Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects a large proportion of the increasingly aging population of
this country, with prevalence rates as high as 47% for those> 85 years old and a total annual …

Background. Current research on the etiology of cigarette smoking has largely focused on
the identification of psychosocial predictors of tobacco onset. Few data are available on the …

Objective: To vitrify mouse and human blastocysts with use of the cryoloop procedure and to
assess subsequent development. Design: Controlled study of vitrification of mouse and …

Lichen assocIations include some of the oldest living organisms and represent a major
nutritional method adopted by one in five fungi. Major advances in our knowledge of these …

This is a report of a 10-year median follow-up of a randomized, prospective study
investigating the optimal sequencing of radiation therapy (RT) in relation to surgery for …

We report a 5-year-old girl with a large rapidly growing giant cell tumor of the mandible that
recurred 2 months after the first surgical excision and 3 months after a second resection. An …

The latest version of the AC/Building Code requires five equations to prescribe the limiting
horizontal shear stress for differing amounts of reinforcing steel. The test results from the 16 …

Abstract Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS), a cerebello-pyramidal syndrome
associated with dementia and caused by mutations in the prion protein gene (PRNP), is …

Mixture distributions are typically used to model data in which each observation is assumed
to have arisen from one of a number of different groups. They also provide a convenient and …

Background: Although the benefit of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy in
patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) at risk for sudden cardiac arrest is well …