Cytoskeleton signalling: 7 November 2001

I-7: Maternal Signalling to the Placenta

Background: Though it is well established that maternal blood-borne signals influence highly the growth of the placenta, the mechanisms are not known. In vitro trophoblast culture models are limited by an inability to reconstruct the polarised bilayer of the human hemochorial placenta. We have used a first trimester villous tissue explant system to investigate how growth factors interact with p...

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

In the US alone, roughly 1.4 million patients undergo operations requiring arterial prostheses annually (1). Tissue engineering (TE) represents a potential means to construct functional small diameter vascular grafts in situations where autologous tissue is unavailable and conventional synthetic materials fail. While initial results with many of the TE vascular grafts (TEVGs) constructed to dat...

Saturday, November 7

9:00 Galois Groups of Random p-adic Polynomials Benjamin Weiss The space of fixed degree polynomials with p-adic coefficients has a natural probability distribution. Each polynomial also has an associated group which is the Galois group of its splitting field. We will discuss the induced distribution on groups, and derive results for the limiting distribution as p grows. Time permitting, we wil...

SSC San Diego TR 1869, November 2001

This report compiles Lessons Learned from several unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) programs that could be relevant to the objectives of the Very Shallow Water (VSW) Mine Countermeasures (MCM) and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) program. Lessons Learned were collected from over 50 experts within the UGV community, through interviews and reviews of published work...

Washington University Record, November 7, 1996