Women who have decided to seek legal remedies through civil protection orders are taking bold steps to end abusive relationships. However, the civil protection order process can be complicated by situational and relational ...

This article provides a preliminary look into the ways in which lesbian and bisexual women experience sexual agency through their enactment of masculinity or femininity, delimiting women from their traditionally cast roles ...

Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) is an acute respiratory disease of chickens that can result in decreased egg production and increased mortality. A tissue culture origin vaccine (TCO), several chicken embryo origin ...

The ocular lens is a transparent tissue within the eye that focuses light on the retina and facilitates high-resolution vision. Cataract is an eye disease that results due to the loss of lens transparency and causes severely ...

Previous studies showed that HS-5 cells secret unidentified factor(s) inducing PCa cell death. Herein, the HS-5 derived factor (HS-5 DF) was characterized and identified. HS-5 DF had protein characteristics being trypsin ...

The immediate goal of this study was to develop and validate a noninvasive, computational surface mapping approach for measuring scapular kinematics by using available motion capture technology in an innovative manner. The ...

Background: Walking speed has been used to predict the efficacy of gait training; however, poststroke motor impairments are heterogeneous and different biomechanical strategies may underlie the same walking speed. Identifying ...

Male reproductive development is mediated by hormone signaling events. A surge of testis testosterone production occurs during a critical window: gestational days 15-18 in the rat and gestational weeks 10-22 in the human. ...

Legionella pneumophila is a gram-negative opportunistic bacterial pathogen that infects human alveolar macrophages, which causes a severe form of pneumonia known as Legionnaires’ disease. During infection, Legionella ...