Previous studies reporting perceptions of HIV and AIDS by white youth in South Africa suggest both explicit and implicit racial stereotypes and negative attitudes.This paper contributes to the literature on the discourse of racial stereotypes found in discussions about HIV and AIDS.The Hayward HPxxA(1)(EE) study was conducted in the suburb of Edenv
Background:.An unanswered question with open tibial fractures is whether the type of flap used affects hardware retention.Flap survival may not equate hardware retention or limb salvage.In this study, we performed a 10-year single institution review and analysis of all patients who had placement of hardware for open tibial fractures followed by fla
We address the problem of estimating how different parts of the brain develop and change throughout the lifespan, and how these trajectories are affected by genetic and environmental factors.Estimation of these lifespan trajectories is statistically challenging, since their shapes are typically highly nonlinear, and although true change can only be
Abstract Background Modularity is the tendency for systems to organize into semi-independent units and can be a key to the evolution and diversification of complex biological systems.Snake venoms are highly variable modular systems that exhibit extreme diversification even across very short time scales.One well-studied venom phenotype dichotomy is