We present the results of a study of surface wave dispersion across the Arctic region (>60◦N) and compare the estimating group velocity maps with new maps of the body wave phases Pn and Sn. Data recorded at about 250 broadband digital stations from several global and regional networks were used to obtain Rayleigh and Love wave group velocity measurements following more than 1100 events with mag...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of studies use GIS estimates of car travel times to health services, without presenting any evidence that the estimates are representative of real travel times. This investigation compared GIS estimates of travel times with the actual times reported by a sample of 475 cancer patients who had travelled by car to attend clinics at eight hospitals in the North of En...

We previously reported upregulation of UGT2B15 by 17b-estradiol in breast cancer MCF7 cells via binding of the estrogen receptor a (ERa) to an estrogen response unit (ERU) in the proximal UGT2B15 promoter. In the present study, we show that this ERa-mediated upregulation was significantly reduced by two ER antagonists (fulvestrant and raloxifene) but was not affected by a third ER antagonist, 4...

Lipophilic (logP > 1) and amphiphilic drugs (also known as cationic amphiphilic drugs) with ionizable amines (pKa > 6) can accumulate in lysosomes, a process known as lysosomal trapping. This process contributes to presystemic extraction by lysosome-rich organs (such as liver and lung), which, together with the binding of lipophilic amines to phospholipids, contributes to the large volume of di...

The present study was designed to assess the frequency and stage of skin neurofibroma in the samples of patients with age, gender and biopsy locations. Data obtained from annual record files of four different pathology centers with considering factors of diagnosis, age, and gender and biopsy location, examined for statistical difference. Each diagnosis has been coded by ICD method. Statistical ...

The present study was designed to assess the frequency and stage of skin neurofibroma in the samples of patients with age, gender and biopsy locations. Data obtained from annual record files of four different pathology centers with considering factors of diagnosis, age, and gender and biopsy location, examined for statistical difference. Each diagnosis has been coded by ICD method. Statistical ...

Title of Document: A RELIABLE TRAVEL TIME PREDICTION SYSTEM WITH SPARSELY DISTRIBUTED DETECTORS Nan Zou Directed By: Dr. Gang-Len Chang, Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Due to the increasing congestion in most urban networks, providing reliable trip times to commuters has emerged as one of the most critical challenges for all existing Advanced Traffic Information Sys...

Synthetic spectra generated with the parameterized supernova syntheticspectrum code SYNOW are compared to spectra of the unusual Type Ib supernova 2005bf. We confirm the discovery by Folatelli et al. (2006) that very early spectra (∼30 days before maximum light) contain both photospheric-velocity (∼8000 km s) features of He I, Ca II, and Fe II, and detached high-velocity (∼14,000 km s) features...