BACKGROUND After a Sudden impact disasters (SID), relief workers and coordinators require information on the size and location of the affected population as well as the character and magnitude of their immediate needs. METHODS The study was performed in the mountainous Bagh district, a part of the autonomous state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews were conducte...

Prosthetic Joint Infections (PJI) Michael A. Lane, MD, MSc; Carey-Ann Burnham, PhD; Alice P. Gu, MPH; Neeraja Ganeshraj, MPH; Qian Liu, MPH; Shadi Parsaei, DO; David K. Warren, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Pediatrics, Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St ...

The Au-diffusion bottleneck Shadi A. Dayeh, Nathan H. Mack, Jian Yu Huang, and S. T. Picraux Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS K771 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS J569 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, M...

Jinkyoung Yoo, Shadi A. Dayeh, Wei Tang, and S. T. Picraux Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90...

Infections Shadi Parsaei, DO; Neeraja Ganeshraj, MPH; Alice P. Gu, MPH; Qian Liu, MPH; Carey-Ann D. Burnham, PhD; David K. Warren, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; Michael A. Lane, MD, MSc; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Pediatrics, Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; Washingto...

This month is the first anniversary of the 7.6 Richter earthquake which struck Pakistan on 8 October 2005. The medical community’s response to this tragedy was overwhelming. In the hardest hit areas — Bagh, Balakot, Mansehra and Muzaffarabad — there were no hospitals, clinics or trauma centers within 80 km. Initial estimates suggested a death toll of 70 000 with over 150 000 injured. In the fir...

bagh vang section is located at about 45 km to the northwest of tabas and south of shirgesht areas. in bagh vang section, the permian deposits of the jamal formation with a thickness of 270 m are underlain by the sardar formation disconformably. the formation is also transitionally and conformably overlain by lower triassic deposits of sorkh shale formation. a total of 124 rock samples have bee...

Enshi is a high selenium (Se) region in Hubei, China, where human selenosis was observed between 1958 and 1963. This study investigated the daily dietary Se intake of residents in Shadi, a town located 72 km northeast of Enshi City, to assess the risk of human selenosis in the high Se area. Foods consumed typically by the local residents and their hair samples were analyzed for total Se concent...