These and other letters, including a letter from Dr L. I. Taft reporting on the first brain the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) received, are not included in the published Gajdusek correspondence of the early days. On 4th February, John Gunther sent another letter to Gray Anderson in which he wrote, ‘The Government Anthropologist has visited Fore and informs me the Administration is losi...

More than $5.6 billion was paid under employee-benefit plans during 1957 to workers covered by theplans and to their dependents. Because many of the plans supplement government measures for economic security, their operations are of special interest to students of social security and are reported each year in the Bulletin. The following article, in addition to bringing together information on d...

introduction: kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis that usually involves children younger than 5 years old. etiology is unknown and since there is no labaratory test to diagnose kawasaki disease, the major diagnosis is based on clinical findings .the objective of this study was to determine incidence, complications, time of treatment and clinical manifestations in children with kawasaki di...

BACKGROUND While prior studies have quantified the mortality burden of the 1957 H2N2 influenza pandemic at broad geographic regions in the United States, little is known about the pandemic impact at a local level. Here we focus on analyzing the transmissibility and mortality burden of this pandemic in Arizona, a setting where the dry climate was promoted as reducing respiratory illness transmis...

Francesco Ruggiero (1957–2007) was a brilliant accelerator physicist, an inventive researcher, a great collaborator, an excellent mentor, and a true gentleman. We here take a look at Francesco’s scientific work, and highlight some of his contributions to accelerator physics. More details can be found in the slides presented by the speakers of the Francesco Ruggiero Memorial Symposium held at CE...

TSAI, L., S. M. SIGWARD, C. D. POLLARD, M. J. FLETCHER, and C. M. POWERS. Effects of Fatigue and Recovery on Knee Mechanics during Side-Step Cutting. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 41, No. 10, pp. 1952–1957, 2009. Introduction: Changes in knee mechanics immediately after a fatiguing bout of exercise are thought to place an individual at a greater risk for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury....

This study aimed to investigate the impact of methylxanthine abstinence (MA) periods on CYP1A2 activity in individuals with varying levels of caffeine consumption through development of a population pharmacokinetic model of caffeine and its major metabolite paraxanthine. This study developed and evaluated a mixed-effects pharmacokinetic model for caffeine and paraxanthine concentration-time dat...