EPITHELIUM-FIBRE CELL COUPLING IN THE EYE LENS PRESCOTT, A.R., DAHM. R.. HUTCHESON, A.M., QUIN!-AN. R.A., VANMARLE. J.‘, & VRENSEN. G§. Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Medical Sciences Institute, Dundee, DDl 4HN. Scotland. * Department of Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 5 Department of Morp...

Pinus taeda L. plantations in the United States are typically established using rows that are spaced 3 to 4 m apart. Although one company now plants pines in 6.1 m rows, reports on performance using this row spacing are rare. This paper provides a case study (established at the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center) that compares two densities [672 vs 1344 seedlings per ha (SPH)] when fixing th...

We integrate systemic financial instability in an empirical macroeconomic model for the euro area. We find that at times of widespread financial instability the macroeconomy functions fundamentally differently from tranquil times. We employ a richly specified MarkovSwitching Vector Autoregression model to capture the dynamic relationships between a set of core macroeconomic variables and a nove...

For centuries, readers have had great difficulty in attributing various works to the polygraph Charles Sorel. From Jean-Pierre Nicéron in the eighteenth century (1344) to Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (q.v.) and Émile Roy in the nineteenth (402-424), critics strove to establish a referential relationship between Sorel, the man, and the contradictory manifestations of authorial voice in his various ...

BACKGROUND To examine whether objective sleep duration is an effect modifier of the impact of metabolic syndrome (MetS) on all-cause and cardiovascular disease/cerebrovascular mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS We addressed this question in the Penn State Adult Cohort, a random, general population sample of 1344 men and women (48.8±14.2 years) who were studied in the sleep laboratory and followed...