Assessment of fetal lung maturation from diffusion weighted MRI at 3T Onur Afacan, Ali Gholipour, Robert V. Mulkern, Carol Barnewolt, Sigrid Bairdain, Judy Estroff, Susan Connolly, and Simon K. Warfield Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Advanced Fetal Care Center, Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Validation of the Boston criteria for the in vivo diagnosis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is challenging, because noninvasive diagnostic tests do not exist. Hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis-Dutch type is an accepted monogenetic model of CAA and diagnosis can be made with certainty based on DNA analysis. The aim of this study was to analyze and refine...

Submitted for the MAR11 Meeting of The American Physical Society Phase diagram of thermoelectric Bi2S3-Bi2Se3-Bi2Te3 system WEISHU LIU, QINYONG ZHANG, QIAN ZHANG, Boston College, BO YU, GANG CHEN, ZHIFENG REN, Boston College, BOSTON COLLEGE TEAM, MIT TEAM — It is well known that the highest ZT value, at an optimized carrier concentration, is mainly determined by a material parameter β = μ(m*/m0...

Explaining why he had founded I . & magazine in 1936, Henry Luce said, 'To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange things machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the moon; to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls, things dangerous to come to; to see and to tak...

This study aims to examine if and how national culture affects e-government diffusion. To explore the possible relationship, we analyse two sets of international-level indexes: (1) the indexes of five of the societal cultural practices of the GLOBE project [35], and (2) the egovernment development and participation indexes from the most recent United Nations’ egovernment survey [71]. As economi...

The environment plays a major role in influencing diseases and health. The phenomenon of environmental exposure is complex and humans are not exposed to one or a handful factors but potentially hundreds factors throughout their lives. The exposome, the totality of exposures encountered from birth, is hypothesized to consist of multiple inter-dependencies, or correlations, between individual exp...

Peterson and Castro [Peterson, M.F. and Castro (2006-this issue). Measurement metrics at aggregate levels of analysis: Implications for organization culture research and the GLOBE project. The Leadership Quarterly, 17, 506 –521.] have presented a critique of the GLOBE societal and organizational culture scales. In this article, we clarify what we believe to be misinterpretations on the part of ...

BEGINNING IN 1997, an important change swept over cotton farms in northern China. By adopting new farming techniques, growers found they could spray far less insecticide over their fields. Within four years they had reduced their annual use of the poisonous chemicals by 156 million pounds almost as much as is used in the entire state of California each year. Cotton yields in the region climbed,...

The response tomethimazole(l-methyl-2-mercaptoimidazol,MMl) therapy was evaluated in 18 patients with diffuse toxic goitre residing in an area of iodine deficiency(Tehran)and in 18 such patients residing in an area of iodine sufficiency(Boston) .Free T4 index(FT4I) decreased from 22.9± 4.8 to 4.9± 4.3 in Tehran and from 23.8± 5.2 to 17.0±4.1 in Boston, 4 weeks after administration of MMl 10 mg ...