projected global climate change may have a major influence on crop yield. the likely effects of climate change caused by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on rice yield in iran were evaluated using a mechanistic growth model for rice, gsac-rice, running under a climate change scenario predicted for a doubled-co2 (2xco2) atmosphere by the geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory (gfd...

We examined the role of fever as a host defense in experimental pneumococcal meningitis in rabbits. Twelve hours after intracisternal inoculation of an encapsulated type 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae strain, body temperature was manipulated by using two different anesthetic drugs: pentobarbital, which did not affect temperature, and urethane, which mitigated the febrile response to infection. Grow...

PURPOSE To determine factors associated with the development of radiographic metastatic progression for patients with recurrent prostate cancer following surgery and/or radiation therapy with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) doubling times of <12 months. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN One hundred and forty-eight patients with rising PSA values after primary therapy and a PSA doubling time of <12 months e...