Gajdusek

Gaj·du·sek

(gī′də-shĕk′), D(aniel) Carleton Born 1923.

American virologist. He shared a 1976 Nobel Prize for research on the origin and spread of infectious diseases.

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This begins when he witnesses a difficult pregnancy in "Indian Camp." Robert Gajdusek notes some of the similarities, stating that the early stories "study the dereliction and failure of fathers, unnatural birth processes, and flawed nurturing" (250).

Ernest Hemingway in Turkey: From the Quai at Smyrna to A Farewell to Arms

Carleton Gajdusek first in search of yaws, and later Kuru (Lindenbaum 2009); and then a very violent 1963 skirmish with the visiting Australian government patrol officer and a police squad in the Sambia Valley (Herdt 1985); and hence 'decontrol' of the area in 1968, which triggered outmigration.

Intimate Consumption and New Sexual Subjects Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea

[4.] Perl DP, Gajdusek DC, Garruto RM, Yanagihara RT, Gibbs CJ.

Effect of aluminum toxicity and Bacopa monnieri on hexokinase enzyme activity in Wistar albino rats

(31.) Lee PW, Yanagihara R, Gibbs CJ Jr, Gajdusek DC.

Multiplex PCR-Based Next-Generation Sequencing and Global Diversity of Seoul Virus in Humans and Rats

Gajdusek, "Experimental infection with Puumala virus, the etiologic agent of nephropathia epidemica, in bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus)," Journal of Virology, vol.

Urinary Clusterin Is Upregulated in Nephropathia Epidemica

Dalglish underlined their superiority early in the second half before Miroslav Gajdusek fired a consolation.

My dad knew we would win when he saw shaking in tunnel the Czech stars' knees; 40 YEARS ON RECORD SPECIAL ON AN UNFORGETTABLE SCOTS VICTORY; Ally's son Andy relives the magic of 1977 win that put us on brink of World Cup

Gajdusek presented on best practice techniques for IV cannulation in the perioperative environment.

Busy study session in Timaru

In the literature related to reading English as a second language, it has been widely acknowledged that meta-cognitive awareness is significant in not only enhancing teaching and learning reading, but is also an important factor in improving reading comprehension (Auerbach & Paxton, 1997; Baker, 2008; Carrell, 1989; Carrell, Gajdusek, & Wise, 1998).

Assessing students' meta-cognitive awareness reading strategies in Jordan

(14.) Brown P, Gibbs CJ, Gajdusek DC, Cathala F, LaBauge R.

Study of mortality from infectious diseases in Brazil from 2005 to 2010: risks involved in handling corpses/Estudo da mortalidade no Brasil por doencas infecciosas, de 2005 a 2010: riscos envolvidos no manejo de cadaveres

(9.) Gajdusek DC, Salazar AM (1982) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinsonian syndroms in high incidence among the Auya and Jakai people of West New Guinea.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis plus syndrome: a rare case report

Daniel Gajdusek, Michale Alpers, and Baruch Blumberg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1976 for their research demonstrating prion diseases were infectious across species, so this is of great concern to humans.

Zombies and the walking dead: deadly serious or just plain silly?

"Don't put your faith in me, Alice -- I promise I'll disappoint you,'' Peter says at one point, and Brosnan's grave delivery almost makes you ignore the fact that it's exactly the kind of line Pee-wee Herman ruined for troubled loners when he gave Dottie the kiss-off back in 1985's "Pee-wee Herman's Big Adventure.'' This episode in Granger's "November Man'' series, "There Are No Spies,'' was published two years after that, and Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek's script does little to disguise the fact that we've seen and heard all of this many, many times since.