Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration [CO2] will increase in the future and will affect global climate and ecosystem productivity. Crop models used in past assessments of climate change effect on ecosystem productivity have not been adequately tested for the ability to simulate ecosystem responses to [CO2]. Our objective was to evaluate the ability of the default CROPGRO–Soybean model to pre...

1Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine (Correspondence to Abdullatif Husseini: [email protected]). 2Department of Biology, Al-Quds University, Jersusalem. ABSTRACT An audit was made of laboratory records of triple test results from 943 Palestinian women residing in the West Bank from 2000–03. The mean expected age at delivery of the subjects was 2...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increasing and it is estimated that by 2030 approximately 366 million people will be diagnosed with this condition. The use of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) inhibitors is an emerging strategy for the treatment of T2DM. DPP-IV is a ubiquitous aminodipeptidase that cleaves incretins such as glucagon like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and glucose-depende...

Adinoff, B. Clinical Laboratory Stressors Used to Study Alcohol–Stress Relationships Vol. 34, No. 4, Pages 459–467 Agrawal, A. Identifying Genetic Variation for Alcohol Dependence Vol. 34, No. 3, Pages 274–281 Alim, T.N. Resilience to Meet the Challenge of Addiction: Psychobiology and Clinical Considerations Vol. 34, No. 4, Pages 506–515 Ames, G.M. Prevention in the Military: Early Results of a...

incidence of adolescent pregnancy.3 Access to contraceptives has become increasingly crucial for adolescents because many are sexually active at earlier ages than in the past. During the mid-to-late 1950s, 8% of adolescent females had had intercourse by age 16. In contrast, by the early-to-mid–1980s, 21% of female teenagers had had sex by age 16. Among all adolescents in the 1990s, 50% had sex ...

The mechanistic understanding of interactions between diet-derived substances and conventional medications in humans is nascent. Most investigations have examined cytochrome P450–mediated interactions. Interactions mediated by other phase I enzymes are understudied. Aldehyde oxidase (AO) is a phase I hydroxylase that is gaining recognition in drug design and development programs. Taken together...

Since the establishment of the first point-to-point radio communication by GuglielmoMarconi in 1895, the complexity of communication systems has grown dramatically in the continuing search for higher system capacity, higher data rates, and bandwidth efficiency. Research in information theory and digital signal processing has been the foundation for the development of systems that are able to ha...

1Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. ABSTRACT A longitudinal study was done in a leishmaniasis-endemic region in eastern Sudan during the period November 2001–February 2003 to determine the incidence of failure of sodium stibogluconate treatment. We studied 820 confirmed visceral leishmaniasis patients. All were treated with sodium stibogluconate, 20 mg/kg bo...