Use of a topical anhydrous silicone base containing fatty acids from pracaxi oil in a patient with a diabetic ulcer.

Objectives: The treatment of diabetic ulceration of the lower extremities is a complicated task due to the nature of the ulcer and potential underlying comorbidities. This report describes the case of a 61-year-old male patient with Type 2 Diabetes who presented with an ulcerative leg wound. The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcome of a topical compounded treatment.

Rethink, Reform, Reenter: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Prison Programming.

The purpose of this article was to present a description and first-stage evaluation of the impact of the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program on the learning experience of participating prerelease inmates at a Mississippi maximum-security prison and their perception of the transfer of skills learned in program into securing employment upon reentry. The Ice House Entrepreneurship Program is a 12-week program facilitated by volunteer university professors to inmates in a prerelease unit of a maximum-security prison in Mississippi. Participants' perspectives were examined through content analysis of inmates' answers to program Reflection and Response Assignments and interviews.

An Efficient and Accurate Formalism for the Treatment of Large Amplitude Intramolecular Motion.

We propose a general approach to describe large amplitude motions (LAM) with multiple degrees of freedom (DOF) in molecules or reaction intermediates, which is useful for the computation of thermochemical or kinetic data. The kinetic part of the LAM Lagrangian is derived using a Z-matrix internal coordinate representation within a new numerical procedure. This derivation is exact for a classical system, and the uncertainties on the prediction of observable quantities largely arise from uncertainties on the LAM potential energy surface (PES) itself.

The GoodNEWS (Genes, Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness, and Spiritual Growth) Trial: a community-based participatory research (CBPR) trial with African-American church congregations for reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors--recruitment, measurement, and randomization.

Introduction: Although cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death among Americans, significant disparities persist in CVD prevalence, morbidity, and mortality based on race and ethnicity. However, few studies have examined risk factor reduction among the poor and ethnic minorities.

Methods: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) study using a cluster randomized design--African-American church congregations are the units of randomization and individuals within the congregations are the units of analysis.

Fine-scale phylogeographic congruence despite demographic incongruence in two low-mobility saproxylic springtails.

Evolutionary trajectories of codistributed taxa with comparable ecological preferences and dispersal abilities may be similarly impacted by historical landscape-level processes. Species' responses to changes in a shared biogeographic landscape may be purely concerted, completely independent, or classified as falling within an intermediate part of the continuum bounded by these two extremes. With sufficient molecular data, temporal contrasts of congruence among taxa with respect to these responses can be made.

Triplet instability in doublet systems.

Some problems associated with unrestricted wave functions for open-shell molecules are discussed in the contest of coupled-cluster calculation of molecular properties. Particular attention is given to a phenomenon akin to the "triplet instability" of closed-shell molecules, where the approximate spin pairing of a nominal pair of electrons in the unrestricted Hartree-Fock wave function begins to give way to significant spin polarization. This problem-which gives rise to pronounced spin contamination-is discussed from the point of view of orbital instability and occupation numbers of the charge density matrix.