Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the main determinants severity systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). LN flares can lead to organ damage with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or even end-stage (ESKD) and impair patients’ survival. The “treat-to-target” strategy, which aims at obtaining maintaining remission low activity SLE alleviate symptoms prevent damage, also refers control residual in kidney. But ...

Open AccessFour reasons why we should screen for dissociation in competitive sportsRalph Erich Schmidt, Andres Ricardo Schneeberger, and Malte Christian ClaussenRalph SchmidtRalph E. PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 [email protected] Psychology, Geneva, Switzerland Search more papers by th...

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a major success story in gastroenterology, with improvements critical care and transplant resulting significant patient outcomes the current era compared to dismal survival rates pretransplant era. However, ever-increasing list of candidates limited organ pool makes judicious selection use mandatory achieve good prevent wastage. Several scoring systems exist facilit...

Using a new radio sample, 6C* designed to find radio galaxies at z > 4 along with the complete 3CRR and 6CE sample we extend the radio galaxy K − z relation to z ∼ 4.5. The 6C* K − z data significantly improve delineation of the K − z relation for radio galaxies at high redshift (z > 2). In a spatially flat universe with a cosmological constant (ΩM = 0.3 and ΩΛ = 0.7), the most luminous radio s...

The term vaccination inequity generally reflects disparities in coverage within a community. It has been described as “avoidable differences immunization between population groups,” arising “because barriers to among disadvantaged groups are not addressed through policies, structures, governance or program implementation.”1World Health Organization Regional Office for EuropeEuropean vaccine act...

Alcohol is one of the three leading causes of liver disease in the developed world. Patients with alcoholrelated liver disease are often cared for in general wards and hospitals, rather than specialist centres. This may be a result of the number of patients being admitted or a lack of referral to specialist services by healthcare professionals. The financial cost of caring for patients with alc...

Background and aims Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is an important cause of visual impairment and blindness in children.1 Aim Conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the association between blood transfusion and the development of ROP in preterm infants <32 weeks gestational age or birthweight <1500 grams. Data Sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Register, CINAHL, LILACS, We...

Any researcher with the most modest public profile is used to being asked for virus samples. Traditionally, we’ve advocated the use of alternatives, especially the EICAR test file, to anyone who doesn’t have access to malware through mainstream, trusted channels, as a way of simulating malware behaviour without the attendant risks of genuinely malicious behaviour. But is the EICAR file really s...

This is a project to demonstrate the feasibility of transferring a successful technology from seismic exploration for oil and gas to the problem of imaging the shallow seabed|10-20m|and small scatterers|7.5cm radius. In this rst study, we demonstrate that we have adapted our current code to this imaging problem and we provide tests of our choice of spatial and temporal parameters. Our simple ex...

Johnson-Laird & Byrne (1991; 1993) present a theory of human deductive reasoning based on the notion of mental models. Unfortunately, the theory is incomplete. The present commentary argues that pragmatic considerations, particularly of the type discussed in Sperber and Wilson (1995), can complement the theory. Johnson-Laird & Byrne (1991) (JL&B) conclude their book by claiming that their theor...