233 Last year saw the posthumous publication of Stephen Jay Gould’s last volume, The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox (Gould, 2003) with the subtitle ‘Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities’. The two protagonists were chosen to represent metaphorically a stereotypical disparity between two different ways of ‘knowing’ or looking at nature. The hedgeho...

We studied the role of European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as a reservoir for Coxiella burnetii in the Iberian region. High individual and population seroprevalences observed in wild and farmed rabbits, evidence of systemic infections, and vaginal shedding support the reservoir role of the European rabbit for C. burnetii.

In this study, cottontail rabbit papillomavirus infection of domestic rabbits was used as an animal model to develop papillomavirus early gene-based vaccines. Groups of rabbits were intracutaneously vaccinated with single papillomavirus early genes E1, E2, E6, and E7 or with a combination of these four genes. Only a fraction of rabbits were protected from subsequent viral challenge when vaccina...

Background Unhealthy drug use (UDU), including both illicit drug use and misuse of prescription medications, is high among Americans 12 or older (9.4% past month; 48% lifetime), and is often 50-100% higher among emergency department (ED) patients (Cherpitel & Ye, 2008). While most screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) projects focus on questionnaire screening for UDU, ...

When Reform Comes into Play: Budgeting as Negotiations between Administrations In this article budgeting is considered as a game. It is analysed in an area of public budgeting that usually remains behind the scenes to research: the intra-administrative negotiating structures by which money is distributed. Taking the example of the highly indebted metropolis Berlin, the administrations were conf...

Our previous studies on rabbits demonstrated that the ventral spinal pathways are of primary importance for postural control in the hindquarters. After ventral hemisection, postural control did not recover, whereas after dorsal or lateral hemisection it did. The aim of this study was to examine postural capacity of rabbits after more extensive lesion (3/4 section of the spinal cord at T(12) lev...

Let us remind that Sommerfeld model of charged rigid sphere [1] (Sommerfeld particle) is the simplest theoretical model to take into consideration the ”back-reaction” of self-electromagnetic field on equation of motion of a radiating extended charged body (for point-like charge we have the known LorentzDirac equation with all its problems: renormalization of mass, preacceleration, runaway solut...

“Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.” — Niels Bohr, 1923 “There must be quite definite and clear grounds, why you repeatedly declare that one must interpret observations classically, which lie absolutely in their essence. . . . It must belong to your deepest conviction—and I cannot understand on what you b...

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), an oriental herbal medicine, has been shown to favorably affect choleretic, antirheumatic and diuretin properties. Recent reports have indicated that excessive oxidative stress contributes to the development of atherosclerosis-linked metabolic syndrome. The objective of this current study was to investigate the possible hypolipidemic and antioxidative effects o...

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarct scars are usually imaged by delayed-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (DE-cMR). In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the detection and quantification of myocardial scars can be evaluated by 3D echocardiography (3D-echo). METHODS AND RESULTS Fifty patients with a healed myocardial infarction (>3 months) and 10 controls underwent 3D echo and DE-cMR within...