Valerie M. Vaughn, MD, MSc; Monica Yost, MPH; Chelsea Abshire, Scott A. Flanders, MD; David Paje, Paul Grant, Kaatz, DO, Tae Kim, MHSA; Geoffrey D. Barnes, MSc

The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership What argues most strongly for the recognition of the ancient " novel " as part of the novel genre in its proper sense is its familiarity. These texts, picaresque, romantic, concise and designed to thrill, offer no generic convention unfamiliar to us from the modern novels of western Europe—the improbable esc...

Road-killed common toads (Bufo bufo; n51,740) from Flanders, Belgium, were tested for ranavirus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) using polymerase chain reaction. Both infections were present at a very low prevalence (,0.2% with a confidence interval of 95% for ranavirus and 0.63% for Bd). Healthy amphibians can be asymptomatic carriers of diseases responsible for devastating amphibian po...

This article unravels, by employing two binary logistic regressions, the socio-economic profiles of zero-car households in Flanders (Belgium) and sheds light on their residential environment. The employed dataset contains information regarding status car ownership all individuals with a home address Flanders. Furthermore, study explores proportion size voluntarily car-free car-less due to const...

Flanders is a very densely populated region in the economic heart of Europe. To monitor the anthropological impact on the biological integrity of the freshwater courses, the Flemish Environment Agency (VMM) uses the Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index for Flanders (Gabriels et al. 2006) which was recently developed under the influence of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD, EU 2000). Th...

a Laboratory for Animal Nutrition and Animal Product Quality, Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Proefhoevestraat 10, 9090 Melle, Belgium b Research Group EnBiChem, Department of Industrial Engineering and Technology, University College West-Flanders, Graaf Karel de Goedelaan 5, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium c Department of Biosystems, KULeuven, Kaste...

From the *Center of Vascular Medicine, Heart Center Leipzig/Park Hospital, Leipzig, Germany; yCenter for Diagnostic Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy, Jewish Hospital, Berlin, Germany; zDepartment of Interventional Angiology, Herz-Zentrum, Bad Krozingen, Germany; xCardiovascular Center, Hamburg University Cardiovascular Center, Hamburg, Germany; kClinic for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine...

173. Introduction of Procalcitonin Testing Did Not Reduce Antibiotic Utilization for Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Krishna Rao, MD; Daniel Mcclung, MD; Bonnie Wang, MD; Spencer Winters, MD; Scott Flanders, MD; Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, MI; Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Internal Medicine, Un...