Alison Hopkins and Fran Worboys are CNS Tissue Viability, East London Wound Healing Centre, Tower Hamlets PCT, London Compression bandage therapy may be poorly tolerated by patients and can be a frustration for both patients and practitioners. This article presents the view that practitioners need to increase their knowledge and assessment skills to enable patients to tolerate a rather difficul...

The use of recombinant genes or growth factors to enhance myocardial collateral blood vessel function may represent a new approach to the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Proof of concept has been demonstrated in animal models of myocardial ischemia, and clinical trials are underway. Currently, it is unknown which is the safest and most effective delivery strategy to induce clinically impor...

Article history: Received 26 August 2009 Received in revised form 8 March 2010 Accepted 20 April 2010 Available online 14 May 2010 Achievement motivation is considered a prerequisite for success in academic as well as nonacademic settings. We studied sex differences in academic and general achievement motivation in an adult sample of 338 men and 497 women (ages 18–70 years). Multi-group covaria...

In this paper, I discuss a method for increasing the continuity between two functional triangular polynomial patches by adjusting their control points. The method described in this paper leaves the control points unchanged if the patches already meet with the desired level of continuity. As an example of using this construction, I give a simple method to construct a C0 patch network with high o...

Globally-oriented, service-oriented systems and infrastructures will form the backbones of a new generation of information networks. These systems are being implemented throughout the business world. Yet, much remains to be done to realize the Navy’s objective of deploying capable, reliable, and affordable service-oriented systems afloat and at operational staffs. Our current DOD-centric abilit...

I consider the interaction of trade and environmental policies in two canonical models: competitive general equilibrium (which I extend to allow for monopoly power in trade) and multi-period oligopoly (which I extend to incorporate a general pollution abatement technology). Despite the complexities of the models and the considerable differences between them, they have surprisingly similar impli...

Practitioners are increasingly aware of the fact that providing for example drinking water disinfection technologies, improved toilets or handwashing facilities will fail to lead to the desired health effects if used inadequately or not at all. Evidence-based behavioural change must therefore be a major component of any mitigation effort. Hans-Joachim Mosler1, Alexandra Huber1, Jennifer Inauen1...

Voltage-gated sodium channels are among the most active and ubiquitous molecular machines found in animals. Residing in the cell membranes of excitable and other cells, they derive energy for their opening and closing from changes in membrane potential. In some cells, particularly those in sensory information–encoding structures of the central and peripheral nervous systems, these changes take ...

In mammalian physiology, lactation follows pregnancy, and disruption of this physiology is associated with adverse health outcomes for mother and child. Although lactation is the physiologic norm, cultural norms for infant feeding have changed dramatically over the past century. Breastfeeding initiation fell from 70% in the early 1900s to 22% in 1972. In the past 40 years, rates have risen subs...