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Safety and Efficacy of Rivastigmine in Adolescents with Down Syndrome: Long-Term Follow-Up

Heller, James (MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, 2010)

Following the completion of a 20-week, open-label study of the safety and efficacy of liquid rivastigmine for adolescents with Down syndrome, 5 of the 10 adolescents in the clinical trial continued long-term rivastigmine ...
Safety and Immunogenicity of a Replication-Defective Adenovirus Type 5 HIV Vaccine in Ad5-Seronegative Persons: A Randomized Clinical Trial (HVTN 054)

Tomaras, Georgia (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Background: Individuals without prior immunity to a vaccine vector may be more sensitive to reactions following injection, but may also show optimal immune responses to vaccine antigens. To assess safety and maximal tolerated ...
Safety Profile of L-Arginine Infusion in Moderately Severe Falciparum Malaria

Weinberg, J Brice (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008)

Background: L-arginine infusion improves endothelial function in malaria but its safety profile has not been described in detail. We assessed clinical symptoms, hemodynamic status and biochemical parameters before and after ...
Safety, Tolerability, and Mechanisms of Antiretroviral Activity of Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a in HIV-1-Monoinfected Participants: A Phase II Clinical Trial

Thielman, Nathan (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2010)

Background. To our knowledge, the antiviral activity of pegylated interferon alfa-2a has not been studied in participants with untreated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection but without chronic hepatitis ...
Same-Sex Gaze Attraction Influences Mate-Choice Copying in Humans

Yorzinski, Jessica; Platt, Michael (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Mate-choice copying occurs when animals rely on the mating choices of others to inform their own mating decisions. The proximate mechanisms underlying mate-choice copying remain unknown. To address this question, we tracked ...
The Scale of Population Structure in Arabidopsis thaliana

Donohue, Kathleen (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

The population structure of an organism reflects its evolutionary history and influences its evolutionary trajectory. It constrains the combination of genetic diversity and reveals patterns of past gene flow. Understanding ...
Scale-wise evolution of rainfall probability density functions fingerprints the rainfall generation mechanism

Molini, Annalisa; Katul, Gaby; Porporato, Amilcare (AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2010)

The cross-scale probabilistic structure of rainfall intensity records collected over time scales ranging from hours to decades at sites dominated by both convective and frontal systems is investigated. Across these sites, ...
Scaling of the F-2 Structure Function in Nuclei and Quark Distributions at x > 1

Dutta, D.; Qian, Xin (AMER PHYSICAL SOC, 2010)

We present new data on electron scattering from a range of nuclei taken in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. For heavy nuclei, we observe a rapid falloff in the cross section for x > 1, which is sensitive to short-range contributions ...
Scattering of an ultrasoft pion and the X(3872)

Mehen, Thomas (AMER PHYSICAL SOC, 2010)

The identification of the X(3872) as a loosely-bound charm-meson molecule allows it to be described by an effective field theory, called XEFT, for the D*(D) over bar, D (D) over bar*, and D (D) over bar pi sector of QCD ...
School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach

Abdulkadiroglu, Dr Atila; Sönmez, Tayfun (American Economic Association, 2003)

A central issue in school choice is the design of a student assignment mechanism. Education literature provides guidance for the design of such mechanisms but does not offer specific mechanisms. The flaws in the existing ...
"School Vouchers: A Critical View"

Ladd, Helen (2003)
SCIENTIFIC IMPERIALISM AND BEHAVIORIST EPISTEMOLOGY

Staddon, John (Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, 2004)

E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner have argued for an evolutionary ethics that allows what ought to be to be derived from what is—ethics from science. Evolution is inherently unpredictable, however, and some practices whose ...
Scientific writing: a randomized controlled trial comparing standard and on-line instruction

Pietrobon, Ricardo (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2009)

Background: Writing plays a central role in the communication of scientific ideas and is therefore a key aspect in researcher education, ultimately determining the success and long-term sustainability of their careers. ...
Screening the human exome: a comparison of whole genome and whole transcriptome sequencing

Cirulli, Liz; Singh, Dr A; Shianna, Kevin; Ge, Dr Dongliang; Smith, Jason P.; Maia, Jessica; Heinzen, Erin L.; Goldstein, David (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: There is considerable interest in the development of methods to efficiently identify all coding variants present in large sample sets of humans. There are three approaches possible: whole-genome sequencing, ...
Scripturalization in Mark’s Crucifixion Narrative

Goodacre, Dr Mark (Peeters, 2006)
The Second Economy and the Destabilizing Effect of Its Growth on the State Economy in the Soviet Union, 1965-1989

Treml, Vladimir; Alexeev, Michael (SSRN eLibrary, 1993)

The authors suggest that the rapid growth of the illegal underground economy in 1970s and 1980s has destabilized the Soviet state economy and weakened the mechanism of central planning. This hypothesis is advanced on the ...
Seeing the Forest for the Fuel

Pattanayak, SK; Sills, EO; Kramer, Randall (2004)
Selection Mechanisms Underlying High Impact Biomedical Research - A Qualitative Analysis and Causal Model

Zelko, Hilary (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Background: Although scientific innovation has been a long-standing topic of interest for historians, philosophers and cognitive scientists, few studies in biomedical research have examined from researchers' perspectives ...
Selective choice: A commentary on Herrnstein (1990)

Staddon, John (American Psychological Association, 1991)

Argues that R. J. Herrnstein's (see record 1990-16389-001) article on rational choice theory misrepresents the current state of free-operant choice (FOC) in animals. More precise versions of Herrnstein's dynamic mechanism ...
Selective Enhancement of Donor Hematopoietic Cell Engraftment by the CXCR4 Antagonist AMD3100 in a Mouse Transplantation Model

Kang, Yubin; Chen, Benny; Deoliveira, Divino; Mito, Jeffrey; Chao, Nelson Jen An (PLoS ONE, 2010-06)

The interaction between stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) with CXCR4 chemokine receptors plays an important role in hematopoiesis following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We examined the efficacy of post ...