To elaborate, during his therapy , our patient was diligently monitored weekly and C-reactive protein was used as a surrogate marker of response, which decreased from an intimal measure of 30.1 mg/L to 6.2 mg/L by week 9, a point at which we could not justify prolonging the treatment further. We emphasize that our patient's treatment comprised doses of daptomycin (8 mg/kg daily) and ceftriaxone...

The purpose of this paper was to show the relationship between personality traits and hope, as well job satisfaction in lives artists pedagogues (teachers). research conducted among living working Poland. Research tools such as: Job Satisfaction (SSP) by Zalewska, Personality Inventory (NEO-FFI) Costa McCrae, Hope Scale (HS) Snyder were used. obtained results that extraversion correlates signif...

She was quiet awhile and then said, Many a night when I was little, alone in that cabin, I wished I could take that fiddle of his up to the jump-off and pitch it and let the wind fly it away. In my mind I'd just watch it go till it was just a speck , and then I'd think about the sweet sound it would make breaking to pieces on the river rocks way down below. from Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier.1

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of smoking on the results from surgical repair of Snyder type C1 and C2 complete lesions of the rotator cuff. METHODS We evaluated 166 patients who had undergone surgical treatment for Snyder type C1 and C2 complete lesions of the rotator cuff, between June 2002 and December 2006. The inclusion criteria were a minimum follow-up period of 24 months and the a...

The bounds on the statuses of the nodes in a finite graph established by Entringer, Jackson, and Snyder are extended herein so that they apply to the statuses of the nodes in transfinite graphs of a certain kind.

Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004, On-line. Brotchie PR, Andersen RA, Snyder LH, Goodman SJ. Head position signals used by parietal neurons to encode locations of visual stimuli. Nature

For many years, the only way to attain an education in software engineering has been through the school of hard knocks. A common lament among experienced software developers is that colleges don’t teach students the skills they need to perform effectively on the job. What is needed to give software developers a better start? Formal professional education has traditionally been divided into thre...

Great Britain's 1983 "Christmas Crusade" against drunken drivers, during which the police of England and Wales administered an average of 1350 breath tests daily, is discussed. Although not deliberately planned and organized, the campaign, fueled by press reports, was perceived by many observes to be a national organized deterrent effort. To test the hypothesis that the crusade reduced drunken ...