Background: Many patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) have valvular heart disease
requiring surgery. The optimal prosthetic valve is not established in this population. We …

Background: Many patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) have valvular heart disease
requiring surgery. The optimal prosthetic valve is not established in this population. We …

… The first was Brooke Newsome, a girl in my class with wavy blonde hair, freckles on the …
Mostly Brooke and I saved our small supplies of water to squirt at each other. The other was …

… David Newsome's monumental history takes a good, long look at the Victorian age and what
… David Newsome weaves all these strands of Victorian life into a compelling evocation of the …

Background: Adapting to extreme heat is becoming more critical as our climate changes.
Previous research reveals that very few communities in the United States have programs to …

Background The burden of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing globally,
and a major priority is to identify patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) who are …

Background African-Americans have the greatest gender-ratio imbalance compared to other
racial groups in the United States. This has been associated with higher rates of concurrent …

This Handbook is a primer on the European Union (EU) crisis. Europe has faced a decade
of profound crises and this volume takes stock of their consequences for the EU. Despite …

This dissertation examined how perceptions of low availability of male partners in the African-American
community influences HIV risk behavior in unmarried, college-educated African-…

Videogames have become a ubiquitous form of cultural entertainment. Within popular culture,
they are often seen as offering fun, thrilling or pleasurable experiences, and scholarship …