May is National Stroke Awareness Month, an observance that raises awareness of the signs and symptoms of stroke and encourages persons to act FAST (Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, Time to call 911) if someone is having a stroke. Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of severe disability (1,2). In the United States, one person dies fr...

Status–authority asymmetry in the workplace emerges when lower-status professionals are ascribed with functional authority to oversee higher-status and elicit compliance from them on specific processes or tasks. Eliciting such is ridden challenges. How can professionals? To examine this question, I conducted a 24-month ethnography of 911 emergency coordination understand how dispatchers (lower-...

23 Correspondence to: Soon Sup Chung, Department of Surgery, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, 911-1, Mok-dong, Yangchun-gu, Seoul 158-710, Korea. Tel: 02-2650-2517, Fax: 02-7655681, E-mail: [email protected] Received September 25, 2009, Accepted November 9, 2009 This study was presented by a poster at the 2008 ISUCRS annual meeting. Early Experience of Doppler-Guided Hemorrhoidal Arter...

Materials and methods: Two hundred litters of piglets on a commercial breeder farm (Site One) were randomly allocated to two treatment groups: nonvaccinated or vaccinated with MH vaccine at 4 days of age and at weaning (off-label use of the vaccine). At weaning, treatment groups were commingled in two nursery barns on Site Two, segregated by gender (875 castrates, 911 females). At 8 weeks, vacc...

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