Please address correspondence, proofs and reprints to: Dr. Irshad H. Chaudry Center for Surgical Research University of Alabama at Birmingham 1670 University Boulevard Volker Hall, Room G094 Birmingham Alabama 35294-0019 Phone: (205) 975-2195 Fax: (205) 975-9719 E-mail: [email protected] Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (April 29, 2004). 10.1152/ajpregu.00214.2004

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the applicability of the 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12) as an instrument to measure health-related quality of life in a sample of patients with progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) through the analysis of its reproducibility and its correlation with functional and clinical parameters. METHODS A test-retest reproducibility study for the comparative analysis of t...

Kurzfassung. Die computerassistierte Diagnose (CADx) für die Unterscheidung von Herdbefunden in Mammogrammen hat das Potential, Radiologen bei der Entscheidungsfindung zu unterstützen. Für ein von uns entwickeltes CADx-System haben wir eine Gruppe von neuen Merkmalen entwickelt, die auf einem Ansatz basieren, bei dem die Läsion in Abhängigkeit vom Abstand zum Rand der Segmentierung in verschied...

Cff%E OF PROJECT: Research in Marine Fungi Objectives: (l) Development of a metal-buffer6d artificial sea water and a more defined medium to peinlt harvesting large quantities of Labyrlnthula cells. (2) Development of a completely synthetic medium for Thraustochytrium and determination of its response to cobalamin. (3) Determination of the specificity of the steroid requirement of Labyrlnthula ...

Climate change is expected to have large, negative effects on the global economy. Adaptation by individuals and firms will determine, in part, how much damage ultimately occurs. This paper introduces a method for estimating forward-looking adaptation based on changes in expectations about the weather, provides conditions under which public forecasts provide good measures for these expectations,...

Micro-sensor nodes are highly energy-constrained and have timevarying performance demands. Accordingly, in this work an ultralow-power energy-scalable ADC is presented. The SAR architecture is well suited to environment monitoring. Recent micropower implementations have been limited to low resolutions (8 bits) [1]. The circuit and architecture enhancements presented in this paper efficiently in...

The paper examines the main issues involved in translating domestic bankruptcy procedures to the sovereign context. It considers some of the principles by which domestic bankruptcy procedures operate, and the extent to which they apply to international lending. Two recent proposals are considered in more detail, that of Krueger (2001) and that of Pettifor (2002). The paper also considers the qu...