THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE OUTLAW IN URBAN HAITI

The Shifting Contours of the Outlaw in Urban Haiti

In what follows, I discuss some initial empirical findings and theoretical inmi insights from my recent work on transnational resettlement of crime-based deportees from the US to Haiti.Haitian baz, or street organizations, are increasingly taking on the trappings of the urban gang to maintain relevance and control of their zones.Simultaneously, gan

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Fulminant Staphylococcus lugdunensis septicaemia following a pelvic varicella-zoster virus infection in an immune-deficient patient: a case report

Abstract Introduction The deadly threat of systemic infections with coagulase negative Staphylococcus lugdunensis despite an appropriate antibiotic therapy has only recently been recognized.The predominant infectious focus observed so far Lacrosse Balls is left-sided native heart valve endocarditis, but bone and soft tissue infections, septicaemia

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No control genes required: Bayesian analysis of qRT-PCR data.

BackgroundModel-based analysis of data from quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) is potentially more powerful and versatile than traditional methods.Yet existing model-based approaches cannot properly deal with the higher sampling variances associated with low-abundant targets, nor do they provide a natural way to incorporate assumption

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