Patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha (anti-TNF-alpha) therapy are at increased risk for tuberculosis and other granulomatous diseases, but little is known about illness caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in this setting. We reviewed the US Food and Drug Administration MedWatch database for reports of NTM disease in patients receiving anti-TNF-alpha therapy. Of 239 report...

Relationships between riverbed morphology, concavity, rock type and rock uplift rate are examined to independently unravel the contribution of along-strike variations in lithology and rates of vertical deformation to the topographic relief of the Oregon coastal mountains. Lithologic control on river profile form is reflected by convexities and knickpoints in a number of longitudinal profiles an...

Chess, Patricia R., Michael A. O’Reilly, Fredrick Sachs, and Jacob N. Finkelstein. Reactive oxidant and p42/44 MAP kinase signaling is necessary for mechanical strain-induced proliferation in pulmonary epithelial cells. J Appl Physiol 99: 1226–1232, 2005. First published May 12, 2005; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01105.2004.— Mechanical strain is necessary for normal lung growth and development. In...

It is shown that good linear ~n ,k ,d] codes over a finite field GF (q) can be constructed by concatenating the generator matrices of Reed-Solomon codes. For the first interesting case of k = 3, it is shown that many of the codes obtained via projective geometry tecqniques can readily be obtained via the proposed algebraic approach. ) 0 T ec hn io n C om pu te r Sc ie nc e D ep ar tm en t T eh ...