1) Finnish Forest Research Institute, Joensuu Research Unit, P.O. Box 68, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland 2) Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland 3) Department of Forest Ecology, P.O. Box 27, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 4) Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland 5) Faculty of Biosciences, Un...

Protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR-1), the main thrombin receptor on vascular cells, plays a key role in platelet activation. We examined the range of PAR-1 expression on platelets, obtained twice, 1 week apart, from 100 healthy subjects and found a 2-fold interindividual variation in receptor numbers (95% CI = 858-1700). Because PAR-1 density was stable with time (r(2) = 76%, P <.001), we soug...

Fire management specialists in the southeastern United States needing guides for predicting or assessing particulate matter emission factors, emission rates, and heat release rate can use the models presented in this paper for making these predictions as a function of flame length in the palmetto-gallberry fuel type. FOREST So. 29:761-770. ADDITIONAL

Aerosol and NOx emission factors and submicron particle number size distributions in two road tunnels with different traffic regimes D. Imhof, E. Weingartner, A. S. H. Prévôt, C. Ordóñez, R. Kurtenbach, P. Wiesen, J. Rodler, P. Sturm, I. McCrae, Å. Sjödin, and U. Baltensperger Paul Scherrer Institut, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Villigen, Switzerland University of Wuppertal, Physical Ch...

Phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors are currently under evaluation as agents that may facilitate the improvement of cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease. Our aim was to determine whether inhibitors of PDEs 4, 5 and 9 could alleviate the cytotoxic effects of amyloid beta 1-42 (Aβ1-42) via a mechanism involving the small heatshock protein HSP20. We show that inhibition of PDEs ...

n.a

An inventory of anthropogenic primary aerosol emissions in China was developed for 1990–2005 using a technology-based approach. Taking into account changes in the technology penetration within industry sectors and improvements in emission controls driven by stricter emission standards, a dynamic methodology was derived and implemented to estimate inter-annual emission factors. Emission factors ...

Convergence of communication technologies and innovative product features are expanding themarkets for technological products and services. Prior literature on technology acceptance and use has focused on utilitarian belief factors as predictors of rational adoption decisions and subsequent user behavior. This presupposes that consumers’ intentions to use technology are based on functional or u...

 Inclusion of the forestry sector in FASOM’s modeling of the US economy  More detailed modeling of Brazil’s agricultural sector  Inclusion of a price-induced yield effect in the FAPRI model  Use of MODIS 5 data, with increased resolution and a longer time period for change detection  New soil carbon data  Analysis of (some of) the uncertainty in remote sensing and emission factors  Corre...