Craving on the move: targeting smoking memories with a novel 3MDR-smoking cessation protocol.

Introduction: Improved effectiveness and treatment adherence is needed in smoking cessation (SC) therapies. Another important challenge is to disrupt maladaptive drug-related memories. To achieve these goals, we developed a novel treatment strategy on the basis of motion-assisted memory desensitization and reprocessing (3MDR).

Can we gain precision by sampling with probabilities proportional to size in surveying recent landscape changes in the Netherlands?

Seventy-two squares of 100 ha were selected by stratified random sampling with probabilities proportional to size (pps) to survey landscape changes in the period 1996-2003. The area of the plots times the urbanization pressure was used as a size measure. The central question of this study is whether the sampling with probabilities proportional to size leads to gain in precision compared to equal probability sampling.

Tolerance of Salmonella Enteritidis and Staphylococcus aureus to surface cleaning and household bleach.

Effective cleaning and sanitizing of food preparation sites is important because pathogens are readily spread to food contact surfaces after preparation of contaminated raw products. Tolerance of Salmonella Enteritidis and Staphylococcus aureus to surface cleaning by wiping with regular, microfiber, and antibacterial-treated cloths was investigated. Wiping with cleaning cloths resulted in a considerable reduction of microorganisms from surfaces, despite the greater difficulty in removing S.

Partridge osteosynthesis: a prospective clinical study on the use of nylon cerclage bands and plates in the treatment of periprosthetic femoral shaft fractures.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical use of the Partridge osteosynthesis in periprosthetic femoral fractures.

Design And Setting: Prospective nonrandomized clinical study.

Patients: Over a ten-year period, 222 patients presenting with femoral fractures near the tip of a hip prosthesis were treated with the Partridge system, which employs elevated cerclage nylon bands and flexible elevated nylon plates.

[Nothing gained from the determinations of plasma lactate levels in the evaluation of a patient with acute abdomen].

Objective: To establish the diagnostic value of laboratory tests, especially the plasma lactate concentration, for determination of the indication for acute surgery in patients with an acute abdomen.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Kennemer Gasthuis, location Elisabeth Gasthuis, Haarlem, the Netherlands.