The grant will also support the development of new partnerships and pilot projects, particularly a collaboration with JONATHAN KURTIS, JENNIFER FRIEDMAN and colleagues at the Center for International Health Research at Lifespan in Providence, where the grant will support Ian Michelow, a junior researcher who is working to develop vaccines against malaria. Institute Director and URI Research Pro...

We report the present day mass functions (PDMFs) of 3 young open clusters over a mass range from 30 Jupiter masses to 10 M⊙. The PDMFs of the 3 clusters are remarkably similar, suggesting little impact of specific conditions (stellar density, metallicity, early dynamical evolution) on the mass distribution. Functional forms are provided to allow quantitative comparison with MFs derived in other...

The purpose of this study was to verify the histophysiological alterations in monocytes and macrophages induced by short periods of exercise. Male Wistar rats (age = 2 months, body weight = 200g) were divided into seven groups (N = 6 each): sedentary control (C), groups exercised (swimming) at low intensity for 5 (5L), 10 (10L), and 15 minutes (15L), and groups exercised at moderate intensity f...

OBJECTIVES To compare 10-minute (min) delayed hepatocyte phase imaging (HPI) using a 30° flip angle (FA) (10m-FA30) and 20-min delayed HPI using a 10° FA (20m-FA10) or 30° FA (20m-FA30) in Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI in patients with chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis, in terms of lesion-to-liver contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and detection sensitivity for focal hepat...

Prostate cancer is the most occurring form of cancer in men in Sweden and new candidates for treatment towards advanced phases of prostate cancer needs to be investigated. One suggested treatment is vitamin D which will mediate effect via VDR and PDIA3 and cause cell cycle arrest. Another treatment is digitoxin which will cause accumulation of intracellular Ca leading to apoptosis. The aim of t...

Recent results from CANGAROO-II, the first 10m atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, and status of CANGAROO-III, the array of four 10m telescopes, are presented. The former one has been operating since 2000 and the latter one was completed in March 2004.

We simulate the buildup of galaxies by spherical gas accretion through dark-matter haloes, subject to the development of virial shocks.We find that a uniform cosmological accretion rate turns into a rapidly varying disc buildup rate. The generic sequence of events (Shocked-Accretion Massive Burst & Shutdown: SAMBA) consists of four distinct phases: (a) continuous cold accretion while the halo i...

The masses of star clusters range over seven decades, from ten up to one hundred million solar masses. Remarkably, clusters with masses in the range 10M⊙ to 10M⊙ show no systematic variation of radius with mass. However, recent observations have shown that clusters with Mcl & 3× 10M⊙ do show an increase in size with increasing mass. We point out that clusters with Mcl & 10M⊙ were optically thic...

QUESTIONS Do patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) achieve a different distance on the six minute walk test (6MWT) conducted on a 10m course versus on a 30m course? When assessing the distance on a 6MWT conducted on a 10m course, is it valid to use existing reference equations that were generated on longer courses? DESIGN A randomised double-crossover experimental study. ...