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Dates: | May 17-21, 2006 |
Description: | COMPLEXITY 2006 " Complex Behavior in Economics : Modeling, Computing and Mastering Complexity " |
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Subject: | The workshop will cover, from an interrelated perspective, three main themes: Theme 1: Aggregated models of economic behavior Theme 2: Disaggregated models of economic behavior and artificial societies Theme 3: Mastering complex problems in economics, finance, and management. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] |
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Widmer Brothers "Falconers IPA" (Rotator Series)
Widmer Brothers Brewing Company - Portland, Oregon USA
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Rating: 3.3/5.0
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The pour was a medium copper orange with an average sized (1-2 finger) off white rocky head that had great retention, lasting throughout with some great sticky lacing.
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Diversity 2013, 5(1), 15-25; doi:10.3390/d5010015
Are Land Based Surveys a Useful Tool for Managing Marine Species of Coastal Protected Areas?
Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Via Accademia Albertina 13, 10123 Torino, Italy
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Received: 7 December 2012; Accepted: 25 December 2012 / Published: 10 January 2013
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Abstract: One goal of the LIFE project "Del.Ta." (NAT/IT/000163) was the preparation of an Action Plan to protect the bottlenose dolphin community in the Pelagie Archipelago (Sicily, Italy). It stressed the importance of regular monitoring of the spatial and temporal distribution of dolphins in order to evaluate the impact of local activities. This study assesses whether land-based surveys could be an effective alternative to vessel-based surveys. During the summer of 2006, both surveys' methodologies were used at Lampedusa, with 35 sightings recorded from land and 31 from a boat. Comparison was based on the assessment of the type of information they provided in relation to the presence of the animals and their behavior. Both methodologies were applicable, but there were differences in their requirements, potential information generated, costs, and sensitivity to weather conditions. Vessel-based surveys require well trained observers and enable photo-identification and observation of social interaction and morphology. Animal movements, interactions with anthropogenic elements and group dynamics are better collected from land but spatial data can be documented up to 1 nautical mile from the coast. Weather conditions have a significant platform specific effect on sighting frequencies. The high sighting frequency during land surveys provides support for the development of zero-impact land-based dolphins watching activity.
Keywords: Tursiops truncatus; shore-based survey; vessel survey; distribution
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Giacoma, C.; Papale, E.; Azzolin, M. Are Land Based Surveys a Useful Tool for Managing Marine Species of Coastal Protected Areas? Diversity 2013, 5, 15-25.
AMA StyleGiacoma C, Papale E, Azzolin M. Are Land Based Surveys a Useful Tool for Managing Marine Species of Coastal Protected Areas? Diversity. 2013; 5(1):15-25.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiacoma, Cristina; Papale, Elena; Azzolin, Marta. 2013. "Are Land Based Surveys a Useful Tool for Managing Marine Species of Coastal Protected Areas?" Diversity 5, no. 1: 15-25.
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Tom White speaks almost reverentially about the moment, lying there on the concrete, his shirt torn open and a crowd around him.
He'd been through it before: The medics with the metallic pads, the jolts to his chest, the concerned looks from nearby people with their normal, working hearts.
He heard a voice.
"We're losing him."
White turned to a nearby medic.
"Tell my wife and kids that I'm praying for them," he said.
The medic tried to reassure him. He grabbed her arm and made her promise to relay the message.
"I never knew if that's the last time," says the 60-year-old White now, a full 21/2 years removed from a heart transplant surgery that has the retired teacher running, swimming and smiling - all worry free.
"I just knew that God had me in the palm of his hand."
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Tom White's heart was quite literally disintegrating, and no one could do anything about it.
He knew something was wrong by the time he was a teenager. A 19-year-old soccer player for a university in upstate New York in the late 1960s, he could feel it, and when doctors told him he couldn't play for the school team, he did a very teenager thing: He joined a city club team.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, White worked and played and raised a family without any noticeable symptoms, at times putting in 10 miles of running and two miles of swimming each day.
But inside his chest, his own cells were working feverishly against him.
The genetic disease White inherited - arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia - is as dangerous and painful as the name is long. The muscle of the heart's right ventricle is replaced by fat and fibrous tissue and the ventricle then cannot contract normally, creating abnormal heart rhythms.
This short-circuitry in the most vital organ accounts for up to one-fifth of sudden cardiac deaths in people 35 years of age or younger.
For White, it wasn't a problem; he once enjoyed a seven-year stretch with no symptoms at all. It wasn't an issue until 1994 - some six years after he and his family moved to Sequim -- when his world came crashing down.
He even recalls the experience as he picked up a handful of twigs to toss into a fire near his home on Taylor Cutoff Road.
"It just dropped me to the ground," White recalls.
After that, doctors went to drug therapy and, when that proved ineffective, they put in a defibrillator in 1996.
So began a 10-year stretch that saw White absolutely thrown down (quite literally) at a moment without any real rhyme or reason. One day, lifting heavy objects was no problem, he says, but brushing his teeth would set of a revolution in his heart that accelerated his heart rate from 72 beats per minute to 350.
"I got so many ambulance rides, I knew all the drivers," White says.
The attacks would come at the worst times - once at a parent-teacher conference - and it forced to him to give up coaching girls soccer and track-and-field teams in Sequim.
"That was the hardest thing to do," White recalls."I was just too sick to keep going."
Eventually he gave up his special education teaching position in Sequim's schools.
White's one real hope was for a heart transplant. In any given year, 2,600 Americans await a heart transplant, according to Donate Life Today.
Since transplants must be made immediately and any number of tests - compatible heart size, compatible blood type, etc. - can negate a potential patient, several recipients on a donor list in any particular region will be called when a heart becomes available.
In that 10-year stretch, White was called in four times, waiting hours on end and going through the preparations - only to be told that he was out of luck.
"An emotional roller coaster," White describes it.
"It was devastating for me and my family. I guess you could say ... I was sent home broken-hearted."
It seemed to White that his end might come there, on the side of U.S. Highway 101, as he lay there sending what he thought would be his final words, a blessing to his family.
The fifth
time's a charm
Fast-forward to early 2007. Down but not defeated, White tried to keep exercising to keep his spirits up. He resigned himself to living with a faithful but genetically bad heart.
Then a call came through at about 11 p.m. on Jan. 23. The nurse on the other end of the line asked him to come in.
White admits now he wasn't looking forward to another long trip to Seattle, to get worked up physically and emotionally for a transplant that wouldn't happen.
"I think you better come this time," the nurse told him.
It was a crisp winter night, White recalls. He raced to Kingston and hopped the next ferry - workers held up the ferry for him personally - and sped gleefully toward Seattle. He even pushed past the speed limit a couple of times on his way, hoping to get stopped by a police officer just to be able to tell him the story.
Fate, God, circumstance or something else had another plan, and that was to get him to the hospital, pronto; he didn't run into any law enforcement that night.
It seemed the stars were aligned for White that night: The first two potential heart recipients weren't good fits for the available organ.
But he was.
As he and family members awaited the surgery, his daughter Kris filled out the nearby dry-erase board near his bed, the one set aside for a patient's goals for the day. It read, "1. Get a heart. 2. Homecoming dance decorations."
Somewhere on the other end of that Seattle hospital, while White and his loved ones were celebrating, someone else's family was saying goodbye.
Roberto's gift
As fortune smiled upon Tom White that evening, it turned away from a family visiting a man named Roberto, who was set to be released that evening. Before he could be discharged, Roberto suffered a stroke and died.
Fortunately for White, he was an organ donor.
Doctors moved swiftly, as they must, testing the heart again and again to see if the transplant would have an overwhelming probability of success. They proceeded to fit Roberto's still able heart into White's chest.
Some transplants simply don't work and it can be six months after that a body rejects the organ. But this one was a good fit. White was in the hospital for a month. Although he suffered some setbacks with sleep deprivation and fatigue that comes with moving about too much, he managed to get back quickly to what he wanted to do but felt he couldn't before.
Three months after the surgery, he stood atop Mount Zion.
"I was just determined I wasn't going to waste a minute," he says.
Now he can swim again, up to a mile now, and bike ... and on good days, do both. He still takes medicines, and even more medicines to fight off the side affects of those, and now has biopsies every six months or so, but Roberto's heart still seems to work fine.
"I weigh what I weighed in high school," White reveals.
Besides thanking God, White wanted to make sure this gift didn't go unappreciated. Like other transplant recipients, he filled out a form that is sent to the donor's family asking to see them, if the family wishes.
His family, who called him Robert, said yes.
In August 2007, on the first birthday since Roberto's death, his family hung two signs. They read, "Happy Birthday, Robert" and "Welcome Home, Tom."
White still gets misty-eyed talking about it.
"The hard part of being a transplant patient is, he didn't die for me," White says. "Grief is knowing ... this family that's been so generous ... is grieving. That was real helpful for me. I didn't know how helpful it would be (for the family). An incredible feeling, a sense that (it's) a real gift."
It's a gift he now can celebrate with his children - Zach, 27, Kris, 25, and Sarah, 21 - and friends.
White volunteers as a speaker on behalf of Donate Life Today, the organ donor registry arm of the Living Legacy Foundation at LifeCenter Northwest. LifeCenter coordinates all transplants in Washington, Alaska, Montana and northern Idaho.
In recent weeks, he's talked with groups at Sequim Community Church and Sequim High School, promoting the simple act of checking the box on the driver's license that emerges as a bright, red heart on one's laminated card.
Checking that box means one is giving legal consent to donate all organs and tissues for both transplant and research. Consideration is given first to lifesaving or enhancing transplants, but if no compatible recipient is found, organs and tissues may be used for research.
"That's what I do now, I talk about it," White says with a grin.
That's what he does. He talks ... when he's not out living life.
Reach Michael Dashiell at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Donating life, one part at a time
The organs of the body that can be transplanted at the current time are kidneys, heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines. Kidney/pancreas transplants, heart/lung transplants and other combined organ transplants also are performed.
Organs cannot be stored and must be used within hours of removing them from the donor's body. Most donated organs are from people who have died, but a living individual can donate a kidney, part of the pancreas, part of a lung, part of the liver or part of the intestine.
Local organ procurement organizations around the country coordinate organ donation. These groups evaluate potential donors, discuss donation with surviving family members, and arrange for the surgical removal and transport of donated organs. A national computer network, the OPTN (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network) matches donated organs with recipients throughout the country.
Corneas, the middle ear, skin, heart valves, bone, veins, cartilage, tendons and ligaments can be stored in tissue banks and used to restore sight, cover burns, repair hearts, replace veins, and mend damaged connective tissue and cartilage in recipients.
Stem Cells
Healthy adults between the ages of 18-60 can donate blood stem cells.
For a blood stem cell transplant to be successful, the patient and the blood stem cell donor must have a closely matched tissue type or human leukocyte antigen (HLA). Since tissue types are inherited, patients are more likely to find a matched donor within their own racial and ethnic group.
Healthy volunteers can donate three sources of blood stem cells:
• Marrow - This soft tissue is found in the interior cavities of bones and is a major site of blood cell production. It is removed to obtain stem cells.
• Peripheral blood stem cells - The same types of stem cells found in marrow can be pushed out into a donor's bloodstream after the donor receives daily injections of a medication called filgrastim. This medication increases the number of stem cells circulating in the blood and provides a source of donor stem cells that can be collected in a way that is similar to blood donation.
• Cord blood stem cells - The umbilical cord that connects a newborn to the mother during pregnancy contains blood that has been shown to contain high levels of blood stem cells. Cord blood can be collected and frozen for long periods and, therefore, offers another source of stem cells available for transplanting into patients.
Blood and platelets
Blood and platelets are formed by the body, go through a life cycle, and continuously are replaced throughout life. This means that you can donate blood and platelets more than once.
It is safe to donate blood every 56 days and platelets twice in one week up to 24 times a year.
Blood is stored in a blood bank according to type (A, B, AB, or O) and Rh factor (positive or negative). Blood can be used whole, or separated into packed red cells, plasma, and platelets, all of which have different lifesaving uses.
It takes about 10 minutes to collect a unit (one pint) of blood, although the testing and screening process means that you will be at the donation center close to an hour.
Platelets are tiny cell fragments that circulate throughout the blood and aid in blood clotting. Platelets can be donated without donating blood. When a specific patient needs platelets, but does not need blood, a matching donor is found, and platelets are separated from the rest of the blood, which is returned to the donor. The donor's body will replace the missing platelets within a few hours.
Source: Health Resources & Service Administration/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Cast Away
Cast Away | |
Theatrical release poster
Directed by | Robert Zemeckis |
Produced by | Tom Hanks Jack Rapke Steve Starkey Robert Zemeckis |
Written by | William Broyles Jr. |
Starring | Tom Hanks Helen Hunt Nick Searcy |
Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Cinematography | Don Burgess |
Editing by | Arthur Schmidt |
Studio | ImageMovers Playtone |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (North America) DreamWorks (International) |
Release dates |
Running time | 143 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $90 million |
Box office | $429,632,142 |
Cast Away is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. The film depicts his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his performance.[1]
In 1995, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a time-obsessed systems analyst, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt), with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the couple wants to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. A Christmas with relatives is interrupted by Chuck being summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. While flying through a violent storm, his airplane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but in the process, loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter. He clings to the life-raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before being washed up on an island. After he awakens, he explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited.
Several FedEx packages from the crashed plane wash up on the shore, as well as the corpse of one of the pilots (which he buries). He initially tries to signal for rescue and makes an escape attempt with the remnants of his life-raft, but he cannot pass the powerful surf. He searches for food, water, shelter, and opens the packages, finding a number of potentially useful items. He leaves one package, with a pair of wings painted on it, unopened. During a first attempt to make fire, Chuck receives a deep wound to his hand. In anger and pain, he throws several objects, including a Wilson Sporting Goods volleyball from one of the packages. A short time later he draws a face in the bloody hand print on the ball, names it Wilson and begins talking to it.
Four years later, Chuck is dramatically thinner, bearded, his hair is longer, and he is wearing a loincloth. He has become adept at spearing fish and making fires. He also has regular conversations and arguments with Wilson. A large section from a portable toilet washes up on the island; Chuck uses it as a sail in the construction of a raft. After spending some time building and stocking the raft and deciding when the weather conditions will be optimal (using an analemma he has created in his cave to monitor the time of year), he launches, using the sail to overcome the powerful surf. After some time on the ocean, a storm nearly tears his raft apart. The following day, "Wilson" falls from the raft and is lost, leaving Chuck overwhelmed by loneliness. Later, he is found drifting by a passing cargo ship.
Upon returning to civilization, Chuck learns that he has long been given up for dead; his family and friends had held a funeral, and Kelly has since married Chuck's dentist and has a daughter. After reuniting with Kelly, the pair profess their love for each other but, realizing a future together would be impossible due to her commitment to her family, they part. Kelly gives Chuck the keys to the car they once shared. After buying a new volleyball, Chuck then travels out into the country to return the unopened FedEx package to its sender. The house at the address is empty, so he leaves the package at the door with a note saying that the package saved his life. He then departs and stops at a remote crossroads. A woman passing by in a pickup truck stops to explain where each road leads. As she drives away, Chuck notices the illustration on her truck is identical to the one on the parcel. Chuck is left looking down each road and then toward the departing woman in the truck.
- Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
- Helen Hunt as Kelly Frears
- Nick Searcy as Stan
- Jenifer Lewis as Becca Twig
- Chris Noth as Jerry Lovett
- Lari White as Bettina Peterson
- Vince Martin as Albert "Al" Miller
- Geoffrey Blake as Maynard Graham
- Robert Reneau as pilot's son (uncredited)
The film was not shot consecutively. Hanks gained 50 pounds during pre-production to make him look like a pudgy, middle-aged man. After a majority of the film was shot, production was halted for a year so that he could lose the weight and grow his hair and beard to look like he had been living on the island for years. During the year-long hiatus, Zemeckis used the same film crew to make another film, What Lies Beneath.[1]
Cast Away was filmed on Monuriki, one of the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.[2] It is in a subgroup of the Mamanuca archipelago, which is sited off the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. The island became a tourist attraction following the film's release. Although it is identified by Kelly after Chuck's return as being "about 600 miles south of the Cook Islands," there is actually no land between the southern-most Cook Islands of Mangaia and Antarctica.
The producers made up a list of seemingly useless items that would be in the packages that Noland recovered: party dress, ice skates, divorce papers, video tapes, and other sundries. They turned this over to a group of survival experts who decided how the protagonist might be able to use them.
The film's minimal score was composed by Alan Silvestri for which he won a Grammy Award in 2002. The film's soundtrack is most notable for its lack of score and creature sound effects (such as bird song or insect sounds) while Chuck is on the island, which is intended to reinforce the feeling of isolation.[3] Cast Away contains no original musical score until Chuck escapes the island. However, there is a Russian choral piece heard near the start of the film that was not composed or even recorded by Silvestri, so it does not appear on the film's soundtrack list. It is a traditional Russian song written by Lev Knipper called "Oh, My Field" ("Polyushko, Polye") and it is available on various collections of Red Army hymns. The tracks in Silvestri's score are as follows:
- "Cast Away" – 3:44
- "Wilson, I'm Sorry" – 1:39
- "Drive to Kelly's" – 3:54
- "Love of My Life" – 1:47
- "What the Tide Could Bring" – 3:39
- "Crossroads" – 2:08
- "End Credits" – 7:29
The official soundtrack CD is an anthology of musical pieces from all films up to that point directed by Zemeckis and scored by Silvestri. The only track from Cast Away itself is the theme from the end credits.[4]
FedEx paid nothing for product placement in the film.[5] FedEx CEO Fred Smith did make an appearance as himself for the scene where Chuck is welcomed back, which was filmed on location at FedEx's home facilities in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the idea of a story based on a FedEx plane crashing gave the company "a heart attack at first," the overall story was seen as positive and the company saw an increase in brand awareness in Asia and Europe following the film's release.[6]
Wilson the volleyball[edit]
In the film, Wilson the volleyball serves as Chuck Noland's personified friend and only companion during the four years that Noland spends alone on a deserted island.[7][8][9] The character was created by screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. While researching for the film, he consulted with professional survival experts, and then chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore. This was the inspiration for the film's inanimate companion. From a theatrical point of view, Wilson also serves to realistically imply dialogue in a one-person-only situation.[10][11]
One of the original volleyball props was sold at auction after release of the film for $18,500 to the ex-CEO of FedEx Office, Ken May. At the time of the film's release, Wilson Sporting Goods launched its own joint promotion centered around the fact that one of its products was "co-starring" with Tom Hanks. Wilson manufactured a volleyball with a reproduction of the bloodied handprint face on one side. It was sold for a limited time during the film's initial release and continues to be offered on the company's website.[12]
This section requires expansion. (June 2012) |
Cast Away was acclaimed by critics. The film holds a score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.[13] The film was a success at the box office, earning over $429,632,142 worldwide in ticket receipts.[14][15]
Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result |
73rd Academy Awards[16] | Best Actor | Tom Hanks | Nominated |
Best Sound | Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands and William B. Kaplan | Nominated | |
54th British Academy Film Awards[17] | Best Actor | Tom Hanks | Nominated |
6th Critics' Choice Awards[18] | Best Inanimate Object | Wilson | Won |
58th Golden Globe Awards[19] | Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | Tom Hanks | Won |
2001 MTV Movie Awards | Best Action Sequence | Plane crash | Nominated |
Best Kiss | Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt | Nominated | |
Best Male Performance | Tom Hanks | Nominated | |
Best On-Screen Duo | Tom Hanks and Wilson | Nominated | |
7th Screen Actors Guild Awards[20] | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Tom Hanks | Nominated |
In popular culture[edit]
A FedEx commercial during the 2003 Super Bowl featured the final scene of the film, in which Chuck returns a package to its sender. In this version, the woman answers the door, and when Chuck asks what was in the box, the woman replies: "Just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds. Just silly stuff."[15]
Media executive Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios first suggested the idea of a Cast Away-type television series at a dinner party in 2003.[21] Thom Sherman later pitched the idea for Cast Away – The Series, but never developed the idea.[21] The concept was later developed and pitched with the title Nowhere, which later turned into the ABC show Lost.[21]
In 2011, during a seventh season episode of the FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the main characters visit the Jersey Shore. Frank and Mac sit on the beach and eat ham that has been soaked in rum. Stray dogs keep attacking them for the ham, so they decide to float in the ocean in a dinghy, but they fall asleep and wake up in the middle of the ocean. Frank drops the ham and it floats away, causing Frank to break down and cry in a scene reminiscent of Chuck losing Wilson.
See also[edit]
- Survival film, about the film genre, with a list of related films
- ^ a b "'Cast Away' Director Defies Categorizing". New York Times. 2000. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
- ^ Fiji. Korina Miller, Robyn Jones, Leonardo Pinheiro. Lonely Planet. 2003. p. 54. ISBN 1-74059-134-8.
- ^ Cast Away DVD director's commentary
- ^ "Cast Away: The Films of Robert Zemeckis and the Music of Alan Silvestri". allmusic. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
- ^ "Stranded: Behind-the-Scenes of Cast Away, A comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at Cast Away". Stumped Magazine. 2004. Retrieved December 27, 2009.
- ^ "A look at some of the biggest hits in film and TV product placement". The Hollywood Reporter. April 28, 2005. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved November 25, 2007.
- ^ "Cast Away lets Hanks fend for himself". Detroit News. December 22, 2000. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
- ^ Nate Smith (January 7, 2001). "Cast Away proves great films still exist". Daily Gazette. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
- ^ "The Volleyball in the Void". Alan Vanneman. Bright Lights Film Journal. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
- ^ Hepola, Sarah (December 29, 2000). Lost at Sea and Back Again. The Austin Chronicle
- ^ Beverly Gray (March 7, 2001). "William Boyles, Jr.". All Business. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
- ^ "Wilson Cast Away Volleyball". Wilson Sporting Goods Company's. Wilson Sporting Goods Company website. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
- ^ Cast Away Movie Reviews, Pictures. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 18, 2010.
- ^ (January 3, 2001). Cast Away Leads an All-Star Holiday. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
- ^ a b "Why no matches in the FedEx box?: FedEx parody commercial makes deliberate decision not to help provide fire to its own castaway". CNN. 27 January 2003. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ^ Matt Wolf (February 26, 2001). "'Gladiator' Gets 5 British Awards". Associated Press. Retrieved October 9, 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2000 at the Wayback Machine (archived August 31, 2012)
- ^ Anthony Breznican (January 22, 2001). "A 'Gladiator's' Triumph; 'Famous,' Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts Also Win Golden Globes". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 9, 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ Schaefer, Stephen (January 31, 2001). "SAG might shake up Oscar field". The Boston Herald. Retrieved October 9, 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c "Cast Away". Chicago. August 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
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Riding for the fallen
Nick Riding isn't just a police officer. He's a survivor.
He worked with his father, deputy Dean Ridings, on the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Department. On Thursday, he rode in his father's memory and wore a bracelet engraved with his name and the date he died. His father died almost a year ago in a boating accident on Lake Anna.
"Doing it for him that's all," Ridings said. "That's all I could think about."
Riding and other officers gathered in D.C. Thursday to take part in a bike ride to honor fallen officers. Some will ride for three days for about 250 miles.
Tondria Sanders rode for her husband, a California Highway Patrolman killed in the line of duty three years ago. She was pregnant with their daughter at the time.
"Our agency lost five officers and one cadet last year," Sanders said.
Most officers are riding with a flag on their bike – with the name of an officer who died.
Trish Wertz rode with a picture of her husband near her. Her husband, officer Scott Wertz, was killed in 2006 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
"He was killed when he was 40, great husband, great dad," she said. "It's about how he lived not how he died. I did this to honor him and remember him."
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Los Angeles • State air pollution regulators said Monday that California's air quality is not expected to worsen appreciably after the governor ordered the release of a dirtier blend of gasoline to help slash record-high pump prices.
The California Air Resources Board issued a regulatory advisory after Gov. Jerry Brown ordered them to allow so-called winter-blend gasoline to be sold in California earlier than usual to increase supply.
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AAA said the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in California hit $4.67 Monday — the highest price in the nation and an all-time high for the Golden State. Analysts said the spike has been driven by refinery disruptions and corrosion issues in an important pipeline.
"This action is necessary to address the extreme and unusual fuel supply circumstance," said the board's advisory in allowing the use of the more polluting fuel. "(It) is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety or general welfare."
California usually converts to the gas on Oct. 31. The fuel evaporates in heat more quickly than summer-blends, so sends more pollutants into the environment, especially in warm weather.
Gil Duran, a spokesman for Brown, said the governor looked at all the options available, particularly scientists' prediction that such a change would not have a significant effect on the environment, and "when he learned this could increase the supply by 8 percent to 10 percent, it just made sense."
Sunday's action was the first time since 2005 — when gas supplies were affected by refinery disruptions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina — that the air board has approved early conversion to winter-gas blends.
Officials said it could take days before prices fall, depending on how quickly refineries can get the winter-blend fuel to market.
"The gasoline market moves on news, and this is clearly good news in terms of supply, because it should be able to increase supply immediately," said Alison apRoberts, a spokeswoman with the California Energy Commission.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., on Monday asked the Department of Justice's oil and gas price fraud working group to look into whether maintenance issues at refineries were being used as an excuse to drive up energy prices.
Boxer's request came a day after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate, saying residents need to be protected from "malicious trading schemes."
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said the agency does not confirm investigations "but we do have enormous respect for Sen. Feinstein."
Despite a pipeline and refinery shut down, she said, state data shows gas production last week was "almost as high as a year ago, and stockpiles of gasoline and blending components combined were equal to this time last year."
In some locations, fuming motorists paid $5 or more per gallon, while station owners had to shut down pumps in others.
A station in Long Beach south of Los Angeles had California's priciest gas, at $6.65 for a gallon of regular, according to GasBuddy.com. Customers at an outlet in San Pablo north of Oakland paid $3.49, the lowest.
Winter-blend gas typically isn't sold until November, when cooler temperatures allow for its use while maintaining federal and state air quality standards. Few refineries outside the state are making summer-blend gas, putting the pressure on already-taxed California manufacturers.
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Michael is head of the Capability Computing and Novel Architectures (CCNA) activity at ICHEC, where he supports the Irish scientific user community and Irish industry in the exploitation of leading edge CPU and 'Accelerator/Co-processor'-based technologies. In his role he also works closely on research activity within ICHEC's CUDA Research Center, a status awarded to ICHEC by NVIDIA in 2010 and which has gained widespread recognition from industry developers and users alike.
Michael has expertise in programming for 'forward-looking' Novel Architectures and heterogeneous supercomputers, particularly in the domain of GPGPU computing. In collaboration with HPC experts in the UK, he is currently leading the development of the GPU-enabled version of the widely used molecular dynamics code, DL_POLY, which has been designed specifically for the exploitation of large-scale heterogeneous systems. Also in collaboration with the UK STFC's Advanced Research Computing Group, he is leading the development of a GPU-enabled version of PFARM, a PRACE Astrophysics Community Code and one of the UK's flagship HPC software packages. While in the latter two projects Michael has focused on porting to accelerator- based technologies, he is also currently heavily involved in petascaling the materials science code, Quantum Espresso, in collaboration with HPC experts and scientific researchers in Italy, with the aim of scaling Quantum Espresso to many more thousands of CPU cores than is currently achievable on PRACE Tier-0 supercomputers. He has expertise in using Fortran, C, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA and OpenACC.
Michael joined ICHEC after two years working in the UK as a HPC software developer as part of HECToR's distributed Computational Science and Engineering team where he worked on re-engineering Atomic and Molecular Physics codes, targeting MPP platforms including the Cray XE6 as part of the UK-RAMP project. Prior to this he worked for three years as an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theoretical Atomic Physics at Queen's University Belfast where he pioneered the development of Time-Dependent R-Matrix Theory and associated parallel applications including the TDRM and RMT codes.
In conjunction with his role at ICHEC, Michael also leads the 'Exploitation of HPC Tools and Techniques' task as part of the EU's PRACE 3IP project. He has also recently led the writing of PRACE's Best Practice Guide for the SGI Altix 'Stokes' cluster.
M. A. Lysaght, L. R. Moore, L A. A. Nikolopoulos, J. S. Parker, H. W. van der Hart and K. T. Taylor, Ab initio methods for few- and many- electron atomic systems in short-pulse laser light, Quantum Dynamic Imaging: Theoretical and Numerical Methods, CRM Series in Mathematical Physics, Eds. A.D. Bandrauk and M Ivanov, (Springer) (2011)
M. A. Lysaght, L. R. Moore, J. S. Parker, H. W. van der Hart and K. T. Taylor, The RMT method for describing many-electron atoms in intense short laser pulses, Journal of Physics Conference Series (invited talk, peer reviewed), to be published Q2 (2012)
A. C. Brown, S. Hutchinsion, M. A. Lysaght and H W van der Hart, Interference between competing pathways in atomic harmonic generation, Physical Review Letters, 063006 (2012)
J. M. Carr, P. G. Galiatsatos, J. D. Gorfinkiel, A. G. Harvey, M. A. Lysaght, D. Madden, Z. Masin, M. Plummer, J. Tennyson and H. Varambhia, UKRmol: a low-energy electron- and positron-molecule scattering suite, The European Physical Journal D 66, 58 (2012)
L. A. Moore, M. A. Lysaght, J. S. Parker, H. W. van der Hart and K. T. Taylor, Time delay between the photoemission between the 2p and 2s subshells of neon, Physical Review A 84, 061404 (2011)
L R Moore, M A Lysaght, J. S. Parker, L. A. A. Nikolopoulos, H. W. van der Hart and K. T. Taylor, The RMT method for many-electron atomic systems in intense short-pulse laser light, Journal of Modern Optics 58, 1132 (2011)
M. A. Lysaght and H. van der Hart, Influence of excitation pulse length on a correlated two- electron wave-packet, Journal of Physics B 43, 121001 (2010)
S. Hutchinson, M. A. Lysaght and H. W. van der Hart, Choice of dipole operator gauge in time-dependent R-matrix theory, Journal of Physics B 43, 095603 (2010)
Linda Hamonou, M. A. Lysaght and H. W. van der Hart, Influence of autoionizing states on the pulse length dependence of strong-field Ne+ photoionization at 38.4 eV, Journal of Physics B 43, 045601 (2010)
M. A. Lysaght, S. Hutchinson and H. W. van der Hart, Signatures of collective electron dynamics in the angular distributions of electrons ejected during ultrashort laser pulse interactions with C+, New Journal of Physics 11, 093014 (2009)
M. A. Lysaght, P. G. Burke and H. W. van der Hart, Ultrafast probing of collective electron dynamics driven by dielectronic repulsion, Physical Review Letters 102, 193001 (2009)
M. A. Lysaght, H. W. van der Hart and P. G. Burke, Time-dependent R-matrix theory for ultrafast atomic processes, Physical Review A 79, 053411 (2009)
M. A. Lysaght, P. G. Burke and H. W. van der Hart, Ultrafast laser-driven excitation dynamics in Ne: An ab initio time-dependent R-matrix approach, Physical Review Letters 101, 253001 (2008)
H. W. van der Hart, M. A. Lysaght and P. G. Burke, Momentum distributions of electrons ejected during ultrashort laser interactions with multielectron atoms described using the R-matrix basis sets, Physical Review A 77, 065401 (2008)
H. W. van der Hart, M. A. Lysaght and P. G. Burke, Time-dependent multielectron dynamics of Ar in intense short laser pulses, Physical Review A 76, 043405 (2007)
A. Cummings, G. O'Sullivan, P. Dunne, E. Sokell, N. Murphy, J. White, P. Hayden, P. Sheridan, M. Lysaght and F. O'Reilly, A spatio-temporal study of variable composition laser- produced Sn plasmas, Journal of Physics D 39, 73 (2006)
P. Hayden, J. White, A. Cummings, P. Dunne, M. Lysaght, N. Murphy, P. Sheridan, G. O'Sullivan, Tin based laser-produced plasma source development for EUVL, Microelectronic Engineering 83, 699 (2006)
M. A. Lysaght, D. Kilbane, A. Cummings, N. Murphy, P. Dunne, G. O'Sullivan, P. van Kampen, J. T. Costello and E. T. Kennedy, 4d photoabsorption spectra of Sn II and Sn IV in the 30-65 eV region, Journal of Physics B 38, 4247 (2005)
M. A. Lysaght, D. Kilbane, N. Murphy, A. Cummings, P. Dunne and G. O'Sullivan, Opacity of neutral and low ion stages of Sn at the wavelength 13.5 nm used in extreme-ultraviolet lithography Physical Review A 72, 014502 (2005)
M. Lysaght, M. Uchronski, A. Kwiecien, M. Gebarowski, P. Nash, I. Girotto and I T. Todorov, Benchmarking and Analysis of DL_POLY 4 on GPU clusters, PRACE whitepaper (2012) available at www.prace.ri.eu
A. Sunderland, S. Pickles, M. Nikolic, A. Jovic, J. Jakic, V. Slavnic, I. Girotto, P. Nash and M. Lysaght, An Analysis of FFT Performance in PRACE Application Codes, PRACE whitepaper (2012) available at www.prace.ri.eu


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93+ | Freddie Ljungberg is given a yellow card for a dangerous play and just after San Jose puts the ball back into the play the ref blows the final whistle. Final score Sounders FC 2, San Jose 1. | |
91+ | Chris Wondolowski is issued a yellow card for a forearm shot to Brad Evans after Evans heads a ball clear. | |
89 | Jason Hernandez goes through Freddie Ljungberg to knock a ball clear with no call, but a moment later Stephen King is brought to the ground, drawing a fould and a Seattle free kick. | |
87 | Tyrone Marshall was taken off the field on a stretcher, but returned to the field when the ball was put back into play. | |
86 | Tyrone Marshall goes down with an apparent knee injury, catching the cleat of Quincy Amarikwa as he juked past Marshall. | |
85 | Pablo Campos subs on for Ryan Johnson. | |
84 | Patrick Ianni knocks a ball clear for a San Jose corner ... on the ensuing play, Ryan Johnson gets a great look inside the box, but misses wide left. | |
82 | Seattle earns a corner kick and on the play the ball is played back to Brad Evans, but his cross misses wide for a goal kick. | |
81 | Quincy Amarikwa subs on for Michael Zaher. | |
77 | Roger Levesque subs on fro Steve Zakuani, drawing a great reaction from the crowd. | |
75 | Osvaldo Alonso subs on for Fredy Montero. | |
74 | Fredy Montero is given a yellow card for some post-whistle antics. | |
73 | Fredy Montero crosses for Sebastien Le Toux and it goes through to Steve Zakuani, but San Jose knocks it free. | |
71 | Freddie Ljungberg does well to hold off a San Jose defender and get a ball through for Sebastien Le Toux, but Joe Cannon makes a diving grab of the ball to keep it off the foot of Le Toux. | |
68 | Darren Huckerby scores with an assist from Ryan Johnson. Sounders FC 2, San Jose 1. | |
65 | Attendance is announced at 28,999. | |
64 | Hard foul by Chris Leitch on Sebastien Le Toux in the midfield earns Seattle a free kick from 40 yards out. | |
61 | Sebastien Le Toux takes off a hair too early an is whistled offside for a pass up the left side. | |
59 | Freddie Ljungberg takes a corner kick from the right side. Patrick Ianni gets his head on it coming down the middle of the box through traffic and it lands at the feet of Fredy Montero, who collects it and knocks it in for a goal. Sounders FC 2, San Jose 0. | |
58 | Shea Salinas subs on for Antonio Ribeiro. | |
57 | Ryan Johnson and Kasey Keller sky for a ball in the box. Keller punches it clear, but takes the worst of it as Johnson flies into him for the foul. | |
54 | Kasey Keller waves his arms in frustration as Brad Evans holds of Chris Wondolowski for a ball in the midfield, but is still called for a foul when Wondolowski misses on a sliding effort at teh ball. | |
52 | Chris Wondolowski shoulder-checks James Riley to the ground but there is no call on the play and Riley is taken off the field. Once the ball is put back into play, Riley returns to the field. | |
52 | Steve Zakuani sneaks a shot around a San Jose defender, but Joe Cannon makes the save. | |
50 | Antonio Ribeiro takes out Freddie Ljungberg in the midfield for a yellow card. | |
49 | Chris Leitch pulls Steve Zakuani down with both hands, but there is no call and the ball goes clear for a throw in. | |
47 | Fredy Montero gets into the right corner and sends a cross thats knocked away for a corner kick. On the corner, Tyrone Marshall gets his head on it, but misses high. | |
46 | San Jose kicks off to start the second half, attacking the north goal. | |
45 | After 2 minutes of stoppage time the first half comes to a conclusion. Sounders FC 1, San Jose Earthquakes 0. | |
43 | Brad Evans is whistled for a yellow card for a sliding tackle in the midfield. | |
42 | Jason Hernandez misplays a ball and Seattle takes advantage. Sebastien Le toux one-touches to Freddie Ljungberg for a shot past Joe Cannon for a one-nil lead. Sounders FC 1, San Jose 0. | |
40 | Things are getting chippy as Ryan Johnson takes down Freddie Ljungberg in the midfield. | |
38 | Freddie Ljungberg plays a great ball to Steve Zakuani for a fantastic setup to Fredy Montero, but his shot is parried out for a corner kick by Joe Cannon. He's really earning his money tonight. | |
34 | Ramiro Corrales is issued a red card for a tackle on James Riley running up the right sideline. On the ensuing free kick, Freddie Ljungberg makes a run up the right side, but his cross is corralled by Joe Cannon. | |
32 | Seattle gets out on a break and Freddie Ljungberg gets a shot off from 20 yards off, but it is deflected and skips into the arms of Joe Cannon for the stop. | |
29 | Steve Zakuani is pulled down by Chris Leitch for a foul from 30 yards out. On the free kick, Freddie Ljungberg gets it onto the foot of Brad Evans but Joe Cannon makes a diving stop on the line. | |
24 | Well done by Kasey Keller to come off his line and knock a ball clear from Darren Huckerby preventing what would have been a dangerous opportunity. | |
23 | Another great ball forward to Sebastien Le Toux into the box, but Joe Cannon comes off his line to knock the ball loose and eventually it is cleared for a corner. | |
21 | Great ball by Patrick Ianni to Steve Zakuani up the left side. He sends a cross through to Montero at the far post and the ball is poked away for a corner kick. On the corner, the ball comes through to Ianni for a volley, but it goes just over the bar for a goal kick. | |
19 | A hard foul by Jason Hernandez on Steve Zakuani in the open field earns Seattle a free kick. | |
16 | A hard foul in the midfield by Aaron Pitchkolan on Sebastien Le Toux earns Pitchkolan a yellow card ... on the play, Seattle earned a corner kick. | |
15 | Tyson Wahl sends a ball forward for Steve Zakuani, who is whistled offside. | |
14 | Darren Huckerby sends a dangerous ball through to Ryan Johnson, but he can't get a good foot on it and it goes free for a goal kick. | |
11 | James Riley is whistled for a foul near the sideline for a tackle, though the call looked to come from the assistant referee on the sideline. | |
07 | Fredy Montero swings a ball to the left side for Steve Zakuani, who sends it back across to Freddie Ljungberg at the far post, but it's knocked clear for a corner kick. Ljungberg takes the corner but it's poked away for a throw on the far side. | |
06 | Good pick by Brad Evans in the midfield. Stephen King plays a ball forward to Sebastien Le Toux, but his attempt to move forward is thwarted by Joe Cannon. | |
05 | A body check sends Freddie Ljungberg to the ground, giving Seattle a free kick from 45 yards out. | |
03 | A one-two between Sebastien Le Toux and Freddie Ljungberg is headed back to Joe Cannon by Chris Leitch to stop the Seattle threat. | |
Prematch | Sebastien Le Toux has gone away from his trademark red boots, in favor of black boots. | |
Prematch | Sounders FC are wearing green tops with blue shorts. Keller has chosen to wear his orange keeper top for the match, a departure for his normal grey top. | |
Prematch | Weather at kickoff - 73°F, Clear, Wind: NE at 7 mph, Humidity: 51% | |
Prematch | Fred Mendoza, a volunteer leader in the Seattle area soccer community and vice chairman of the Washington State Public Stadium Authority, was the receipient of the Golden Scarf before today's match. | |
Prematch | Couple of changes to the San Jose starting lineups from those posted earlier in the week. Goalkeeper: Cannon; Defenders: Zaher, Pitchkolan, Hernandez, Leitch; Midfielders: Alvarez, Corrales, Ribiero*, Huckerby*; Forwards: Johnson, Wondolowski* | |
Prematch | No changes to the Sounders FC starting lineup: Goalkeeper: Keller; Defenders: Riley, Marshall, Ianni, Wahl; Midfielders: Ljungberg, King, Zakuani, Evans; Forwards: Le Toux, Montero |


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Gene-Environment Interaction Effects on the Development of Immune Responses in the 1st Year of Life The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 76, Issue 4, 1 April 2005, Pages 696-704 Sabine Hoffjan, Dan Nicolae, Irina Ostrovnaya, Kathy Roberg, Michael Evans, Daniel B. Mirel, Lori Steiner, Karen Walker, Peter Shult, Ronald E. Gangnon, James E. Gern, Fernando D. Martinez, Robert F. Lemanske and Carole Ober Abstract Asthma is a common disease that results from both genetic and environmental risk factors. Children attending day care in the 1st year of life have lower risks for developing asthma, although the mechanism for this "day care" effect is largely unknown. We investigated the interactions between day care exposure in the 1st 6 mo of life and genotypes for 72 polymorphisms at 45 candidate loci and their effects on cytokine response profiles and on the development of atopic phenotypes in the 1st year of life in the Childhood Onset of Asthma (COAST) cohort of children. Six interactions (at four polymorphisms in three loci) with "day care" that had an effect on early-life immune phenotypes were significant at P<.001. The estimated false-discovery rate was 33%, indicating that an estimated four P values correspond to true associations. Moreover, the "day care" effect at some loci was accounted for by the increased number of viral infections among COAST children attending day care, whereas interactions at other loci were independent of the number of viral infections, indicating the presence of additional risk factors associated with day care environment. This study identified significant gene-environment interactions influencing the early patterning of the immune system and the subsequent development of asthma and highlights the importance of considering environmental risk factors in genetic analyses. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (270 kb) |
Linkage Disequilibrium Patterns and tagSNP Transferability among European Populations The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 76, Issue 3, 1 March 2005, Pages 387-398 Jakob C. Mueller, Elin Lõhmussaar, Reedik Mägi, Maido Remm, Thomas Bettecken, Peter Lichtner, Saskia Biskup, Thomas Illig, Arne Pfeufer, Jan Luedemann, Stefan Schreiber, Peter Pramstaller, Irene Pichler, Giovanni Romeo, Anthony Gaddi, Alessandra Testa, Heinz-Erich Wichmann, Andres Metspalu and Thomas Meitinger Abstract The pattern of linkage disequilibrium (LD) is critical for association studies, in which disease-causing variants are identified by allelic association with adjacent markers. The aim of this study is to compare the LD patterns in several distinct European populations. We analyzed four genomic regions (in total, 749 kb) containing candidate genes for complex traits. Individuals were genotyped for markers that are evenly distributed at an average spacing of ∼2–4 kb in eight population-based samples from ongoing epidemiological studies across Europe. The Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) trios of the HapMap project were included and were used as a reference population. In general, we observed a conservation of the LD patterns across European samples. Nevertheless, shifts in the positions of the boundaries of high-LD regions can be demonstrated between populations, when assessed by a novel procedure based on bootstrapping. Transferability of LD information among populations was also tested. In two of the analyzed gene regions, sets of tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (tagSNPs) selected from the HapMap CEPH trios performed surprisingly well in all local European samples. However, significant variation in the other two gene regions predicts a restricted applicability of CEPH-derived tagging markers. Simulations based on our data set show the extent to which further gain in tagSNP efficiency and transferability can be achieved by increased SNP density. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (6670 kb) |
Association and Interaction of the IL4R, IL4, and IL13 Loci with Type 1 Diabetes among Filipinos The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 72, Issue 6, 1 June 2003, Pages 1505-1514 Teodorica L. Bugawan, Daniel B. Mirel, Ana M. Valdes, Araceli Panelo, Paolo Pozzilli and Henry A. Erlich Abstract In the search for genes involved in type 1 diabetes (T1D), other than the well-established risk alleles at the human leukocyte antigen loci, we have investigated the association and interaction of polymorphisms in genes involved in the IL4/IL13 pathway in a sample of 90 Filipino patients with T1D and 94 controls. Ten single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), including two promoter SNPs in the IL4R locus on chromosome 16p11, one promoter SNP in the IL4 locus on chromosome 5q31, and four SNPs—including two promoter SNPs—in the IL13 locus on chromosome 5q31 were examined for association, linkage disequilibrium, and interaction. We found that both individual SNPs (IL4R L389L; odds ratio [OR] 0.34; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.17–0.67; P=.001) and specific haplotypes both in IL4R (OR 0.10; 95% CI 0–0.5; P=.001) and for the five linked IL4 and IL13 SNPs (OR 3.47; P=.004) were strongly associated with susceptibility to T1D. Since IL4 and IL13 both serve as ligands for a receptor composed, in part, of the IL4R α chain, we looked for potential epistasis between polymorphisms in the IL4R locus on chromosome 16p11 and the five SNPs in the IL4 and IL13 loci on chromosome 5q31 and found, through use of a logistic-regression model, significant gene-gene interactions (P=.045, corrected for multiple comparisons by permutation analysis). Our data suggest that the risk for T1D is determined, in part, by polymorphisms within the IL4R locus, including promoter and coding-sequence variants, and by specific combinations of genotypes at the IL4R and the IL4 and IL13 loci. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (826 kb) |
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 76, Issue 3, 517-521, 1 March 2005
Lisa M. Maier1, , , Juliet Chapman1, Joanna M.M. Howson1, David G. Clayton1, Rebecca Pask1, David P. Strachanb, Wendy L. McArdle3, Rebecca C.J. Twells1 and John A. Todd1
1 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
2 Department of Community Health Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London; and
3 Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Attempts to identify susceptibility loci that, on their own, have marginal main effects by use of gene-gene interaction tests have increased in popularity. The results obtained from analyses of epistasis are, however, difficult to interpret. Gene-gene interaction, albeit only marginally significant, has recently been reported for the interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 genes (IL4 and IL13) with the interleukin-4 receptor A gene (IL4RA), contributing to the susceptibility of type 1 diabetes (T1D). We aimed to replicate these findings by genotyping both large family and case-control data sets and by using previously published data. Gene-gene interaction tests were performed using linear regression models in cases only. We did not find any single-locus associations with T1D and did not obtain evidence of gene-gene interaction. Additional support from independent samples will be even more important in the study of gene-gene interactions and other subgroup analyses.