The idea of holding a randomised clinical trial of rudeness is highly original, but a well-designed one was conducted recently in Israel and has been widely reported. Twenty-four neonatal intensive care teams participated in a training simulation exercise, centred on a preterm infant with necrotising enterocolitis who was deteriorating. Participants were told that a foreign expert on teamwork w...

Let X be a compactum and let A = {(Ai, Bi) : i = 1, 2, . . .} be a countable family of pairs of disjoint subsets of X. Then A is said to be essential on Y ⊂ X if for every closed Fi separating Ai and Bi the intersection ( ⋂ Fi) ∩ Y is not empty. So A is inessential on Y if there exist closed Fi separating Ai and Bi such that ⋂ Fi does not intersect Y . Properties of inessentiality are studied a...

objective: the purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of project respect in reducing sexual risk behaviors of male to female transgender patients. methods: in an interventional, quasi-experimental and case-control study, 30 transgenderpatients (male to female) with high-risk sexual behaviors were selected and divided into two experimental and control groups. transgender...

Spatial issues are essential in new classes of complex software systems, such as pervasive, multi-agent, and selforganising ones. Understanding the basic mechanisms of spatial coordination is a fundamental issue for coordination models and languages in order to deal with such systems, governing situated interaction in the spatio-temporal fabric. Along this line, in this paper we make space-awar...

What is the nature of the experience of risk? Risk can impose distinctive burdens on individuals: making us anxious, impairing our relationships, and limiting our ability to plan our lives. On the other hand, risky situations are sometimes exciting, liberating, and even empowering. The article explores the idea that risk can result in benefits for the individuals who bear it. Specifically, we e...

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Proteins and RNA are often found in ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs), where they function in cellular processes to synthesize proteins (the ribosome), chemically modify RNAs (small nucleolar RNPs), splice pre-mRNAs (the spliceosome), and, on a larger scale, sequester RNAs, degrade them, or process them (P bodies, Cajal bodies, and nucleoli). Each RNA-protein interaction is a story in itself, ...