When your child has a central line or PICC line, the greatest worry is line infections and sepsis caused by bacteria, fungus, or yeast in the line or the bloodstream. Not only can these infections kill children, but they can also cause injury to the liver or other organs. They also sometimes necessitate removal and replacement of the line, adding additional surgical procedures for children. Fin...

Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of eight. In the latter condition eight mice are ki...

Coyote (Car1i.s1ntran.s)depredation is a chronic problem for sheep producers in the western United States. Due to increasingly localized control efforts, behaxior of individual coyotes in sheep-ranching entironments is becoming a more important consideration. We radiotracked 14 coyotes on a year-round sheep-ranching facility in north-coastal California during September 1993-December 1995. Breed...

Substandard, Spurious, Falsely-Labelled, Falsified and Counterfeit (SSFFC) drugs are an emerging public health concern in India. With one of the huge pharmaceutical sectors in the world, India has a varied prevalence of SSSFC drugs ranging from 0.04% to 34% according to various studies. Apart from severe health consequences, SSSFC drugs also weaken community's trust in the health care system. I...

In principle, T cells can recognize and kill cancer cells. However, tumors have the ability to escape T cell attack. By imaging the dynamic behavior of T cells in human lung tumor explants, we have recently established the importance of the extracellular matrix in limiting access of T cells to tumor cells.

Current Italian legislation does not permit euthanasia of dogs, unless they are ill or dangerous. Despite good intentions and ethical benefits, this “no-kill policy” has caused a progressive overpopulation of dogs in shelters, due to abandonment rates being higher than adoption rates. Shelter overcrowding has negative implications for dog welfare and increases public costs. The aim of this pape...

Considering the gaining popularity of ”defense in depth” strategy, plus increasing amounts of money invested in information security layers, and considering adversaries’ perspective while carrying out a long-term advanced-persistent attack campaign; avoiding (short term) detections may not be as beneficial as having a deeper knowledge about targeted ”defense in depth” system. Probing and steali...