Calix (4) pyrroles are macromolecules structurally related to porphyrins, they exhibit exceptional chemical and physical properties that have suggested a vast number of potential applications in host-guest chemistry. In recent years, calix (4) pyrroles have attracted a lot of attention because of their properties as binders of anions, transition metals, and neutral substrates and their new appl...

It was suggested that the enhanced incorporation of choline into phospholipids in the very first stages of renal compensatory hypertrophy might result in a change of membrane fatty acid composition and of membrane fluidity (S. Solomon). L. M. Lowenstein stated that no data on fatty acid composition of kidneys undergoing compensatory hypertrophy were available. Since ligation of the ureter of th...

Answering questions by N. Bank and F.H. Epstein, J.-P. Guignard stated that the increase in sodium excretion (?) with bicarbonate excretionfollowing clamping ofthe contralateral renal pedicle in dogs could not be ascribed to an increase in extracellular volume because, in his experiments, extracellular volume was kept constant by adapting the infusion rates to the urineflow observed in the prec...

Emil Simiu; Fahim Sadek; and Michael A. Riley NIST Fellow, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8611. E-mail: [email protected] Research Structural Engineer, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8611. E-mail: [email protected] Research Structur...

OBJECTIVE To develop consensus-based recommendations for the conduct of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). This article, the second in a 3-part series, describes the basis for recommendations constituting the reference case analysis, the set of practices developed to guide CEAs that inform societal resource allocation decisions, and the content of these recommendations. PARTICIPANTS The Panel...

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of tourism demand by utilizing panel data for the period of 1995-2011 from top 20 countries sending tourists to Turkey. Econometric results obtained from panel cointegration analysis show that macroeconomic factors as such income, prices, supply capacity, exchange rate and political stability play a significant role in determi...

CONTEXT The European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on urinary incontinence published in March 2012 have been rewritten based on an independent systematic review carried out by the EAU guidelines panel using a sustainable methodology. OBJECTIVE We present a short version here of the full guidelines on the surgical treatment of patients with urinary incontinence, with the aim of disse...

This article reports on the final session o f a Panel offor­ mer officials and Congressmen o f the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations formed to recommend changes to U.S. policy and law to strengthen national biodefense while optimizing resource in­ vestments. I f America were to be beset by a biological or chemical weapons attack, who would be in charge of responding? According to the con...