OBJECTIVE St Louis Children's Hospital (SLCH) developed Service for Hospital Admissions by Referring Physicians (SHARP) in January 2008 as an inpatient referral service for pediatricians who previously admitted their own patients. We hypothesized that use of SHARP would make hospitalization more efficient and cost-effective compared with the general pediatric medicine (GM) service. METHODS Ad...

The staking (elevating creeping vines above the ground with poles) of yam is practiced to optimize crop yield, but its effect on soil loss due harvesting (SLCH-soil adhering harvested tubers) and associated carbon has not been investigated globally. A 3-year field experiment was conducted study (Dioscorea rotundata) SLCH examine environmental loss. Staking reduced by 55.6% increased yield 33.3%...

D'stributed systems has been an area of 'nrense activity over the pasr ien years. The suo.ecr is entering a stage of maturity with word now focusing on standards for Open DisiribLred Processing (ODP). Recent y. nowever, a number of new cha lenges nave emerged for oistrio-red systems. Among these cha lenges, oisirib-red systems are 'ncreasingly having to support multimedia services, and tn:s has...

Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM 3043, whose genome has been sequenced, is known to degrade (R,S)-sulfolactate as a sole carbon and energy source for growth. Utilization of the compound(s) was shown to be quantitative, and an eight-gene cluster (Csal_1764-Csal_1771) was hypothesized to encode the enzymes in the degradative pathway. It comprised a transcriptional regulator (SuyR), a Tripartite Tr...