1 Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 3 The fly as a model system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 4 How are motion stimuli represented by fly tangential cells? 243 4.1 Representation of the time course of visual motion . . . . . . . . . 245 4.2 Variabilit...

We studied accelerated death benefit (ADB) claims at the Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company (Dai-ichi Life). The ADB provision is designed to pay all or a portion of the death benefit if the insured is expected to die within 6 months. Dai-ichi Life paid 243 ADB claims and did not pay 17 ADB claims between December 1994 and March 1998. Of the 260 ADB claims, 253 (97.3%) were caused by malign...

A neutral mononuclear Fe(II) complex with spin crossover (SCO) properties, Fe2(SCN)2 (1) (L = 2-(2-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline), was solvothermally synthesized. It displays a new example of two-step SCO with Tc1↓ = 250 K, Tc1↑ = 260 K and Tc2 = 295 K.

Family Planning Perspectives In the early 1990s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved subdermal contraceptive implants and the injectable contraceptive depot medroxy progesterone acetate (DMPA), adding two long-term methods to the array of contraceptives currently available. A primary concern associated with these highly effective methods is that, as has been documented among women wh...

Many cells express both P2X cation channels and P2Y G-proteincoupled receptors that are costimulated by nucleotides released during physiologic or pathophysiologic responses. For example, during hemostasis and thrombosis, ATP-gated P2X1 channels and ADP-stimulated P2Y1 and P2Y12 G-protein coupled receptors play important roles in platelet activation. It has previously been reported that P2X1 re...

BACKGROUND Our previous phase II study of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and cisplatin (FP) for treatment of advanced gastric cancer showed that strong immunoreactivity for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is associated with chemoresponse. Patients with four or five of the favorable phenotypes, p53 (-), bcl-2 (-), gluthathione S-transferase pi (-), thymidylate synthase (-), and VEGF (+), surviv...

Caldeira–Leggett, 35, 41 Carlson–Goldman mode, 313, 318 causality structure, 24, 33, 35, 82, 84, 105, 127, 241, 243, 245, 248, 265, 283, 302, 321, 326 caustics, 74 classical–quantum components, 19, 30, 191, 199, 205 closed time contour, 3, 13, 76, 84, 98, 142, 186, 299 coherent states bosonic, 10 fermionic, 184 Cole–Hopf transformation, 166, 167, 180 collision term, 56, 83, 90, 92–96, 137, 141,...

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