Important publications describing the effects of cytokines in the nervous system are demanding increasing amounts of our attention these days. Consider, for example, the chemotactic cytokines or chemokines. These small proteins have been extensively studied because of their importance in regulating leukocyte migration and inflammation. Approximately 50 different chemokines have been shown to ex...

If you want to learn about the physiology of the cardiovascular system, and learn it really well, you will want to use this book. In its seventh edition, this book is a clear, understandable treatment of a potentially overwhelming topic. Throughout, the book maintains its focus on fundamental concepts and never loses the reader in esoterica (if a formula is derived it is usually highlighted in ...

This study investigated the relationship between forward head posture and temporomandibular disorder symptoms. Thirty-three temporomandibular disorder patients with predominant complaints of masticatory muscle pain were compared with an age- and gender-matched control group. Head position was measured from photographs taken with a plumb line drawn from the ceiling to the lateral malleolus of th...

The formation of foramina transversaria in the seventh cervical vertebra of CBA and C57BL mice and their offspring is found to behave as if it is determined by a single semi-dominant gene. The accessory foramina of Weber (1950) are investigated in the same material. These foramina are classified into two types and their heredity is evaluated.

The construction of stiiy accurate and B-stable multi-implicit Runge-Kutta methods for parallel implementation is discussed. A fth and a seventh order method is constructed and a promising numerical comparison with the eecient Radau5 code of E. Hairer and G. Wanner is conducted.

UNLABELLED A Seventh-Order Linear Multistep Method (SOLMM) is developed and implemented in both predictor-corrector mode and block mode. The two approaches are compared by measuring their total number of function evaluations and CPU times. The stability property of the method is examined. This SOLMM is also compared with existing methods in the literature using standard numerical examples. AM...

Abstract: In this paper, a shell finite element formulation to analyze highly deformable shell structures composed of homogeneous rubberlike materials is presented. The element is a triangular shell of anyorder with seven nodal parameters. The shell kinematics is based on geometrically exact Lagrangian description and on the ReissnerMindlin hypothesis. The finite element can represent thickness...