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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Electrical and Optical Properties of Rapidly Exploded Wires
A series of experiments has been performed on exploding small wires in times less than 10−7 sec with peak specific power levels between 5 · 1012 and 2 · 1014 w/mol. The processes occurring in the wire prior to an...
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Clinical Implications of Immunity to Oncogenic Viruses
The evidence pointing to a viral etiology for at least some forms of human cancer, a possibility that has long been considered on the basis of animal studies, has continued to accumulate to such an extent that...
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The Apollo DOMAIN Distributed File System
The Apollo DOMAIN® system is a fully operational distributed computing environment for a network of personal workstations and network servers. When it was first developed in 1980, its distributed system focus ...
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The Post-Infectious Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
In the past few years, a syndrome of extreme persistent fatigue and associated symptoms, often including myalgia and/or disturbances of cognitive function, has been increasingly studied in a number of countrie...
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Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: 1990
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignancy of considerable interest and importance, not only because of its major impact on specific populations, such as Cantonese Chinese and North Africans, but also beca...
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What Can we Learn About the Aetiology of Hodgkin’s Disease from Family Studies?
Family studies have given us an important tool in understanding the aetiology of cancer. There are many examples, such as malignant melanoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, where the interaction of genetic and e...
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Hodgkin’s Disease and Human Herpesvirus-6: A Model for Studies of New Aetiological Agents
Although clinical and epidemiological evidence support the role of infectious agents in the aetiology of Hodgkin’s disease (HD), it has not been possible to identify a single pathogen that fits with the epidem...
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Software configuration management: Why is it needed and what should it do?
While “configuration management” has taken on many meanings, the basic requirements for a Software Configuration Management tool are universal. This paper categorizes these core requirements, presents the stre...
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Use of anti HHV-6 transfer factor for the treatment of two patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Two case reports
Specific Human Herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) transfer factor (TF) preparation, administered to two chronic fatigue syndrome patients, inhibited the HHV-6 infection. Prior to treatment, both patients exhibited an acti...
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Lessons from a pilot study of transfer factor in chronic fatigue syndrome
Transfer Factor (TF) was used in a placebo controlled pilot study of 20 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Efficacy of the treatment was evaluated by clinical monitoring and testing for antibodies t...
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Transfer factor with anti-EBV activity as an adjuvant therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A pilot study
Overall survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) at UICC stage IV still remains unsatisfactory even with combination chemotherapy (CT) and radio-therapy (RT). In view of the association of reactivation of Ep...
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Human Herpesvirus-6 and Human Herpesvirus-7
Human herpesvirus type 6 (HHV-6) and human herpes-virus type 7 (HHV-7) are two of the most recently characterized viruses in the group that includes herpes simplex virus 1 (HHV-1), herpes simplex virus 2 (HHV-...
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Cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Taiwan
Objectives: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is rare in most countries but occurs with relatively high frequency among southern Chinese populations throughout the world. A case-control study of NPC was conducted...
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Essential role for eIF4GI overexpression in the pathogenesis of inflammatory breast cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer rapidly metastasizes. Overexpression of the translation factor eIF4GI increases translation through the activation of internal ribosome entry sites. Members of the p120 family of cat...
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Open AccessMethods and matrices: approaches to identifying miRNAs for Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a solid tumor of the head and neck. Multimodal therapy is highly effective when NPC is detected early. However, due to the location of the tumor and the absence of clinical si...
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Open AccessBetween-ward disparities in colorectal cancer incidence and screening in Washington DC
This study aims to investigate the incidence and determinants of colorectal cancer (CRC) and its screening in District of Columbia (DC), and identify modifiable risk factors. Data (2000–2009) from the DC Cance...
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Geographic and income variations in age at diagnosis and incidence of chronic myeloid leukemia
Develo** countries have a younger population of CML patients than developed countries. Patterns of age at diagnosis and incidence by geography and gross national income (GNI) are not well understood. A popul...
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Open AccessImportance of hereditary and selected environmental risk factors in the etiology of inflammatory breast cancer: a case-comparison study
To assess the importance of heredity in the etiology of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), we compared IBC patients to several carefully chosen comparison groups with respect to the prevalence of first-degree f...
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Open AccessAn evaluation of HHV-6 as an etiologic agent in Hodgkin lymphoma and brain cancer using IARC criteria for oncogenicity
Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) is a ubiquitous double-stranded DNA virus that can cause roseola infantum, encephalitis, and seizure disorders. Several studies have shown an association between HHV-6 and cancer bu...
