Benchmarks Microarrays are a powerful tool for functional studies at the molecular level (1,2). Depending on the experiment, users have a variety of commercial and homemade choices. Most commercially available microarrays come with protocols already optimized for repro-ducibility and sensitivity. However, despite continued reductions in the cost of microarrays, commercially available labeling k...

to many autoimmune diseases with a strong female predominance, relationships between pre-disease preg-nan cies and subsequent development of systemic sclerosis (SSc) have been the source of a great deal of study, often with confl icting results. Fetal microchimerism – the bidirectional transfer of cells between mother and fetus during gestation and delivery, followed by perpetuation of small am...

F o r a d d itio n a l in fo rm a tio n a n d u p d a te s o n th is b o o k , v isit In search o f the R iem ann z ero s : string s, fractal m em b ranes and no nco m m utativ e spacetim es / Michel L. Lapidus. p. cm. Includes b ib lio g raphical references. Cop ying and rep rinting. Indiv idual readers o f this pub licatio n, and no npro fi t lib raries acting fo r them , are perm itted to m ...

T he current perceived need for instruction in thinking skills is partly the result of the growing national awareness that society has changed skills that were appropriate 15 years ago no longer prepare stu dents for the world outside the school. Such popular works as Megatrends (Naisbitt 1982), The Third Wave (Toffler 1980), and In Search of Excel lence (Peters and Waterman 1982) have argued t...

Improvements in the acceptability and effectiveness of the IUD involve developments in design of its shape such as the Dalkon Shield (Davis, 1971), or the addition ofa copper-releasing wire to the inert plastic material of the device, which was first reported by Zipper, Medel & Prager (1968). The copper could act at any stage in the reproductive process. It could interfere with sperm transport,...

re we ever going to do anything about assisted repro-duction? Fertilizing eggs in a dish to have children chafes because such a momentous event lacks a clear regulatory framework. Occasional scandals and now the prospect of embryonic screening bring on the shivers. The temptation is to do something now before greater problems develop. Fukuyama and Furger would create a whole new federal agency ...

In order to discover the effects of success and failure on subsequent aggressiveness, 26 sale and 55 female college students were randomly assigned to success, failure, and neutral conditions. Those in the success condition were led to feel they were superior to other college students on a task, those in the failure condition were led to feel they vere inferior, and those in the neutral conditi...

function is usually regulated by a complex network of reflex loops that renders digestive processing unnoticed, and only under abnormal conditions do sensory pathways become activated and symptoms develop. Symptoms arising in functional gastrointestinal disorders, including the irritable bowel syndrome , are currently considered to result from sensory-reflex disturbances in the gut (1). In turn...

72 11 p. MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Beliefs; Ethnic Groups; Friendship; Junior High School Students; *Mexican Americans; *Peer Relationship; Racial Attitudes; *Racial Factors; Social Discrimination; Social Relations The theoretical basis for the present study is the proposition that reactions to minority group members by white individuals are related to belief similarity rather than racial similarity. ...

Charles T. Tart not in tenrns of any particular wn'tent of consciousness, or ,specific lbeh,avior or physiological chan,ge, ,but in terms of ' the overall patterning of psychological functioning. An analogy with computer funotioning can clarify this definition. A c m puter has a com'plex program of many subroutines. If we repro,Dam it quite differently, the same sorts of input data may be han,d...