Muhammed Babakir-Mina, Massimo Ciccozzi, Elisabetta Trento, Carlo Federico Perno, and Marco Ciotti Author affiliations: Foundation University Hospital Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy (M. Babakir-Mina, C.F. Perno, M. Ciotti); Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome (M. Ciccozzi); and Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Instituto Fisioterapico Ospetaliere– San Gallicano Institute, Rome (E. Tr...

Organophosphorus nerve agents irreversibly inhibit the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE), leading to excessive cholinergic neurotransmission and causing toxic lethal consequences. Current nerve agent therapies in the U.S. include 2-pralidoxime to reactivate inhibited AChE. Due to its quaternary structure, this oxime does not readily cross the blood brain barrier (BBB) to reactivate brain AChE ...

Throughout recent decades, the incidence of preterm birth has risen worldwide, and although the majority of preterm neonates now survive infancy, many suffer from debilitating morbidities in the short term and/or increased disease risks in the long term. Traditional diagnostic biomarkers suffer from considerable confounders, limiting their use in the early identification of diseases. There is a...

Hanna had suspected that Foster abused Trinity, and she knew that Foster “had been in trouble with Child Protective Services in the past.”2 Hanna told detectives that Foster “had a series of accidents with Trinity which always seemed to happen outside of Hanna’s view,” but that Foster denied hurting Trinity.3 Prior to her death, Trinity had endured a ten-day hospital visit to treat burns, and s...

The role of self-evaluation and envy in schadenfreude Wilco W. van Dijk, Jaap W. Ouwerkerk, Richard H. Smith & Mina Cikara To cite this article: Wilco W. van Dijk, Jaap W. Ouwerkerk, Richard H. Smith & Mina Cikara (2015) The role of self-evaluation and envy in schadenfreude, European Review of Social Psychology, 26:1, 247-282 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2015.1111600

growth stages and in bio¢lms Mina Tabak, Keren Scher, Efrat Hartog, Ute Romling, Karl R. Matthews, Michael L. Chikindas & Sima Yaron Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Microbiology and Tumorbiology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Department of Food Science, Cook College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ,...