I joined the Department of Virus and Cell Biology at Merck Research Laboratories in 1982, when Dr Maurice Hilleman was head of the Department, and Dr Roy Vagelos was President of Research. At the time, there were lingering concerns about theoretical safety issues of Merck’s first hepatitis B vaccine, called ‘Heptavax’, produced by purifying the native coat protein from the blood of virusinfecte...

The discipline of social work has long prided itself on taking a holistic view of human suffering and well-being and for advocating for conditions that enhance the quality of life for vulnerable populations. Yet, as others have pointed out (Carney, 2012), social workers have remained mostly silent when it comes to the changes proposed for the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manua...

We calculate the imaginary parts of the isoscalar scalar and isovector electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon up to two-loop order in chiral perturbation theory. Particular attention is paid on the correct behavior of Im σN (t) and Im GE,M (t) at the two-pion threshold t0 = 4mπ in connection with the non-relativistic 1/M -expansion. We recover the well-known strong enhancement near thresho...

Vocalization is a rich potential source of information on the internal state of animals. This information is necessary for assessing the animal behavior and ensuring the most favorable conditions for holding and breeding animals in captivity. The sound indicators of animal's behavioral and physiological well-being can be applied without traumatic manipulations, which is especially important for...

We evaluated the condition of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and white-tailed deer (0. uirginianus) killed by mountain lions (Felti concolor), coyotes (Cants Zatrans), and automobiles from December through March, 1969-81 in western Montana. Predators killed prime-aged animals and automobiles killed (G = 41.4, P < 0.001) more fawns and old-aged animals. Fifty-three deer (90%) killed by automobi...

HomeCirculationVol. 143, No. 10Letter by Navarro Castellanos and Dahdah Regarding Article, “Acute Heart Failure in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Children the Context of Global SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic” Free AccessLetterPDF/EPUBAboutView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toFree AccessLett...

A coarray-based aperture synthesis scheme using subarrays and post-data acquisition beamforming is presented for through-the-wall wideband microwave imaging applications. Various effects of the presence of the wall, such as refraction, change in speed, and attenuation, are incorporated into the beamformer design. Simulation results verifying the proposed synthetic aperture technique for a TWI s...

s | 3 15. Zhao YJ, Du MY, Huang XQ, Lui S, Chen ZQ, Liu J, Luo Y, Wang XL, Kemp GJ, & Gong QY (2014). Brain grey matter abnormalities in medication-free patients with major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine, 44(14), 2927–2937 16. Qiu L, Huang X, Zhang J, Wang Y, Kuang W, Li J, Wang X, Wang L, Yang X, Lui S, Mechelli A, & Gong QY (2014). Characterization of major depre...

—We developed and applied a stable isotope turnover model to estimate how long age-0 American shad Alosa sapidissima reside within tidal freshwater and brackish-water habitats in the York River estuary, Virginia. The residence time was estimated by modeling the changing stable isotope ratio (either the carbon [dC] or sulfur [dS] stable isotope ratio) of an age-0 American shad as it migrates sea...