... telltale signs of seabirds
and dolphins. On arriving near a
school of dolphins the main boat
Research news
Examining dolphin hydrodynamics provides clues to calf-loss
during tuna fishing
Pete Moore
BioMed ... tuna- fishing methods has not led to a restoration of
dolphin numbers.
launches four to six speedboats that
operate like sheep dogs, chasing the
dolphins so that...
... propose that, even with adequate funding, efforts
to implement HR plans and obtain results may fail due to
other factors.
Factors that contribute to the failed implementation of
human resource ... the private sector all have a role to play.
Progress in dealing with these factors depends on manag-
ers who are able to lead and inspire teams at all levels of
the health system to tra...
... indicators (e.g. overtime),
monetary indicators (e.g. wages), and normative popula-
tion-based indicators (e.g. doctors/populations ratios)
[3]. The AMWAC proposed somewhat similar indicators
of ... adopted to attract and
retain health professionals in the health sector. How qual-
ity of practice would be monitored and ensured is also an
important issue to consider. Those choices would ha...
... the respondents, which made it impossible
to assess to what extent reported changes (or not) in prac-
tice were related to the training programme or to factors
in the organizational environment, ... attention to increase the amount,
diversity and quality of training [3]. Their training needs
to be continuously updated, adapting to new contexts and
needs, and to be evaluated in...
... are availab le
to provide reproductive health needs in the public sector
due to the brain drain. Prior to this study, the standard
midwifery curriculum that was used to train the tutors
included ... of
any study conducted to comprehensively explore mid-
wifery tutors’ knowledge concerning CAC, nor their
ability and willingness to teach topics concerning
abortion.
To examine the...
... 10,187,743 to the health sector. The personnel
costs alone were US$ 6,962,709, amounting to 70% of
MOHSW allocation from the government. With total
MOHSW expenditures in the health sector a mounting
to ... MOHSW plans to merge the HR Divi-
sion and the Personnel Department, historically
independent areas, to continue to streamline systems for
improved coordination.
New i nitiative...
... the mitochon-
drial matrix observed previously in NiV infected cells [12].
This can lead to the rupture of the mitochondrial outer
membrane and release of the mitochondrial proapoptotic
factors ... factors then induce apoptosis to the
neuronal cell cultures seen in the present study. Increased
abundance of cytochrome bc1, a component of the ubiq-
uinol-cytochrome c reductase complex (cyto...
... indicated similar branching patterns and topology
and that hantavirus genomes are divided into 4 major
phylogentic lineages which correspond to the viruses vec-
tored by rodents in the subfamilies ... manuscript.
Acknowledgements
Authors are also thankful to Drs. Thomas Ksiazek and Pierre Rollin for
their help and support during the work. Special thanks to Angela Sanchez
for helping...
... Fold Change
Toll-Like Receptors
AF051151 toll-like receptor 5 1.46 ± 0.50
AF177765
toll-like receptor 4 0.67 ± 0.27
AL050262
toll-like receptor 1 0.41 ± 0.13
AL570789
toll-like receptor 3 1.47 ... and
apoptosis inhibitor 5 (API5) were down regulated in these
animals when compared to the uninfected controls (Fig
5).
Exposure to the VEEV induces the up regulation of pro-
inflammatory genes...
... anchored to the nucleotides 2447–2470
of positive-sense CVA16 full-length cDNA while P9 was complementary to the nucleotides
3304–3328 of positive-sense cDNA. Both P8 and P9 were used to detect ... XbaI/NotI, respectively, and ligated into HindIII/NotI digested
pcDNA3.1 to produce pcDNA3.1-CV(1–7410). CV(6087–7410-pA) was digested with
XhoI/NotI and then used to replace the corr...