Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common comorbidity in cats with hypercalcemia, but whether CKD is a risk factor for hypercalcemia is unclear.Hypercalcemia often is diagnosed based on total calcium concentration (tCa), which tends to underestimate the ionized calcium concentration (iCa) in cats.Objectives Assessment of the performance o
Compound eyes in Course a pied - Homme - Vetements - Chandail - Short sleeves insects are primary visual receptors of surrounding environments.They show considerable design variations, from the apposition vision of most day-active species to the superposition vision of nocturnal insects, that sacrifice resolution to increase sensitivity and are abl
Accidental overdoses are now the leading cause of death among people with HIV (PWH) in British Columbia (BC).We examined the utilization and retention of opioid agonist therapy (OAT).Adult PWH (≥19 years) with ≥ 1 OAT dispensation in BC between 2008 and 2020 were included (n = 1,515).OAT treatment episodes were formed based on specific cri
This article employs BODY LOTION a comparative approach to connect cities and cinemas by discussing the presence of the urban space in the films Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, 1995), Head-On (Gegen die Wand, Fatih Akin,2004), Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007) and What Time Is It There? (Ni Neibian Jidian, Tsai M