G (GS) have both antiinflammatory and immunosuppressive property, which explains why pediatricians tend to prescribe them for all pediatric clinical conditions in which it is thought or known that inflammation and/or autoimmunity are the main cause of disease signs and symptoms. However, such prescriptions are sometimes questionable because the efficacy of GS has not been demonstrated by contro...

CMOS gas sensors for healthcare Julian Gardner University of Warwick

Using the relation established by Johnson–Zumbrun between Hill’s method of aproximating spectra of periodic-coefficient ordinary differential operators and a generalized periodic Evans function given by the 2-modified characteristic Fredholm determinant of an associated Birman–Schwinger system, together with a Volterra integral computation introduced by Gesztesy–Makarov, we give an explicit con...

Existing stochastic models of unsaturated flow and transport are usually developed using the simple Gardner-Russo constitutive relationship though it is generally accepted that the more complex van Genuchten and Brooks-Corey relationships may perform better in describing experimental data. In this paper, we develop first-order stochastic models for gravity-dominated flow in second-order station...

The Floreana Mockingbird (Mimus trifasciatus) is one of the rarest bird species in the world, with an estimated 550 individuals remaining on two rocky islets off the coast of Floreana, Galápagos, Ecuador, from which the main population was extirpated more than 100 yr ago. Because they have been listed in critical danger of extinction, a plan to reintroduce this species to Floreana has been init...

Prolonged cultivation of embryos to the blastocyst stage has become a routine practice in the human in vitro fertilization program (IVF) since 1999, when the first commercial sequential media were developed. The culture systems have been improved many times and today most of the blastocyst culture media enable the embryos to reach the blastocyst stage in more than 50% of cases (Gardner et al., ...