THROUGH 1979, immunosuppressive therapy for liver transplantation at our center was with azathioprine (or cyclophosphamide) and steroids, to which antilymphocyte gloublin (ALG) was usually added. 13 Failure was more frequent than success. Nevertheless, 55 (32.4%) of the first 170 recipients treated from 1963 on in Denver survived for more than a year, and 31 (18.2%) passed or are just reaching ...

Research on political activism compares the ways that citizens participate, the processes that lead them to do so, and the consequences of these acts. The standard paradigm was established in earlier decades by the seminal works in the social psychological tradition: Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba’s The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (1963), Sidney Verba an...

observed Changes Surface Globally, as well as in the tropics, the temperature of the air near the Earth’s surface has increased since 1958, with a greater rate of increase since 1979. All three surface temperature data sets are consistent in these conclusions. • Globally, temperature increased at a rate of about 0.12oC per decade since 1958, and about 0.16oC per decade since 1979. • In the trop...

Fullerene C60 films deposited by sublimation were irradiated with Kr-F laser in a wide fluence interval from 15 to 40 mJ/cm2. In situ photoacoustic analysis was applied to study the phase transformation during the irradiation. The results obtained were discussed in conjunction with atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Raman spectroscopy data. It was found that for a irradiation fluence interval fr...

Evans DR, Newcombe RG, Campbell H. Maternal smoking habits and congenital malformations: a population study. Br Med J 1979 ;iv: 171-3. 2Butler NR, Bonham DG. Perinatal mortality: first report of the 1958 British Perinatal Mortality Survey. Edinburgh: E & S Livingstone, 1963. 3 Fedrick J. Anencephalus: variation with maternal age, parity, social class and region in England, Scotland and Wales. A...

IN THE 20 years prior to 1983 the overall death rate for the cardiovascular diseases declined an impressive 36% nationwide. The rate per year.declined in 18 of these years, declining 1.5% per year between 1963 and 1973 and 3.3% per year since then. Because this group of iiseases accounts for one-half of all deaths, a death rate that is 36% lower in 1982 than in 1963 translates into about 500,00...

The 600 Wertheim cases are composed of three series ; the first consisting of 405 cases ( 1950 to 1963) from Frankfurt under the chairmanship of Professor Naujoks; the second consisting of 85 cases (1953 to 1962) from St. Gall, Switzerland, where I was at the time head of the department; and the third consisting of 110 cases ( 1963 to 1965) from Frankfurt (table 1) . In these 600 cases neither ...