Capnocytophaga canimorsus endocarditis with root abscess in a patient with a bicuspid aortic valve

Infective endocarditis caused by a zoonotic micro organism is a rare clinical condition. Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a commensal bacterium living in the saliva of dogs and cats which produces rarely reported endocarditis whose incidence may be underestimated, considering its failure to grow on standard media. We reported the case of a 65-year-old man with bicuspid aortic valve endocarditis and multiple abscesses of the aortic wall caused by the canine bacteria C. canimorsus

Focus groups as a tool in the construction of questionnaires: the case of discriminatory attitudes

Focus groups, Quantitative survey, Prejudice, Perceived threat, Discriminatory attitudes, Israel,

Nanoscale Coordination Polymers Exhibiting Luminescence Properties and NMR Relaxivity

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On Robust Constitution Design

We study a class of representation mechanisms, based on reports made by a random subset of agents, called representatives, in a collective choice problem with quasi-linear utilities. We do not assume the existence of a common prior probability describing the distribution of preference types. In addition, there is no benevolent planner. Decisions will be carried out by an individual who cannot be assumed impartial, a self-interested executive. These assumptions impose new constraints on Mechanism Design. A robust mechanism is defined as maximizing expected welfare under a vague prior probability distribution, and over a set of mechanisms which is at the same time immune from opportunistic manipulations by the executive, and compatible with truthful revelation of preferences by representatives. Robust mechanisms are characterized and their existence is shown. Sampling Groves mechanisms are shown to be robust. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007collective choice, incomplete information, mechanism design, representative democracy, D7, D8, H0,