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In HeLa cells cultured in a medium containing 142 mequiv./l. sodium ions only the mitotic forms are birefringent (anisotropic index, 27/1000). In a culture medium containing 155-160 mequiv./l. sodium ions, large numbers of nuclear forms reminiscent of the prophase were found. In such a medium the anisotropic index was 86/1000. At low sodium ion concentration (90-110 mequiv./l.) these anomalous,...

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (Miller & Rollnick, 1991) is a way of talking with people about change that was first developed for the field of addictions but has broadened and become a favored approach for use with populations in a variety of settings (Burke, Arkowitz & Dunn, 2002). It has been introduced to criminal justice in general (Birgden, 2004; McMurran, 2002; Farrall, 2002) and probation ef...

We performed variance component-based linkage analysis in four samples (two of non-Hispanic European-Americans from Rochester, MN; African-Americans from Jackson, MS; and Mexican-Americans from Starr County, TX) to identify chromosomal regions containing genes influencing plasma apolipoprotein E (apoE) levels. The APOE gene region on chromosome (chr) 19 was identified with a LOD > or = 2.00 in ...

Let L (x, t) = 2H R t 0 δ(B s − x)s ds be the weighted local time of fractional Brownian motion B with Hurst index 1/2 < H < 1. In this paper, we use Young integration to study the integral of determinate functions R R f(x)L (dx, t). As an application, we investigate the weighted quadratic covariation [f(B), B ] ) defined by [f(B), B ] (W ) t := lim n→∞ 2H n−1

BACKGROUND The soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) is established as a test for iron deficiency (ID). In chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), sTfR is not reliable for screening for ID as the latter is strongly dependent on tumor burden. METHODS We investigated whether the influence of the tumor load can be excluded or minimized using the sTfR/log ferritin ratio (TfR-F-Index) and the C-reactive...