BACTERIAL FITNESS IN CHRONIC WOUNDS APPEARS TO BE MEDIATED BY THE CAPACITY FOR HIGH-DENSITY GROWTH, NOT VIRULENCE OR BIOFILM FUNCTIONS.

Bacterial fitness in chronic wounds appears to be mediated by the capacity for high-density growth, not virulence or biofilm functions.

While much is known about acute infection pathogenesis, the understanding of chronic infections has lagged.Here we sought to identify the genes and functions that mediate fitness of the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chronic wound infections, and to better understand the selective kt196 torque converter environment in wounds.We found that clini

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Exploring the effects of polls on public opinion: How and when media reports of policy preferences can become self-fulfilling prophesies

Recent work has suggested that media reporting about the public’s policy preferences may be self-reinforcing, contributing to greater policy conformity.This article presents additional evidence in support of this theory and adds new detail about the conditionality of these aptamil allerpro effects.Results from two experiments are described in whi

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Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and Opium

It is not news to suggest that the law treated drugs like opium differently in the nineteenth century compared to today.These days, opium falls within the category of psychoactive drugs, for the purposes of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016.This is because it ‘produces a psychoactive effect in a person … by stimulating or depressing the per

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Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

A central finding in earlier research on work orientation is that there are substantial age-differences regarding attitudes to work.Generally, more older workers describe their jobs as intrinsically meaningful than younger workers.This result has been interpreted in three different ways, the psychological, the cultural, and the structural hypothes

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