© 2016 Harborside Press® Registered nurses spend more time with patients than other health-care workers and are in a prime position to detect and prevent suicidal behaviors in patients, but Valente (2010) found that oncology nurses had more difficulty in caring for suicidal patients because of their commitment to preserving life. Although a relatively rare event, suicide increases in patients w...

Understanding protein function is one of the keys to understanding life at the molecular level. It is also important in the context of human disease because many conditions arise as a consequence of alterations of protein function. The recent availability of relatively inexpensive sequencing technology has resulted in thousands of complete or partially sequenced genomes with millions of functio...

Methods Ten HIV-1 ESN in HIV-discordant couples were enrolled at the Fann University hospital, Dakar, Senegal. Thirty HIV-1 infected patients (10 HIV-1 non transmitted partners in discordant coupes and 20 HIV-1 infected partners in HIV-concordant couples) and 10 HIV-negative unexposed subjects were included as controls. Levels of CD107a and b, and CD107a/b+IFN-g+ in CD8+ T cells sub-set were me...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) är en endokrin sjukdom hos katt, som är slående lik typ 2 diabetes hos människa. Katter och människor delar många riskfaktorer för sjukdomen, inklusive ett samband med insulinresistens kopplat till övervikt och en stillasittande livsstil. Det finns också patofysiologiska likheter, med förlust av β-celler och inlagring av amyloid i Langerhans öar i bukspottkörteln. En rasp...

This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes of commercial fanners and supply cooperative managers about agricultural supply cooperatives. Cooperative managers and fann­ ers frequently made significantly different responses to questionnaire statements. With a few exceptions, fann size and fanner age did not appear to influence perceptions about supply cooperatives. "",nether a fanner...

New developments in nonlinear dynamical systems are permitting Volterra and Wiener nonlinear functional series representations to be optimally approximated by artificial neural networks, which are capable of adaptation, learning and evolution by training with or without supervision.The framework based on Generalized Fock Space, enabling these developments is briefly reviewed. In particular, the...

INTRODUCTION Despite prevention efforts, malaria remains a public health problem. METHODOLOGY This was a prospective study conducted between October and December 2010 that aimed to describe the therapeutic route of adults presenting with severe malaria prior to being admitted to Fann Teaching Hospital in Dakar, Senegal. RESULTS A total of 90 patients were included. The majority of them had ...

A nonlinear adaptive time series predictor has been developed using a new type of piecewise linear (PWL) network for its underlying model structure. The PWL Network is a D-FANN (Dynamical Functional Artificial Neural Network) the activation functions of which are piecewise linear. The new realization is presented with the associated training algorithm. Properties and characteristics are discuss...