Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious
cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-…

Objective: To compare success rate, length of hospital stay, clinical results, and costs of
sequential treatment (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography followed by …

RN4CAST-Chile builds upon two decades of global nursing outcomes research and the
successful implementation of the RN4CAST study in 30 countries around the world to replicate …

Background: Acute left-side colonic obstruction is a surgical emergency whose management
is controversial. Recently metallic expandable stents have been used to relieve obstruction …

Anastomotic leakage after rectal surgery is a very serious complication and is the main cause
of postoperative morbidity and mortality. We describe three cases of rectal leakage which …

Re-aligning eating patterns with biological rhythm can reduce the burden of metabolic syndrome
in older adults with overweight or obesity. Time-restricted eating (TRE) has been shown …

Background Evidence from controlled trials and meta-analyses suggests that laparoendoscopic
rendezvous (LERV) is preferable to sequential treatment in the management of common …

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jewish
Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938–1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set …

To design optimal insoles for reduction of pedal tissue trauma, experimental measurements
and computational analyses were performed. To characterize the mechanical properties of …

Previous evidence has shown that active tool-use can reshape one's own body schema,
extend peripersonal space and modulate the representation of related body parts. Here we …