We evaluated the screening validity of a self-report measure for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the PTSD Checklist (PCL), in female Veterans Affairs (VA) patients. All women seen for care at the VA Puget Sound Health Care system from October 1996–January 1999 (n 2,545) were invited to participate in a research interview. Participants (n 282) completed the 17-item PCL, followed by a gold...

Purpose: Metalloproteinases (MMPs) regulate extracellular matrix turnover and degrade basal lamina. Aim of the study was to examine the regulation of MMPs and the effect of an MMP inhibitor in transplant related ischemia/reperfusion injury. Methods: Heterotopic cardiac transplantation was performed after 4 h of ischemia in three groups of six rats: allografts (black hooded inbred strain, PVG do...

* Corresponding author: David J. Sullivan. Mailing address: Department of Molecular 17 Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 18 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. Phone: (410) 502-2522, FAX: (410) 95519 0105. E-mail: [email protected] 20 21 22 23 A CE PT ED Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed A...

Long ago, Bohr, Pauli, and Mott argued that it is not, in principle, possible to measure the spin components of a free electron. One can try to use a Stern-Gerlach type of device, but the finite size of the beam results in an uncertainty of the splitting force that is comparable with the gradient force. The result is that no definite spin measurement can be made. Recently there has been a reviv...

Review timeline: TPC2016-00890-RA Submission received: Nov. 28, 2016 1st Decision: January 3, 2017 manuscript declined TPC2017-00207-RA Submission received: March 14, 2017 1st Decision April 17, 2017 manuscript declined Appeal requested: April 20, 2017 Appeal decision: April 28, 2017 TPC2017-00349-RA Submission received: May 3, 2017 1st Decision: May 9, 2017 accept with minor revision TPC2017-0...

Phase-retrieval algorithms have been used for wave-front sensing to determine the aberrations of an optical system from system point-spread functions (blurred images of point sources). Previously, computationally efficient algorithms were developed and applied to data from the Hubble Space Telescope [Appl. Opt. 32, 1737 (1993); Appl. Opt. 32, 1747 (1993)], but those algorithms, which employ ana...

A physical-space version of the stretched-vortex subgrid-stress model is presented and applied to large-eddy simulations of incompressible flows. This version estimates the subgrid-kinetic energy required for evaluation of the subgrid-stress tensor using local second-order structure-function information of the resolved velocity field at separations of order the local cell size. A relation betwe...

A potential energy curve for the Ã8 Pg ,1/2 state of I2 2 is constructed based on femtosecond photoelectron spectroscopy of the I2 2 Ã8 Pg ,1/2←X̃ Su1 transition at 780 nm. The experiment is sensitive to the slope of the repulsive potential wall, the well depth, equilibrium bond length, and the long-range attractive portion of the upper state potential. The Ã8 Pg ,1/2 potential is fit to a piece...

The rising cost of cement and the problem waste disposal with regard to coconut rice husks lead research on a clay brick good physical properties that can replace at same time keep our environment clean. In line this, bricks were moulded clay, cement, husk ash, ash. analyzed determine their properties. this study, set tables for mixing proportion raw material in grams 33.3 cm3 water, table invo...

Using a comprehensive numerical model, we analyze the first long-wavelength ~1.55 mm! vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers operating continuous-wave at room temperature ~up to 33 °C!. These double-fused lasers employ strain-compensated InGaAsP multi-quantum wells sandwiched between GaAs/AlGaAs distributed Bragg reflectors that are fused on both sides of the InP spacer. The two-dimensional mo...