Batista, V., Dong, Subo, Gould, A., Beaulieu, J. P., Cassan, A., Christie, G. W., ...
We analyze OGLE-2007-BLG-050, a high magnification microlensing event (A ~ 432) whose peak occurred on 2 May, 2007, with pronounced finite-source and parallax effects. We compute planet detection...
OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2009)
Dong, Subo, Gould, Andrew, Udalski, Andrzej, Anderson, Jay, Christie, G. W., Gaudi, B. S., ...
We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...
From the New Mexico VA Health Care System (2009)
Glen H. Murata, Md Richard, M. Hoffman, Mph Jayendra, H. Shah, Christopher S. Wendel, ...
Background: To develop and validate a method for estimating hypoglycemia risk in stable, insulin-treated subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: Subjects (n=195) monitored their blood...
Spittaels, K, Hoffman, M, Staes, M, Cohen, A, Horré, K, ...
OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2009)
Christie, G.W., Gaudi, B.S., Kubiak, M., Szymanski, M.K., Pietrzynski, G., Soszynski, I., ...
We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...
OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, The Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2009)
Dong, S, Gould, A, Udalski, A, Anderson, J, Christie, GW, Gaudi, BS, ...
We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...
Watcher robotic telescope follow-ups of GRBs (2009)
Melady, G., French, J., Hanlon, L., McBreen, B., Foley, S., Ferrero, A., ...
Han, C, Hwang, KH, Kim, D, Udalski, A, Abe, F, Monard, LAB, ...
To improve the planet detection efficiency, current planetary microlensing experiments are focused on high magnificationevents searching for planetary signals near the peak of lensing light curves....
M. Hoffman, C. Arnoldi, I. Chuang, M. Hoffman, C. Arnoldi, I. Chuang
Existing medical vocabularies lack rich terms to describe findings that are generated by modern molecular diagnostic procedures. Most bioinformatics resources were designed primarily to support the...
DOI 10.1007/s10109-006-0025-x ORIGINAL ARTICLE (2008)
William W. Hargrove, Æ Forrest, M. Hoffman, Æ Paul, F. Hessburg, W. W. Hargrove, ...
for comparing categorical maps
Action needed to prevent extinctions by disease (2008)
Hoffman, M, Hawkins, CE, Walsh, PD
Your News in Brief item ‘Cancer forces Tasmanian devil onto endangered list’ highlights the plight of this carnivorous marsupial (Sarcophilus harrisii), driven towards extinction by devil...
OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M-Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2008)
Dong, Subo, Gould, Andrew, Udalski, Andrzej, Anderson, Jay, Christie, G. W., Gaudi, B. S., ...
We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...
J Geograph Syst (2006) DOI 10.1007/s10109-006-0025-x ORIGINAL ARTICLE (2008)
William W. Hargrove, Æ Forrest, M. Hoffman, Æ Paul, F. Hessburg, W. W. Hargrove, ...
Mapcurves: a quantitative method for comparing categorical maps Ó Springer-Verlag 2006 Abstract We present Mapcurves, a quantitative goodness-of-fit (GOF) method that unambiguously shows the degree...
Limits on additional planetary companions to OGLE 2005-BLG-390L (2008)
Kubas, D, Cassan, A, Dominik, M, Bennett, DP, Wambsganss, J, Brillant, S, ...
Aims. We investigate constraints on additional planets orbiting the distant M-dwarf star OGLE 2005-BLG-390L, around which photometric microlensing data has revealed the existence of the...
Action needed to prevent extinctions by disease (2008)
Hoffman, M, Hawkins, CE, Walsh, PD
Your News in Brief item ‘Cancer forces Tasmanian devil onto endangered list’ highlights the plight of this carnivorous marsupial (Sarcophilus harrisii), driven towards extinction by devil...
Action needed to prevent extinctions by disease (2008)
Hoffman, M, Hawkins, CE, Walsh, PD
Your News in Brief item ‘Cancer forces Tasmanian devil onto endangered list’ highlights the plight of this carnivorous marsupial (Sarcophilus harrisii), driven towards extinction by devil...
A State of the Art Review of Residential Water Demand Modelling (2007)
Worthington, A. C., Hoffman, M.
The increased reliance on demand-side management policies as an urban water consumption management tool has stimulated considerable debate among economists, water utility managers, regulators,...
A State of the Art Review of Residential Water Demand Modelling (2007)
Worthington, A. C., Hoffman, M.
The increased reliance on demand-side management policies as an urban water consumption management tool has stimulated considerable debate among economists, water utility managers, regulators,...
Gordon S. Mitchell, Stephen M. Johnson, R. W. Bavis, G. S. Mitchell, C. Julien, A. Bairam, ...
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A State of the Art Review of Residential Water Demand Modelling (2007)
Worthington, A. C., Hoffman, M.
The increased reliance on demand-side management policies as an urban water consumption management tool has stimulated considerable debate among economists, water utility managers, regulators,...
OGLE 2004-BLG-254: a K3 III Galactic Bulge Giant spatially resolved by a single microlens (2006)
Cassan, A., Fouque, P., Brillant, S., Dominik, M., Greenhill, J., ...
We present an analysis of OGLE 2004-BLG-254, a high-magnification and relatively short duration microlensing event in which the source star, a Bulge K3-giant, has been spatially resolved by a...
Alexandar Y. Gur, Yoram Segev, M. Hoffman, Natan M. Bornstein
We report on an unusual case of brainstem Duret hemorrhage after ischemic stroke in the anterior circulation. The patient showed a clinical and neuroradiological picture of an acute and malignant...
Contact deformation of TiN coatings on metallic substrates (2006)
Jayaram, V, Bhowmick, S, Xie, ZH, Math, S, Hoffman, M, Biswas, SK
Recent developments in the contact deformation and fracture of columnar TiN coatings are reviewed. It is shown that columnar films display two regimes of responses: one dominated by columnar sliding...
Discovery of a Cool Planet of 5.5 Earth Masses Through Gravitational Microlensing (2006)
Bennett, D. P., Fouque, P., Williams, A., Dominik, M., Jorgensen, U. G., ...
In the favoured core-accretion model of formation of planetary systems, solid planetesimals accumulate to build up planetary cores, which then accrete nebular gas if they are sufficiently massive....
Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing (2006)
Beaulieu, JP, Bennett, DP, Fouque, P, Williams, A, Dominik, M, Jorgensen, UG, ...
OGLE 2004-BLG-254: a K3 III Galactic bulge giant spatially resolved by a single microlens (2006)
Cassan, A, Beaulieu, JP, Fouque, P, Brilliant, S, Dominik, M, Greenhill, JG, ...
Fracture mode transitions during indentation of columnar TiN coatings on metal (2005)
Bhowmick, S, Bhide, R, Hoffman, M, Jayaram, V, Biswas, SK
Pyramidal indentations and focused-ion-beam machining have been used to study the damage during contact loading of textured columnar titanium nitride hard coatings on three steels and aluminium. The...
Fracture mode transitions during indentation of columnar TiN coatings on metal (2005)
Bhowmick, S, Bhide, R, Hoffman, M, Jayaram, V, Biswas, SK
Pyramidal indentations and focused-ion-beam machining have been used to study the damage during contact loading of textured columnar titanium nitride hard coatings on three steels and aluminium. The...
Nature of contact deformation of TiN films on steel (2004)
Bhowmick, S, Xie, ZH, Hoffman, M, Jayaram, V, Biswas, SK
Nanoindentation experiments were carried out on a columnar similar to1.5-mum-thick TiN film on steel using a conical indenter with a 5-mum tip radius. Microstructural examination of the contact zone...
Implementation Of The Local Symmetry Criterion For Crack-Growth Simulations (2004)
The local symmetry criterion predicts that cracks under mixed-mode loading will deflect so that the local Mode II stress intensity factor, kII, is zero. An efficient approach is presented for its...
Effective Crack-Propagation Resistance Under Monotonic And Cyclic Loading (2004)
Tilbrook, M. T., Rutgers, L., Moon, R. J., Hoffman, M.
Crack propagation under monotonic and cyclic loading was investigated in alumina-epoxy composite specimens, produced via a multi-step infiltration technique. Under monotonic loading, an increase in...
Effective Crack-Propagation Resistance Under Monotonic And Cyclic Loading (2004)
Tilbrook, M. T., Rutgers, L., Moon, R. J., Hoffman, M., Atrens, A., Boland, J. N., ...
Crack propagation under monotonic and cyclic loading was investigated in alumina-epoxy composite specimens, produced via a multi-step infiltration technique. Under monotonic loading, an increase in...
Implementation Of The Local Symmetry Criterion For Crack-Growth Simulations (2004)
Tilbrook, M., Hoffman, M., Atrens, A., Boland, J. N., Clegg, R., Griffiths, J. R.
The local symmetry criterion predicts that cracks under mixed-mode loading will deflect so that the local Mode II stress intensity factor, kII, is zero. An efficient approach is presented for its...
Nature of contact deformation of TiN films on steel (2004)
Bhowmick, S, Xie, ZH, Hoffman, M, Jayaram, V, Biswas, SK
Nanoindentation experiments were carried out on a columnar similar to1.5-mum-thick TiN film on steel using a conical indenter with a 5-mum tip radius. Microstructural examination of the contact zone...
Implementation Of The Local Symmetry Criterion For Crack-Growth Simulations (2004)
The local symmetry criterion predicts that cracks under mixed-mode loading will deflect so that the local Mode II stress intensity factor, kII, is zero. An efficient approach is presented for its...
Effective Crack-Propagation Resistance Under Monotonic And Cyclic Loading (2004)
Tilbrook, M. T., Rutgers, L., Moon, R. J., Hoffman, M.
Crack propagation under monotonic and cyclic loading was investigated in alumina-epoxy composite specimens, produced via a multi-step infiltration technique. Under monotonic loading, an increase in...
Implementation Of The Local Symmetry Criterion For Crack-Growth Simulations (2004)
The local symmetry criterion predicts that cracks under mixed-mode loading will deflect so that the local Mode II stress intensity factor, kII, is zero. An efficient approach is presented for its...
Effective Crack-Propagation Resistance Under Monotonic And Cyclic Loading (2004)
Tilbrook, M. T., Rutgers, L., Moon, R. J., Hoffman, M.
Crack propagation under monotonic and cyclic loading was investigated in alumina-epoxy composite specimens, produced via a multi-step infiltration technique. Under monotonic loading, an increase in...
Limited Pap screening associated with reduced risk of cervical cancer in South Africa (2003)
Hoffman, M, Cooper, D, Carrara, H, Rosenberg, L, Kelly, J, Stander, I, ...
Background We investigated the effect of Pap smear screening on the incidence of invasive cancer of the cervix in the Western Cape, South Africa where screening is limited. Methods Data were derived...
Random rates in anisotropic regression (with a discussion and a rejoinder by the authors) (2002)
In the context of minimax theory, we propose a new kind of risk, normalized by a random variable, measurable with respect to the data. We present a notion of optimality and a method to construct...
Development of a Voice Funnel System. (2002)
This quarterly Technical report covers work performed during the period noted on the development of a high-speed interface, called a Voice Funnel, between digitized speech streams and a...
Development of a Voice Funnel System. (2002)
This Quarterly Technical Report covers work performed during the period noted on two projects: (1) the development of a high-speed interface, called a Voice Funnel, between digitized speech streams...
Lux, M., Kenens, C., Conard, T., ...
We have studied the particle removal efficiency of HF-based cleaning mixtures used to clean wafer surfaces during semiconductor manufacturing. SiO2, Si3N4, and metallic oxide (Al2O3, TiO2) particles...
Failure of metal-ceramic composites with spherical inclusions (2001)
Zimmermann, A., Hoffman, M., Emmel, T., Gross, D., Rodel, J.
International economic law and the Internet: content, quality and research methods (2001)
There is a wealth of legal information available on the Internet and it continues to grow daily. While the Internet is the preferred starting point for many doing legal research, there are several...
Cronus: A Distributed Operating System. (1998)
Schantz,R., Burke,E., Geyer,S., Hoffman,M., Lake,A.
This report describes the primary functional capabilities which will be designed into the Distributed Operating System to be designed and implemented. The goals include coherence and uniformity in...
Relationship with the Surveys and Investigations (S&I) Staff; House Appropriations Committee, (1997)
This Instruction, under Section 72a of Title 2, United States Code, implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures governing the relationship of the Department of Defense with...
Impacts of climatic change on agricultural nutrient losses in Finland (1997)
Kallio, K., Rekolainen, S., Ekholm, P., Granlund, K., Laine, Y., Johnsson, H., ...
Boreal Environment Research, vol 2, no. 1, p. 33-52., 1239-6095
Impacts of climatic change on agricultural nutrient losses in Finland (1997)
Kallio, K., Rekolainen, S., Ekholm, P., Granlund, K., Laine, Y., Johnsson, H., ...
Boreal Environment Research, vol 2, no. 1, p. 33-52., 1239-6095
Regionalisation of impacts of climate change on erosion and nutrient losses from agriculture (1996)
Rekolainen, S., Granlund, K., Laine, Y., Johnsson, H., Hoffman, M.
In: Roos, Jaana (ed.). The Finnish research programme on climate change. Final Report. Helsinki, The Academy of Finland. P. 146-151. Suomen akatemian julkaisuja 1996, 4., 0358-9153
Regionalisation of impacts of climate change on erosion and nutrient losses from agriculture (1996)
Rekolainen, S., Granlund, K., Laine, Y., Johnsson, H., Hoffman, M.
In: Roos, Jaana (ed.). The Finnish research programme on climate change. Final Report. Helsinki, The Academy of Finland. P. 146-151. Suomen akatemian julkaisuja 1996, 4., 0358-9153
Role of correlated two pion exchange in K+N scattering (1995)
Hoffman, M., Durso, J. W., Holinde, K., Pearce, B. C., Speth, J.
Role of correlated two pion exchange in K+N scattering (1995)
Hoffman, M., Durso, J. W., Holinde, K., Pearce, B. C., Speth, J.
Cooney, E L, McElrath, M J, Corey, L, Hu, S L, Collier, A C, Arditti, D, ...
Transmission studies have suggested that an optimal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine should induce both neutralizing antibodies and cytolytic T cells to eliminate free virus and...
Biochemical and mutational analysis of the histidine residues of staphylococcal enterotoxin A.
Hoffman, M, Tremaine, M, Mansfield, J, Betley, M
The goal of this study was to examine the role of histidine residues in the biological activities of staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA). Carboxymethylated SEA was unable to stimulate murine T-cell...
McElrath, M J, Rabin, M, Hoffman, M, Klucking, S, Garcia, J V, Greenberg, P D
Analysis of major histocompatibility complex-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) capable of killing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected targets is essential for elucidating the...
Vibrio cholerae bacteremia associated with gastrectomy.
Toeg, A, Berger, S A, Battat, A, Hoffman, M, Yust, I
Bacteremia due to Vibrio cholerae is rare. Each of 15 cases previously reported in the English language literature occurred in the setting of immune deficiency. We describe an instance of...
Cremer, N E, Schmidt, N J, Jensen, F, Hoffman, M, Oshiro, L S, Lennette, E H
Antibody titers to cytomegalovirus were determined in 204 single-serum specimens and in 138 serum pairs, utilizing as antigen extracts of infected cells prepared by either freezing and thawing cells...
Cremer, N E, Hoffman, M, Lennette, E H
Forty-nine serum pairs with antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) were evaluated for rises in antibody titer (greater than or equal to fourfold) by indirect hemagglutination (IHA) and complement fixation...
Cremer, N E, Hoffman, M, Lennette, E H
Absorption of immunoglobulin M (IgM)-rheumatoid factor (RF) from serum samples by reaction with insolubilized gamma globulin reduced the complement-fixing (CF) antibody titer to cytomegalovirus (CMV)...
Pereira, L, Stagno, S, Hoffman, M, Volanakis, J E
Congenital or perinatally acquired human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections in children may be symptomatic or asymptomatic. In this study, we characterized the electrophoretic properties of...
Coagulation defects and altered hemodynamic responses in mice lacking receptors for thromboxane A2.
Thomas, D W, Mannon, R B, Mannon, P J, Latour, A, Oliver, J A, Hoffman, M, ...
Thromboxane A2 (TXA2) is a labile metabolite of arachidonic acid that has potent biological effects. Its actions are mediated by G protein-coupled thromboxane-prostanoid (TP) receptors. TP receptors...
Hasstedt, S J, Hoffman, M, Leppert, M F, Elbein, S C
Segregation analysis of body-mass index (BMI) supported recessive inheritance of obesity, in pedigrees ascertained through siblings with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). BMI was...
Pereira, L, Hoffman, M, Gallo, D, Cremer, N
Seventy-seven clones of hybridomas selected for reactivity by immunofluorescence with human cytomegalovirus (CMV)-infected cells were produced by fusing mouse myeloma cells with the spleen cells of...
Pereira, L, Hoffman, M, Cremer, N
Serodiagnosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection by complement fixation tests depends on showing a fourfold rise in antibody titer from acute- to convalescent-phase sera. Freeze-thaw and...
The key regulatory enzyme in the gluconeogenesis pathway, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase), is induced when Saccharomyces cerevisiae are grown in medium containing a poor carbon source. FBPase is...
Cooney, E L, McElrath, M J, Corey, L, Hu, S L, Collier, A C, Arditti, D, ...
Transmission studies have suggested that an optimal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine should induce both neutralizing antibodies and cytolytic T cells to eliminate free virus and...
Biochemical and mutational analysis of the histidine residues of staphylococcal enterotoxin A.
Hoffman, M, Tremaine, M, Mansfield, J, Betley, M
The goal of this study was to examine the role of histidine residues in the biological activities of staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA). Carboxymethylated SEA was unable to stimulate murine T-cell...
McElrath, M J, Rabin, M, Hoffman, M, Klucking, S, Garcia, J V, Greenberg, P D
Analysis of major histocompatibility complex-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) capable of killing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected targets is essential for elucidating the...
Vibrio cholerae bacteremia associated with gastrectomy.
Toeg, A, Berger, S A, Battat, A, Hoffman, M, Yust, I
Bacteremia due to Vibrio cholerae is rare. Each of 15 cases previously reported in the English language literature occurred in the setting of immune deficiency. We describe an instance of...
Cremer, N E, Schmidt, N J, Jensen, F, Hoffman, M, Oshiro, L S, Lennette, E H
Antibody titers to cytomegalovirus were determined in 204 single-serum specimens and in 138 serum pairs, utilizing as antigen extracts of infected cells prepared by either freezing and thawing cells...
Cremer, N E, Hoffman, M, Lennette, E H
Forty-nine serum pairs with antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) were evaluated for rises in antibody titer (greater than or equal to fourfold) by indirect hemagglutination (IHA) and complement fixation...
Cremer, N E, Hoffman, M, Lennette, E H
Absorption of immunoglobulin M (IgM)-rheumatoid factor (RF) from serum samples by reaction with insolubilized gamma globulin reduced the complement-fixing (CF) antibody titer to cytomegalovirus (CMV)...
Pereira, L, Stagno, S, Hoffman, M, Volanakis, J E
Congenital or perinatally acquired human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections in children may be symptomatic or asymptomatic. In this study, we characterized the electrophoretic properties of...
Coagulation defects and altered hemodynamic responses in mice lacking receptors for thromboxane A2.
Thomas, D W, Mannon, R B, Mannon, P J, Latour, A, Oliver, J A, Hoffman, M, ...
Thromboxane A2 (TXA2) is a labile metabolite of arachidonic acid that has potent biological effects. Its actions are mediated by G protein-coupled thromboxane-prostanoid (TP) receptors. TP receptors...
Pereira, L, Hoffman, M, Gallo, D, Cremer, N
Seventy-seven clones of hybridomas selected for reactivity by immunofluorescence with human cytomegalovirus (CMV)-infected cells were produced by fusing mouse myeloma cells with the spleen cells of...
Pereira, L, Hoffman, M, Cremer, N
Serodiagnosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection by complement fixation tests depends on showing a fourfold rise in antibody titer from acute- to convalescent-phase sera. Freeze-thaw and...
The key regulatory enzyme in the gluconeogenesis pathway, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase), is induced when Saccharomyces cerevisiae are grown in medium containing a poor carbon source. FBPase is...
Hasstedt, S J, Hoffman, M, Leppert, M F, Elbein, S C
Segregation analysis of body-mass index (BMI) supported recessive inheritance of obesity, in pedigrees ascertained through siblings with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). BMI was...
Makki, T., Lartaud, I., Capdeville-Atkinson, C., Chillon, J. M., Hoffman, M., ...
1. The haemodynamic effects of S-12968-(-), a new dihydropyridine calcium entry blocker (enantiomer of S-11568), were compared with those of the stereoisomer, S-12967-(+), nifedipine, and sodium...
First Pulmonary Case Reported in Argentina of Infection with Mycobacterium szulgai, a Rare Pathogen▿
Gutierrez, M., Feola, M., Lenge, L., Rey, R., Hoffman, M.
Mycobacterium szulgai is a rare pathogen. Nontuberculous mycobacteria usually produce disease in people with some kind of immunosuppression or another predisposing condition. A case of pulmonary...
Arthrogenic muscle response to a simulated ankle joint effusion
Palmieri, R, Ingersoll, C, Hoffman, M, Cordova, M, Porter, D, Edwards, J, ...
Background: Arthrogenic muscle inhibition (AMI) is a continuing reflex reaction of the musculature surrounding a joint after distension or damage to the structures of that joint. This phenomenon has...
Using a small VAR of the current account and investment, we identify two categories of shocks: permanent vs. transitory and country-specific vs. global. Our approach involves only the most minimal...