BACKGROUND Preterm birth defined as birth prior to 37 weeks of gestation is caused by different risk factors and implies an increased risk for disease and early death for the child. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of maternal stress during pregnancy on the risk of preterm birth. METHODS A case-control study that included 340 women; 168 women who gave birth preterm and 172 w...

The topological trace formula is a computation of the Lefschetz number of a Hecke correspondence C acting on the weighted cohomology groups, defined in [GHM], of a locally symmetric space X . It expresses this Lefschetz number as a sum of contributions from fixed point components of C on the reductive Borel Serre compactification of X . The proof uses the Lefschetz fixed point formula of [GM2]....

Human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines, RWP-1 and RWP-2 (Dexter, D. L., Matook, G. M., Meitner, P. A., Bogaars, H. A., Jolly, G. A., Turner, M. D., and Calabresi, P. Cancer Res., 42: 2705-2714, 1982), were used as immunogens for the production of monoclonal antibodies to tumor-associated membrane antigens. BALB/c mice were immunized by i.p. injection of viable cells and hybridomas resulting...

Aims of Study Lower urinary tract symptoms associated with bladder outlet obstruction include storage and voiding symptoms, and the most bothersome in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is predominantly storage rather than voiding symptoms. Detrusor overactivity, a major cause of irritative symptoms is a common phenomenon in those with BPH. However, the pathophysiology of this detrusor...

Aploneura lentisci Pass. is endemic to the Mediterranean region where it is holocyclic, forming galls on its primary host, Pistacia lentiscus and alternating over a 2-year period between Pistacia and secondary hosts, principally species of Gramineae. This aphid is widely distributed in Australia and New Zealand on the roots of the common forage grasses, ryegrass (Lolium spp.) and tall fescue (S...

During the last glacial period, climate records from the North Atlantic region exhibit a pronounced spectral component corresponding to a period of about 1470 years, which has attracted much attention. This spectral peak is closely related to the recurrence pattern of DansgaardOeschger (DO) events. In previous studies a red noise random process, more precisely a first-order autoregressive (AR1)...