The ability of potential pathogens to acquire iron in a host is an important determinant of both their virulence and the nature of the infection produced. Virulent gram-negative bacteria are capable of acquiring sufficient iron from the host because their virulence (for chick embryos) is unaffected by exogenous iron. Avirulent mutants which are apparently limited in their ability to acquire iro...

Usability patterns represent knowledge about known ways to design graphical user interfaces that are usable and meet the needs and expectations of users. There is currently a plethora of usability patterns published in books, private repositories and the World-Wide Web. The dominance of pattern discovery efforts has neglected the emerging need to organize the patterns so they can become a proac...

In many countries there is growing interest in the identification, development, and dissemination of evidence based psychological therapies. The cognitive–behaviour therapy (CBT) movement has been particularly successful in developing effective new treatments. It has been suggested this is partly because of the close interplay between theory, experimental psychopathology, and treatment developm...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to describe the features of health informatics blogs on the Internet. METHODS A search was conducted in August, 2016 using the search engine, Google, and key words: 'mobile health blog,' 'telehealth/telemedicine blog,' 'Electronic Health Record blog,' 'personalized health record blog,' 'population health decision support system blog,' and 'public/pop...