ownloade kground: rs10993994, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at the genetic locus encoding βeminoprotein (β-MSP), is associated with both prostate cancer risk and levels of blood prostate-specific n (PSA), a biomarker used in prostate cancer screening. Therefore, we wished to determine the assobetween SNPs at MSMB, the gene encoding β-MSP, and the levels of prostate-produced biomarkers ...

BACKGROUND As highlighted in recent reports published by the Physician-Scientist Workforce Working Group at the National Institutes of Health, the percentage of physicians conducting research has declined over the past decade. Various programs have been put in place to support and develop current medical student interest in research to alleviate this shortage, including The Vanderbilt Universit...

Introduction: Quality and knowledge-based human resources are the most important competitive advantage and the scarcest source in today's knowledge-based economy. Hence, the development of the capabilities, expertise, and commitment of well-trained employees is considered the most important management challenge in our time. The present study was conducted to investigate the role of Management S...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of asthma cases upon exposure to hamsters and anaphylactic reactions following hamster bites are being reported, but the allergens responsible are still poorly characterized. In the Golden hamster, male-specific submaxillary gland protein (MSP), a lipocalin expressed in a sex- and tissue-specific manner in the submaxillary and lacrimal glands, is secreted in the ...

Infants born in areas of stable malaria transmission are relatively protected against severe morbidity and high density Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage infection. This protection may involve prenatal sensitization and immunologic reactivity to malaria surface ligands that participate in invasion of red cells. We examined cord blood T and B cell immunity to P. falciparum merozoite surface prot...

For de novo pattern mining in genomic sequences, the main issues are constructing pattern definition model (PDM) and mining sequence patterns (MSP). The representations of PDMs and the discovery of patterns are functionally dependent; the performances thus depend on the adopted PDMs. The popular PDMs provide only descriptive patterns; they lack multifaceted considerations. Many of existing MSP ...

The cost of expanding health insurance coverage increases when people who would otherwise purchase insurance obtain public coverage. This paper investigates the effects of one of the first efforts to target insurance benefits to the most needy, the 1982 medicare as secondary payer (MSP) provisions. We find strong evidence of low compliance with the MSP both in terms of medical bill payments (pa...

Practice guidelines can facilitate the translation of evidence-based knowledge into better occupational health and safety (OHS) prevention. This paper describes development process, findings content a practice guideline for musculoskeletal pain (MSP) to OHS professionals in Denmark. We used participatory process with involvement more than 100 guideline. The contains three sections: 1) Rapid rev...

Markovian service process (MSP) is a model similar to the Markovian arrival process (MAP), where arrivals are replaced with service completions. The MSP can represent various queueing models such as vacation models, N -policy models and exceptional service models. We analyze MAP/MSP/1 queues and obtain a new sort of matrix-type factorization of the vector generating function for the stationary ...