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Implementing family-focused HIV care and treatment: the first 2 years' experience of the mother-to-child transmission-plus program in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (2009)

Tonwe-Gold, Besigin, Ekouevi, Didier, Amani-Bosse, Clarisse, Toure, Siaka, Koné, Mamadou, Becquet, Renaud, ...

OBJECTIVES: To describe a family-focused approach to HIV care and treatment and report on the first 2 years experience of implementing the mother-to-child transmission (MTCT)-plus program in Abidjan,...

Holographic interferometry for the study of liquids (2007)

Colombani, Jean, Bert, Jacques

Holography is an optical technique enabling to record phase objects. Holographic interferometry uses this faculty to make a phase object interfere with a memory of itself at a preceding time,...

An investigation of the relationship between district wealth and student achievement (2010)

Henson, Richard L.

An investigation of the relationship between district wealth and student achievement

Phylogenetics and biogeography of Aichryson inferred from chloroplast DNA sequences (2010)

O'Leary, T. Ryan

Phylogenetics and biogeography of Aichryson inferred from chloroplast DNA sequences

Implementing family-focused HIV care and treatment: the first 2 years' experience of the mother-to-child transmission-plus program in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (2009)

Tonwe-Gold, Besigin, Ekouevi, Didier, Amani-Bosse, Clarisse, Toure, Siaka, Koné, Mamadou, Becquet, Renaud, ...

OBJECTIVES: To describe a family-focused approach to HIV care and treatment and report on the first 2 years experience of implementing the mother-to-child transmission (MTCT)-plus program in Abidjan,...

Implementing family-focused HIV care and treatment: the first 2 years' experience of the mother-to-child transmission-plus program in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (2009)

Tonwe-Gold, Besigin, Ekouevi, Didier, Amani-Bosse, Clarisse, Toure, Siaka, Koné, Mamadou, Becquet, Renaud, ...

OBJECTIVES: To describe a family-focused approach to HIV care and treatment and report on the first 2 years experience of implementing the mother-to-child transmission (MTCT)-plus program in Abidjan,...

Demand-led growth and Technological Progress in a Two-sector Cumulative Causation Model (2009)

Fujita, Shinya

From the viewpoint of Nicholas Kaldor's cumulative causation theory, this paper describes a theoretical investigation into the effects of increased labor productivity growth on output and employment...

Place of Labor and Labor Theory in Tugan Baranovsky's Theoretical System (2009)

Nikolay, Nenovsky

Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919) was one of the pliade of Russian (Ukrainian) fin-de-siecle economists who made a significant impact not only on Russian but also on world economic and...

Post-Investment Activities of Venture Capitalists When Making Investments in New Technology-Based Firms in Japan (2009)

Kirihata, Tetsuya

In Japan, there has been recent notable growth in the percentage of investments made by venture capitalists (VCists) in new technology-based firms (NTBFs) , as well as an increase in the active...

Samuelson's Implicit Criticism against Sraffa and the Sraffians and Two Other Questions (2009)

Shinozawa, Yoshinori

Samuelson's “A Ricardo-Sraffa Paradigm”(2001) is an implicit criticism against neo-Ricardians who could not provide any theory beyond the small open economy. The necessity of constructing a trade...

Noncooperative Game in Cooperation: Reformulation of Correlated Equilibria (II) (2009)

Kôno, Norio

In our previous paper (Kono 2008) , we introduced two essentially different concepts of correlated equilibria: one is an “exogenous correlated equilibrium relative to Z” of a noncooperative game...

A packet routing strategy using neural networks on scale-free networks (2009)

Naganuma, Yuki, Igarashi, Akito

We propose a dynamic packet routing strategy by using neural networks on scale-free networks. In this strategy, in order to determine the nodes to which the packets should be transmitted, we use path...

Leptogenesis scenarios via non-thermally produced right-handed neutrino and sneutrino in supersymmetric seesaw model (2009)

Senami, Masato, Takayama, Tsutomu

We reconsidered leptogenesis scenario from right-handed (s)neutrino produced by the decay of inflaton. Besides the well-investigated case that the neutrino decays instantaneously after the...

NMR and NQR study of pressure-induced superconductivity and the origin of critical-temperature enhancement in the spin-ladder cuprate Sr2Ca12Cu24O41 (2009)

Fujiwara, Naoki, Fujimaki, Y., Uchida, S., Matsubayashi, K., Matsumoto, T., Uwatoko, Y.

Pressure-induced superconductivity was studied for a spin-ladder cuprate Sr2Ca12Cu24O41 using nuclear magnetic resonance under pressures up to the optimal pressure 3.8 GPa. Pressure application leads...

Alcohol use and gender effects on HIV risk behaviors in cocaine-using methadone patients (2009)

Petry, Nancy

Carla J Rash1, Nancy M Petry21Department of Psychiatry, 2Calhoun Cardiology Center, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USAAbstract: Injection drug users engage in behaviors that...

An unusual presentation of an uncommon disease (2009)

Funk, Michael

Michael Funk2, Orlando Santana1,21Department of Cardiology, 2Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Fl, USAAbstract: Extrapulmonary manifestations of sarcoidosis often go undiagnozed. Sarcoidosis...

Bevacizumab (Avastin®) for the management of anterior chamber neovascularization and neovascular glaucoma (2009)

Brouzas, D.

Dimitrios Brouzas, Antonios Charakidas, Marilita Moschos, Chryssanthi Koutsandrea, Michael Apostolopoulos, Stefanos Baltatzis1st Department of Ophthalmology, University of Athens, Athens,...

Low use of statins and other coronary secondary prevention therapies in primary and secondary care in India (2009)

Gupta, Rajeev

Krishna K Sharma1, Rajeev Gupta2, Aachu Agrawal3, Sanjeeb Roy2, Atul Kasliwal2, Ajeet Bana2, Ravindra K Tongia2, Prakash C Deedwania41Department of Pharmacy, LBS College of Pharmacy, Jaipur,...

Content-based image descriptors for enhanced person annotation in personal digital photo archives (2009)

Cooray, Saman H., O'Connor, Noel E.

In this paper we investigate the use of content-based image descriptors for enhancing the performance of person annotation in personal photo management applications. The descriptors examined are...

Subtractive Genomic Approach to Identify Potential Drug Targets and Active Sites in Chlamydophila Pneumoniae (2009)

Patnaik, S C, Reddy, E H K, Satpathy, G R

Whole genome sequences of the human pathogen Chlamydophila pneumoniae and four other strains of same species were analyzed to identify common drug targets. A substractive genomic approach is applied...

Patrons transactionnels pour assurer des compositions fiables de services web (2009)

Godart, Claude, Sami, Bhiri, Olivier, Perrin

La fiabilité des compositions de services web est actuellement un challenge. En effet, l'hétérogénéité et l'autonomie des services composants posent le problème de prévoir le comportement du...

Evaluation of Power-Constant Dual-Rail Logic as a Protection of Cryptographic Applications in FPGAs (2008)

Guilley, Sylvain, Sauvage, Laurent, Danger, Jean-Luc, Graba, Tarik, Mathieu, Yves

FPGAs are often considered for high-end applications that require embedded cryptography. These devices must thus be protected against physical attacks. However, unlike ASICs, in which custom and...

Long-period fiber grating as wavelength selective element in double-clad Yb-doped fiber-ring lasers (2009)

Peterka, P., Maria, Jerome, Dussardier, Bernard, Slavik, R., Honzatko, P., Kubecek, V.

Selection of operating wavelength of the Yb-doped fiber-ring lasers using longperiod fiber gratings (LPFGs) is suggested. In the proposed method, customized LPFG that sustains high powers serves as a...

From recollisions to the knee: A road map for double ionization in intense laser fields (2009)

Mauger, Francois, Chandre, Cristel, Uzer, Turgay

We examine the nature and statistical properties of electron-electron collisions in the recollision process in a strong laser field. The separation of the double ionization yield into sequential and...

Design and fabrication of an intrinsically gain flattened Erbium doped fiber amplifier (2009)

Nagaraju, B., Paul, M.C., Pal, M., Pal, A., Varshney, Ravi K., Pal, B.P., ...

We report design and subsequent fabrication of an intrinsically gain flattened Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) based on a highly asymmetrical and concentric dual-core fiber, inner core of which...

A wireless lingual feedback device to reduce overpressures in seated posture: a feasibility study. (2009)

Chenu, Olivier, Vuillerme, Nicolas, Demongeot, Jacques, Payan, Yohan

BACKGROUND: Pressure sores are localized injuries to the skin and underlying tissues and are mainly resulting from overpressure. Paraplegic peoples are particularly subjects to pressure sores because...

Patrons transactionnels pour assurer des compositions fiables de services web (2009)

Godart, Claude, Sami, Bhiri, Olivier, Perrin

La fiabilité des compositions de services web est actuellement un challenge. En effet, l'hétérogénéité et l'autonomie des services composants posent le problème de prévoir le comportement du...

Evaluation of Power-Constant Dual-Rail Logic as a Protection of Cryptographic Applications in FPGAs (2008)

Guilley, Sylvain, Sauvage, Laurent, Danger, Jean-Luc, Graba, Tarik, Mathieu, Yves

FPGAs are often considered for high-end applications that require embedded cryptography. These devices must thus be protected against physical attacks. However, unlike ASICs, in which custom and...

Long-period fiber grating as wavelength selective element in double-clad Yb-doped fiber-ring lasers (2009)

Peterka, P., Maria, Jerome, Dussardier, Bernard, Slavik, R., Honzatko, P., Kubecek, V.

Selection of operating wavelength of the Yb-doped fiber-ring lasers using longperiod fiber gratings (LPFGs) is suggested. In the proposed method, customized LPFG that sustains high powers serves as a...

From recollisions to the knee: A road map for double ionization in intense laser fields (2009)

Mauger, Francois, Chandre, Cristel, Uzer, Turgay

We examine the nature and statistical properties of electron-electron collisions in the recollision process in a strong laser field. The separation of the double ionization yield into sequential and...

Design and fabrication of an intrinsically gain flattened Erbium doped fiber amplifier (2009)

Nagaraju, B., Paul, M.C., Pal, M., Pal, A., Varshney, Ravi K., Pal, B.P., ...

We report design and subsequent fabrication of an intrinsically gain flattened Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) based on a highly asymmetrical and concentric dual-core fiber, inner core of which...

A wireless lingual feedback device to reduce overpressures in seated posture: a feasibility study. (2009)

Chenu, Olivier, Vuillerme, Nicolas, Demongeot, Jacques, Payan, Yohan

BACKGROUND: Pressure sores are localized injuries to the skin and underlying tissues and are mainly resulting from overpressure. Paraplegic peoples are particularly subjects to pressure sores because...

Studies on monodromy preserving deformation of linear differential equations on elliptic curves (2009)

Mano, Toshiyuki

We study a monodromy preserving deformation (MPD) of linear differential equations on elliptic curves. As the first of our results, we describe asymptotic behaviors of solutions to the MPD system...

Virtual assistant: Enhancing content acquisition by eliciting information from humans (2009)

Ozeki, Motoyuki, Maeda, Shunichi, Obata, Kanako, Nakamura, Yuichi

In this paper, we propose the "Virtual Assistant," a novel framework for supporting knowledge capturing in videos. The Virtual Assistant is an artificial agent that simulates a human assistant shown...

A theoretical study on a reaction of iron(III) hydroxide with boron trichloride by ab initio calculation (2009)

Ichikawa, Kazuhide, Myoraku, Toshiyuki, Fukushima, Akinori, Ishihara, Yoshio, Isaki, Ryuichiro, Takeguchi, Toshio, ...

We investigate a reaction of boron trichloride (BCl3) with iron(III) hydroxide (Fe (OH)3) by ab initio quantum chemical calculation as a simple model for a reaction of iron impurities in BCl3 gas. We...

Exactly solvable birth and death processes (2009)

Sasaki, Ryu

Many examples of exactly solvable birth and death processes, a typical stationary Markov chain, are presented together with the explicit expressions of the transition probabilities. They are derived...

Model for predicting the nitrogen content of rice at panicle initiation stage using data from airborne hyperspectral remote sensing (2009)

Ryu, Chanseok, Suguri, Masahiko, Umeda, Mikio

Airborne hyperspectral remote sensing was used to provide data for a general-purpose model for predicting the nitrogen content of rice at panicle initiation stage using three years of data. There...

Update on the efficacy, safety, and adherence to treatment of full length parathyroid hormone, PTH (1-84), in the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis (2009)

Pietrogrande Luca, Luca

Luca PietrograndeDipartimento di Medicina Chirurgia e Odontoiatria Polo San Paolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, ItalyAbstract: Full length (1-84) parathyroid hormone (PTH) was...

PCR melting profile (PCR MP) - a new tool for differentiation of Candida albicansstrains (2009)

Krawczyk, Beata, Leibner-Ciszak, Justyna, Mielech, Anna, Nowak, Magdalena, Kur, Józef

Abstract Background We have previously reported the use of PCR Melting Profile (PCR MP) technique based on using low denaturation temperatures during ligation mediated PCR (LM PCR) for bacterial...

The theory of discovering rare variants via DNA sequencing (2009)

Wendl, Michael C, Wilson, Richard K

Abstract Background Rare population variants are known to have important biomedical implications, but their systematic discovery has only recently been enabled by advances in DNA sequencing. The...

Elucidation of functional consequences of signalling pathway interactions (2009)

Ihekwaba, Adaoha EC, Nguyen, Phuong T, Priami, Corrado

Abstract Background A great deal of data has accumulated on signalling pathways. These large datasets are thought to contain much implicit information on their molecular structure, interaction and...

Laboratory-scale method for enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass at high-solids loadings (2009)

Roche, Christine M, Dibble, Clare J, Stickel, Jonathan J

Abstract Background Screening new lignocellulosic biomass pretreatments and advanced enzyme systems at process relevant conditions is a key factor in the development of economically viable...

Differential role of the menthol-binding residue Y745 in the antagonism of thermally gated TRPM8 channels (2009)

Malkia, Annika, Pertusa, María, Fernández-Ballester, Gregorio, Ferrer-Montiel, Antonio, Viana, Félix

Abstract Background TRPM8 is a non-selective cation channel that belongs to the melastatin subfamily of the transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels. TRPM8 is activated by voltage, cold and...

Incidental detection of an occult oral malignancy with autofluorescence imaging: a case report (2009)

Vigneswaran, Nadarajah, Koh, Sheila, Gillenwater, Ann

Abstract Background Autofluorescence imaging is used widely for diagnostic evaluation of various epithelial malignancies. Cancerous lesions display loss of autofluorescence due to malignant changes...

Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report (2009)

Olteanu, Horatiu, Harrington, Alexandra, Kroft, Steven H

Abstract Introduction The finding of sperm in body fluids such as peritoneal fluid is unusual, and has been mostly described in female patients. Case presentation We are reporting the case of a...

A small supernumerary marker chromosome present in a Turner syndrome patient not derived from X- or Y-chromosome: a case report (2009)

Sheth, Frenny, Ewers, Elisabeth, Kosyakova, Nadezda, Weise, Anja, Sheth, Jayesh, Desai, Manisha, ...

Abstract Background Small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMC) can be present in numerically abnormal karyotypes like in a 'Turner-syndrome karyotype' mos 45,X/46,X,+mar. Results Here we report...

Aqueous humor level of sCD44 in patients with degenerative myopia and primary open-angle glaucoma (2009)

Budak, Yasemin U, Akdogan, Muberra, Huysal, Kagan

Abstract Background The transmembrane glycoprotein CD44 is a major hyaluronan cell surface receptor widely distributed in eye tissues and fluids. The shed ectodomain of CD44 is termed soluble CD44...

The nature of fibrous dysplasia (2009)

Feller, Liviu, Wood, Neil H, Khammissa, Razia AG, Lemmer, Johan, Raubenheimer, Erich J

Abstract Fibrous dysplasia has been regarded as a developmental skeletal disorder characterized by replacement of normal bone with benign cellular fibrous connective tissue. It has now become evident...

The mitochondrial genomes of the ciliates Euplotes minutaand Euplotes crassus (2009)

De Graaf, Rob M, Van Alen, Theo A, Dutilh, Bas E, Kuiper, Jan WP, Van Zoggel, Hanneke JAA, Huynh, Minh, ...

Abstract Background There are thousands of very diverse ciliate species from which only a handful mitochondrial genomes have been studied so far. These genomes are rather similar because the ciliates...