The Mississippi River Delta in coastal Louisiana has suffered large-scale land loss during the historic period and is representative of a global phenomenon where low-elevation deltaic coasts are increasingly at risk because disrupted sediment supply accelerated sea-level rise. Land natural part evolution over time, most occurred after individual delta-plain headlands were abandoned as active co...

purpose: to determine the sensitivity and specificity of posterior corneal elevation in discriminating keratoconus and subclinical keratoconus from normal corneas by galilei and orbscan ii diagnosed on the basis of topography. methods: three groups (keratoconus, subclinical keratoconus and normal) were evaluated with galilei and orbscan ii and results were compared to those obtained by gold sta...

Parathyroid hormone has been known to exert an important action not only on bone but also on the ground substance of other connective tissue. The relationship between parathyroid hormone and acid mucopolysaccharide (abbreviated as AMPS), as important constituent of the ground substance was suggested by the theory of Collip (1934) and Selye (1942) as regards the direct action of parathyroid horm...

Motivation: Many methods predict the physical interaction between two proteins (protein-protein interactions; PPIs) from sequence alone. Their performance drops substantially for proteins not used for training. Results: Here, we introduce a new approach to predict PPIs from sequence alone which is based on evolutionary profiles and profile-kernel support vector machines. It improved over the st...

Jane Maienschein is the daughter of Joyce Kylander [5] and Fred Maienschein [6], and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on 23 September 1950. She attended MIT as a freshman and then transferred to Yale University [7] in 1969 when Yale decided to admit women undergraduates. In 1972 she graduated with an honors degree in History, the Arts, and Letters having written a thesis on the history of scie...

ONE of the duties incumbent upon an international scientific organization is the establishment of a system of standard measures and methods for general use within its particular science. In ophthalmology, this need was beginning to be felt at the end of the 19th century, and at the X Ophthalmological Congress which was held at Lucerne in 1904 the Societe franQaise d'Ophtalmologie made certain p...

Apical and basolateral determinants specify and maintain membrane domains in epithelia. Here, we identify new roles for two apical surface proteins – Cadherin 99C (Cad99C) and Stranded at Second (SAS) – in conferring apical character in Drosophila tubular epithelia. Cad99C, the Drosophila ortholog of human Usher protocadherin PCDH15, is expressed in several embryonic tubular epithelial structur...