BACKGROUND Antimicrobial stewardship may be important in long-term care facilities because of unnecessary or inappropriate antibiotic use observed in these residents, coupled with their increased vulnerability to health care-associated infections. OBJECTIVES To assess antibiotic use in a long-term care facility in order to identify potential antimicrobial stewardship needs. METHODS A retros...

Mahmoud Bahmani, Hannaneh Golshahi, Kourosh Saki, Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei*, Bahram Delfan, Tahereh Mohammadi Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Medical Plants Research Center, Shahr...

Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Goodman Building, K510, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, Colorado 80206, USA Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College of Medicine, 407 Reynolds Medical Building, College Station, Texas 77843-1114, USA Corresponding author. Tel: +1 303 398 1767; Fax:...

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Authors: Emmanuelle Courtiol and Donald A. Wilson 4 Department of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryNew York University Langone Medical Center 5 and 6 Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research 7 8 Running Head: Odor processing in the mediodorsal thalamus 9 10 11 Corresponding author: 12 Emmanuelle Courtiol, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psyc...

David P. Gillikin , Anne Lorrain, Li Meng and Frank Dehairs 5 Dept. of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College, Box 475, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA. Tel.: (845) 437-7138; fax: (845) 437-7577; E-mail: [email protected]; Corresponding author. IRD, US CHRONOS, LASAA Centre IRD de Brest, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France. 10 Department of Analytical and Environmental Chemis...

the study of stressful factors in clinical education for nursing students studying in nursing and midwifery college in khorramabad     saki m [1] *, gholami m [2] , jariani m [3] , asti p [4] , saki m [5]     received: 23 oct , 2011 accepted: 5 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : clinical education is the main part of nursing education and without it training efficient and competent n...

Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) is a process which competes with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) in three level systems. This was demonstrated in the case of oxygen atoms, for which both ASE and LIF were observed at 845 nm. Ground state oxygen atoms were generated by photodissociating 02, SOa, and NO2 in a pump and probe experiment. Both nascent and thermalized O(3P,+p) atoms were measure...