Platelets, protease-activated receptors and fibrinogen in hematogenous metastasis. Short title: Host factors in coagulantdriven bloodborne metastasis Eric Camerer, Aisha A. Qazi, Daniel N. Duong, Ivo Cornelissen, Rommel Advincula, and Shaun R. Coughlin Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco Supported by NIH HL65590 and HL65185 (S.R.C.). E.C. was supported by ...

1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 210, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; E-Mails: [email protected] (M.F.); [email protected] (D.P.); [email protected] (M.T.) 2 Regional Cancer Center, Uppsala/Örebro and The National Board of Health and Welfare, SE-112 59 Stockholm, Sweden; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 Nordic Collaborating Centre for Classifi...

In this note I amend and clarify the framework for cost analysis developed and applied by Morrison and Schwartz (M&S) in a series of papers. I propose a consistent decomposition of a cost-based measure of short-run returns to scale and develop a version of M&S's dynamic decomposition that makes transparent its nature and usefulness as a cost-accounting device. __________________________________...

We consider the problem of estimating nonparametric probability density functions from a sequence of independent samples. The central issue that we address is to what extent this can be achieved with only limited memory. Our main result is a space-efficient learning algorithm for determining the probability density function of a piecewise-linear distribution. However, the primary goal of this p...

The conditions experienced early in life can strongly influence life-history trajectories in a variety of animal species. Here, we use data from four isolated populations of the endangered stream-dwelling salmonid marble trout (Salmo marmoratus Cuvier 1817) living in the Soca and Idrijca river basins (Slovenia) to explore the influence of the total density experienced during and after the first...

Assemblages of aquatic and edaphic insects in three streams in Central Amazonia were used to evaluate the impact on one of the streams (Cururu) caused by an oil spill that occurred in August 1999. The Cururu stream had already been impacted by domestic sewage. These three streams were evaluated during four different periods of the regional hydrological cycle (falling-, low-, rising- and high-wa...