Economists increasingly face opportunities to collaborate with ecologists on landscape-level analyses of socioeconomic and ecological processes. Tnis often calls for developing empirical models to project land use change as input into ecological models. Providing ecologists with the land use information they desire can present many challenges regarding data, modeling, and econometrics. This pap...

Economists and ecologists, in general, have offered differing opinions about the seriousness of climate change and the need for rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Economists have tended to urge caution, focusing on the potential for large-scale cutbacks to upset the economy. Ecologists have tended to focus on the potential for catastrophic losses from climate change, and have urged e...

1 Springer Indian J Gastroenterol 2009(May–June):28(3):115–119 We did not find a difference between E-cadherin expression of complete and incomplete IM of stomach. However, we did not subtype intestinal metaplasia, which is one of the shortcomings in this study. We did not find a difference in the pattern of staining or percent of Ki-67 immunoreactive cells in the surface epithelium between the...

We investigated the immunogenicity of recombinant rMSP1 (rPbMSP1) that was generated from Plasmodium berghei. The rPbMSP1 formulated in alum was found to be immunogenic which induced high levels of specific anti-rPbMSP1 antibody. The IgG2a response predominated over IgG1 during the challenge infection in the vaccinated mice. Mice vaccinated with rPbMSP1 in alum mounted significant protective im...

The development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has been linked to exposure to carcinogens such as nitrosamines that cause various alkyl DNA damages and O-methylguanine±DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is a primary defence against alkylation-induced mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. This study was to investigate the role of inactivation of MGMT by promoter hypermethylation and its relati...

BACKGROUND Lipofilling is now performed to improve the breast contour, after both breast-conserving surgery and breast reconstruction. However, injection of fat into a previous tumor site may create a new environment for cancer and adjacent cells. There is also no international agreement regarding lipofilling after breast cancer treatment. METHODS The authors included three institutions speci...