Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, and Northern Territory Clinical School, Flinders University, Darwin, NT. Bart J Currie, FRACP, DTM+H, Professor in Medicine. Reprints will not be available from the author. Correspondence: Professor B J Currie, Menzies School of Health Research, PO Box 41096, Casuarina, NT 0811. bar...

Menzies School of Health Research; Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT. Ross S Bailie, MPhil(MCH), MD, Associate Professor in Public Health; Damin Si, MMed, Research Scholar; Samantha J Togni, MA, Project Manager/Research Officer. School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT. Gary W Robinson, PhD, Acting Associate D...

Objective: Platelet concentrate is an invaluable support product in the management patients presenting with thrombocytopenia. Collection of high quality, single donor platelets depends upon efficient cell separators at plateletapheresis facility. We evaluated performance two different used for plateletpheresis our This evaluation was done to ascertain which separator performed better terms vari...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the Malaysian economy. The success of SMEs is critical for Malaysia's total economic progression, both nationally globally. Conducting business online one opportunities social media has provided entrepreneurs. often lack means to conduct in-house marketing operations or hire skilled consultant. Social massive dialogue that everyone ...

Address for Correspondence:Masaji Mochizuki, Minami-11, Nishi-20, 4-23 Chuo-Ku, Sapporo 064-0811, Japan The bicarbonate concentration in plasma , [HCO3], has a PCO2-dependent component, [HCO3]*, and a metabolic component, [HCO3]. The [HCO3]* in elderly patients and volunteers was expressed by an exponential function of PCO2 obtained by analysis of the venous-arterial (a-v) difference in [HCO3]....

Background. Previous studies have reported sex differences in the clinical presentation and outcome of adult patients with schizophrenia; the aim of present study was to compare the clinical characteristics, social functioning, adherence to treatment, and cognition of adolescents with this diagnosis in a six-month followup. Methods. A total of 87 adolescents with a DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophr...

A previously unreported dihydrochromone dimer, paecilin E (1), was isolated, together with eleven known compounds: β-sitostenone, ergosta-4,6,8 (14), 22-tetraen-3-one, cyathisterone, byssochlamic acid, dehydromevalonic acid lactone, chevalone B, aszonalenin, dankasterone A (2), helvolic acid, secalonic acid A and fellutanine A, from the culture filtrate extract of the marine sponge-associated f...

Objective: To study the association between cervical insufficiency and single nucleotide polymorphisms in seven genes coding for proand anti-inflammatory cytokine-related factors, mannose-binding lectin 2 (MBL2) , collagen1α1 (COL1A1) , factor II and factor V Leiden genes. Methods: In a case-control study, potential maternal biomarkers for cervical insufficiency were investigated in 30 women wi...

Objective: To study the association between cervical insufficiency and single nucleotide polymorphisms in seven genes coding for proand anti-inflammatory cytokine-related factors, mannose-binding lectin 2 (MBL2) , collagen1α1 (COL1A1) , factor II and factor V Leiden genes. Methods: In a case-control study, potential maternal biomarkers for cervical insufficiency were investigated in 30 women wi...