Cancer of the pancreas is a very aggressive disease and is the fourth leading cause of death from cancer. Surgery is currently the most effective treatment, but only 20% of patients are candidates for this approach; the survival rate is variable and there are few predictors of prognosis. A number of studies have been published concerning the role of inflammation in pancreatic cancer. In fact, t...

We study the dependence of risk on vehicle type and especially on vehicle model. Here, risk is measured by the number of driver fatalities per year per million vehicles registered. We analyze both the risk to the drivers of each vehicle model and the risk the vehicle model imposes on drivers of other vehicles with which it crashes. The "combined risk" associated with each vehicle model is simpl...

Exogenous and dietary estrogens have been associated with modification of breast cancer risk. Mammary cancer model systems can be used to explore interactions between specific transgenes, and hormonal and dietary factors. Transgenic mice bearing the rat wild-type erbB-2 gene were used to study the effects of short-term hormonal exposure [17beta-estradiol (E2) or tamoxifen] or a soy meal diet on...

Abstract The progressive reduction of synthetic agrochemical fertilizers is one the key factors in shift from conventional agriculture to sustainable farming. Nitrogen (N) ruling element development agricultural production, but its use mineral form or excessive causes several environmental issues. Since release N nanocomposites coincides with their uptake by crops, loss reduces while enhancing ...

Le métabolisme tumoral est étroitement lié à la tumorogenèse et varie selon le phénotype tumoral. Les techniques de métabolomique peuvent fournir des données quantitatives concernant un grand nombre métabolites permettent l’analyse nombreuses voies métaboliques intriquées. La tomographie par émission (TEP) positons au 18F-fluorodéoxyglucose (FDG) permet une mesure in vivo l’avidité cellulaire e...

Tässä artikkelissa vertailemme vihan emootiota välittäviä viron- ja suomenkielisiä kuvaannollisia ilmauksia. Selitämme niiden erikoislaatua idiomien merkityspiirteillä analysoimme ilmauksia metaforateorian viitekehystä käyttäen. Sekä suomen että viron vihaidiomien kielikuvat perustuvat laajalti ruumiilliseen metonymiaan; lisäksi näissä kielissä on käytössä kansainvälisesti levinneitä käsitemeta...

The new EPA mobile source inventory model, Multi-scale mOtor Vehicle & equipment Emission System or MOVES, is an ambitious effort to model emissions from the micro to the macro level. To maintain consistency across the scales, a road load based quantity known as Vehicle Specific Power, or VSP, has been chosen as the primary causal variable in emissions formation for modeling purposes. This work...

The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of eye injuries resulting from frontal automobile crashes and discuss the relevant injury mechanisms. In order to determine eye injury incidence, cases in NASS were selected from the years 1993 through 1999 that include drivers and front seat occupants only, while excluding ejected occupants and rollovers. In addition, only frontal impact...

ALTHOUGH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTTRAUmatic stress disorder (PTSD) and aggression is generally well established within the literature, research investigating the relationship between PTSD and male-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) has only begun to emerge. Preliminary findings suggest a link between trauma exposure, PTSD symptomatology, and maleperpetrated IPV, which may have impo...