30 MarcH 2017 | GeneVa Depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide. According to the latest estimates from WHO, more than 300 million people are now living with depression, an increase of more than 18% between 2005 and 2015. Lack of support for people with mental disorders, coupled with a fear of stigma, prevent many from accessing the treatment they need to live heal...

Gerard Anderson, et al., in a recent commentary published in Health Affairs (March/April 1999), concluded that "despite dire predictions, America's teaching hospitals appear to be thriving".' This outdated conclusion, based largely on data from 1995, is dangerously optimistic and belies mounting evidence that documents the significant financial stress now facing teaching hospitals around the co...

The demonstration that information required for the generation of neurons before glia is intrinsic to individual stem cell–derived clones poses the question of mechanism. One possibility is that there is a clock intrinsic to stem cells that determines when daughter cells will be Discussions of CNS stem cell biology often leave the specified to adopt neuronal fates and when they will impression ...

out blow. They found that inhibitors of the earliest stages of autophagosome formation had no effect, but the anti-malaria drug chloroquine, which inhibits the degradative function of autolysosomes, dramatically increased cell death. Affected cells accumulated grossly distorted autophagic vacuoles, lost their mitochondrial membrane potential almost completely, and suffered a large increase in r...

HELLO EVERYONE and welcome to another edition of No Limits. My name is Peace Ajiboye and I am the new consultant editor of our magazine. For the next two years it will be my face that appears at the top of this column where we announce what's new and what's hot in nursing education. Take your time to read through this issue; there is sure to be something somewhere that's relevant to you.

In this paper we make SDRT’s glue logic for computing logical form dynamic. This allows a dialogue agent to anticipate what the update of the semantic representation of the dialogue would be after his next contribution, including the effects of the rhetorical moves that he is contemplating performing next. This is a pre-requisite for planning what to say next. We make the glue logic dynamic by ...

The polio that struck Don Malzahn when he was 4 years old left him in leg braces and with little use of his arms. But by the fifth grade, Malzahn was motoring offto school in an electric scooter made by his dad, an engineer. A homemade swivel chair swung him in and out of the shower. At the three-story high school in his small Oklahoma town, two football players carried him between floors in a ...