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Healing Conversations: Develo** a Practical Framework for Clinical Communication Between Aboriginal Communities and Healthcare Practitioners
In recognition of the ongoing health disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (hereafter Aboriginal), this sco** review explores the role and impact of the clinical communicat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Agent-Oriented Smart Factory (AOSF): An MAS Based Framework for SMEs Under Industry 4.0
For the concept of Industry 4.0 to come true, a mature amalgamation of allied technologies is obligatory, i.e. Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data analytics, Mobile Computing, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Clou...
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Cell-free expression, purification, and membrane reconstitution for NMR studies of the nonstructural protein 4B from hepatitis C virus
We describe the expression of the hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 4B (NS4B), which is an integral membrane protein, in a wheat germ cell-free system, the subsequent purification and characterization of...
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Hepatitis C virus's next top models?
Advances in culturing hepatitis C virus have given hope for a universal cell culture system amenable to primary isolate replication. However, low replication efficiency needs to be overcome. The development of...
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Chapter
Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC–MS): Approaches to Adulterant Detection in Herbal Products
An ever increasing global demand for herbal-based medicines in recent years has resulted in a serious public concern over its quality and safety. The consumption of adulterated herbal products can lead to unex...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Comparison of White and African-American Attitudes Towards their HMO
The purpose of the study is determine whether there is a difference between African-Americans and Caucasians in the overall satisfaction and the satisfaction with certain aspects of the service with their heal...
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Cultural competence in medical education: aligning the formal, informal and hidden curricula
The concept of cultural competence has become reified by inclusion as an accreditation standard in the US and Canada, in New Zealand it is demanded through an Act of Parliament, and it pervades discussion in A...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Engineering Flexible Service-Oriented Transactions
The traditional ACID properties for transactions are not always appropriate in service-oriented environments. Instead, it is often preferable to “relax” the transactional guarantees, reducing isolation or atom...
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Article
Thyroid disease in children: part 2
Hyperthyroidism occurs secondary to overproduction of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland. This condition can have rather serious effects on children, and thus timely diagnosis and treatment are of utmost imp...
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The stability of cardiovascular reactivity: Effects of task-type and family history over a 3-year interval
Although there are now more than one-half dozen published studies examining the longitudinal stability of cardiovascular reactivity, methodological limitations leave several important issues unexplored. In thi...
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Connexin 40-Deficient Mice Exhibit Atrioventricular Conduction Abnormalities and Ventricular Arrhythmias
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Preparing for re-entry; A program for the sojourning student
A visitor to a new country is assaulted by many changes, both environmental and cultural. Expecting things to be different the visitor is shocked by what he/she finds, thus the term ‘culture shock’. A second s...
