In this article, Professor Allen Blair examines the preeminent role of exclusivity in open-quantity contracts under the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”). Although the text of the UCC does not mandate that open-quantity contracts be exclusive, the vast majority of courts considering the issue have held that exclusivity is necessary to prevent such contracts from failing for lack of mutuality of o...

By a candidate gene approach, we analyzed the promoter methylation (PM) of 8 genes genes (ARF, TIMP3, RAR-β2, NID2, CCNA1, AIM1, CALCA and CCND2) by quantitative methylation specific PCR (QMSP) in DNA of 17 non-recurrent and 19 recurrent noninvasive low grade papillary urothelial cell carcinoma (LGPUCC) archival tissues. Among the genes tested, by establishing an empiric cutoff value, CCND2, CC...

In this paper we set out to substantiate by reference to two closely related languages, Catalan and Spanish, the claim that object clitic omission in child grammar has a non-accidental correlation with participle agreement. We argue that the correlation follows from the fact that in participle agreement languages objects need to double check with two functional projections; this double checking...

Mitotic cell death (MCD) is a prominent but poorly defined form of death that stems from aberrant mitosis. One of the early steps in MCD is premature mitosis and uneven chromatin condensation (UCC). The mechanism underlying this phenomenon is currently unknown. In this study, we show that DNA damage in cells with a compromised p53-mediated G2/M checkpoint triggers the unscheduled activation of ...

In this retrospective pilot study, the feasibility of the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) as an imaging target for lymph node (LN) metastatic disease of urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) of the bladder was investigated. LN metastases and LNs without metastases of patients who underwent pelvic lymph node dissection because of muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) were used. Primary tumor...

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) accompanying loss of E-cadherin is important for invasiveness and metastasis of bladder cancer. MicroRNAs (miRs) had been associated with cancer progression and differentiation in several cancers. Our goal is to find out the specific miR which modulates EMT in bladder cancer. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction was used to measure the miRs ex...

web 2.0 and its applications spread widely among internet users. Taking advantage of the easy, the friendly and the rich user interfaces. As consequence, the creation and the production of content become available to anyone. The ordinary user has step forward toward being a producer rather than remaining passive consumer. With this usage shifting, a new concern emerged: the quality of the User-...

Traditional connection oriented protocols like TCP NewReno perform poorly over wireless links. The problem lies in their design assumptions based on loss based congestion control. Various modifications to loss based congestion control schemes have so far been proposed to overcome the issue. In addition, the comparatively newer family of delay based congestion control mechanisms like Caia-Hamilt...