![Loading...](https://link.springer.com/static/c4a417b97a76cc2980e3c25e2271af3129e08bbe/images/pdf-preview/spacer.gif)
-
Article
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 ...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
Absorption of theophylline from a new theophylline controlled-release capsule
-
Article
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...
-
Article
Constitutional p53 mutation in a non-Li-Fraumeni cancer family
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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. ...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
Open AccessPhenytoin toxicity due to fluoropyrimidines (5FU/capecitabine): three case reports
Interactions between phenytoin and the fluoropyrimidine derivatives, 5 fluorouracil (5FU) and capecitabine, are not commonly documented or widely recognised. As more people with significant medical comorbiditi...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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 ...
-
Article
HIN-1, an inhibitor of cell growth, invasion, and AKT1 activation
-
Article
Spider silk as a model biomaterial
Spider silk combines strength and extensibility, and a wide range of mechanical properties can be achieved with only minute (if any) changes in chemical structure. It appears that the full range of thermo-mech...