE1 initiates AβPP processing to produce the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide deposited in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients. X11α also interacts directly with AβPP to inhibit Aβ production. However, whether CCS affects AβPP processing and Aβ produ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Little is known about chronic neuromotor disability (CND) including cerebral palsy and motor impairments after acquired brain injury in children surviving early complex cardiac surgery (CCS). We sought to determine the frequency and presentation of CND in this population while exploring potentially modifiable acute care predictors. METHODS This prospective follow-up ...

CCS is a variant of CCS in which infinite behaviours are defined by the replication operator. We show that the reachability problem for CCS is decidable by a reduction to the same problem for Petri Nets.

The phylogenetic position and prophage DNA content of the genomes of 142 S. agalactiae (group-B streptococcus, GBS) isolates responsible for bacteremia and meningitis in adults and neonates were studied and compared. The distribution of the invasive isolates between the various serotypes, sequence types (STs) and clonal complexes (CCs) differed significantly between adult and neonatal isolates....

BACKGROUND Oocyte maturation and competence to development depends on its close relationship with cumulus cells (CCs). However, the maturation conditions of human cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) might affect gene expression in both oocyte and CCs. We thus compared the transcriptome profiles of CCs isolated from in vivo and in vitro matured COCs at different nuclear maturation stages. METHODS ...

Interferon-induced GTPases [guanylate-binding proteins (GBPs)] play an important role in inflammasome activation and mediate innate resistance to many intracellular pathogens, but little is known about their role in leishmaniasis. We therefore studied expression of Gbp2b/Gbp1 and Gbp5 mRNA in skin, inguinal lymph nodes, spleen, and liver after Leishmania major infection and in uninfected contro...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery calcium score (CCS) is a quantitative assessment of calcifications detectable by multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). AIM To evaluate diagnostic accuracy of CCS to detect significant stenosis in coronary arteries in symptomatic patients. METHODS The study population included consecutive symptomatic patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who wer...

The Web of Needs (WoN) is an approach for expressing and publishing human needs on the Internet as linked data to allow automatic matching of the expressed needs and communication between users who expressed them. In this paper we summarize the processes realized by the different architectural components and explain the decision to use a linked data based messaging subsystem. CCS Concepts •Info...