Tissue-engineered biological dressings offer promise in the treatment of burns, chronic ulcers, donor site and other surgical wounds, and a variety of dermatologic conditions. Despite this promise, cellular tissue-engineered products such a Dermagraft and Apligraf have suffered setbacks in recent years with a lower market share than the commercial promoters of these products anticipated. AlloDe...

Stem cells are the foundation cells for every organ and tissue in the body. They are undifferentiated cells that under proper conditions begin to develop into specialized tissues and organs. Most of the body’s specialized cells cannot be replaced by natural processes if they are seriously damaged or diseased, such as in Myocardial Infarction. Recent interest has focused on stem cells, which can...

A research and clinical subfield known as "human gene therapy" has grown rapidly since 1990, when the first human trials were approved in the United States. Using quantitative data, this paper describes and analyzes the research and commercial infrastructure, including academic centers, publications, intellectual property, and biotechnology firms, that has developed around the goal of discoveri...

Since its foundation ten years ago, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has become the focus of debate about governance of the world economy. It has been denounced by its critics and lauded by its supporters as a standard-bearer for free trade. In practice, it has become a central battle-ground over fairness and justice in a wide range of global economic regulation issues. The current suspension...

Earlier analyses of the JOBS II intervention for unemployed job seekers demonstrated that the intervention facilitated reemployment, reduced depressive symptoms, and improved role and emotional functioning (A. D. Vinokur, R. H. Price, & Y. Schul, 1995). The present study focuses on mediational processes of the active ingredients targeted by the intervention. Structural equation modeling analysi...

The millennial Muslim generation has a striking, creative, energetic, and optimistic existence. But not all Muslims today are part of this generation. Some groups refuse, support, or mediate. Modernity, in essence, is no longer symptom that must be opposed, fought, destroyed; on the contrary, believe faith modernity can collaborate, go hand hand, complement each other. societies forced to make ...

This article frames the problematic explored in Special Issue, namely, Maghreb and North Africa's ‘crisis of democratization.' Across cases, crisis is multi-layered, involving first, counter-revolution since 2011 (and 2019) uprisings revolutions; second, breakup states, particularly those mired violence (e.g. Libya); third, setbacks even among states that have to an extent transcended democrati...

Clear-cutting is one of the most widespread forestry practices used in boreal forests. forests late successional stages could trigger reversion trajectories back toward earlier stages. Such setbacks generate sustainability issues by prolonging expected time to compositional recovery after clear-cutting. This lead overestimation allowable cuts economically important late-successional species if ...