This paper examines how income levels affected the substitution of public health insurance for private health coverage under expansions of Illinois' State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Building on a technique developed by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), I estimate that among children whose family incomes are between 200% and 300% of the federal poverty level (FPL), 35% of those co...

The experiments explored the extent to which alterations in L-type Ca(2+) channel-mediated Ca(2+) entry triggers Ca(2+)-mediated arrhythmogenesis in Langendorff-perfused murine hearts through use of the specific L-type Ca(2+) channel modulator FPL-64716 (FPL). Introduction of FPL (1 microm) resulted in a gradual development (>10 min) of diastolic electrical events and alternans in spontaneously...

In this paper we explore the design of internet-based systems using field-programmable logic (FPL). We describe results from designing a hardware platform that connects FPL directly to an internet. This hardware platform comprises an FPGA; an Ethernet interface; storage for static and dynamic configuration; and nonvolatile configuration logic. An important feature of our hardware platform desig...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of reducing forage particle length (FPL) and the inclusion of cottonseed hulls (CSH) on intake, digestibility, chewing activity, and milk production of cows in early lactation. Sixteen multiparous cows averaging 17 +/- 3 d in milk and 677 +/- 58 kg BW were assigned to one of four 4 x 4 Latin squares. One square contained ruminally cannulat...

The accessory heads of the deep flexors of the forearm (Gantzer’s muscles) have been described as two different small bellies which insert either into flexor pollicis longus (FPL) or flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) [1]. It is not surprising to find that there are many variations in the manner in which the FPL and the FDP are combined, because both have a common phylogenic derivation from the p...

Sound pressure level in-situ measurements are sensitive to standing-wave pressure minima and have the potential to result in over-amplification with risk to residual hearing in hearing-aid fittings. Forward pressure level (FPL) quantifies the pressure traveling toward the tympanic membrane and may be a potential solution as it is insensitive to ear-canal pressure minima. Derivation of FPL is de...

Modern linkage-based approaches employing extended pedigrees are becoming powerful tools for localizing complex quantitative trait loci. For these linkage mapping methods, it is necessary to reconstruct extended pedigrees which include living individuals, using extensive pedigree records. Unfortunately, such records are not always easy to obtain and application of the linkage-based approaches h...

Familial Partial Lipodystrophy To the Editor: Hegele1 excellently described the presence of premature coronary artery disease in 8 out of 23 adult subjects (aged above 35 years) with familial partial lipodystrophy (FPL) carrying LMNA mutations. His intriguing observations underline the striking similarity between FPL and the metabolic syndrome (also called syndrome X). The latter is known to re...

UNLABELLED Asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR)-mediated endocytosis has been used to target genes to hepatocytes in vivo. However, the level and duration of transgene expression have been low because of lysosomal translocation and degradation of the DNA and lack of its integration into the host genome. In this study we packaged the DNA of interest in proteoliposomes containing the fusogenic gal...

AIM To investigate the effect of increases in extracellular Ca(2+) entry produced by the L-type Ca(2+) channel agonist FPL-64176 (FPL) upon acute atrial arrhythmogenesis in intact Langendorff-perfused mouse hearts and its dependence upon diastolic Ca(2+) release from sarcoplasmic reticular Ca(2+) stores. METHODS Confocal microscope studies of Fluo-3 fluorescence in isolated atrial myocytes we...