For help in preparation of this article, thanks to Ballard Andrews, Soraya Betancourt, Denise Freed and Martin Hürlimann, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Myrt E. Cribbs, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston; Tara Davies, James Du and Ray Kennedy, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Peter Eichelberger, Adomite Chemicals, Nalco Energy Services L.P., Sugar Land, Texas; Doris Gonzalez, Houston; Gregory...

Tumors and wounds share many similarities including loss of tissue architecture, cell polarity and cell differentiation, aberrant extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling (Ballard et al., 2006) increased inflammation, angiogenesis, and elevated cell migration and proliferation. Whereas these changes are transient in repairing wounds, tumors do not regain tissue architecture but rather their contin...

Taxes are usually called distortionary if they are not lump-sum (Ballard and Fullerton 1992). It is well known that if distortionary taxes are introduced in a formerly Pareto efficient perfectly competitive economy they induce an excess burden on the economy. But suppose, the economy is subject to pollution that renders the competitive allocation inefficient in the absence of any taxes. Then it...

New research from California confirms the safety of pasteurized mother’s milk for HIV-exposed babies (Israel-Ballard, 2005). Two methods of heat-treatment, known as Flash-Heating and Pretoria Pasteurization, were compared to assess their impact on HIV and antimicrobial properties of breast milk, as well as on nutrient content.Milk samples were spiked with clade C HIV-1 (the sub-type found in ar...

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s 6 Awad H. Al-Mohy An Improved Algorithm for the Matrix Logarithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 David Amsallem Interpolation on Matrix Manifolds of Reduced-Order Models and Application to On-Line Aeroelastic Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Athanasios C. Antoulas Model Reduction of Parameter-Dependent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

myeloma cast nephropathy: Is there still a role for plasmapheresis? Luana Pillon, Raeshell S. Sweeting, Avi Arora, Alicia Notkin, Harold S. Ballard, Rosemary L. Wieczorek and Nelson Leung Department of Medicine, VA New York Harbor Health Care Systems, New York, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; Division of Nephrology, Departm...

Case: An infant was dropped off in the emergency center by a family who expressed no intent to return. It was presumed that the infant was born the day before admission based on information gathered by the emergency center. However, no information was provided regarding the infant’s name or place of birth. The patient appeared well and was admitted to the newborn nursery. Vital signs were reass...

Methods The inclusion criteria were: singleton pregnancy, accurate dating of the gestation by the current methods of LMP, CRL, and normal fetal anatomy scan. The exclusion criteria were: babies that were suspected to have a genetic syndromes or anomalies during the pediatrician’s examination. Whole blood samples were collected from the umbilical cord of newborns (gestational age 24-40 weeks) al...

Declaration of interest None. Postnatal depression affects between 10% and 15% of new mothers. It is associated with adverse consequences for the mother’s mental health and functioning (Kumar & Robson, 1984; Marks et al, 1992), with deterioration of the marital relationship and of the psychological health of the partner (Lovestone & Kumar, 1993; Ballard & Davies, 1996), and has an adverse longt...