BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A 6-base insertion (6bINS) polymorphism in intron 7 of the endoglin gene (ENG), which codes for a component of the transforming growth factor-beta receptor complex, was reported to be associated with intracranial aneurysm (IA) in a Japanese population. A recent report using a white population could not replicate the association. We tested for this association with high st...

Endoglin is a TGF-beta superfamily receptor critical for endothelial cell function. Mutations in this gene are associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia type I (HHT1), and clinical signs of disease are generally more evident later in life. We previously showed that systemic vessels of adult Eng heterozygous (Eng(+/-)) mice exhibit increased vasorelaxation due to uncoupling of endoth...

1Associate Member of ASCE, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng., Stanford Univ., and Director, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (Terman Eng. Ctr., 380 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-4020, USA) E-mail:[email protected] 2Ph.D., Sr. Research Scientist, Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng., Stanford Univ. and Executive Director, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIF...

Electrical Substrate Elimination in 135 Consecutive Patients With Brugada Syndrome Carlo Pappone, MD, PhD; Josep Brugada, MD, PhD; Gabriele Vicedomini, MD; Giuseppe Ciconte, MD; Francesco Manguso, MD, PhD; Massimo Saviano, MD; Raffaele Vitale, MD; Amarild Cuko, MD; Luigi Giannelli, MD; Zarko Calovic, MD; Manuel Conti, MD; Paolo Pozzi, Eng; Andrea Natalizia, PhD, Eng; Simonetta Crisà, Eng; Valer...

Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Eng., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [email protected] Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Eng., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [email protected] South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, [email protected] South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, [email protected] Computational Science and Engineerin...

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were preindustrial incomes as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 29 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD, to Byzantium in 1000, to England in 1688, to Nueva ...

Pete Seiler Mechanical Eng. Dept. U. of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1740, USA Phone: 1-510-642-6933 Fax: 1-510-642-6163 [email protected] Bong-Sob Song Mechanical Eng. Dept. U. of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1740, USA Phone: 1-510-642-6933 Fax: 1-510-642-6163 [email protected] J. Karl Hedrick Mechanical Eng. Dept. U. of California-Berkeley Berkeley,...

We present an adaptive multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for weak approximations of solutions to Itô stochastic differential equations (SDE). The work [Oper. Res. 56 (2008), 607–617] proposed and analyzed an MLMC method based on a hierarchy of uniform time discretizations and control variates to reduce the computational effort required by a single level Euler–Maruyama Monte Carlo method from...

This paper introduces a new stabilized finite element method based on the finite calculus (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 1998; 151:233–267) and arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian techniques (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 1998; 155:235–249) for the solution to free surface problems. The main innovation of this method is the application of an overlapping domain decomposition concept in the state...

Two trials were conducted to determine the effect of energy source (ENG) and ruminally degradable protein (RDP) on lactating cow performance and intake and digestion in beef steers. In Trial 1, 78 cow-calf pairs were used in a 2 x 2 factorial design to determine the effect of ENG (corn or soyhulls; SH) and RDP (with our without sunflower meal) to a forage diet for lactating beef cows. The basal...