Over the last decade, there has been a marked increase in the number of studies on attitude and decision research which use the factorial survey (FS) design. The FS integrates experimental setups into a survey: respondents react to hypothetical descriptions (vignettes) while the values of each attribute (dimension) of these descriptions systematically vary in order to estimate their impact on r...

PurposeAdvanced heart failure is associated with poor quality of life and can progress to cardiogenic shock. Continuous inotropes serve stabilize patients while further advanced therapies be considered. For those patient's being bridged LVAD, right ventricular assessment essential as may supply biventricular support without altering interdependence, which compromised post LVAD placement.Methods...

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Naturally occurring polarized light is used for orientation by many arthropods. Various insects and chelicerates as well as crustaceans, employing either their simple or compound eyes, can detect the pattern of linearly polarized light in the blue sky and from it determine geographical direction. Among Crustacea, the semi-terrestrial beach amphipod TaUtrus and the isopod Tylos show this when, o...

The expression of Pap pili that facilitate the attachment of Escherichia coli to uroepithelial cells is shut off outside the host at temperatures below 26 degrees C. Ribonuclease protection analysis showed that this thermoregulatory response was rapid as evidenced by the absence of papBA transcripts, coding for Pap pilin, after only one generation of growth at 23 degrees C. The histone-like nuc...

Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Adherence Among HIV-Positive Female Haitian Alcohol Users, having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgment. We have read this dissertation and recommend that it be approved. iii DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my parents Lionel and Maud Jean for all the sacrifices that they made so that my siblings and ...

BACKGROUND A domain-specific physical activity questionnaire (EHIS-PAQ) was developed in the framework of the second wave of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS). This article presents the EHIS-PAQ and describes its development and evaluation processes. METHODS Research institutes from Belgium, Estonia and Germany participated in the Improvement of the EHIS (ImpEHIS) Grant project issu...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative pathogenic bacterium with a high adaptive potential that allows proliferation in a broad range of hosts or niches. It is also the causative agent of both acute and chronic biofilm-related infections in humans. Three cup gene clusters (cupA-C), involved in the assembly of cell surface fimbriae, have been shown to be involved in biofilm formation by the P...

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are among the most frequently encountered infections in clinical practice globally. Predominantly a burden among female adults and infants, UTIs primarily caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) results in high morbidity and fiscal health strains. During pathogenesis, colonization of the urinary tract via fimbrial adhesion to mucosal cells is the most crit...