We read with interest the paper by LARSSON et al. [1] in which they reported in a large population-based sample of nonsmokers that respiratory symptoms were related to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). They gave special consideration to respiratory symptoms triggered by a variety of lower airway irritants and they showed for these symptoms that the relation was stronger in females than in male...

For a prime $p\equiv 3$ $(\text{mod }4)$ and $m\ge 2$, Romik raised question about whether the Taylor coefficients around $\sqrt{-1}$ of classical Jacobi theta function $\theta_3$ eventually vanish modulo $p^m$. This can be extended to class modular forms half-integral weight on $\Gamma_1(4)$ CM points; in this paper, we prove an affirmative answer it for primes $p\ge5$. Our result is also gene...

We present two kinds of lowest-order virtual element methods for planar linear elasticity problems. For the first one we use nonconforming method with a stabilizing term. It can be interpreted as modification Crouzeix–Raviart finite suggested in Hansbo and Larson (2003) to method. second conforming component displacement vector other. This approach seen an extension idea Kouhia Stenberg (1995) ...

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Gerjan Navis; E-mail: [email protected] *Comments on Newton-Cheh C, Larson MG, Vasan RS et al. Association of common variants in NPPA and NPPB with circulating natriuretic peptides and blood pressure. Nat Genet 2009; 41: 348–353; and on Newton-Cheh C, Johnson T, Gateva V et al. Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood...

Author(s): Laurie J. Conway, RN, MS, CIC; Monika Pogorzelska, PhD, MPH; Elaine L. Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC; Patricia W. Stone, PhD, RN, FAAN Reviewed work(s): Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 33, No. 6 (June 2012), pp. 640-641 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/...