Stable isotope analyses of discrete seasonal layers from a 108-yr annually laminated freeze-core from Baldeggersee, a small, eutrophic lake in central Switzerland, provide information on the climatological and environmental factors, including lake eutrophication, that control oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of epilimnic biologically induced calcite precipitate. During the last 100 yr, Ba...

Objective: The authors’ aim was to evaluate patient-provider relationships in a college health center. Participants: Eighty student patients and their health-care providers. Methods: Patients completed a measure of perceived health competence before a consultation and measures of provider participatory behavior and interpersonal behavior before and after the consultation. They evaluated their s...

A highly sensitive denitrification bioassay was developed for detection of NO3- and NO2- in rhizosphere soil samples. Denitrifying Pseudomonas aeruginosa ON12 was grown anaerobically in citrate (30 mM) minimal medium with KClO3 (10 mM) and NaNO2 (3 mM), which gave cells capable of NO2- reduction to N2O but incapable of NO3- reduction to NO2-. Growth on citrate minimal medium further resulted in...

The aim of this study was to determine whether outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was associated with the prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms. In eight nonurban communities, 843 children resident for a minimum of 2 yrs were studied. Since industrial sources of air pollution were at least 20 km away from the study communities, NO2 was considered to primarily indicate traffic-related air po...

Seiji MIYASHITA1)∗), Yusuke KONISHI1)∗∗), Hiroko TOKORO1)∗∗∗), Masamichi NISHINO2)†), Kamel BOUKHEDDADEN3)††) and Francios VARRET3)† † †) 1 Department of Physics, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-8656, Tokyo 113-8656 2Computational Materials Science center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan 3Laboratoire de Magnetisme et d AfOptique, Un...

1 Coley Pharmaceutical GmbH, 40764 Langenfeld, Germany 2 Institute for Medical Microbiology, Hygiene and Immunology, D-81675 Munich, Germany 3 Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan 4 ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Osaka 565-0047, Japan 5 Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32...

Emiko Hiyama1,∗), Katsuhiko Suzuki2,∗∗), Hiroshi Toki3,∗∗∗) and Masayasu Kamimura4,∗∗∗∗) 1Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan 2Numazu College of Technology, Numazu 410-8501, Japan 3Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan 4Department of Physics, K...