Vineyards are often considered to be among the agricultural lands most sensitive erosion. We used Stock Unearthing Measurement/Improved Measurement (SUM/ISUM) method and sediment traps volume measurements assess pluri-decennial erosion rates on a sub-catchment of Mercurey vineyards in Burgundy, France. The measured were compared local environmental conditions (such as slope, soil type, age vine...

Aging has important deleterious effects on the cardiovascular system. We sought to compare intraventricular kinetic energy (KE) in healthy subjects of varying ages with subjects with ventricular dysfunction to understand if changes in energetic momentum may predispose individuals to heart failure. Four-dimensional flow MRI was acquired in 35 healthy subjects (age: 1-67 yr) and 10 patients with ...

The prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) increases with age. Moderate to severe UI affects 7% of women 20 to 39 yr of age, 17% 40 to 59 yr of age, 23% 60 to 79 yr of age, and 32% 80 yr of age.1 The prevalence in men is approximately one third that of women, until it equalizes in the ninth decade. Nursing home residents have especially high rates of UI, ranging from 60 to 78% in women and 45 ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels are known to vary with race and ethnicity, environmental factors, lifestyle, metabolic and physiologic changes and advancing age. This study was designed to determine age specific serum PSA level in healthy Indian men and its comparison with that reported in different populations of the world. METHODS A total of 1300 adult m...

RATIONALE The study of genetic modifiers in cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease requires rigorous phenotyping. One type of genetic association study design compares polymorphisms in patients at extremes of phenotype, requiring accurate classification of pulmonary disease at varying ages. OBJECTIVE To evaluate approaches to quantify severity of pulmonary disease and their ability to discriminate...

Protein Description 393 amino acids; 53 kDa phosphoprotein; contains, from N-term to C-term, a transactivation domain, a DNA-binding domain, nuclear localization signals and a tetramerization domain. Expression Widely expressed. Localisation Nucleus. Function Tumour suppressor gene; P53 is a transcriptional regulator acting as a guardian of the genome; in response to DNA damage, p53 is overexpr...

Data on mortality for the ten years following lower limb amputation were obtained from all the 16 surgical units in Southern Finland and the National Social Insurance Institution. In Southern Finland during the period 1984-1985, amputations of the lower limb were performed on 705 patients, of whom 382 (54%) were women and 323 (46%) men. The majority of the amputations, 47% were performed for va...

SuperWASP light curves for 53 W UMa-type eclipsing binary (EB) candidates, identified in previous work as being close to the contact binary short-period limit, were studied for evidence of period change. The orbital periods of most of the stars were confirmed, and period decrease, significant at more than 5 σ, was observed in three objects: 1SWASP J174310.98+432709.6 (−0.055 ± 0.003 s yr-1), 1S...

In an attempt to improve the poor outlook for children with T-cell leukemia (T-ALL), the Southwest Oncology Group, Pediatric Division, used a modified LSA2-L2 multidrug regimen to treat 53 patients with E-rosette-positive T-ALL. This regimen was chosen because of its demonstrated efficacy in T-cell (mediastinal) non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Complete remission (CR) rate was 88%. Range of follow-up fo...