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Selected AbstractsBathing and cleansing in newborns from day 1 to first year of life: recommendations from a European round table meetingJOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY & VENEREOLOGY, Issue 7 2009U Blume-Peytavi Abstract Background, Development of the skin barrier continues up to 12 months after birth; therefore, care must be taken when cleansing and bathing infants' skin. Available guidelines for skin care in newborns are, however, limited. In 2007, the 1st European Round Table meeting on ,Best Practice for Infant Cleansing' was held, at which a panel of expert dermatologists and paediatricians from across Europe aimed to provide a consensus on infant bathing and cleansing. Outcomes, Based on discussions at the meeting and a comprehensive literature review, the panel developed a series of recommendations relating to several aspects of infant skin care, including initial and routine bathing, safety while bathing, and post-bathing procedures. The panel also focused on the use of liquid cleansers in bathing, particularly relating to the benefits of liquid cleansers over water alone, and the criteria that should be used when choosing an appropriate liquid cleanser for infants. Alkaline soaps have numerous disadvantages compared with liquid cleansers, with effects on skin pH and lipid content, as well as causing skin drying and irritation. Liquid cleansers used in newborns should have documented evidence of their mildness on skin and eyes, and those containing an emollient may have further benefits. Finally, the panel discussed seasonal differences in skin care, and issues relating to infants at high risk of atopic dermatitis. The panel further discussed the need of clinical studies to investigate the impact of liquid cleansers on skin physiology parameters on newborns' and infants' skin. Conclusions, Bathing is generally superior to washing, provided basic safety procedures are followed, and has psychological benefits for the infant and parents. When bathing infants with a liquid cleanser, a mild one not altering the normal pH of the skin surface or causing irritation to skin or eyes should be chosen. Conflicts of interest M.J. Cork and F. Vanaclocha are advisors to Johnson and Johnson. U. Blume-Peytavi is a member of the advisory board of the ,Penaten Beirat', Johnson & Johnson, Germany. J. Faergemann, C. Gelmetti, J. Szczapa declared to have no conflict of interest. [source] Fortune and the Sinner: Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory's Morte DarthurLITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2008Marilyn Corrie Criticism has debated the causes of the fall of the Round Table in Malory's Morte Darthur. While Malory's protagonists have been blamed for some of the disasters that befall them, other factors have been implicated as well. Arthur's dream of Fortune's Wheel on the eve of his climactic battle with Mordred has been thought to show that metaphysical forces over which human beings have no control bear some blame in the king's destruction. This interpretation makes the Morte discrepant with other canonical late-medieval English texts that contemplate Fortune's role in men's suffering. As is well known, in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, Chaucer undermines the tendency of his pagan characters to blame what happens to them on Fortune. Both texts suggest that their protagonists determine their own fates, an idea that was impressed on Chaucer when he translated Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae. In Chaucer's Monk's Tale, Fortune is often (if not always) the agent of a fate that her victim has determined through sinfulness. In the prologue of the roughly contemporary Confessio Amantis, John Gower also claims that Fortune serves the fate that people have earned through the moral qualities of their deeds. The same idea is propounded in John Lydgate's Fall of Princes, although recent criticism has argued that certain narratives in this text contradict the claims that Lydgate makes for them. The article argues that we might, in fact, see a continuity between Fortune's role in the Morte and the role that is ascribed to her in the writings of Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate. Malory's work is usually said to have little in common with these writings, but future research might probe ways in which it does share their concerns and ideas. [source] Round Table: How to Promote Awareness on Sexual Health in the General Population: L22: European Sexual Awareness Event 2003 and 2004THE JOURNAL OF SEXUAL MEDICINE, Issue 2004Edoardo S. Pescatori [source] Round Table: New Frontiers in Sexual Medicine: L11: The Relationship between Erectile Dysfunction and Lower Urinary Tract SymptomsTHE JOURNAL OF SEXUAL MEDICINE, Issue 2004Kevin T. McVary MD [source] Round Table: New Frontiers in Sexual Medicine: L13: The First Phase I Human Gene Transfer Trial: Ion Channel Therapy for the treatment ED-Preliminary ResultsTHE JOURNAL OF SEXUAL MEDICINE, Issue 2004Arnold Melman MD [source] Round Table on "Fire, Water, Earth, and Sky: Global Systems History and the Human Prospect": An IntroductionTHE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Issue 3 2010Peter A. CoclanisArticle first published online: 2 SEP 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social OrganizationANTIPODE, Issue 4 2010William K. Carroll Abstract:, This article explores the emerging shape and form of the European corporate community since 1996. We examine the cohesion of corporate Europe through the network of interlocking corporate directorates and memberships in the European Round Table of Industrialists. We focus on the unequal structure of representation; the interplay of national and transnational aspects of the network; the role of finance capitalists as a signpost of a regime of internationalized finance capital; and the embeddedness of corporate Europe in the global corporate network. Although the transnational European network gained in strength while national networks eroded, expansion of the European network did not negate a structure of representation favoring the northwest. Bankers became less dominant, yet industrialists with financial connections formed the core of the European corporate community, signaling a departure from national corporate communities centered upon banks. At the threshold of the current economic crisis, corporate Europe comprised the most integrated segment of the global corporate elite. [source] Introductory remarks to the Round TableACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 2002B Boles Carenini No abstract is available for this article. [source] Proteomics application exercise of the Swiss Proteomics Society: Report of the SPS'02 sessionPROTEINS: STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS, Issue 8 2003Pierre-Alain Binz Abstract After the success of the mass spectrometry (MS) round table that was held at the first Swiss Proteomics Society congress (SPS'01) in Geneva, the SPS has organized a proteomics application exercise and allocated a full session at the SPS'02 congress. The main objective was to encourage the exchange of expertise in protein identification, with a focus on the use of mass spectrometry, and to create a bridge between the users' questions and the instrument providers' solutions. Two samples were sent to fifteen interested labs, including academic groups and MS hardware providers. Participants were asked to identify and partially characterize the samples. They consisted of a complex mixture of peptide/proteins (sample A) and an almost pure recombinant peptide carrying post-translational modifications (sample B). Sample A was an extract of snake venom from the species Bothrops jararaca. Sample B was a recombinant and modified peptide derived from the shrimp Penaeus vannamei penaeidin 3a. The eight labs that returned results reported the use of a wide range of MS instrumentation and techniques. They mentioned a variety of time and manpower allocations. The origin of sample A was generally identified together with a number of database protein entries. The difficulty of the sample identification lay in the incomplete knowledge of the Bothrops species genome sequence and is discussed. Sample B was generally and correctly identified as penaeidin. However, only one group reported the full primary structure. Interestingly, the approaches were again varied and are discussed in the text. [source] GIQAR position paper on ,Archiving and Good Laboratory Practice',QUALITY ASSURANCE JOURNAL, Issue 4 2005M. M. Brunetti Abstract Archiving of documents and specimens generated during a non-clinical laboratory study is a basic Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) requirement. The records and materials that should be archived as well as the characteristics and the organisation of archive facilities are addressed in the OECD Series on Principles of Good Laboratory Practice No. 1 (OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice (as revised in 1997) [1]. However, in recent years, questions concerning archiving have been raised and the need for a more detailed guidance on this matter has become evident The aim of the Society for Applied Pharmacological Sciences/Italian Group of Quality Assurance in Research (SSFA/GIQAR) working group on ,Archiving according to GLP' was to issue a position paper, present it for discussion in an ad hoc round table with representatives of the Italian GLP monitoring authority to promote common standards and to provide additional recommendations on storage and retention of records. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | |||||||||||||