Objective. —To determine whether a program incorporating smoking intervention and use
of an inhaled bronchodilator can slow the rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 …

Samples of skeletal muscle were taken from 50 sites in each of 6 previously normal male
autopsy subjects aged between 17 and 30 years. The respective percentages of Type I and …

… to a pediatric psychopharmacology clinic at the Massachusetts General Hospital (selection …
routine physical examinations at both the Massachusetts General Hospital and the HMO sites…

Analysis of RNA expression using techniques like real-time PCR has traditionally used
reference or housekeeping genes to control for error between samples. This practice is being …

… Using the published literature, MA Johnson wrote the presentations for these first two methods.
Finally, the control signal matching method for predictive PID control design is reported in …

For an ordered subset W={w 1 ,w 2 ,…,w k } of vertices in a connected graph G and a vertex
v of G, the metric representation of v with respect to W is the k-vector r(v | W)=(d(v,w 1 ) , d(v,…

The ease with which the pH of water is measured obscures the fact that there is presently no
clear molecular description for the hydrated proton. The mid-infrared spectrum of bulk …

A number of polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) bonding techniques have been reported in the
literature over the last several years as the focus on multilayer PDMS microfluidic devices has …

Background The 2NN Study was a randomised comparison of the non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase
inhibitors (NNRTI) nevirapine and efavirenz. Methods In this multicentre, open-…

We report the OH stretching vibrational spectra of size-selected H + (H 2 O) n clusters through
the region of the pronounced “magic number” at n = 21 in the cluster distribution. Sharp …