OBJECTIVE We used validated sensitive and specific questions associated with clinically confirmed diagnoses of unexplained vulvar pain (vulvodynia) to compare the cumulative incidence of vulvar pain and prevalence of care-seeking behavior in Boston metropolitan area (BMA) and in Minneapolis/Saint Paul metropolitan area (MSP) from 2001 through 2005 using census-based data, and 2010 through 2012,...

Micrometer-sized, monodisperse polystyrene (PS)/poly(styrene-co-sodium styrene sulfonate) (P(S-NaSS))/poly(n-butyl methacrylate) (Pn-BMA) composite particles having a ‘golf ball-like’ shape were prepared by seeded dispersion polymerization of n-butyl methacrylate with PS-core/P(S-NaSS)-shell seed particles with various shell thicknesses in the presence of dodecane droplets in a methanol/water (...

Statistical copolymers of methacrylic acid (MAA) and methyl methacrylate (MMA), butyl (BMA), or lauryl (LMA) were synthesized via cobalt(II)-mediated catalytic chain transfer polymerization (CCTP) used as macromonomeric stabilizers in the emulsion MMA. By varying composition, length, concentration macromonomers, we able to tune particle size, molar mass, rheological behavior latexes. Most latex...

Bristol '67. Bristol '87. Bristol '07? How will the BMA change before the next Annual Representative Meeting jn Bristol, if the 20 year interval between hosting meetings is repeated? How many of us will be there? Will seasoned representatives looking back on '87 sigh as nostalgically as we now do about '67? How many of us could have foreseen in '67 that the BMA would now be a statutory Trade Un...

In this work, a new method to design a mixedmode Test Pattern Generator (TPG) based only on a simple and single Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) is described. Such an LFSR is synthesized by Berlekamp–Massey algorithm (BMA) and is capable of generating pre-computed deterministic test patterns which detect the hard-to-detect faults of the circuit. Moreover, the LFSR generates residual patter...

Gd-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid-bismethylamide, Gd(DTPA-BMA), is shown to be a reagent suitable for the identification of protein surfaces. Compared to the conventionally used spin-label TEMPOL, Gd(DTPA-BMA) is a stronger relaxation agent, requiring lesser concentrations to achieve the same paramagnetic relaxation enhancement of solvent-exposed protein protons. It is also less hydrophobi...

The conversion of 5-aminoimidazole ribonucleotide (AIR) to 4-carboxy-AIR (CAIR) represents an unusual divergence in purine biosynthesis: microbes and nonmetazoan eukaryotes use class I PurEs while animals use class II PurEs. Class I PurEs are therefore a potential antimicrobial target; however, no enzyme activity assay is suitable for high throughput screening (HTS). Here we report a simple che...