I conducted research to enable the US Minerals Management Service (MMS) to maximize natural gas royalties. MMS is the agency of the US Department of the Interior responsible for managing mineral royalties. As part of managing royalties, MMS decides whether to accept royalties in value (cash payment, RIV) or in kind (physical transfer of gas, RIK). When MMS collects RIK, it also decides how to t...

Human peripheral monocytes were stimulated with opsonized zymosan or protein A-containing Staphylococcus aureus to examine whether factors might be released that were capable of stimulating mucous glycoprotein release from cultured human airways, as has recently been described with human pulmonary macrophages. While the supernatant from monocytes exposed to opsonized zymosan or protein A-contai...

BACKGROUND Extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) is an uncommon tumor that has a high rate of recurrence after conventional surgical treatments. OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to establish the efficacy of Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) in the treatment of EMPD, and to make treatment recommendations with regard to surgical margins. We also attempted to summarize the published recurrence rates of EMP...

Mobile applications such as multimedia messaging service (MMS) promises a new way to share rich content of information that enhances its users’ personal connectivity experiences as well as productivity. However, the adoption of MMS seems to be unexpectedly slow (Bonte, 2008). As mobile phones become ever smarter (or complex) in functions, understanding the adoption behaviors of complex mobile s...

Replication-associated recombinational repair is important for genome duplication and cell survival under DNA damage conditions. Several nonclassical recombination factors have been implicated in this process, but their functional relationships are not clear. Here, we show that three of these factors, Mph1, Mms2, and the Shu complex, can act independently to promote the formation of recombinati...

BACKGROUND Supportive supervision has been found to be more effective than corrective fault-oriented inspections. Uganda's Ministry of Health in 2012 implemented a comprehensive strategy (SPARS) to build medicines management capacity in public sector health facilities. The approach includes supportive supervision. This structured observational study assesses supportive supervision competency am...

The c-jun proto-oncogene plays a vital role in the carcinogenic process. Although numerous works have extensively investigated the induction mechanisms of c-jun by UV, hydrogen peroxide or 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate, the mechanism induced by alkylating agents has received little attention. In this study, NIH 3T3 cells were exposed to methylmethanesulfonate (MMS), revealing that the ag...

MMS provides multimedia messaging solution to contemporary and evolving wireless communications. Both SMS and Email have been widely used for messaging in wireless and fixed networks respectively, but none of these is capable enough to fulfill the present and the future demands of wireless messaging. None of the existing messaging systems can also take full advantages of the recent technologica...

Previously, we have shown that paraspeckle protein 1 (PSPC1), a protein component of paraspeckles that was involved in cisplatin-induced DNA damage response (DDR), probably functions at the G1/S checkpoint. In the current study, we further examined the role of PSPC1 in another DNA-damaging agent, methyl methanesulfonate (MMS)-induced DDR, in particular, focusing on MMS-induced apoptosis in HeLa...

BACKGROUND Extramammary Paget disease (EMPD) is a rare intraepithelial neoplasm of the skin characterized by ill-defined margins and high recurrence rates after wide local excision. Although Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) has been proposed to decrease the rate of local recurrence, the efficacy of MMS for this condition has not yet been established. OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the efficacy ...