An impressive body of evidence supports the concept that multiple dietary factors affect blood pressure.1 Typically, the blood pressure response to manipulation of a single nutrient is modest and heterogeneous; that is, the response can vary by baseline nutrient intake, baseline blood pressure, demographic factors, genetic polymorphisms, and other host factors. In this setting, the search for n...

OspG is a secreted effector kinase from the human pathogen Shigella that is required for the reduction of immune responses during Shigella infection. A new study in The EMBO Journal provides a co-crystal structure of OspG bound to UbcH5c~Ub, revealing how a bacterial kinase can be activated by the host ubiquitin conjugation machinery. These results provide molecular insight into an enigmatic mi...

Using a sample of 628 homeless youth and young adults from eight U.S. cities, this study examines whether the relationship between having been in custody of social services and suicide attempts, and the relationship between engaging in survival sex and suicide attempts differ based on sexual orientation. Findings suggest that being in custody of social services is associated with a significant ...

This study examined the interplay between interparental conflict and child cortisol reactivity to interparental conflict in predicting child maladjustment in a sample of 178 families and their kindergarten children. Consistent with the allostatic load hypothesis (McEwen & Stellar, 1993), results indicated that interparental conflict was indirectly related to child maladjustment through its asso...

This study aimed to compare maltreating mothers and non-maltreating mothers on attributions and affects related to child behaviors. It also assessed how attributions predict affective and behavioral reactions to child behaviors. The study population comprised of a community-based sample of mothers with children aged 2 to 4 years (n = 238). Mothers' attributions and affect were assessed using vi...

BACKGROUND Spirometry before and after bronchodilator is performed to assess air flow-limitation reversibility. In patients with normal baseline spirometry the frequency of a positive bronchodilator response, as defined by American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society criteria, has not been described. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed adult patients tested in 2 academic pulmonary ...

Let T be a subgroup of finite index in SLn(Z) with n > 3. We show that every continuous action of T on the circle 51 or on the real line R factors through an action of a finite quotient of T. This follows from the algebraic fact that central extensions of T are not right orderable. (In particular, T is not right orderable.) More generally, the same results hold if T is any arithmetic subgroup o...

Despite substantial increases in immunization rates, measles remains a major health problem in developing countries of Southeast Asia. The authors of this paper undertook separate investigations which examined factors influencing measles immunization acceptance in the rural Philippines, Central Java, Indonesia, and an impoverished neighborhood in Bangkok, Thailand. We briefly summarize the find...

The purpose of this study was to compare work ethic of manufacturing machine operators between a selfdirected work team and a traditional work team based on four work ethic subscales and identify differences in work ethic based on six demographic factors. The major findings from the study indicated there were significant differences in the work ethic between machine operators in self-directed w...