Symptoms of atopic asthma often disappear around puberty. The authors recently demonstrated that this clinical remission is accompanied with ongoing airways inflammation in most subjects. The discrepancy between lack of symptoms and persistent airway inflammation suggests that perception of the symptoms is unclear. In the present study, young adults in clinical remission of atopic asthma assign...

newly determined structure of a filament-forming protein from bacteria is eerily similar to that of eukaryotic actin. The bacterial protein, MreB, was known to affect cell shape in bacteria; Escherichia coli that lack MreB are spherical rather than rod-shaped. In March of this year, Jeffery Errington and colleagues (University of Oxford, UK) reported that filamentous helical A Actin (left) and ...

Thirtytwo subjects,16 men and 16 women, participated in an experiment to compare two commonly used rating scales for perception of exertion, viz. the Borg RPE scale and the Borg CR10 scale (see, e.g., Borg, 1998). One group of 8 men and 8 women used each scale. Workloads were increased every minute, with 15 W for men, and with 10 W for women, to a voluntary maximum. With a basic perceptual nois...

As endosymbionts, the mitochondria are unique among organelles. This review provides insights into mitochondrial behavior and introduces the idea of a unified collective, an interconnected reticulum reminiscent of the Borg, a fictional humanoid species from the Star Trek television series whereby decisions are made within their network (or "hive"), linked to signaling cascades that coordinate t...

described the background of the present case, and the evidence on whether Microsoft has been coercively packaging Internet Explorer (IE) with Win 95 to swallow up the Internet browser market. Part I concluded that it should be difficult for the DOJ ultimately to persuade the court that the anti-tying clause of the 1996 consent judgment in US v. Microsoft covers what Microsoft has been doing wit...

We explicitly determine the high-energy asymptotics for Weyl-Titchmarsh matrices associated with general Dirac-type operators on half-lines and on R. We also prove new local uniqueness results for Dirac-type operators in terms of exponentially small diierences of Weyl-Titchmarsh matrices. As concrete applications of the asymptotic high-energy expansion we derive a trace formula for Dirac operat...

We describe our experiences in developing a Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) prototype based only on Microsoft software. We undertook this experiment to gain insight into exactly how the various Microsoft infrastructural components and application packages could be used in developing collaborative systems. The paper contains a brief overview of the technologies we explored. Based on...

In our original article we outlined the type of somato-psychosomatic feedback cycle occurring in panic attacks in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that F. Kummer has further elaborated in his correspondence. In fact, this type of feedback cycle is described in the most widely accepted theory of panic attacks and panic disorder in the physically healthy, the cognitive (or ‘‘catastrop...