Five disproportionate, short-limbed, short-trunked (dwarf) Great Pyrenees pups were examined. The mode of inheritance was compatible with a simple autosomal recessive trait, and skeletal radiography revealed flaring of the metaphyses of all long bones and the costochondral junctions of the ribs. Vertebral bodies were poorly ossified and short, and had a beak-like extension on the caudal metaphy...

A rural county with a high Hispanic population showed small disproportionate minority contact (citation or arrest) in initial analysis of federally required Disproportionate Minority Confinement studies but closer examination of a random sample of all juveniles arrested in 2000 showed that a subtle but significant disparity still existed when a more detailed examination was conducted. While ove...

This paper looks at the disproportionate amount of current media coverage and uses Olympic Games as a basis to suggest potential ways enhance standard news reporting. The degree which reports can influence public opinion, suggested by agenda-setting theory, is critical growth industry. To begin with, outlets should be more stringent in vetting their sources information. Secondly, journalists pr...

One of the most remarkable developments in the US labor market of the past two and a half decades has been the rapid, simultaneous growth of employment in both the highestand lowest-skilled jobs. This phenomenon is depicted in Figure 1, which plots changes in the share of aggregate hours worked at each percentile of the occupational skill distribution over the period 1980 through 2005. These sk...

Growth of cell suspension cultures of tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv VFNT-Cherry, in the presence of cadmium is inhibited by buthionine sulfoximine, an inhibitor of glutathione synthesis. Cell growth and phytochelatin synthesis are restored to cells treated with buthionine sulfoximine by the addition of glutathione to the medium. Glutathione stimulates the accumulation of phytochelati...

Prospective reimbursement (PR) programs attempt to restrain increases in hospital expenditures by establishing, in advance of a hospital's fiscal year, limits on the reimbursement the hospital will receive for the services it provides to patients. We used data complied from a sample of approximately 2700 community hospitals in the U.S. for each year from 1969 to 1978 to estimate the effects of ...

Hsia, Connie C. W. Signals and mechanisms of compensatory lung growth. J Appl Physiol 97: 1992–1998, 2004; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00530.2004.— Growth of the lung involves unique structure-function interactions not seen in solid organs. Mechanical feedback between the lung and thorax constitutes a major signal that sustains developmental as well as compensatory lung growth. After the loss of l...

Innocent people who have been arrested, but never convicted of a crime, will have their DNA records stored on the national database for a period of six years under plans unveiled in the government’s new Crime and Security Bill. The Bill, presented to parliament by Home Secretary Alan Johnson on 19 November 2009, also includes a number of new rules for the collection, retention and use of DNA an...

Ligands of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R), known to be important for supporting tissue development particularly in the gut and brain, have also been implicated in regulating postnatal somatic growth. Although optimal levels of both milk-borne and endogenous EGF-R ligands are important for supporting postnatal somatic growth through regulating gastrointestinal growth and maturation...

Individuals with high levels of impulsivity are more likely to smoke and may have greater difficulty quitting than other smokers. Although the specific mechanisms mediating this relationship are not explicitly known, one candidate is disproportionate cigarette craving in response to environmental smoking cues. We assessed the effect of impulsivity on three measures of cue reactivity. Regular sm...