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• • ·Table of Contents : July 2006

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Societies

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• • ·Board certification

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• EDITORIAL

  • ·What is the role of fetal nasal bone examination in the assessment of risk for trisomy 21 in clinical practice?

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    Yves Ville

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  • ·HSV neutralizing antibodies further refinement in preventing neonatal Herpes infection

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    Michael K. Lindsay

    

• EDITORS' CHOICE

  • ·STAN in clinical practice—The outcome of 2 years of regular use in the city of Gothenburg

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    Håkan Norén, Sofia Blad, Ann Carlsson, Anders Flisberg, Annika Gustavsson, Håkan Lilja, Margareta Wennergren, Henrik Hagberg

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  • ·Survival and major neonatal complications in infants born between 22 0/7 and 24 6/7 weeks of gestation (1999-2003)

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    Susanne Herber-Jonat, Andreas Schulze, Angela Kribs, Bernhard Roth, Wolfgang Lindner, Frank Pohlandt

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• CLINICAL OPINION

  • ·Childbirth and pelvic floor dysfunction: An epidemiologic approach to the assessment of prevention opportunities at delivery

    Pagina :23-28

    Divya A. Patel, Xiao Xu, Angela D. Thomason, Scott B. Ransom, Julie S. Ivy, John O.L. DeLancey

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• REVIEW ARTICLES

  • ·Apoptosis and its role in the trophoblast

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    Berthold Huppertz, Mamed Kadyrov, John C.P. Kingdom

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  • ·Shared and disparate components of the pathophysiologies of fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia

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    Roberta B. Ness, Baha M. Sibai

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• GENERAL OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY: GYNECOLOGY

  • ·Patterns of constipation in urogynecology: Clinical importance and pathophysiologic insights

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    Marco Soligo, Stefano Salvatore, Anton V. Emmanuel, Elena De Ponti, Marco Zoccatelli, Marina Cortese, Rodolfo Milani

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  • ·Neovaginal mucosa after Vecchietti’s laparoscopic operation for Rokitansky syndrome: Structural and ultrastructural study

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    Luigi Fedele, Stefano Bianchi, Nicola Berlanda, Eleonora Fontana, Ricciarda Raffaelli, Alessandro Bulfoni, Paola Braidotti

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  • ·Postmenopausal hormone therapy increases use of health services: Experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial [ISRCTN35338757]

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    Piret Veerus, Krista Fischer, Sirpa-Liisa Hovi, Matti Hakama, Mati Rahu, Elina Hemminki

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  • ·Comparative effects of a contraceptive vaginal ring delivering a nonandrogenic progestin and continuous ethinyl estradiol and a combined oral contraceptive containing levonorgestrel on hemostasis variables

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    Mandana Rad, Cornelis Kluft, Joël Ménard, Jacobus Burggraaf, Marieke L. de Kam, Piet Meijer, Irving Sivin, Regine L. Sitruk-Ware

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  • ·Impact of an adolescent sex education program that was implemented by an academic medical center

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    Patricia J. Sulak, Sara J. Herbelin, Dee Dee A. Fix, Thomas J. Kuehl

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  • ·Communicating contraceptive effectiveness: A randomized controlled trial to inform a World Health Organization family planning handbook

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    Markus J. Steiner, James Trussell, Neha Mehta, Sean Condon, Sumathi Subramaniam, Deborah Bourne

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  • ·Long-term safety of an extended-cycle oral contraceptive (Seasonale): A 2-year multicenter open-label extension trial

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    F.D. Anderson, William Gibbons, David Portman

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  • ·Effects of tibolone on nuclear receptors in human endometrial cells

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    Wei Zhang, James Mazella, Helenius J. Kloosterboer, Linda Tseng

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  • ·PAPP-A and osteoprotegerin, together with interleukin-8 and RANTES, are elevated in the peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis

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    Nick A. Bersinger, Stéphanie von Roten, Dorothea M. Wunder, Luigi Raio, Ekkehard Dreher, Michael D. Mueller

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• GENERAL OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY: OBSTETRICS

  • ·Nasal bone in first-trimester screening for trisomy 21

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    Simona Cicero, Kyriaki Avgidou, Georgios Rembouskos, Karl Oliver Kagan, Kypros H. Nicolaides

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  • ·Maternal herpes simplex virus antibody avidity and risk of neonatal herpes

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    Elizabeth L. Brown, Rhoda Morrow, Elizabeth M. Krantz, Ann M. Arvin, Charles G. Prober, Linda L. Yasukawa, Lawrence Corey, Anna Wald

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  • ·Labor dystocia and its association with interpregnancy interval

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    Bao-Ping Zhu, Violanda Grigorescu, Thu Le, Mei Lin, Glenn Copeland, Maurice Barone, George Turabelidze

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  • ·Characteristics and treatment of hepatic rupture caused by HELLP syndrome

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    Ana C.P.F. Araujo, Marcos D. Leao, Maria H. Nobrega, Patricia F.M. Bezerra, Flavio V.M. Pereira, Edailna M.M. Dantas, George D. Azevedo, Selma M.B. Jeronimo

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  • ·Prospective risk of intrauterine death of monochorionic-diamniotic twins

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    Teresinha Simões, Njila Amaral, Rita Lerman, Filipa Ribeiro, Elsa Dias, Isaac Blickstein

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  • ·Intimate partner violence victimization prior to and during pregnancy among women residing in 26 U.S. states: Associations with maternal and neonatal health

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    Jay G. Silverman, Michele R. Decker, Elizabeth Reed, Anita Raj

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  • ·Cessation of asthma medication in early pregnancy

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    Rachel Enriquez, Pingsheng Wu, Marie R. Griffin, Tebeb Gebretsadik, Ayumi Shintani, Ed Mitchel, Kecia N. Carroll, Tina V. Hartert

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  • ·Fetal growth and onset of delivery: A nationwide population-based study of preterm infants

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    Nils-Halvdan Morken, Karin Källen, Bo Jacobsson

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  • ·Prolylcarboxypeptidase gene, chronic hypertension, and risk of preeclampsia

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    Lin Wang, Yan Feng, Yan Zhang, Huanyu Zhou, Shanqun Jiang, Tianhua Niu, Lee-Jen Wei, Xin Xu, Xiping Xu, Xiaobin Wang

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  • ·Neonatal mortality and morbidity rates in term twins with advancing gestational age

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    Jennifer E. Soucie, Quiying Yang, Shi Wu Wen, Karen Fung Kee Fung, Mark Walker

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  • ·Unequal placental sharing and birth weight discordance in monochorionic diamniotic twins

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    Andrea L. Fick, Vickie A. Feldstein, Mary E. Norton, Christina Wassel Fyr, Aaron B. Caughey, Geoffrey A. Machin

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  • ·Should phosphodiesterase 5 selective inhibitors be used for uterine relaxation?

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    Céline Méhats, Thomas Schmitz, Michelle Breuiller-Fouché, Marie-Josèphe Leroy, Dominique Cabrol

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  • ·Neuropsychological performance in normal pregnancy and preeclampsia

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    Sarosh Rana, Marshall Lindheimer, Judith Hibbard, Neil Pliskin

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  • ·Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome and brain volume after treatment for hydrops fetalis by in utero intravascular transfusion

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    Dennis C. Harper, Hanes M. Swingle, Carl P. Weiner, Daniel J. Bonthius, Glen P. Aylward, John A. Widness

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  • ·Placental angiogenic growth factors and uterine artery Doppler findings for characterization of different subsets in preeclampsia and in isolated intrauterine growth restriction

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    Fàtima Crispi, Carmen Domínguez, Elisa Llurba, Pilar Martín-Gallán, Luís Cabero, Eduard Gratacós

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  • ·Early mid-trimester serum relaxin, soluble CD163, and cervical length in women at high risk for preterm delivery

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    Ida Vogel, Alice R. Goepfert, Holger J. Møller, Suzanne Cliver, Poul Thorsen, William W. Andrews

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  • ·Mode of delivery and postpartum morbidity in Latin American and Caribbean countries among women who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus–1: The NICHD International Site Development Initiative (NISDI) Perinatal Study

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    Geraldo Duarte, Jennifer S. Read, René Gonin, Laura Freimanis, Silvina Ivalo, Victor H. Melo, Alessandra Marcolin, Claudia Mayoral, Mariana Ceriotto, Ricardo de Souza, Edmundo Cardoso, D. Robert Harris, for the NISDI Perinatal Study Group †

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  • ·Circulating cell-free fetal messenger RNA levels after fetoscopic interventions of complicated pregnancies

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    May Lee Tjoa, Jacques Jani, Liesbeth Lewi, Inga Peter, Tuangsit Wataganara, Kirby L. Johnson, Diana W. Bianchi, Jan A. Deprest

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  • ·Does a “vanishing twin” affect first-trimester biochemistry in Down syndrome risk assessment?

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    Stephen T. Chasen, Sriram C. Perni, Mladen Predanic, Robin B. Kalish, Frank A. Chervenak

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  • ·Long-term neuroprotective effects of carbon dioxide on neonatal rat hypoxic-ischemic brain injury: An experimental study of skilled motor tasks

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    Masatomo Kohzuki, Takuji Tomimatsu, Hirotsugu Fukuda, Takeshi Kanagawa, Toru Kanzaki, Koichiro Shimoya, Yuji Murata

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  • ·Sources of amniotic fluid erythropoietin during normoxia and hypoxia in fetal sheep

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    Robert A. Brace, Cecilia Y. Cheung, Lowell E. Davis, Robert Gagnon, Richard Harding, John A. Widness

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  • ·Evaluation of placenta growth factor and soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 receptor levels in mild and severe preeclampsia

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    Christopher J. Robinson, Donna D. Johnson, Eugene Y. Chang, D. Michael Armstrong, Wei Wang

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  • ·Localization and expression of prostaglandin E₂ receptors in human placenta and corresponding fetal membranes with labor

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    Peta L. Grigsby, Suren R. Sooranna, Diane E. Brockman, Mark R. Johnson, Leslie Myatt

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  • ·Perfusion studies of glyburide transfer across the human placenta: Implications for fetal safety

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    Jennifer Kraemer, Julia Klein, Angelica Lubetsky, Gideon Koren

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  • ·Pregnancy and estradiol modulate myometrial G-protein pathways in the guinea pig

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    Carl P. Weiner, Clifford Mason, Gentzon Hall, Usma Ahmad, Peter Swaan, Irina A. Buhimschi

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  • ·Urocortin 2 and urocortin 3 are expressed by the human placenta, deciduas, and fetal membranes

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    Alberto Imperatore, Pasquale Florio, Paulo B. Torres, Michela Torricelli, Letizia Galleri, Paolo Toti, Rossella Occhini, Enrico Picciolini, Wylie Vale, Felice Petraglia

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  • ·Placental transfer of lopinavir/ritonavir in the ex vivo human cotyledon perfusion model

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    Laurent Gavard, Sophie Gil, Gilles Peytavin, Pierre-François Ceccaldi, Claudia Ferreira, Robert Farinotti, Laurent Mandelbrot

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  • ·A “top-down-approach” to insert catheters into the circulation of fetal sheep using ultrasound B-scan

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    Hobe J. Schröder, Mikhail Tchirikov

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  • ·Syncytiotrophoblastic vesicles in placental intervillous space

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    Toshio Fujikura, Makio Mukai

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• CASE REPORTS

  • ·Primary uterine lymphoma: Report of 2 cases and review of literature

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    Roopa Hariprasad, Lalit Kumar, D.M. Neerja Bhatla, Manu Kukreja, Shridhar Papaiah

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  • ·Selective uterine artery embolization: A new therapeutic approach in a patient with low-risk gestational trophoblastic disease

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    Laura Carlini, Antonella Villa, Luisa Busci, Gaetano Trezzi, Roberto Agazzi, Luigi Frigerio

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  • ·Successful neonatal outcome in 2 cases of maternal persistent vegetative state treated in a labor and delivery suite

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    Giuseppe Chiossi, Kristin Novic, Jennifer U. Celebrezze, Ronald L. Thomas

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  • ·Nerve injury caused by removal of an implantable hormonal contraceptive

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    Gottfried Wechselberger, Dolores Wolfram, Petra Pülzl, Elisabeth Soelder, Thomas Schoeller

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  • ·Prepubertal menarche: A defined clinical entity

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    Shanthi M. Pinto, Anne S. Garden

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• LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

  • ·An integrated model for the prediction of pre-eclampsia using maternal factors and uterine artery Doppler velocimetry in unselected low-risk women

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    Christina K.H. Yu, Gordon C.S. Smith, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Ana Maria Cacho, Kypros H. Nicolaides, For the Fetal Medicine Foundation Second Trimester Screening Group

    
  • ·Viral particles in endomyocardial biopsy tissue from peripartum cardiomyopathy patients

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    James D. Fett

    
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    Burkhard D. Bültmann, Reinhard Kandolf

     
  • ·Association of intravenous oxytocin to vaginal misoprostol for mid trimester labor induction

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    Samir Hidar, Mehdi Jerbi, Hédi Khaïri

    
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    Francis S. Nuthalapaty, Patrick S. Ramsey

    
  • ·Risk assessment and counseling service available for women with pregnancy exposures to medications

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    Christina Chambers

    
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    Martha M. Werler, Allen A. Mitchell, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Margaret A. Honein

    
  • ·Circulating tumor DNA as a prognostic factor

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    Arash Rafii, Denis Querleu

    
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    Elizabeth Swisher, Rochelle Garcia

    
  • ·At times, the Atlantic can be very wide!

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    Robert C. Goodlin

    
  • ·Reply

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    Mark P. Little, Paul Elliott, Philip J. Steer

    

• CORRECTIONS

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