Each new generation brings the reemergence of many of the fears of the past, requiring the repetition of old explanations to put them to rest. Today there is a renewed concern that technological advancement may displace much of the manufacturing (and other) work force, creating widespread unemployment, social disruption, and human hardship. For example, in 1983 the Upjohn Institute for Employme...

Polymyositis, an inflammatory disorder of skeletal and occasionally cardiac muscle, may present as a myopathy alone, as one manifestation of a multisystem disorder, especially systemic sclerosis (Medsger, Rodnan, Moossy, and Vester, 1968; Thompson, Bluestone, Bywaters, Dorling, and Johnson, 1969; Brock, 1934), systemic lupus erythematosus (White, 1959; Dubois, 1966), and Sjogren's syndrome (Bun...

The Upper Mississippian Hinton, Princeton, and Bluestone formations of southern West Virginia constitute a westwardly thinning wedge of strata that filled the central Appalachian basin over a ~7 million year time interval. Up to 17 unconformity bounded, transgressiveregressive sequences comprise the study interval in the basin depocenter. Five sequence types are recognized based upon the degree...

The HL-A antigen W.27 has been found in 88 to 96% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (Brewerton, Caffrey, Hart, James, Nicholls, and Sturrock, 1973a; Caffrey and James, 1973; Schlosstein, Terasaki, Bluestone, and Pearson, 1973). More recently a high frequency of W.27 has been reported in Reiter's syndrome (Brewerton, Caffrey, Nicholls, Walters, Oates, and James, 1973c), acute anterior uvei...

The problem of de-industrialization has undergone a decisive transmutation in the past two decades, roughly from the moment when it was linked to proto-industrialization at the Budapest Economic History Conference in 1981.1 Also interacting with the remarkable efforts of Immanuel Wallerstein and his colleagues who dated the formation of a ‘‘world economic system’’ from the expansion of European...

The problem of de-industrialization has undergone a decisive transmutation in the past two decades, roughly from the moment when it was linked to proto-industrialization at the Budapest Economic History Conference in 1981.1 Also interacting with the remarkable efforts of Immanuel Wallerstein and his colleagues who dated the formation of a ‘‘world economic system’’ from the expansion of European...

Nano-CuFe2O4 catalysts with different Cu/Fe molar ratios (CunFemO(n+1.5m)) were prepared by hydrothermal method. The thermal decomposition performance of CunFemO(n+1.5m) on CuSO4 were determined with TG-DSC method to evaluate its catalytic activity and the roasted product was characterized by ...

BACKGROUND Dry mouth is a frequent complaint of adults worldwide. In those who experience dry mouth, therapeutic options include the use of salivary substitutes and sialogogues. METHODS The authors compared the efficacy and safety of mucoadhesive disks (OraMoist, Axiomedic, Zurich; distributed by Quantum Health, Eugene, Ore.) applied three times daily with those of placebo mucoadhesive disks ...

The Appalachian Mountains of North America hold a unique diversity of land snails, including those within the family Polygyridae genus Triodopsis. West Virginia has ten or more representatives of the genus (Hubricht, 1985), displaying variations upon the conchological theme of a depressed heliciform shape with a reflected peristome bearing three lamellae. However, it remains unclear whether all...