T h e antibodies that are p roduced in man as a result of specific vaccination or infectious disease comprise only a small propor t ion o f the bulk o f the IgG molecules circulating in the blood. T h e immunity towards these antigens is a t t r ibuted mostly to a relatively high n u m b er o f memory cells and a low titer o f synthesized antibodies. In view of kinetic studies o f ant ibody pro...

Objective: The authors examined the relationship between deficits in olfactory identification and duration of illness in young and elderly patients with schizophrenia. Method: Olfactory identification performance of 38 patients with schizophrenia and 40 normal subjects was compared by using the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test. Results: The schizophrenic patients demonstrate...

BRUCE E. DUNN,* HARTLEY COHEN, AND MARTIN J. BLASER Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226-0509; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53295-1000; Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los ...

For population biologist Bruce Levin, opening the incubator to see how yesterday’s experiment worked is his ideal way to start the day. That anticipation has kept the Emory University professor of biology excited about his research on the population and evolutionary biology of bacteria for more than 40 years, and motivated a shift in interest from multicellular organisms to bacteria. Anything t...

3 B assessment and the development of appropriate intervention strategies for a particular client require consideration of the individual in relation to a larger social context. To accomplish this, we use principles and concepts derived from systems theory. Systems theory is a way of elaborating increasingly complex systems across a continuum that encompasses the person-inenvironment (Anderson,...

On a summer afternoon in the late 1990s in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, sociologist Bruce Western and his colleague Katherine Beckett engaged in a conversation that would change the course of their research. At the time, Western studied the social programs of European welfare states. Against the backdrop of a park that had seen a surge in drug dealing and homeless encampment in the 198...

Two new genera of crinoid-associated pontoniine shrimps, Brucecaris, new genus, and Unguicaris, new genus, are described and illustrated. Brucecaris is established for Periclimenes tenuis Bruce. Unguicaris panglaonis, new genus, new species, is described from crinoid-associated material collected at Panglao Island, Bohol Sea, The Philippines. Three species, Periclimenes alegrias Bruce, Periclim...

The remarks on Bruce Smith’s work, that follow, have been presented at the Bruce D. Smith Memorial Conference held by the Department of Economics of the University of Texas at Austin, onApril 12–13, 2003. The conference was organized by Scott Freeman, Sebastian Centennial Professor in the Department of Economics of the University of Texas at Austin, and Bruce Champ, of the Research Department o...