The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and patents in the open-access digital library NanoBank, is shown to be positively affected both by the size of existing regional stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between institutions of different organiz...

Norishige Morita,* Jong-Hwan Lee,* Aneesh Bapat, Michael C. Fishbein, William J. Mandel, Peng-Sheng Chen, James N. Weiss, and Hrayr S. Karagueuzian Department of Medicine, Translational Arrhythmia Research Section, University of California Los Angeles Cardiovascular Research Laboratory and the Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen Sch...

1 Division of Research on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 2 Community, Health Outcomes, and Intervention Research Program, Saban Research Center, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 3 Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public...

OBJECTIVE Los Angeles County has the largest population of any county in the nation. Population-based estimates of health conditions for Los Angeles County are based primarily on telephone surveys, which are known to underestimate conditions of public health importance. This report presents the prevalence of selected health conditions for civilian noninstitutionalized adults aged 20 and over li...

1 Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. 3 Department of Preventive Medicine/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA. 4 Department of Family and Pre...

Bilal Shaw,* Mark M. Wilde, Ognyan Oreshkov, Isaac Kremsky, and Daniel A. Lidar Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA Departm...

David W Shattuck, Anand A Joshi, Justin P Haldar, Chitresh Bhushan, Soyoung Choi, Andrew C Krause, Jessica L Wisnowski, Arthur W Toga, and Richard M Leahy Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Ne...

Inspecting the behavior of the rockfill materials is of significant importance in analysis of rockfill dams. Since the dimensions of grains in such materials are greater than the conventional sizes suitable for soil mechanics tests, it is necessary to experimentally study them in specific large-scale apparatuses. In this research, the behavior of rockfill materials in two large rockfill dams co...

2033. Evaluation of the FilmArray Meningitis/Encephalitis Molecular Panel in a Tertiary Care Public County Hospital Tae Hun Kim, MD; Emi Minejima, PharmD; Brad Spellberg, MD; Ira Shulman, MD; Paul Holtom, MD; Tarina Kang, MD and Susan M. Butler-Wu, PhD; Pathology, LAC-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, Pharmacy, USC School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, California, LAC-USC Medical Center, ...

1School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 2Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Touro College of Pharmacy, New York, 230 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027, USA *Corresponding author Xuesong He, DDS, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor School of Dentistry University of California Los Angeles 10833 Le Conte Ave., Los Ang...