The retrospective analysis of 494 solid-organ transplant recipients revealed that during the follow-up period (mean duration, 3.2 years) 184 (88%) of 209 anti-human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) immunoglobulin A (IgA)-positive patients remained IgA positive, as did 128 (74.85%) of 171 anti-HCMV IgM-positive patients. We conclude that anti-HCMV IgA and IgM testing for management of clinically relevant ...

Structural and tectonic patterns mapped in Fortuna Tessera are interpreted to reflect a change in the style and intensity of deformation from east to west, beginning with simple tessera terrain at relatively low topographic elevations in the east and progressing through increasingly complex deformation patterns and higher topography to Maxwell Montes in the west. These morphologic and topograph...

S U M M A R Y In this study, based on a 2-D thermomechanical finite element model, the uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) is discussed in relation to the flexural uplift of a rheologically layered lithosphere, which is described by Vening-Meinesz’s cantilever kinematics. The general model behaviour shows that the thickness of the crust and the geothermal gradient in the lithosphere ar...

[1] We report helium isotope ratios (He/He) of lavas and tephra of the Rungwe Volcanic Province (RVP) in southern Tanzania. Values as high as 15RA (RA = air He/He) far exceed typical upper mantle values, and are the first observation of plume‐like ratios south of the Turkana Depression which separates the topographic highs of the Ethiopia and Kenya domes. The African Superplume ‐ a tilted low‐v...

Large-eddy simulations of a pocket of open cells (POC) based on VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx) NSF C-130 Research Flight 06 are analyzed and compared with aircraft observations. A doubly-periodic domain 192 km× 24 km with 125 m horizontal and 5 m vertical grid spacing near the capping inversion is used. The POC is realized in the model as a fixed 96 km wide region of reduced cloud droplet num...

The cratonic Sichuan Basin is located east of the Tibetan Plateau, and surrounded by mountains that have undergone complex deformation uplift since Cenozoic. Imaging mantle structure important for understanding its formation, to date most models suggest a deep root underlies basin, blocking eastward extrusion lithospheric material beneath Tibet. Here, we obtain detailed upper from teleseismic t...

Large-eddy simulations of a pocket of open cells (POC) based on VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx) Research Flight 06 are analyzed and compared with aircraft observations. A doubly-periodic domain 192 km×24 km with 125 m horizontal resolution and 5 m vertical resolution near the capping inversion is used. The POC is realized in the model as a fixed 96 km wide region of reduced cloud droplet numbe...

Solomon Islands is a sovereign country located 2000 km north-east of Brisbane and of the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The country consists of an archipelago of hundreds of islands spread over 11 000 km. Makira-Ulawa is a remote province 200 km east of Honiara. It has a rapidly growing population of approximately 40 000 with an estimated fertility rate of 6.2 births per woman. Solomon Island...