As the S&T Adviser, Dr. Dehgan serves as the key focal point for implementing the Administrator's vision to restore science and technology to its rightful place within USAID and ensure that USAID is the global leader on employing science, technology, and creativity to help solve traditional and persistent development challenges in novel ways.
Floods have become more expensive disasters with persistent development along waterfronts.
Many vaccine candidates have been proposed, but the high cost of clinical testing has underscored a need for prioritization, and led to persistent calls for development of in vitro functional tests correlated with immune protection in humans.
In one patient, eEVAR was converted to an OPEN procedure due to persistent hemodynamic instability and development of a distended abdomen during surgery (Table 3).
However, the present data do not refute a potential role of prenatal exposure to persistent organochlorines in the development of obesity.
Immunodeficiency predisposes to persistent HPV infections and the development of generalized verrucosis (2, 3 ).
The mechanisms underlying progression to persistent asthma, characterised by the development of a relatively stable Th2-biased immunological response and structural remodelling of the airways, remain unclear.
The results demonstrate that the inhibition of transient BMP signaling at the end of Müller glial development leads to persistent disruption in retinal structure and function.
Delayed wound healing, immature scar development due to persistent chronic inflammation, may be predicted by a lowered collagen type I/III ratio [ 16, 17].
Barker hypothesized that fetal undernutrition during critical periods of vulnerability in early development leads to persistent changes in hormone levels and in altered tissue sensitivity to these hormones, permanently altering the metabolism and body structure (Hinchliffe et al. 1992; Lumbers et al. 2001).
