In order to evaluate the role of carnitine on fatty acid metabolism in subepicardial (Epi) and subendocardial (Endo) regions in ischemic heart, tissue levels of carnitine, free fatty acids (FFA), and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) were determined in ischemic, non-ischemic and border areas in dog hearts with acute regional ischemia. Acute regional ischemia was induced by ligation of the left anter...

In this era of increasing drug resistance among infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), the complex population dynamics of border areas must be monitored more extensively. TB remains a major public health threat; its antimicrobial treatment is long; and the only vaccine licensed in the world, live-attenuated Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), exhibits varying efficacy. In...

This article discusses the guarantee of the right to health care and the exercise of citizenship in border areas between Brazil and the other MERCOSUR member countries, considering cross-border movement of persons and the demand on the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) by the population living along the borders. The goal is to debate the guarantee of the right to health, citizenship, free ...

CROSS-BORDER AND LOCAL COOPERATION ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE Cross-border and local cooperation can foster local learning and contribute positively to business performance and social cohesion. This paper considers firms’ economic motivation for both types of cooperation around the Irish border. This area, while inevitably impacted by civil unrest in Northern Ireland, sha...

We have compared physiological data recorded from three alert macaque monkeys with separate observations of local connectivity, to locate and characterize the functional border between two related but distinct visual areas on the caudal face of the superior parietal gyrus. We refer to these areas as V6 and V6A. The occupy almost the entire extent of the anterior bank of the parieto-occipital su...

The California-Baja California border region is one of the most frequently traversed areas in the world with a shared population, environment, and health concerns. The Border Health Consortium of the Californias (the "Consortium") was formed in 2013 to bring together leadership working in the areas of public health, health care, academia, government, and the non-profit sector, with the goal of ...

Osteoclasts of rat mandibulars were observed under the transmission electron microscope with the aim of understanding the three-dimensional structure of the ruffled border. After observation, the same block was remounted to obtain sections of the same osteoclasts at right angles to the first sectioning plane. The structure of the ruffled border of osteoclasts was observed in the two perpendicul...

Border points are those instances located at the outer margin of dense clusters of samples. The detection is important in many areas such as data mining, image processing, robotics, geographic information systems and pattern recognition. In this paper we propose a novel method to detect border samples. The proposed method makes use of a discretization and works on partitions of the set of point...

We investigated the prevalence of trachoma in rural areas of eastern Iran. We collected swabs from 150 children in three areas. Results of PCR showed presence of chlamydia in four boys (5.97%) and nine girls (10.84%). We suggest that in assessing the elimination of trachoma, WHO must consider border areas between countries.