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Earthtimes (press release)
Anadarko Announces Second-Quarter Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany -
A replay of the call will also be available on the Web site for approximately 30 days following the conference call. ANADARKO OPERATIONS REPORT For more ...
Virtual Radiologic Corp. Reports Second Quarter 2008 Revenue ... CNNMoney.com (press release)
LoopNet, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Trading Markets (press release)
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CPI Financial
Investor Relations Earnings Release
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
0.24 $ 0.23 $ 0.47 $ 0.45 XCEL ENERGY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Investor Relations Release (Unaudited) Due to the seasonality of Xcel Energy's ...
State Bancorp, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Earnings and Declares ... CNNMoney.com (press release)
Town Sports International Holdings, Inc. Announces Second Quarter ... MarketWatch
Banner Corporation Announces Second Quarter Results; Includes ... MarketWatch
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Equity One Reports Second Quarter 2008 Operating Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 29, 2008
CONFERENCE CALL/WEB CAST INFORMATION We will host a conference call on Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at 9:00 am EST to review the 2008 second quarter earnings ...
Cogdell Spencer Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Earthtimes (press release)
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Mexico?s inflation accelerates more than forecast
Tehran Times, Iran - Jul 25, 2008
Core inflation, which excludes some food and energy costs, was also higher than forecast at 0.24 percent. The median estimate of economists for core ...
Builders FirstSource Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
For more information about Builders FirstSource, visit the company's Web site at www.bldr.com. Statements in this news release and the schedules hereto ...BLDR

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American National Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results
FOXBusiness - Jul 29, 2008
For more information, including company news and investor relations information, visit the company's web site at http://www.anico.com. ...
Kaydon Corporation Reports Second Quarter Results Barron's Blogs
Mothers Work Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Earnings Earthtimes (press release)
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About The Internet DNS Flaw
CBS News, NY - Jul 31, 2008
... a phone book or switchboard operator that takes a web address - like cbs.com and translates it to an Internet Protocol (IP) address like 170.20.0.24. ...
TransAlta announces strong second quarter results; on-track to ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Jul 31, 2008
A link to the live webcast will be available via TransAlta's website, www.transalta.com, under Web Casts in the Investor Relations section. ...TAC
Percutaneous Spine Biopsy: A Meta-Analysis
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription) - Aug 1, 2008
With the numbers available, the adequacy rates (slope = 0.31, p = 0.09) and accuracy rates (slope = 0.24, p = 0.11) of the specimens increased slightly as ...
Want To Save Gas? Try Hypermiling
WBAL TV, MD - Jul 8, 2008
"Just idling, we're using 0.24 gallons per hour," Chafe said. When using air conditioning, "it goes up to 0.33 gallons per hour, so a third of a gallon ...
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Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide web -
LD Catledge, JE Pitkow - Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1995 - Elsevier
... Thus, given the estimate of Web servers during the obser- vation period was ... tween
frequency and path length, with the slope across all users equalling -0.24. ...

The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine -
S Brin, L Page - Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1998 - Elsevier
... CPU time (\I 0.06 I.66 0.20 I.16 Total time (5 1 0.06 1.80 0.24 I.16 Page 10. ... A
Web search engine is a very rich environment for research ideas. ...

Cost estimation for web applications -
M Ruhe, R Jeffery, I Wieczorek - Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 25th International …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... thirty-five potential cost factors in the area of web development, some of ... of
Requirements 0.10 0.15 0.11 Importance of SW Maintenance 0.19 0.24 0.53 Novelty ...

Measuring the Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes -
A Cukierman, SB Web, B Neyapti - The World Bank Economic Review, 1992 - World Bank
... Legal central bank in- depen- dence" (index) of 0.69 0.64 0.61 0.50 0.48 0.45 0.44
0.42 0.36 0.34 0.33 0.29 0.28 0.27 0.25 0.24 0.24 0.23 0.18 0.17 0.17 ...

The calculation of web impact factors -
P Ingwersen - Journal of Documentation, 1998 - ingentaconnect.com
... inv. WIF /Web- IF Number of websites factor Self-link Ext.-link logic
A web pages www.?bo.fi/ 1.97 0.42 1.55 2.37 0.24 1255 www ...

Real life information retrieval: a study of user queries on the Web -
BJ Jansen, A Spink, J Bateman, T Saracevic - ACM SIGIR Forum, 1998 - portal.acm.org
... Thus, the relevance feedback on the Web is used half as much as in traditional IR
searches. ... 10 185 0.36 9 125 0.24 8 224 0.44 7 484 0.94 6 617 1 5 2,158 4 4 ...

Variation in d 15 N and d 13 C trophic fractionation: implications for aquatic food web studies -
MJ Vander Zanden, JB Rasmussen - Limnology and Oceanography, 2001 - JSTOR
... 0.24 -28.75 ? ... of isotopic fractionation-A literature review produced 35 A8'5N estimates
and 42 A^'3C estimates from 22 studies and 20 species (Web Appendix 1 ...

[PDF] Characterizing Browsing Behaviors on the World-Wide Web -
LD Catledge, JE Pitkow - 1995 - smartech.gatech.edu
... Thus, frequency = -0.24 (path length) This ... Page 6. Characterizing User Browsing
Strategies in the World Wide Web Catledge & Pitkow The ...

Spider Web Protection Through Visual Advertisement: Role of the Stabilimentum -
T EISNER, S NOWICKI - Science, 1983 - sciencemag.org
... responsible for the destruction of un- marked webs, we should be able to wit- ness
early morning bird-web encounters at our study site at the rate of 0.24 186 ...

Topology of the world trade web -
M? Serrano, M Bogun? - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
... and exponent of the average nearest neighbors degree k , for the world trade web
WTW , the ... RG 179 5287 179 k 43 3.8 43 d 1.8 3.7 1.73 C 0.65 0.24 0.24 2.6 2.2 ...

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Researchers Use Computed Tomography To Study Effects Of Fat Around The Heart

Article Date: 30 Nov 2006 - 4:00am (PST)
With a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are exploring whether fat stored around the heart accelerates the development of atherosclerosis.

As people gain weight, fat can accumulate in the abdomen, as well as around the heart and other organs. The study will explore the hypothesis that fat around the arteries in the heart contributes to inflammation and to increased risk of fatty deposits in the vessels, which can lead to heart attacks.

"This will be a step forward in understanding more about the health effects of fat distribution," said Jingzhong Ding, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine.

In addition to its role as energy storage, fat is considered to be an "organ" that produces proteins and hormones that affect metabolism and health. Ding's study is based on a new idea in medicine - that excess fat around the heart and other organs may impair their function. Scientists have already established that excess fat in the abdomen increases the risk of diabetes, but there has been little research on whether fat that stored around other organs is harmful.

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The scientists suspect that constant exposure of inflammatory proteins produced by fat around the heart may accelerate the development of atherosclerosis. They will examine data from the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a $68 million study involving 6,500 participants nationwide - including about 1,000 participants from Forsyth County.

The study uses the latest tests, including computed tomography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging, to screen healthy men and women between the ages of 45 and 84 for early heart disease. After the initial screenings for heart disease, the study will measure the occurrence of heart attacks, strokes and other signs of cardiovascular disease among participants.

The overall goal of the MESA study is to find the best ways to detect heart disease early, before symptoms develop. It will also try to determine which factors best predict heart disease in men and women, and in each of the ethnic groups.

Ding and colleagues will use the MESA study data to see if there is a link between fat deposits around the heart and the development of calcium deposits in the arteries - which are linked to increased risk of heart attacks.

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Co-researcher on the project is Jeffrey Carr, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology. They expect to complete the analysis by 2010.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university's School of Medicine. U.S. News & World Report ranks Wake Forest University School of Medicine 18th in family medicine, 20th in geriatrics, 25th in primary care and 41st in research among the nation's medical schools. It ranks 32nd in research funding by the National Institutes of Health. Almost 150 members of the medical school faculty are listed in Best Doctors in America.

Contact: Karen Richardson
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
 

Long-Term Cancer Risk Follows Stem Cell Transplant Recipients

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients face a significant long-term risk for developing a second cancer, particularly if they were older at the time of transplant or received stem cells from a female donor, according to a new study. Published in the January 1, 2007 issue of CANCER (CANCER), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals that within 10 years of an allogeneic HSCT, the relative risk of a second, solid cancer is almost twice that of the general population. In addition, cancer risk almost quadruples for patients who were over 40 years old at the time of transplant or for patients who received stem cells from a female donor.

Myeloablative, allogeneic HSCT is an effective standard therapy for specific life-threatening diseases, such as leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome, for which blood cell lineages (which originate principally in the bone marrow and circulate in the blood) are abnormal. Destroying the patient's own unhealthy stem cells in the bone marrow and replacing them with a compatible donor's stem cells offers the chance of cure for a disease that otherwise has a high mortality rate with non-transplant therapies. While the procedure can be lifesaving, it is associated with serious short-term adverse effects, such as mucostitis, infections, and liver vascular obstruction as well as the potential long-term complication of developing of a second, usually solid cancer.

To estimate the risk and identify risk factors associated with this outcome, Genevieve Gallagher, M.D. and Donna L. Forrest, M.D. of the BC Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia, retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 926 patients treated with myeloablative stem cell transplants over an 18-year period.

They found that at their institution the 10-year incidence of second cancers in these patients was 3.1 percent. When nonmelanoma skin cancer and carcinoma in situ of the cervix were excluded, incidence was 2.3 percent. That risk was 1.85 times that of the general population. The median time to diagnosis was almost 7 years after transplant. The most commonly reported second cancers were cancers of the skin (basal and squamous cell), lung, oral cavity, and colon.

Furthermore, data analysis showed that the risk more than tripled for patients who received their transplant when they were over 40 years of age. The study also identified a new risk factor: patients who received stem cells from a female donor had almost quadrupled the risk of a second solid cancer, a risk that further increased when the patient was male. "This observation has not been previously reported in the literature and the explanation for this finding is uncertain," say the authors.

"Since the risk of developing a solid neoplasm post-allogeneic transplantation continues to increase with time," suggest the authors, "extended follow-up will be needed to more fully assess the incidence and risk factors for their development."

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Article: "Second Solid Cancers After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation," Genevieve Gallagher and Donna L. Forrest, CANCER; Published Online: November 27, 2006 (DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22375); Print Issue Date: January 1, 2007.

Contact: David Greenberg
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 
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