Splenectomy and Thymectomy in Human Renal Homotransplantation

Five patients with terminal renal failure have been treated with renal homografts. Total body irradiation and cytotoxic drugs were used to prevent rejection. In addition, the thymus and spleen were surgically removed prior to the homotransplantation. Four of the 5 patients are alive with good renal function after 105 to 198 days. The role of thymectomy and splenectomy in conditioning patients for the receipt of homografts is highly speculative at present. However, the early success rate in this group of patients exceeds that generally attained with renal homografts, and appears to justify further clinical evaluation of this approach under carefully controlled experimental conditions. The data are insufficient to allow a recommendation for the general use of these adjuvant procedures. © 1963, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved

Bangor Gas: An Analysis of the Law Court\u27s Decision in Office of the Public Advocate v. Public Utilities Commission

With a turn of the thermostat, your gas furnace fires up to provide heat on a cold winter night. With the flick of a switch, the lights come on in your home. Both of these actions are common everyday occurrences, and both rely on regulated public utilities to supply the energy necessary to achieve the desired ends. For a vast majority of Mainers hardly any thought is likely given to these actions or the complicated regulatory framework that allows this energy to reach their homes. Yet energy use, as well as the accompanying body of law and policy that regulates energy utilities, pervades all aspects of modern society. Not only does energy power our consumer products and heat our homes, it also powers the industrial and commercial businesses that provide jobs and generate growth in our economy. In fact, as commentators have long noted, complex modern societies, such as ours, are completely dependent upon utility service. This dependence is only strengthened as technological advancements continue an d critical sectors of society, such as banking and finance, become ever more reliant on technology. Thus, as our dependence increases and energy plays an ever more important role in our society, it becomes progressively more important that the legal framework regulating energy utilities serves the public interest

Bangor Gas: An Analysis of the Law Court\u27s Decision in Office of the Public Advocate v. Public Utilities Commission

With a turn of the thermostat, your gas furnace fires up to provide heat on a cold winter night. With the flick of a switch, the lights come on in your home. Both of these actions are common everyday occurrences, and both rely on regulated public utilities to supply the energy necessary to achieve the desired ends. For a vast majority of Mainers hardly any thought is likely given to these actions or the complicated regulatory framework that allows this energy to reach their homes. Yet energy use, as well as the accompanying body of law and policy that regulates energy utilities, pervades all aspects of modern society. Not only does energy power our consumer products and heat our homes, it also powers the industrial and commercial businesses that provide jobs and generate growth in our economy. In fact, as commentators have long noted, complex modern societies, such as ours, are completely dependent upon utility service. This dependence is only strengthened as technological advancements continue an d critical sectors of society, such as banking and finance, become ever more reliant on technology. Thus, as our dependence increases and energy plays an ever more important role in our society, it becomes progressively more important that the legal framework regulating energy utilities serves the public interest

Triangles in 3-connected matroids

AbstractA collection F of 3-connected matroids is triangle-rounded if, whenever M is a 3-connected matroid having a minor in F, and T is a 3-element circuit of M, then M has a minor which uses T and is isomorphic to a member of F. An efficient theorem for testing a collection of matroids for this property is presented. This test is used to obtain several results including the following extension of a result of Asano, Nishizeki, and Seymour. Let T be a 3-element circuit of a 3-connected binary nonregular matroid M with at least eight elements. Then M has a minor using T that is isomorphic to S8 or the generalized parallel connection across T of F7 and M(K4)

Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Nitrogenase Fe-Protein from Azotobacter vinelandii

Nitrogen fixation is the chemical reaction of dinitrogen (N2) being reduced to ammonia (NH3). This reaction occurs naturally by nitrogen fixing microorganisms which contain the enzyme nitrogenase. The overall reaction is written below

A solution of the problem in the elementary school grades of broadening the base for the study of plants and their importance to civilization.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit