39 Result(s)

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Predicting the mechanical properties of spider silk as a model nanostructured polymer

Spider silk is attractive because it is strong and tough. Moreover, an enormous range of mechanical properties can be achieved with only small changes in chemical structure. Our research shows that the full ...

D. Porter, F. Vollrath, Z. Shao in The European Physical Journal E (2005)

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Early impacts of cotton and peanut crop** systems on selected soil chemical, physical, microbiological and biochemical properties

This study investigated the impacts of crop** systems of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.; Ct) and peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.; Pt) on a Brownfield fine sandy soil (Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Arenic Aridic...

V. Acosta-Martínez, D. R. Upchurch, A. M. Schubert… in Biology and Fertility of Soils (2004)

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Identification of amplified clonal T cell populations in the blood of patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease: positive correlation with response to photopheresis

Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a multiorgan disorder with skin manifestations resembling scleroderma. Since photopheresis, a treatment that induces an anticlonotypic immune response, has proven t...

LE French, T Alcindor, M Shapiro, KS McGinnis, DJ Margolis… in Bone Marrow Transplantation (2002)

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Nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation for refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma complicated by interleukin-2 responsive progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

Nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation (NMASCT) can be used to exploit the graft-versus-tumor (GVT) potential of allogeneic donor cells in the setting of reduced conditioning regimen toxicity. ...

R. Buckanovich, G. Liu, C. Stricker, S. Luger, E. Stadtmauer… in Annals of Hematology (2002)

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Donor leukocyte infusions for multiple myeloma

Donor leukocyte infusion (dli) has well-documented activity in cml, but the role of dli in other diseases is less well defined. to evaluate the strategy in multiple myeloma (mm) we evaluated 25 mm patients fro...

M Salama, T Nevill, D Marcellus, P Parker, M Johnson, A Kirk… in Bone Marrow Transplantation (2000)

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Donor leukocyte infusions in acute lymphocytic leukemia

Donor leukocyte infusion (DLI) has well-documented activity in CML but the role of DLI in other diseases is less well defined. To evaluate the strategy in acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) we evaluated 44 ALL p...

RH Collins Jr, S Goldstein, S Giralt, J Levine, D Porter… in Bone Marrow Transplantation (2000)

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Integral operators of Sturm-Liouville type

This paper extends the class of integral equations whose solutions can be generated from a finite number of particular cases to include those of Sturm-Liouville type, including the case where the associated op...

D. Porter, D. S. G. Stirling in Integral Equations and Operator Theory (2000)

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Putting nuclear-test monitoring to the test

On the 22 August 1998, 0.1 kilotonnes of conventional explosives was fired underground at the nuclear test site of the former Soviet Union at Degelen Mountain in eastern Kazakhstan. This explosion, which we re...

A. Douglas, D. Bowers, P. D. Marshall, J. B. Young, D. Porter, N. J. Wallis in Nature (1999)

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Materials modelling: A bridge from atoms to bulk properties

The use of molecular-level materials modelling techniques in the development of advanced performance polymers is discussed, with particular emphasis upon bridging the large difference in the scales of dimensio...

D. Porter in Advanced Performance Materials (1996)

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Constitutional p53 mutation in a non-Li-Fraumeni cancer family

J Prosser, D Porter, C Coles, A Condie, AM Thompson, U Chetty… in British Journal of Cancer (1992)

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Triaxial force transducer for investigating stresses at the stump/socket interface

Although normal pressures at the stump socket interface of the lowerlimb amputee have been investigated, little is known about the shear stresses that also occur. Studies suggest that the combination of both s...

R. B. Williams, D. Porter, V. C. Roberts… in Medical and Biological Engineering and Com… (1992)

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Absorption of theophylline from a new theophylline controlled-release capsule

C. Kehe, K. Wick, S. McCarville, K. Rhode… in European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (1991)

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Labyrinthula sp., a marine slime mold producing the symptoms of wasting disease in eelgrass, Zostera marina

Coastal ecosystems along the eastern United States are presently threatened by a recurrence of the wasting disease of eelgrass, Zostera marina L. Using Koch's postulates, a species of the marine slime mold, Labyr...

L. K. Muehlstein, D. Porter, F. T. Short in Marine Biology (1988)

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The solution of two wave-diffraction problems

A method for obtaining the numerical solution of first-kind integral equations with the Hankel-function kernel H ⁽¹⁾ ₀(k|x t|) is described in relation to two water-wave diffraction problems. The principal featur...

D. Porter, K. -W. E. Chu in Journal of Engineering Mathematics (1986)

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Meiosis in the aquatic fungusCatenaria allomycis

Catenaria allomycis Couch (Blastocladiales) is an endobiotic fungal parasite primarily of species of the genusAllomyces. The life cycle ofC. allomycis contains both sexual and asexual phases. Synaptonemal comple...

Ellis E. Sykes, D. Porter in Protoplasma (1981)

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The relationship of headache occurrence to barometric pressure

A total of 75 people residing in the metropolitan Boston area who had frequently recurring headaches kept a headache diary for one month beginning March 1975. Data were also collected about barometric pressure...

Jane Schulman, A. Leviton, W. Slack, D. Porter… in International Journal of Biometeorology (1980)

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Recovery process of the sensitive plant

THERE is a long history of study of the unusual behaviour of the ‘sensitive plant’, Mimosa pudica L., stretching back to the Enquiries into Plants, written by Theophrastus in about 300 BC. A large literature has ...

T. CHARNLEY, R. PERRIN, D. PORTER in Nature (1975)