Objective: Although osteoarthritis (OA) is widely accepted as a degenerative disease, autoimmune processes are believed to be involved in the pathogenesis. There are limited studies in this area and most of them focused on antibodies against chondrocyte membrane. In an attempt to address the paucity of evidence in this regard, we explored the clinical significance of antinuclear antibody (ANA) ...

J. M. Allmond,1 A. E. Stuchbery,2 B. A. Brown,3,4 J. R. Beene,5 A. Galindo-Uribarri,5,6 C. J. Gross,5 J. F. Liang,5 E. Padilla-Rodal,7 D. C. Radford,5 R. L. Varner,5 A. Ayres,6 J. C. Batchelder,8 A. Bey,6 C. R. Bingham,5,6 M. E. Howard,9 K. L. Jones,6 B. Manning,9 P. E. Mueller,5 C. D. Nesaraja,5 S. D. Pain,5 W. A. Peters,10 A. Ratkiewicz,9 K. T. Schmitt,5,6,* D. Shapira,5 M. S. Smith,5 N. J. S...

Twenty species of oak (Quercus) are known from California. The white oak group is the most diverse, and includes a complex of scrub oak species that are often encountered in chaparral, mixed forest and desert margin habitats. The Protobalanus group (e.g., Quercus chrysolepis) is a unique and distinctive clade of western North American species that appears to be most closely related to the white...

Advance regeneration in 52 mature mixed-oak stands was analyzed and described. Red maple (Acer rubrum L.) was the most abundant species in the study area. Among oak (Quercus) species, northern red oak (Q. rubra L.) was the most abundant within the Allegheny Plateau physiographic province, whereas chestnut oak (Q. montana L.) was the most abundant within the Ridge and Valley physiographic provin...

The evolution of almost 40 oak-related volatile compounds and the sensorial characteristics of red wines from four Spanish denominations of origin (DOs) (Bierzo, Toro, Ribera de Duero, and Rioja) during aging in barrels made of Rebollo oak wood, Quercus pyrenaica, were studied and compared to the same wines aged in American and French oak barrels. Each oak wood added unique and special characte...

Studies on the interactions of exotic species with their invaded environment are imperative in understanding their invasion biology. Larvae of container mosquitoes such as the invasive Aedes albopictus (Skuse) feed on microorganisms that subsist on allochthonous inputs like leaves. Ae. albopictus are vectors for many diseases including West Nile virus and are rapidly expanding their distributio...

The design and control of R. L. Kress Oak Ridge National Laboratory Robotics and Process Systems Division P. 0. Box 2008 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6426

The agro-silvopastoral system ‘montado’ is mostly dominated by Mediterranean evergreen oaks such as, cork oak (Quercus suber L.) and holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia). The ‘montado’ production system management aims the maintenance of a balanced sustainable land use to cope with the Mediterranean climate variability. One important issue in cork oak forests is the control shrub growth in order to ...

As I come to the end of my term as editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, I am pleased to report that our publication continues to improve. As the official record of an academically young field, issue by issue the Journal demonstrates that pediatric psychology is maturing into a most productive field. It has been an honor to edit the Journal. As the previous editors did (Kazak, 2002; La...

Prior studies have found equivalent or even better performance on Raven’s Progressive Matrices tasks for those with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in comparison to normal controls (e.g., Chen, Planche, & Lemonnier, 2010; Mottron, 2009). We investigated the extent to which subscales of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient would predict better performance on a verbal analogy task in a non-clinical sampl...