Background: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL) comparing to general population and comparable HRQOL to patients with other major chronic diseases. Poor HRQOL is associated with shorter survival. There is a limited threshold to which dialysis dose and parameters management can improve HRQOL in ESRD patients. Numerous studies have sought to fi...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 207 No. 4 549–567 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201404001 JCB 549 *Mohammed I. Ahmed and Majid Alam contributed equally to this paper. Correspondence to Natalia V. Botchkareva: [email protected] Abbreviations used in this paper: BIO, 6-bromoindirubin-3-oxime; Dox, doxycycline; DTG, double transgenic K14-rtTA/miR-214-TRE; E...

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The use of facial prostheses such as wax ears has been reported in ancient Egypt. The first historically documented evidence comes from sixteenth century, when the French surgeon Ambroise Paré describes the first nose prostheses from gold, silver and “papier mâché”, which were held to the face by a string tied around the head. In late 19th century Claude Martin conceived an idea of an immediate...

In chemistry, the concept of a catalyst is defined as a substance that can alter the velocity of a certain chemical reaction without any chemical change. This definition can be directly extrapolated for electrocatalysis. An electrocatalyst is an electrode material that interacts with some certain species during a Faradaic reaction but still remain unaltered. Since electrode reactions are hetero...

Background: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL) comparing to general population and comparable HRQOL to patients with other major chronic diseases. Poor HRQOL is associated with shorter survival. There is a limited threshold to which dialysis dose and parameters management can improve HRQOL in ESRD patients. Numerous studies have sought to fi...

With ever increasing use of imaging as a diagnostic tool in medicine, medical schools are being urged to further integrate imaging into their curricula. Ultrasound is one such way of doing so-enabling students to bridge the gap between form and function, medical school and clinical practice. As a non-invasive imaging technique, with low risk when compared to other methods of imaging, ultrasound...

Welcome to the first issue of Electronic Markets’ 19th volume as well as the first issue of Electronic Markets with our new publisher Springer. It includes a compelling research section which consists of two extended conference articles from the Bled Conference 2008 and three general research articles. Last year’s Bled Conference covered the topic “e-Collaboration: Overcoming Boundaries through...