Argentina’s mega-storms attract army of meteorologists

Intermodal Terminals, Mega Ports and Mega Logistics

Economic globalization has been accompanied by a growing spatial imprint of freight distribution on the landscape, particularly for intermodal terminals such as ports, airports and railyards, but also for logistical activities, namely distribution centers. Economies that have relied on globalization to promote growth, China been the most eloquent example, have relied extensively on major interm...

Mega-ureter.

Of Streams and Storms

Mega-fistula

385 Aneurysmal dilation of AVF is due to the complex interplay between biologic factors like needle injury that induce outward wall remodeling, and physical factors such as wall tension that is directly proportional to intraaccess pressures. In a series of patients who underwent minimally invasive limited ligation endoluminal-assisted revision banding, pressure within the mid-fistula was reduce...

Chemoattractants attract HIV researchers

I n this issue of the Journal of ExperimentaI Medicine, Loetscher et al. show that receptors for ~-chemokines are upregulated when T lymphocytes are activated by interleukin-2 (1). This paper will be of considerable interest not just to those who have worked for some years to identify conditions whereby chemokines could attract T ceils, but also to HIV researchers and conceivably to retrovirolo...