Dear editor, We describe the development and evaluation of a webbased, paediatric infectious diseases (PID) journal club (JC). A coordinated roster with monthly submissions from 11 clinical sites has increased knowledge-sharing, member-engagement and opportunities for trainees to be mentored in critical appraisal writing. The JC is now in its third year with ongoing educational value to this su...

The gap between production and implementation of knowledge is the main reason for the suboptimal quality of health care. To eliminate this gap and improve the quality of patient care, journal club (JC) in graduate medical education provides an opportunity for learning the skills of evidence-based medicine. JC, however, continues to face many challenges mainly due to poorly defined goals, inadeq...

Multipotential human central nervous system progenitor cells, isolated from human fetal brain tissue by selective growth conditions, were cultured as undifferentiated, attached cell layers. Selective differentiation yielded highly purified populations of neurons or astrocytes. This report describes the novel use of this cell culture model to study cell type-specific recognition of a human neuro...

A criminal prosecution of Jamaican Creole (JC) speaking ‘posse’ (=gang) members in New York included evidence of recorded speech in JC. Clandestine recordings (discussions of criminal events, including narration of a homicide) were introduced at trial. Taped data were translated for prosecution by a non-linguist native speaker of JC. Defense disputed these texts and commissioned alternative tra...

Polyomavirus (PyV) infection usually persists without any symptoms in normal individuals. In immunocompromised patients including patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), PyV reactivation occurs with a high prevalence and can cause severe clinical complications. In this study, reactivation of six PyV [JC, BK, WU, KI, merkel cell (MC) and trichodysplasia spinulosa (TS)] was investigat...

Objective The effect of polyomavirus infection in HSCT recipients is poorly understood. Methods We evaluated 38 HSCT recipients. Polyomavirus was detected by nested qualitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays of urine. The risk factors for BK virus and JC virus were analysed. The kidney and liver functions of infected and uninfected patients were compared. Results BK virus, JC virus, and...

BACKGROUND Jawbone cavitations (JC) are hollow dead spaces in jawbones with dying or dead bone marrow. These areas are defined as fatty degenerative osteonecrosis of the jawbone or neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis and may produce facial pain. These afflictions have been linked to the immune system and chronic illnesses. Surgical debridement of JC is reported to lead to an improveme...

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) patients developing hyperphagia have a better outcome. Gastrointestinal endocrine adaptations help to improve intestinal functions and food behaviour. We investigated neuroendocrine adaptations in SBS patients and rat models with jejuno-ileal (IR-JI) or jejuno-colonic (IR-JC) anastomosis with and without parenteral nutrition. Circulating levels of ghrelin, PYY, GLP-1,...

petition, with ethics committee approval (HREC-33167), all hospital nurses received an anonymous online survey invitation. Demographic, Likert scale and freeform information was collected. Questions elicited attitudes and perceived barriers or facilitators to JC. Freeform data was themed. Survey completers could provide separate details to win a voucher. Results Compared to the previous year th...

In this paper we describe some recent developments concerning the Jacobian Conjecture(JC). First we describe Drużkowski’s result in [6] which asserts that it suffices to study the JC for Drużkowski mappings of the form x + (Ax)∗3 with A = 0. Then we describe the authors’ result of [2] which asserts that it suffices to study the JC for so-called gradient mappings i.e. mappings of the form x − ∇f...