BACKGROUND AND AIM Sarcoidosis is a multi-system granulomatous disease of unknown etiology with significant racial and gender differences in disease severity, incidence, and prevalence. Primarily treated in outpatients, limited information is available on hospital outcomes in patients with sarcoidosis. The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) was analyzed over a 22-year period to determine...

p53 was discovered in 1979 in SV40-transformed cells as a cellular protein that forms a complex with the large T antigen (DeLeo et al., 1979; Kress et al., 1979; Lane and Crawford, 1979; Linzer and Levine, 1979). It was originally identified as an oncoprotein, but was shown to be a tumor suppressor ten years later by both in vitro experiments and human tumor sample studies (Baker et al., 1989; ...

Forming Limit Diagrams are useful tools for evaluation of formability in the sheet metals. In this paper the effects of yield criteria on predictions of the right and left-hand sides of forming limit diagrams (FLDs) are investigated. In prediction of FLD, Hosford 1979, “Karafillis-Boyce” (K-B) and BBC2000 anisotropy yield functions have been applied. Whereas the prediction of FLD is based on th...

this paper is a concise report of ghaenat (iran) earthquake of november 14, 1979 in which 280 people died and several villages were destroyed. observations from earthquake effects on the ground as well as buildings are briefly discussed.