Historically, pregnancy has been considered to have a beneficial effect upon inflammatory
arthritis, with around 75% of women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) reportedly improving. …

BACKGROUND: Microbial products are of central interest in the modulation of allergic
propensity. OBJECTIVE: We sought to explore whether allergic children show differences in …

Vibrational spectroscopic techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and Fourier transform
infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) have huge potential for the analysis of biological specimens. The …

Background: Angiogenesis, the development of blood vessels from an already existing
microvascular network, is not only of fundamental importance to many physiological processes, …

Purpose To determine feasibility of performing bilateral dual-energy (DE) contrast agent–enhanced
(CE) digital mammography and to evaluate its performance compared with …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of part-time faculty and the other
inhabitants of their environment, namely full-time faculty and administrators of an institution …

Observations of the global positioning system (GPS) will enable a reduced-dynamic technique
for achieving subdecimeter orbit determination of low Earth satelites. With this technique, …

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of rotation and the equinox of date; and (c) the orientation angles of the instantaneous pole and …

Fructose intake has increased substantially throughout the developed world and is
associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Currently, our …

Numerical characteristics of various Kalman filter algorithms are illustrated with a realistic
orbit determination study. The case study of this paper highlights the numerical deficiencies of …