A high percentage of Thoroughbred mares and their foals on two large farms in central Kentucky were found to have low thyroid hormone levels (lower than established levels) at the time of parturition, even though management on the farms near the time of foaling varied. A number of factors were identified that could have contributed to the low levels of thyroid hormones in these mares and foals,...

The Newton method and its variations are the most efficient methods known for solving systems of nonlinear equations when they are continuously differentiable. Besides its practical applications, the Newton method is also a powerful theoretical tool. One of the famous results on the Newton method is the well-known Kantorovich’s theorem, which has the advantage that the Newton sequence converges...

[1] Satellite measurements of OH and HO2 obtained by the Aura MLS instrument are compared to the balloon-borne BOH and FIRS-2 instruments. All measurements are also compared with constrained photochemical model calculations. On average, both balloon measurements of OH agree with MLS within 17% over 25–40 km and the measurements agree with the model within 12%. The three measurements for column ...

By means of consecutive alkaline and proteolytic treatments of the organic framework’s interlamellar layers extracted from the nacre of H. rufescens, we have exposed a core of aligned parallel chitin fibers. Our findings both verify basic elements of the interlamellar layer structural model of Levi-Kalisman et al. (2001) and extend the more detailed model of Bezares et al. (2008, 2010). We obse...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) is an oncogenic protein which has previously been shown to engage the NF-kappaB, stress-activated MAP kinase, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase), and extracellular-regulated kinase (ERK)-MAPK pathways. In this study, we demonstrate that LMP1 activates ERK-MAPK in epithelial cells via the canonical Raf-MEK-ERK-MAPK pathway bu...

We study aspects of the analytic foundations of integration and closely related problems for functions of infinite many variables x1, x2, . . . ∈ D. The setting is based on a reproducing kernel k for functions on D, a family of non-negative weights γu, where u varies over all finite subsets of N, and a probability measure ρ on D. We consider the weighted superposition K = ∑ u γuku of finite ten...

A network with three types of model neurons is considered. These are designated as excitatory, fast inhibitory, and slow inhibitory cells. Each excitatory cell is modeled as a relaxation oscillator, while, for simplicity, the inhibitory cells are modeled by a single equation. The coupling between cells is modeled in a way that mimics chemical synapses. This network is introduced as a simplifica...

Conformational energies, consisting of nonbonded and electrostatic interactions, have been calculated for poly(L-proline) I and II helices, of six-residues length, with a water molecule hydrogen-bonded to each imide group. For polyproline I, the Traub-Shmueli prolyl-ring geometry was used, whereas for polyproline II, calculations were done for the 2 ring geometries of Leung and Marsh and, in so...