The transition from analogue to the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTV) in Europe is planned to be completed by the end of the year 2012. The DTV spectrum allocation is such that there are a number of TV channels which cannot be used for additional high power broadcast transmitters due to mutual interference and hence are left unused within a given geographical location, i.e. the TV channels a...

search, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (Drs Singh, Petersen, and Sawhney); Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston (Dr Spitzmueller); and School of Biomedical Informatics and University of Texas–Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (Dr Sittig). Correspondence: Dr Singh, Micha...

BACKGROUND Our goal was to identify changes in the metabolome in multiple sclerosis (MS) and how vitamin D supplementation alters metabolic profiles in MS patients and healthy controls. METHODS We applied global untargeted metabolomics to plasma from a cross-sectional cohort of age- and sex-matched MS patients and controls and a second longitudinal cohort of MS patients and healthy controls w...

MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS, SOCIAL EXCLUSION, AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A MULTI-LEVEL STUDY By Jeffrey Kendall Erbe, M.Sc., M.Phil. Advisers: Eric Fertuck, Ph.D. and Diana Diamond, Ph.D. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is an ongoing public health crisis. Poor developmental quality of differentiation-relatedness of object representations and attachment i...

STUDY QUESTION Are certain ethnic groups with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) at increased risk of metabolic disorders? SUMMARY ANSWER Obese Hispanic women with PCOS are at increased risk of metabolic disorders compared with age- and BMI-matched obese non-Hispanic white women with PCOS in the USA. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Ethnic differences in body composition and metabolic risk are well esta...

K-Cl cotransport in LK sheep erythrocytes is activated by osmotic swelling and inhibited by shrinkage. The mechanism by which changes in cell volume are transduced into changes in transport was investigated by measuring time courses of changes in transport after osmotic challenges in cells with normal and reduced Mg concentrations. When cells of normal volume and normal Mg are swollen, there is...

CONTEXT It is unclear whether male and female physician researchers who perform similar work are currently paid equally. OBJECTIVES To determine whether salaries differ by gender in a relatively homogeneous cohort of physician researchers and, if so, to determine if these differences are explained by differences in specialization, productivity, or other factors. DESIGN AND SETTING A US nati...

Sonya A. Grier is Associate Professor of Marketing, Kogod School of Business, American University (e-mail: [email protected]). Janell Mensinger is Director of the Clinical Research Unit, Department of Medicine, The Reading Hospital and Medical Center (e-mail: [email protected]). Shirley H. Huang is Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Chil...

ATP-sensitive K (KATP) channels are nucleotide-gated bioenergy sensors that enable high-fidelity feedback communication between cellular energy dynamics and membrane electric activity.1–4 Particularly dense in cardiac sarcolemma where they are composed through heteromultimeric assembly of inwardly rectifying K channel pores, typically KCNJ11-encoded Kir6.2 proteins, and regulatory ATPbinding ca...