The care of cancer patients, including recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, has numerous challenges for hospitals that must provide safe environments in which exposure to pathogens that generate morbidity ...

Nursing care of a hemodialysis catheter is critical to avoid morbidity, mortality and costs associated to infectious complications. The first step is to provide access through an arteriovenous fistula or, alternatively ...

The avian eggshell is a biocomposite ceramic consisting of minute amounts of organic matrix and a crystalline calcium carbonate (calcite) filler. It is formed by a well regulated spatio-temporal assembling process, where ...

This Note investigates the boundary controllability, as well as the internal controllability, of the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation. Null-controllability results are derived from a Carleman estimate and an analysis based ...

Seriola lalandiis an economically important species that is globally distributed in temperate and subtropical marine waters. Aquaculture production of this species has had problems associated with intensive fish farming, ...

22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is the most common microdeletion disorder in humans, with an incidence of 1/4000 live births. It is caused by a heterozygous deletion of 1.5-3 Mb on chromosome region 22q11.2. ...

β-Glucosidase activities measured in extracts from maize leaves during development gave different curves when p-nitrophenyl β-d-glucopyranoside (PNP-Glc) or hydroxamic acid glucoside (Hx-Glc) were the substrates. The PNP-Glc ...

ATP diphosphohydrolase from tegumental membranes of Schistosoma mansoni was solubilized with Triton X-100 plus deoxycholate and separated by preparative nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Two isoforms with ...