To what extent do firms rely on rural output for demand and capital? We provide new evidence on this classic development question by examining the impact of agricultural output on local economic activity. Rainfall provides exogenous and significant variation in rural earnings. We find that such fluctuations have a lasting impact on urban firms, with effects concentrated in the manufacturing sec...

Hydrolysis of glucuronides is a prerequisite for the quantitative determination or the isolation of a number of physiologically important compounds which are conjugated with glucuronic acid in the animal body. The use of acid for this hydrolysis has frequently brought about chemical alteration of the product under study (14). The need for a hydrolytic agent which is specific and sufficiently mi...

The reports of Fishman and Anlyan (4) and of Odell and Burt (1@)indicating a high @9-glucuroni dase activity in a number of human cancerous tissues have elicited considerable interest in the possibility of a relationship between this enzyme and neoplasms in general. The lack of species specificity for such a relationship is indicated in the observation by Kerr et al. (9) of a higher glu curonid...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), although rare, is a progressive disease with a high morbidity and mortality rate. In 1981, Ernst von Romberg, a German physician described pulmonary vascular lesions as “pulmonary vascular sclerosis”, the first description of histological changes in PAH [Fishman 2004]. The average survival time for untreated patient is around 2.8 yrs [D’Alonzo 1991]. Despi...

The Irish language has long been regarded in the popular mind as a correlate of Irish nationalism. A model expounded by the sociolinguist, Joshua Fishman, is applied to the evolution of Irish as a nationalist icon, and it is demonstrated that its divisive potential developed only gradually. In fact, it was an object of affection and admiration for many influential 19th century Protestants and u...

Ahlström, Håkan Alegre Castellanos, Alvaro Algin, Oktay Andersen, Poul Attiná, Dome Baba, Yasutaka Bagenholm, Anna Battal, Bilal Bertolotto, Michele Bolvig, Lars Christoforidis, Emmanuel Clemmesen, Otto Court-Payen, Michel Cwikiel, Wojciech de Foer, Bert Derchi, Lorenzo E Di Mario, Carlo Dobrocky, Tomas Dorenberg, Eric Ekberg, Olle El-Diasty, Tarek Eriksson, Mats-Ola Eryilmaz, Mehmet Eshed, Iri...

1 Scanlin TF. Cystic fibrosis. In: Fishman AP, ed. Pulmonary diseases and disorders. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988:1273-94 2 Rommens JM, lanuzzi MC, Kerem B, Drumm ML, Melmer G, Dean M, et al. Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: chromosome walking and jumping. Science 1989; 245:1059-65 3 Kerem B, Rommens JM, Buchanan JA, Markiewicz D, Cos TK, Chakvarti A, et al. Identification of ...

Objectives Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) involves assessment of the upper airway using a flexible endoscope while patients are in a pharmacologically-induced sleep-like state. The aim of this article is to review the current literature regarding the role of DISE in children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The indications, typical anesthetic protocol, comparison to other diagnostic mod...

PURPOSE Choroidal thickness (CT) evaluation with EDI-OCT in Stargardt Disease (STGD), considering its possible association with some clinical features of the disease. METHODS CT was evaluated in 41 STGD patients and in 70 controls. Measurements were performed in the subfoveal position and at 1000 μm nasally and temporally. CT average values in STGD and in the control group were first compared...

A generalized inversion method is presented that uses a rotated coordinates technique [Collins and Fishman, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98, 1637-1644 (1995)] in simulated annealing to invert for both the location of an acoustic source and parameters that describe the ocean seabed. The rotated coordinates technique not only aids in the inversion process but also indicates the coupling of the source and ...