The prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in RA was retrospectively reviewed in 411 consecutive RA patients and in a control group of 919 consecutive outpatients with OA. Raynaud's phenomenon was found in 19 (4.6%) of 411 RA patients and in 52 (5.6%) of 919 patients with OA: its prevalence was 4.3% (13 cases) in RA inpatients and 5.4% (six cases) in RA outpatients. Among the RA patients, the preva...

Site 1231 of the Ocean Drilling Project (ODP) was characterized by low concentrations of organic carbon, as well as low cell numbers and biological activity rates. A 16S rRNA survey was performed in order to analyse the microbial community composition of these central oceanic sediments. Archaeal 16S rRNA genes from subsurface sediments at Site 1231 (1.8, 9.0, and 43 mbsf) were affiliated with u...

We describe an exquisitely preserved new avian fossil (BMNHC-PH-919) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of eastern Inner Mongolia, China. Although morphologically similar to Cathayornithidae and other small-sized enantiornithines from China's Jehol Biota, many morphological features indicate that it represents a new species, here named Junornis houi. The new fossil displays most of its ...

1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 2 the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer 9 Center, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2759910 729, 3 Key Lab for Infection and Immunity and National Laboratory of 11 Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Da Tun 12 Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China 13 14 *Corresponding ...

We present a summary of investigations on the use of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) techniques as a reduced basis method for computation of feedback controls and compensators in a high pressure chemical vapor deposition (HPCVD) reactor that includes multiple species and controls, gas phase reactions, and time dependent tracking signals that are consistent with pulsed vapor reactant input...

Building upon Beaudry and Koop’s (1993) analysis, we consider a “current depth of the recession” (CDR) variable in modeling the time series behavior of the postwar quarterly U.S. unemployment rate. The CDR approach is consistent with the state-dependent behavior in the unemployment rate documented in the business cycle asymmetry literature. We show that while the CDR effect is significant in-sa...

Yang Zhang, Xin Zhang, Kai Wang, Jian He, L. Ruby Leung, Jiwen Fan, and Athanasios 3 Nenes 5 4 5 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 6 USA. 7 Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality, Beijing 100084, China} 8 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA. 9 School of Earth a...

Authors’ Affi liations: 1 Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology; 2 Department of Pharmacology, 3 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Corresponding Author: Channing J. Der, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Phone: 919-966-5634; Fax: 919-966...

1Alumni and George Peak Jr. Professor of Forest Economics and Policy, School of Forestry and Wildlife Science, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5418 (phone: 334-844-1067; fax: 334-844-1084; e-mail: [email protected]). 2Assistant Professor, Institute of Finance and Economics Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, No. 777 Guoding Road, Shanghai, PR China, 200433 (correspondin...