Peritonitis is a common surgical emergency. This manuscript will provide an overview of recent developments in the management of peritonitis in the Western world. Emphasis is placed on the emergence of new treatments and their impact of outcomes.

This article examines for a range of European countries: the extent to which men and women are not forming partnerships and how this has changed over time; the number of partnerships experienced; type of first partnership in terms of whether it commences with marriage or cohabitation and, if the latter, whether it converts into marriage; as well as the duration of different types of cohabiting ...

The fundamental principles of modern dialectical philosophy derive from Hegel. He sums them up as follows. `Everything is inherently contradictory ... Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality, it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity' (Hegel 1969, 439). In Hegel's philosophy these ideas form part of an all-embracing id...

S *=Poster Conservation implications of a changing predator landscape Rob Butler, Candian Wildlife Service Variation in shorebird use of diurnal, high tide roosts: How traditional are roosts? Mark A. Colwell, T. Danufsky, N. Fox, J. Roth and J. Conklin Department of Wildlife, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA In coastal environs during the non-breeding season, many shorebirds congregate at ...

The broad areal extent of the WCSB and the availability of samples throughout the basin provide an excellent framework for studying organic matter micropore morphometrics in relation with thermal maturity. Imaging and pore characterization of the samples from Colorado Group of the WCSB has been conducted using the FIB/ SEM system (LEO (Zeiss) 1540XB) in Western University's Nanofabrication Faci...

On a summer afternoon in the late 1990s in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, sociologist Bruce Western and his colleague Katherine Beckett engaged in a conversation that would change the course of their research. At the time, Western studied the social programs of European welfare states. Against the backdrop of a park that had seen a surge in drug dealing and homeless encampment in the 198...

El paisatge de les hortes evolucionà força durant l’Antic Règim. De bon començament, la superfície regada augmentà considerablement resultes d’ampliar vells sistemes hidràulics medievals –donant com resultat més compactes– i crear-se’n nous. canvi remarcable fou, però, intensificació agríc...

Inquiries about various issues relating to Western blot (WB) testing are frequently posted to the Lyme disease discussion groups on the Internet. Among the most commonly asked questions are: What laboratory techniques are used to carry out the assay? What exactly is being measured? What is a “band”? How are the results interpreted? What are the CDC criteria for a “positive” test? Although some ...

A man living in rural western Thailand presented with a well-demarcated pinkish plaque on the dorsal surface of the right hand, extending to several fingers ( Figure 1 ). Mild scale was present. The lesion was not pruritic or tender, and there was no sporotrichoid lymphadenopathy. The differential diagnosis included cutaneous deep fungal and atypical mycobacterial infections. A punch biopsy sho...

heart. Margaret was not left in doubt about the risks, benefits and responsibilities of the rational, male education she was receiving. Her learning was to be of purely private benefit. She was warned not to pursue her academic interests to the detriment of those domestic duties for which nature had providentially formed her, or to reveal the extent of her learning to female friends or "ignoran...