Égalité ou Réalité where do Muslims truly reside in today's France? / (2007)
Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Égalité ou Réalite where do Muslims truly reside in today's France? / (2007)
Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Davis, Michael A., Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
In this study, the author focuses on France, exclusively, to illuminate the potential causes for material and/or ideological support to terror in that society, and further indicates how these trends...
The all-wavelength extended groth strip international survey (AEGIS) data sets (2007)
Davis, Michael A., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Konidaris, Nick P., Newman, Jeffrey A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Biggs, Andrew D., ...
In this the first of a series of Letters, we present a panchromatic data set in the Extended Groth Strip region of the sky. Our survey, the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey...
AEGIS: the color-magnitude relation for X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (2007)
Nandra, Kirpal, Georgakakis, Antonis, Willmer, Christopher N., Cooper, Michael C., Croton, D. J., Davis, Michael A., ...
We discuss the relationship between rest-frame color and optical luminosity for X-ray sources in the range 0.6 < z < 1.4 selected from the Chandra survey of the Extended Groth Strip. These...
AEGIS: the environment of X-ray sources at z almost equal to 1 (2007)
Georgakakis, Antonis, Nandra, Kirpal, Laird, Elise S., Cooper, Michael C., Gerke, Brian F., Newman, Jeffrey A., ...
We explore the environment of z ≈ 1 AGNs using a sample of 53 spectroscopically identified X-ray sources in the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey. We quantify the local...
Davis, Michael A, Hanash, Samir
Abstract Protein-based breast cancer biomarkers are a promising resource for breast cancer detection at the earliest and most treatable stages of the disease. Plasma is well suited to proteomic-based...
This dissertation examines the U.S. wartime presidential campaign of 1944. In 1944, the United States was at war with the Axis Powers of World War II, and Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, already...
Role of p120ctn in Cadherin Mediated Suppression of Breast Cancer (1998)
Davis, Michael A., Reynolds, Albert B.
In the previous reporting periods, we showed that cadherin binding is necessary to recruit p12O to cell junctions and that p12O is important to the generation of strong cell-cell adhesion. We have...
Kersey, Alan D., Davis, Michael A.
A sensing apparatus and related method for sensing strain between fiber Bragg grating sensors inscribed in an optical fiber. The fiber is inscribed with a first fiber Bragg grating sensor and a...
Fiber Bragg Grating Interrogation System With Adaptive Calibration (1998)
Davis, Michael A., Kersey, Alan D., Bellemore, David G.
The invention pertains to a system and method for providing accurate measurements of the reflected wavelengths from multiple strings of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) elements using a single scanning...
Fiber Bragg Grating Interrogation System and Method with Fiber String Multiplexing. (1997)
Davis, Michael A., Kersey, Alan D., Bellemore, David G.
A wavelength determination system and method for addressing a plurality of strings of Bragg grating sensors using a single digitally controlled narrowband optical filter.
Fiber Bragg Grating Interrogation System with Adaptive Calibration. (1997)
Davis, Michael A., Kersey, Alan D., Bellemore, David G.
A system and method for providing accurate measurements of the reflected wavelengths from multiple strings of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) elements using a single scanning optical filter and an isolated...
High Speed Wavelength Determination System for Wavelength-Encode Sensors. (1997)
Davis, Michael A., Kersey, Alan D., Bellemore, David G.
A system and method for determining the return wavelength of fiber Bragg grating sensors using optoelectronic processing of the returned signal with a digitally controlled scanning filter element.
Minematsu, Kazuo, Fisher, Marc, Li, L., Davis, Michael A., Knapp, A. G., Cotter, R. E., ...
We employed diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) to identify regions of focal brain ischemia during the first 3 hours after permanent occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in rats. Using DWI as early as 30...
Minematsu, Kazuo, Li, Limin, Sotak, Christopher H., Davis, Michael A., Fisher, Marc
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) can quantitatively display focal brain abnormalities within minutes after the onset of ischemia. We performed the present...
D'Orsi, Carl J., Reale, Frank R., Davis, Michael A., Brown, Vanessa J.
This study was initiated to determine whether the apparent calcium loss during histologic breast specimen processing could be explained by the presence of birefringent, transparent calcium oxalate...
Minematsu, Kazuo, Li, L., Fisher, Marc, Sotak, Christopher H., Davis, Michael A., Fiandaca, M. S.
We examined serial changes of diffusion- (DWI) and T2-weighted (T2WI) magnetic resonance images 30 minutes to 3 hours after intraluminal suture occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) in eight...
D'Orsi, Carl J., Reale, Frank R., Davis, Michael A., Brown, Vanessa J.
A prospective analysis of specimens from location and biopsy of mammographically suspect microcalcifications in 108 patients was carried out to determine if microcalcifications were lost during...
Delayed treatment with a t-PA analogue and streptokinase in a rabbit embolic stroke model (1990)
Phillips, David A., Fisher, Marc, Davis, Michael A., Smith, Thomas W., Pang, Roy H.L.
Fibrinolytic therapy may be effective in the treatment of ischemic stroke, and clinical trials are under way. We evaluated two fibrinolytic agents, an analogue of tissue plasminogen activator...
Davis, Michael A., Chinol, Marco
Radiation synovectomy, a noninvasive therapeutic alternative to surgical synovectomy, has not gained widespread acceptance in the United States because of the lack of a suitable radiopharmaceutical....
Phillips, David A., Fisher, Marc, Smith, Thomas W., Davis, Michael A., Pang, Roy H.L.
Early fibrinolytic therapy with full molecular tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) has been observed to be both angiographically and clinically effective when employed in animal stroke models....
Phillips, David A., Davis, Michael A., Fisher, Marc
We describe a model of thromboembolic stroke in rabbits that utilizes the Seldinger technique and digital arteriography. The internal carotid arteries of 14 rabbits were catheterized selectively and...
CT of the pancreas with a fat-density oral contrast regimen (1988)
Raptopoulos, Vassilios D., Davidoff, Ashley, Karellas, Andrew, Davis, Michael A., Coolbaugh, Brian L., Smith, Edward H.
Visualization of the head of the pancreas by CT was prospectively evaluated in two groups of 100 patients who did not have pancreatic disease. Patients were given either a fat-density oral contrast...
Phillips, David A., Fisher, Marc, Smith, Thomas W., Davis, Michael A.
Thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) has been used to treat myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism in humans. This plasminogen activator may also be useful in treating certain...
Michael A. Davis, Sc. D, Linda R. Degaeta, Donald L Meichior, Ph. D
Large unilamellar phospholipid vesicles were prepared and loaded with various radiographic contrast media. Body CT following in vivo administration of these vesicles in the rat demonstrated...
RIBEIRO, LAIR G. T., LOUIE, ERIC K., DAVIS, MICHAEL A., MAROKO, PETER R.
Since the mechanism by which oxygen reduces infarct size is not yet completely understood, we tested the hypothesis that breathing 100% oxygen may alter regional myocardial blood flow. In 23...
RIBEIRO, LAIR G. T., HILLIS, L. DAVID, LOUIE, ERIC K., DAVIS, MICHAEL A., MAROKO, PETER R., BRAUNWALD, EUGENE
In order to measure the protective effect of interventions following coronary artery occlusions in dogs, the creatine kinase activity of myocardial tissue was assayed after 24 h and related to the...
RADVANY, PAULO, DAVIS, MICHAEL A., MULLER, JAMES E., MAROKO, PETER R.
Although vasodilators may improve left ventricular function when left ventricular failure develops in patients with acute myocardial infarction, their effect on the coronary collateral circulation...
Detection of Escherichia coli Serogroups O26 and O113 by PCR Amplification of the wzx and wzy Genes
DebRoy, Chitrita, Roberts, Elisabeth, Kundrat, James, Davis, Michael A., Briggs, Connie E., Fratamico, Pina M.
PCR-based assays for detecting enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serogroups O26 and O113 were developed by targeting the wzx (O-antigen flippase) and the wzy (O-antigen polymerase) genes found in...
DebRoy, Chitrita, Fratamico, Pina M., Roberts, Elisabeth, Davis, Michael A., Liu, Yanhong
The Escherichia coli O45 O-antigen gene cluster of strain O45:H2 96-3285 was sequenced, and conventional (singleplex), multiplex, and real-time PCR assays were designed to amplify regions in the wzx...
Detection of Escherichia coli Serogroups O26 and O113 by PCR Amplification of the wzx and wzy Genes
DebRoy, Chitrita, Roberts, Elisabeth, Kundrat, James, Davis, Michael A., Briggs, Connie E., Fratamico, Pina M.
PCR-based assays for detecting enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serogroups O26 and O113 were developed by targeting the wzx (O-antigen flippase) and the wzy (O-antigen polymerase) genes found in...
DebRoy, Chitrita, Fratamico, Pina M., Roberts, Elisabeth, Davis, Michael A., Liu, Yanhong
The Escherichia coli O45 O-antigen gene cluster of strain O45:H2 96-3285 was sequenced, and conventional (singleplex), multiplex, and real-time PCR assays were designed to amplify regions in the wzx...
Davis, Michael A, Hanash, Samir
Protein-based breast cancer biomarkers are a promising resource for breast cancer detection at the earliest and most treatable stages of the disease. Plasma is well suited to proteomic-based methods...
A novel role for p120 catenin in E-cadherin function
Ireton, Reneé C., Davis, Michael A., Van Hengel, Jolanda, Mariner, Deborah J., Barnes, Kirk, Thoreson, Molly A., ...
Îndirect evidence suggests that p120-catenin (p120) can both positively and negatively affect cadherin adhesiveness. Here we show that the p120 gene is mutated in SW48 cells, and that the cadherin...
A core function for p120-catenin in cadherin turnover
Davis, Michael A., Ireton, Renee C., Reynolds, Albert B.
p120-catenin stabilizes epithelial cadherin (E-cadherin) in SW48 cells, but the mechanism has not been established. Here, we show that p120 acts at the cell surface to control cadherin turnover,...