Clonal deletion of V beta 14-bearing T cells in mice transgenic for mammary tumour virus.

Autoreactive T lymphocytes are clonally deleted during maturation in the thymus. Deletion of T cells expressing particular receptor V beta elements is controlled by poorly defined autosomal dominant genes. A gene has now been identified by expression of transgenes in mice which causes deletion of V beta 14+ T cells. The gene lies in the open reading frame of the long terminal repeat of the mouse mammary tumour virus.

Secure and Prepared Newsletter, July 16, 2009, Vol. 5, no. 14

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

Tax Credits Contingent Liabilities Brief August 14, 2009

The Tax Credits Contingent Liabilities Report was created by the Tax Research and Program Analysis Section of the Iowa Department of Revenue (IDR) for the benefit of the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC). This report is part of the Tax Credits Tracking and Analysis Program. The goal of the program is to provide a repository for information concerning the awarding, usage, and effectiveness of tax credits. This report forecasts tax credit claims assuming that all available awarded credits are issued and then, along with forecasted credits, are subsequently claimed.

Executive Order, June 14, 1946

Appointed Colonel Folsom Everest to the rank of Brigadier General in the Iowa National Guard

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

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Lottery Action, Vol. 16, No. 14

Iowa Lottery newsletter for lottery retailers.

Stationarity analysis of historical flood series in France and Spain (14th-20th centuries)

Interdisciplinary frameworks for studying natural hazards and their temporal trends have an important potential in data generation for risk assessment, land use planning, and therefore the sustainable management of resources. This paper focuses on the adjustments required because of the wide variety of scientific fields involved in the reconstruction and characterisation of flood events for the past 1000 years. The aim of this paper is to describe various methodological aspects of the study of flood events in their historical dimension, including the critical evaluation of old documentary and instrumental sources, flood-event classification and hydraulic modelling, and homogeneity and quality control tests. Standardized criteria for flood classification have been defined and applied to the Isère and Drac floods in France, from 1600 to 1950, and to the Ter, the Llobregat and the Segre floods, in Spain, from 1300 to 1980. The analysis on the Drac and Isère data series from 1600 to the present day showed that extraordinary and catastrophic floods were not distributed uniformly in time. However, the largest floods (general catastrophic floods) were homogeneously distributed in time within the period 1600¿1900. No major flood occurred during the 20th century in these rivers. From 1300 to the present day, no homogeneous behaviour was observed for extraordinary floods in the Spanish rivers. The largest floods were uniformly distributed in time within the period 1300-1900, for the Segre and Ter rivers.

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.