Baroreflex (BR) and cerebral autoregulation (CA) are two important mechanisms regulating blood pressure and flow. However, the functional relationship between BR and CA in humans is unknown. Since BR impairment is an adverse prognostic indicator for both cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases it would be of clinical interest to better understand the relationship between BR and CA. Motivated by th...

Worldwide coliform bacteria are used as indicators of fecal contamination and hence, the possible presence of disease causing organisms. Therefore, it is important to understand the potential and limitations of these indicator organisms before realistically implementing guidelines and regulations to safeguard our water resources and public health. This review addresses the limitations of curren...

For the purposes of this paper we shall consider any process enhanced by raising carrier densities as recombinat ion enhanced, even where the carrier densities are raised by ionizing radiation, injection or some indirect mechanism. These processes have two special features. (1) Either the processes are athermal or they show only a weak temperature dependence. As a result, processes may occur at...

Introduction: We observed serum transthyretin (TTR) constantly maintained low even with adequate nutritional support if the patients’ general conditions are poor. We conducted this study to analyze the change of serum TTR with time from injury in massive burn patient and verify the validity of prediction of clinical outcome with serum TTR of early post-burn period. Methods: From January of 2005...

L y ° 1***' N o~ 6 8 ____________________________________________________________________________ W ed nesday , January 25, 1978 by Mark Perry Staff Reporter Fr. Jam es T. B urtchaell, a t a sm all gatherin in F isher Hall last n igh t, s ta ted th a t he believes studen ts are p ressu red into study­ ing for certain professions and are th u s losing m any of th e benefits of a liberal educatio...

Sudderth, L. K. (2003). An uphill climb: The challenge of collaboration in response to family violence in a rural area. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 8(4), 17-39. The Community Partnership Team (CPT) was created to more effectively address the problems of child sexual victimization and domestic violence in the rural, northeast corner of Connecticut. A multidisciplinary team was ...

This paper presents a methodology for using a generic data-driven spatial access method as a communication mechanism for vario-scale data in a server-client setting. As a complete data set is often quite large, it is managed at the server side and supporting different scale levels is important. We show that a generic R-tree like grouping method, commonly used for efficiently organizing and retr...

INTRODUCTION: Post-traumatic arthritis (PTA) is a frequent cause of disability and occurs most commonly and predictably after articular fracture [1-2]. Importantly, more severe fractures, characterized by greater displacement of the articular surface and greater degree of comminution, have a worse prognosis [3]. Thus energy of injury and subsequent intra-articular fracture severity may play a f...

In order to evaluate the response of commonly occurring green and orange fluorescent host-based pigments, a thermal stress experiment was performed on specimens of the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata. Seven paired samples were collected from a small oceanic reef near Lee Stocking Island in the Bahamas. Seven of the fourteen corals were subjected to elevated temperatures for 28 d, followed...

The essentiality of histidine in healthy adults is a controversial topic. To study the potential metabolic effects of a lack of exogenous histidine, four healthy adults consumed a histidine-free diet, with adequate energy and 1.0 g/(kg d) of an L-amino acid mixture for 48 d. Protein metabolism was monitored every 4 d by using indicator amino acid (L-[1-C]phenylalanine) oxidation (in four subjec...