A new peer-reviewed study in England shows that children have an increased danger of getting cancer if they live within three to five kilometers (2 to 3 miles) of certain kinds of industrial facilities.[1] The study, by E.G. Knox and E.A. Gilman, finds that the danger is greatest within a few hundred yards of pollution sources and tapers off with distance. The incidence of childhood cancers per...

I. Vechiu, H. Camblong, G. Tapia, B. Dakyo, C. Nichita (1) LIPSI-ESTIA, Technopôle Izarbel, 64 210 Bidart, France, [email protected], [email protected], Tel: + 33 (0) 559 438 471, Fax: + 33 (0) 559 438 401 (2) University of Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Spain, [email protected] Tel: + (34) 943 018 682, Fax: + (34) 943 017 130 (3) GREAH – University of Le Havre, France, [email protected], nic...

Cytochrome b 559 (Cyt b 559) is one of the essential components of the Photosystem II reaction center (PSII). Despite recent accomplishments in understanding the structure and function of PSII, the exact physiological function of Cyt b 559 remains unclear. Cyt b 559 is not involved in the primary electron transfer pathway in PSII but may participate in secondary electron transfer pathways that ...

In this project, I have studied the performance gain of MIMO systems. There are two types of gain provided by the MIMO channels: one measures the increase of the capacity by the number of degrees of freedom of the channel (spatial multiplexing gain), and the other improvement of the reliability by the diversity gain. Most of previous works focus on either one of these two types of gain by desig...

introduction: accurate documentation of the cause of death is critical for health care planning. in this study, the most important causes of death registered on death certificates and the most important issues preventing accurate registration and access to death information in the town of rafsanjan were surveyed. methods: this was a descriptive study. all death certificates (totally 1197) issue...

BACKGROUND Observational HIV clinic databases are now widely used to answer key questions related to HIV care and treatment, but there has been no systematic evaluation of their quality of data. Our objective was to evaluate the completeness and accuracy of recording of key data HIV items in a large routine observational HIV clinic database. METHODS We looked at the number and rate of opportu...

1 Guidelines in Cardiovascular Research; a First for the American Journal of 2 Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology 3 4 Irving H. Zucker 5 University of Nebraska Medical Center 6 Omaha, NE 7 8 9 10 Running title: Guidelines papers 11 12 Correspondence: 13 Irving H. Zucker, Ph.D. 14 Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology 15 University of Nebraska Medical Center 16 985850 Nebra...

Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase phosphatase (CaMKP/PPM1F) and its nuclear homolog CaMKP-N (PPM1E) are Ser/Thr protein phosphatases that belong to the PPM family. CaMKP-N is expressed in the brain and undergoes proteolytic processing to yield a C-terminally truncated form. The physiological significance of this processing, however, is not fully understood. Using a wheat-embryo cell-fr...

Light-induced absorbance changes were investigated in chloroplast fragments of wild type Chlamydomonas reinhardi and 5 different mutant strains having impaired photosynthesis. Two absorbance changes were detected, 1 having a maximum at 553 nm and the other at 559 nm. The component exhibiting the 553 nm change is a cytochrome similar to cytochrome f from higher plant chloroplasts. The component ...