Trout, Laura, John T. Gatzy, and Stephen T. Ballard. Acetylcholine-induced liquid secretion by bronchial epithelium: role of Cl2 and HCO3 2 transport. Am. J. Physiol. 275 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 19): L1095–L1099, 1998.—Inhibitors of Cl2 and HCO3 2 secretion reduce acetylcholine-induced liquid, but not mucin, secretion by bronchial submucosal glands [S. K. Inglis, M. R. Corboz, A. E. Taylor, a...

Specimens from sputum induction (SI) are often of insufficient volume or have poor diagnostic yield for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). The Ballard catheter for bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a disposable BAL device which is passed transnasally into the airway and wedged by sensation. Thirty consecutive episodes (21 inpatient and 9 outpatient) in 28 patients positive for...

Eye movements during natural tasks are well coordinated with ongoing task demands and many variables could influence gaze strategies. Sprague and Ballard (2003) proposed a gaze-scheduling model that uses a utility-weighted uncertainty metric to prioritize fixations on task-relevant objects and predicted that human gaze should be influenced by both reward structure and task-relevant uncertainti...

When viewing a stimulus too large to be apprehended in a single glance, observers make a series of fixations and saccades which occur in a particular sequence and which are associated with a location, duration and so on. In two-dimensional stimuli such as pictures and websites the placement and characteristics of these scanpaths show a large degree of variation both between and within individua...

Raphaël Rouquier introduced an invariant of triangulated categories which is known as dimension. Orlov conjectured that for any smooth quasi-projective variety X the dimension $$D^{\textrm{b}}_{\textrm{coh}}(X)$$ equal to $$\textrm{dim}\, X$$ . In this note we show some blow-ups projective spaces satisfy Orlov’s conjecture. This includes a blow-up $${\mathbb {P}}^2$$ in nine arbitrary distinct ...

Chesworth, J. M. & Smith, G. H. (1971). Proc. Nutr. SOC. 30, 47A. Hanson, R. W. & Ballard, F. J. (1967). Bi0chem.J. 105, 529. Hardwick, D. C. (1966). Biochem. J. gg, 228. Hardwick, D. C., Linzell, J. L. & Mepham, T. B. (1963). Biochem.3. 88, 213. Heath, D. F. (1968). Biochem.J. IIO, 313. Katz, J. & Wood, H. G. (1960). J. bid. Chem. 235, 2165. Kronfeld, D. S., Mayer, G. P., Robertson, J. McD. & ...

Title of dissertation: Exploring Equilibrium Systems with Nonequilibrium Simulations Andrew J. Ballard, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Christopher Jarzynski Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute for Physical Science and Technology Equilibrium sampling is at the core of computational thermodynamics, aiding our understanding of various phenomena in...