Publications by authors named "Daniel Britton"

Soqotra, an island situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in the northwest Indian Ocean between Africa and Arabia, is home to ~60,000 people subsisting through fishing and semi-nomadic pastoralism who speak a Modern South Arabian language. Most of what is known about Soqotri history derives from writings of foreign travellers who provided little detail about local people, and the geographic origins and genetic affinities of early Soqotri people has not yet been investigated directly. Here we report genome-wide data from 39 individuals who lived between ~650 and 1750 CE at six locations across the island and document strong genetic connections between Soqotra and the similarly isolated Hadramawt region of coastal South Arabia that likely reflects a source for the peopling of Soqotra.

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A series of novel lanthanum amido complexes, supported by ligands designed around the salan framework (salan = ,'-(-hydroxy, -di--butylbenzyl)-1,2-diaminoethane) were synthesized and fully characterized in the solid and solution states. The ligands incorporate benzyl or 2-pyridyl substituents at each tertiary amine center. The complexes were investigated as catalysts in the ring-opening homopolymerization of lactide (LA) and ε-caprolactone (ε-CL) and copolymerization of equimolar amounts of LA and ε-CL at ambient temperature.

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Background: Care of the sexual assault patient in the Emergency Department can be challenging due to complex pharmacologic interventions, evidence-collection procedures, and concomitant injury.

Objective: We sought to determine the effect of a standard, computerized order set for the treatment of adult victims of sexual assault on compliance with current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for the treatment of this population.

Methods: This study utilized a pretest-post-test design to evaluate the implementation of a standardized order set that provided clinicians with treatment recommendations consistent with CDC guidelines.

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