The great success in controlling chemical reactivity by spin manipulation was achieved in the last decade, and many remarkable spin and magnetic phenomena have been discovered. Among those discoveries, the most chemically important highlights are magnetic isotope effect, spin catalysis, and single-spin tunneling spectroscopy. This paper summarizes recent advances in these new and hot areas of m...

Abstract Introduction There is limited knowledge about sex differences in effect from clinical studies of blood pressure (BP) reduction. Purpose To evaluate the associations between achieved BP and outcome Systolic Intervention Trial (SPRINT) Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk Diabetes (ACCORD BP) trials sex-specific analyses. Methods Data 9361 SPRINT 4773 ACCORD participants were analysed s...

IMPORTANCE Because dietary intake may influence pathophysiologic mechanisms in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the association between premorbid dietary intake and the risk of sporadic ALS will provide insight into which mechanisms are possibly involved in ALS pathophogenesis. OBJECTIVE To systematically determine the association between premorbid dietary intake and the risk of ...

Topical corticosteroids have long been the chronic stage in the treatment of steroid responsive dermatitis. Creams containing 0.05% w/w Clobetasol-17-propionate (CP) as active ingredient are categorized as super potent class I topical dermatological corticosteroids. For the drug molecule to reach the cutaneous microcirculation, enhance, the systemic circulation, have to transverse both the lipo...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the ability of cervical length measured by transvaginal ultrasonography in asymptomatic high-risk women to predict spontaneous preterm birth. METHODS MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library were searched for articles published in any language between January 1980 and July 2006, using the keywords 'transvaginal ultrasonography' or ('cervix' and ('ultrasound' or ...

Equilibrium logic is an approach to nonmonotonic reasoning that extends the stable-model and answer-set semantics for logic programs. In particular, it includes the general case of nested logic programs, where arbitrary Boolean combinations are permitted in heads and bodies of rules, as special kinds of theories. In this paper, we present polynomial reductions of the main reasoning tasks associ...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) specific for human minor histocompatibility (H) antigens can be isolated from the blood of major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-matched allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients and may play a prominent role in the graft-versus-host (GVH) and graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) reactions (Tsoi et al, J Immunol 125:2258, 1980; Tsoi et al, Transplant Proc 15:1484,...