We report the results of a high angular resolution near-infrared survey of dusty Wolf-Rayet stars using the Keck-1 Telescope, including new multi-wavelength images of the pinwheel nebulae WR 98a, WR 104, and WR 112. Angular sizes were measured for an additional 8 dusty WR stars using aperture masking interferometry, allowing us to probe characteristics sizes down to ∼20 milliarcseconds (∼40 AU ...

OBJECTIVES To assess urinary quality-of-life (QoL) and oncologic outcomes between wide resection (WR) robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) and non-WR (NWR) RALP in men with intermediate- or high-risk (Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment [CAPRA]-9 >2) prostate adenocarcinoma. METHODS Patients undergoing RALP (2004-2013) for intermediate- or high-risk prostate adenocarcin...

When V79-171 cells are incubated in medium to which WR-1065 has been added the cells accumulate WR-1065 and disulfides of WR-1065 (WRSS) in a ratio of about 10:1. Analysis of the culture medium showed that it contained primarily WR-1065 but that significant levels of the symmetrical disulfide WR-33278 and of the mixed disulfide of WR-1065 with cysteine were also present. Since incubation of cel...

An eighth genus and twelfth species of Tertiary thylacinid is described. This new taxon represents the seventh member of the family from the fossiliferous Carl Creek limestones of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. Although plesiomorphic within Thylacinidae regarding most features and lacking synapomorphies that unambiguously unite it with specialised taxa within the family, it possesses tw...

BACKGROUND Weight loss has been shown to reduce risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes; however, successful maintenance of weight loss continues to pose a challenge. OBJECTIVE The present study was designed to assess whether changes in subcutaneous adipose tissue (scAT) gene expression during a low-calorie diet (LCD) could be used to differentiate and predict subject...

We have previously shown that complement factor 5a (C5a) plays a role in the pathogenesis of 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis in rats by using the selective, orally active C5a antagonist AcF-[OP(d-Cha)WR]. This study tested the efficacy and potency of a new C5a antagonist, hydrocinnamate (HC)-[OP(d-Cha)WR], which has limited intestinal lumenal metabolism, in this model...

Using the latest stellar evolution models, theoretical stellar spectra, and a compilation of observed emission line strengths from Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars, we construct evolutionary synthesis models for young starbursts. We explicitly distinguish between the various WR subtypes (WN, WC, WO), whose relative frequency is a strong function of metallicity, and we treat O and Of stars separately. We c...

PURPOSE The work rate (WR) corresponding to ventilatory threshold (VT) is an appropriate intensity for regenerative and low-intensity training sessions. During incremental ramp exercise, VO(2) increase lags behind WR increase. Traditionally, a VO(2) time delay (t(d)) of 45 seconds is used to calculate the WR at VT from such tests. Considerable inaccuracies were observed when using this constant...

We study the dynamics of stellar wind bubbles around hydrogen-deficient stars using numerical simulations with timeand ion dependent cooling. We consider two types of hydrogen-deficient stars, massive WR stars, producing Ring Nebulae, and low mass [WR] stars, producing Planetary Nebulae. We show that for the Planetary Nebulae, the different cooling properties of the hydrogen-deficient wind lead...

A string with many repetitions can be written compactly by replacing h-fold contiguous repetitions of substring r with (r). We refer to such a compact representation as a repetition representation string or RRS, by which a set of disjoint or nested tandem arrays can be compacted. In this paper, we study the problem of finding a minimum RRS or MRRS, where the size of an RRS is defined to be the ...