COMBINING RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING WITH A COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY ACTION STUDY OF PEOPLE WHO SMOKE DRUGS IN TWO CITIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

Abstract Background The smoking of illicit drugs presents a serious social and economic burden in Canada.People who smoke drugs (PWSD) are at increased risk of contracting multiple infections through risky drug practices.Peer-led harm reduction activities, and the resulting social networks that form around them, can potentially minimize the dangers

Intravascular large B cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) is a rare type of extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.Patients typically present Salt with nonspecific findings, particularly bizarre neurologic symptoms, fever, and skin lesions.IVLBCL with primary lung presentation is very rare and difficult to diagnose.The authors report a case of a 75-year-old m

This study was conducted to explore the effect of chitosan supplementation on mouse intestinal microbiota Bottom Bracket and interleukin-17 (IL-17) expression.Chitosan supplementation reduced mouse body weight, associating with change of intestinal microbiota (i.e.lowering the ratio of Firmicutes: Bacteroidetes).In antibiotics treated mice, chitosa

Merchandise A preliminary study was conducted to assess a tree stem reconstruction technique with panoramic images taken with fisheye lenses.The concept is similar to the Structure from Motion (SfM) technique, but the acquisition and data preparation rely on fisheye cameras to generate a vertical image sequence with height variations of the camera

The activity of a sparse network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons is carefully revisited with reference to a regime of bona fide asynchronous dynamics.The study is preceded by a finite-size scaling analysis, carried out to identify a setup where collective synchronization is negligible.The comparison between quenched and annealed networks reveal