Business Recovery Status Report #14: Presidential Disaster #1763, October 10, 2008

Safeguard Iowa Partnership launched a survey to the business community to capture the impact from the 2008 disasters. Five hundred eighty surveys were completed and compiled for the report submitted to the Rebuild Iowa Office Economic and Workforce Development Task Force on August 20, 2008.

Business Recovery Status Report #19: Presidential Disaster #1763, November 14, 2008

Safeguard Iowa Partnership launched a survey to the business community to capture the impact from the 2008 disasters. Five hundred eighty surveys were completed and compiled for the report submitted to the Rebuild Iowa Office Economic and Workforce Development Task Force on August 20, 2008.

Genome-wide association study to identify common variants associated with brachial circumference: a meta-analysis of 14 cohorts.

Brachial circumference (BC), also known as upper arm or mid arm circumference, can be used as an indicator of muscle mass and fat tissue, which are distributed differently in men and women. Analysis of anthropometric measures of peripheral fat distribution such as BC could help in understanding the complex pathophysiology behind overweight and obesity. The purpose of this study is to identify genetic variants associated with BC through a large-scale genome-wide association scan (GWAS) meta-analysis. We used fixed-effects meta-analysis to synthesise summary results across 14 GWAS discovery and 4 replication cohorts comprising overall 22,376 individuals (12,031 women and 10,345 men) of European ancestry. Individual analyses were carried out for men, women, and combined across sexes using linear regression and an additive genetic model: adjusted for age and adjusted for age and BMI. We prioritised signals for follow-up in two-stages. We did not detect any signals reaching genome-wide significance. The FTO rs9939609 SNP showed nominal evidence for association (p<0.05) in the age-adjusted strata for men and across both sexes. In this first GWAS meta-analysis for BC to date, we have not identified any genome-wide significant signals and do not observe robust association of previously established obesity loci with BC. Large-scale collaborations will be necessary to achieve higher power to detect loci underlying BC.

Secure and Prepared Newsletter, January 14, 2010, Vol. 6, no. 1

A bi-weekly newsletter for those involved in the fields of homeland security and/or emergency management

Lottery Action, Vol. 16, No. 14

Iowa Lottery newsletter for lottery retailers.

Traductions scientifiques et transferts culturels 1 : Acte du colloque de relève organisé à l'Université de Lausanne le 14 mars 2008

Que se passe-t-il quand un texte de type scientifique est transposé d'un contexte (national, linguistique, académique) à un autre? Les articles réunis dans ce volume, issus d'un colloque de relève organisé à l'Université de Lausanne le 14 mars 2008, traitent cette question en se focalisant notamment sur les sujets suivants: - Retraduire Bakhtine et Voloshinov en français aujourd'hui; problèmes conceptuels; l'importation des courants critiques. - Traduire les Russes: «la grande Lumière qui vient de l'Est» et le filtre du marxisme occidental. - La traduction comme réinvention d'un texte. L'anachronisme comme effet de sens, le malentendu comme effet de reconnaissance. - La traduction scientifique comme pratique: questions de traductologie; les débats historiques sur la traduction; les polémiques autour des traductions; la comparaison des traductions. - La traduction comme échange (inégal) entre les nations; enjeux scientifiques et culturels des traductions; constitution de corpus transnationaux; mondialisation des savoirs et dépassement des catégories nationales de la pensée académique.

[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppe Verdi adressée à Escudier, Sant'Agata, 14 avril 1866]

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[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppe Verdi adressée à Escudier, Gênes, 14 juillet 1866]

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[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppe Verdi adressée à Escudier, Sant'Agata, 14 octobre 1867]

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Immunohistochemical and flow cytometric analysis of long-term label-retaining cells in the adult heart.

Cardiac-resident stem/progenitor cells have been identified based on expression of stem cell-associated antigens. However, no single surface marker allows to identify a definite cardiac stem/progenitor cell entity. Hence, functional stem cell markers have been extensively searched for. In homeostatic systems, stem cells divide infrequently and therefore retain DNA labels such as 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine, which are diluted with division. We used this method to analyze long-term label-retaining cells in the mouse heart after 14 days of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine administration. Labeled cells were detected using immunohistochemical and flow-cytometric methods after varying chasing periods up to 12 months. Using mathematical models, the observed label dilution could consistently be described in the context of a 2-population model, whereby a population of rapidly dividing cells accounted for an accelerated early decline, and a population of slowly dividing cells accounted for decelerated dilution on longer time scales. Label-retaining cells were preferentially localized in the atria and apical region and stained negative for markers of the major cell lineages present in the heart. Most cells with long-term label-retention expressed stem cell antigen-1 (Sca-1). Sca-1(+)CD31(-) cells formed cell aggregates in culture, out of which lineage-negative (Lin(-))Sca-1(+)CD31(-) cells emerged, which could be cultured for many passages. These cells formed cardiospheres and showed differentiation potential into mesenchymal cell lineages. When cultured in cardiomyogenic differentiation medium, they expressed cardiac-specific genes. In conclusion, recognition of slow-cycling cells provides functional evidence of stem/progenitor cells in the heart. Lin(-)Sca-1(+)CD31(-) cardiac-derived progenitors have a potential for differentiation into cardiomyogenic and mesenchymal cell lineages.

[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppe Verdi à Escudier, Gênes, 14 janvier 1869]

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