Tracy M Frech1*, Brian Breviu2, Jessica T Zhu3 and Lesley Saketkoo4 1University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Salt Lake City Veterans Affair Medical Center, USA 2University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine and Salt Lake City Veterans Affair Medical Center, USA 3Undergraduate Boston College, Biology B.S., USA 4Louisiana State University Health Scien...

Cities experience UHIs due to the thermal properties (albedo, thermal emittance, radiative flux, and heat capacity) of human-made substances and urban geometry. This study investigated the existence of an urban heat island (UHI) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The goal of this project was to assess whether a small-scale city like Gettysburg demonstrates an UHI effect and, if present, the extent an...

1Clinical Research Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; 2Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle; 3Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA; 4Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle; and 5Department of Radioimmunotherapy and 6Division...

The orbital decay and tidal disruption of a star cluster in a galaxy is studied in an analytical manner. Owing to dynamical friction, the star cluster spirals in toward the center of the galaxy. Simultaneously, the galactic tidal field strips stars from the outskirts of the star cluster. Under an assumption that the star cluster undergoes a self-similar evolution, we obtain the condition and ti...

We discuss the structural change and degree of mass segregation of young dense star clusters within about 100 pc of the Galactic center. In our calculations, which are performed with GRAPE-6, the equations of motion of all stars and binaries are calculated accurately but the external potential of the Galaxy is solved (semi)analytically. The simulations are preformed to model the Arches star clu...

We discuss the first part of a survey for RR Lyrae variables in the galactic halo that is being made with the 1m Schmidt telescope at the Venezuelan National Observatory. So far the survey has discovered 497 variables in 380 deg, lying from 4 to 60 kpc from the Sun. It has detected three statistically significant clumps of variables, which shows that outer halo does not have smooth density cont...

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Transcriptional Regulation of Cyclooxygenase-2 Gene in Pancreatic β-cells Fan Yang and David Bleich Susan and Leslie Gonda (Goldschmeid) Diabetes & Genetic Research Center Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolism City of Hope National Medical Center 1500 East Duarte Road Duarte, CA 91010 Corresponding Author: David Bleich, MD Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolism City o...

Tina Duelund Hjortshøj,* Karen Grønskov, Alisdair R. Philp, Darryl Y. Nishimura, Adebowale Adeyemo, Charles N. Rotimi, Val C. Sheffield, Thomas Rosenberg, and Karen Brøndum-Nielsen Kennedy Center, Medical Genetics Laboratory, Glostrup, Denmark Department of Paediatrics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Department of Ophthalmology, Howard Hughes Medical Instit...