CP Tuc (AX J2315–592) shows a dip in X-rays which lasts for approximately half the binary orbit and is deeper in soft X-rays compared with hard X-rays. It has been proposed that this dip is due to the accretion stream obscuring the accretion region from view. If CP Tuc was a polar, as has been suggested, then the length of such a dip would make it unique amongst polars since in those polars in ...

We report a rare case of desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP) with diffuse alveolar haemorrhage (DAH). A 56-year-old man diagnosed with DIP by surgical lung biopsy 2 years ago was admitted to our hospital because of severe acute respiratory failure. The DIP had progressed despite smoking cessation. On admission, the patient appeared extremely ill, and physical examination revealed respirat...

D esquamative interstitial pneumonitis ( DIP) is an inflammatory process in the lung characterized histologically by massive accumulation of intra-alveolar mononuclear cells, predominantly alveolar macrophages ( PAMs ) , without necrosis, fibrin exudates, hyaline membranes, or extensive fibrosis.1’2 Whether DIP is a distinct clinicopathologic entity or is merely part of a spectrum of fibrosing ...

Objectives—To derive a method for retrospectively estimating cumulative exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides among a cross section of United Kingdom sheep dippers, as part of a wider epidemiological study of neurological abnormality within this group of workers. Methods—A hygiene study of dipping sessions at 20 farms using diazinon based dips was carried out by two experienced occupation...

We have used combinatorial chemistry with amino acid mixtures (X) at positions 6 to 23 in vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) to optimize binding affinity and selectivity to the rat VPAC(1) receptor. The most efficient amino acid replacement was a substitution of alanine at position 18 to diphenylalanine (Dip), increasing the displacement efficiency of (125)I-VIP by 370-fold. The [Dip(18)]VIP(6...

0883-2927/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.01.027 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 850 644 0827. E-mail address: [email protected] (Y. Wang) Phosphorus has historically been a limiting nutrient in the Florida Everglades. Increased P loading to the Everglades over the past several decades has led to significant changes in water quality and plant communities....

Surgical arthrodesis of the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint by transfixation casting was used to salvage a three-year-old filly and a yearling filly that were chronically lame because of infection of the DIP joint for breeding. Unlike previously described techniques for arthrodesis of the DIP joint, the technique used did not require insertion of implants across the joint, which may have con...

A direct-write "dip-pen" nanolithography (DPN) has been developed to deliver collections of molecules in a positive printing mode. An atomic force microscope (AFM) tip is used to write alkanethiols with 30-nanometer linewidth resolution on a gold thin film in a manner analogous to that of a dip pen. Molecules are delivered from the AFM tip to a solid substrate of interest via capillary transpor...