December 1, 2010 J. Arrington, R. Dupré, D. Geesaman, K. Hafidi (spokesperson), R. J. Holt, D. H. Potterveld, P. E. Reimer, X. Zhan Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL T. Horn Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. H. Gao, S. Malace, G. Laskaris, C. Peng, Q.J. Ye, Y. Zhang Duke University, Durham, NC P. Markowitz Florida International University, Miami, FL C. E. Keppel Hampton Un...

PURPOSE To compare visual acuity (VA) assessed in healthy eyes and eyes with diabetic retinopathy (DR) using three different logMAR charts: the Sloan letter European-wide chart, the tumbling E chart, and the Landolt C chart. METHODS Measurements on one eye of 40 volunteers (aged 29 ± 4 years) without visual impairment and 31 DR patients (aged 70 ± 9 years) with mild/moderate visual impairment...

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are currently undergoing clinical trials in cancer patients on the basis of their effect on proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis demonstrated in vitro. The goal of this study was to assess the effects of an HDAC inhibitor, valproic acid (VA), on proliferation, androgen-sensitivity, androgen receptor levels and E-cadherin (E-cad) expression in human ...

BACKGROUND The Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis belongs to the Class Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura. The spermatozoon of this species is of aflagellated type, it has a spherical acrosome surrounded by the cup-shaped nucleus, which are unique to brachyurans. For the past several decades, studies on the spermatogenesis of the mitten crab mainly focus on the morphology. Compared with the ext...

Gauge fields are formulated in terms of the zero-energy eigenstates of 2-dimensional Schrödinger equations with central potentials Va(ρ) = −agaρ (a 6= 0, ga > 0 and ρ = √ x2 + y2). It is shown that the zero-energy states can naturally be interpreted as a kind of interacting gauge fields of which effects are solved as the factors eigcχA , where χA are complex gauge functions written by the zero-...

BACKGROUND Access to specialty care is challenging for veterans in rural locations. To address this challenge, in December 2009, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) implemented an electronic consultation (e-consult) program to provide primary care providers (PCPs) and patients with enhanced specialty care access. OBJECTIVE The aim of this quality improvement (QI) pr...