This article explores the biocultural bases of spirit possession mediumship in the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé. After a brief review of the literature, the article moves beyond the biomedical and social-structural explanations that have dominated the theoretical landscape, by attempting to construct an etiology of mediumship that is traced through the interface of individual characterist...

The wound-inducible win3 multigene family from hybrid poplars (Populus trichocarpa x Populus deltoides) encodes proteins with structural similarities with Kunitz-type protease inhibitors (H.D. Bradshaw Jr., J.B. Hollick, T.J. Parsons, H.R.G. Clarke, M.P. Gordon [1990] Plant Mol Biol 14: 51-59), and at least one member, win3.12, is transcribed de novo in the injured and uninjured leaves of wound...

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Aim The objective of this study was to determine a formula for estimating the liveweight in West African donkeys. Materials and Methods Liveweight and a total of 6 body measurements were carried out on 1352 donkeys from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. The correlations between liveweight and body measurements were determined, and the most correlated body measurements with liveweight we...

PURPOSE Test for a causal relationship between neighborhood design and physical activity within the neighborhood by controlling for self-selection. DESIGN Cross-sectional and quasi-longitudinal analyses of residents of selected neighborhoods. SETTING Eight Northern California neighborhoods. SUBJECTS Random sample of 1682 adults stratified by movers (moved within 1 year) and nonmovers (mov...

Methods Data of 4526 patients admitted after MHS to our Cardiovascular ICU (January 2005,-June 2011) were prospectively collected. After exclusion of 655 patients, 3970 were analyzed to identify risk factors for mediastinitis. A model was generated by logistic regression analysis in a subgroup of 2618 randomly selected patients and validated in a second cohort of 1352. The discriminatory power ...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, there is increasing awareness about the frequent chronic comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but little information is available to quantify the burden of illness that these conditions cause in this population. We aimed to identify and describe a population suffering from COPD highlighting the co-morbid conditions that may contribute ...