During the Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic, southern California was impacted by two anomalous tectonic events: (1) underplating of the oceanic Pelona-Orocopia-Rand schists beneath North American arc crust and craton; and (2) removal of the western m . . .

Leptin administration improves skeletal muscle insulin responsiveness in diet-induced insulin-resistant rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 280: E130-E142, 2001.—In addition to suppressing appetite, leptin may also modulate insulin secretion and actio . . .

High-fat feeding activates components of the pro-inflammatory pathway and increases co-immunoprecipitation of suppressor of cytokine signalling (SOCS)-3 with both the insulin receptor (IR)-β subunit and IRS-1, which together contribute to keeping PI-3 . . .

The following scheduling problem is studied: We are given a set of tasks with release times, deadlines, and profit rates. The objective is to determine a 1-processor preemptive schedule of the given tasks that maximizes the overall profit. In the stan . . .