OBJECTIVE To compare the various cytologic features on AutoCyte Prep (ACP) (AutoCyte, Inc., Burlington, North Carolina, U.S.A.) and conventional preparation (CP) specimens from breast fine needle aspiration cytology material with a semi-quantitative scoring system. STUDY DESIGN A total of 100 randomized cases were studied. In each case, 2 passes were performed. One pass was used for CPs (Giem...

Increasing interest in sustainability has led to a growing number of initiatives directed at environmentally sustainable operations. However, a systems perspective with hierarchically structured principles is often not a prerequisite to these action-oriented efforts. While the linkage between overall guiding principles and the definition of successful outcomes has been addressed in other areas,...

Available online 24 February 2016 Purpose: To describe main findings from a special issue on protective factors against youth offending and violence. Contributors from elevenmajor prospective longitudinal studies were asked to conduct analyses of “direct ameliorative effects” for high-risk individuals (i.e. risk-based protective factors) aswell as analyses of “interactive protective effects” fo...

Morphea is an inflammatory skin condition leading to fibrosis of the and subcutaneous tissue which produces cosmetic functional impairment (FI). Few studies have systematically examined demographic clinical features morphea associated with FI, making it difficult stratify patients for screening FI based on risk. To address this gap, we performed a multicenter cross-sectional analysis adults chi...

Live attenuated vaccines have been proposed as a strategy to induce protective immunity against infectious diseases. Recent data have demonstrated that nasopharyngeal colonisation with Streptococcus pneumoniae induces protective immunity against subsequent invasive infection, suggesting nasal vaccination with live attenuated bacteria could be a preventative strategy. However the bacterial facto...