He is the recipient of awards received from two provincial governments of the Paraguayan Chaco for valuable assistance given to the development of sustainable land use systems, and was in 2005 awarded with the Fellowship of the Tropical Grassland Society of Australia.
Thanks to Alison Cohen for valuable assistance in preparation of this manuscript.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/40/prepub toanks to Dr. Klaus Andresen for valuable assistance during part of the study.
The author thanks Osamu Okuda, PhD for valuable assistance with the preparation of this manuscript.
The authors thank Melba L. Andres, Steven Rightnar, Celso Perez, Jiayan Wang, Pete Koss, Gordon Harding and Drs. Michael J. Pecaut, Asma Rizvi, and Adeola Y. Makinde for valuable assistance in many aspects of this research.
We will thank the employee at Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, especially Gyda Smedsvik and Lene Svendsen, for valuable assistance in recruiting patients and collection of samples.
We thank Gert-Inge Jönsson for the construction of the ASPIDS device, Elisabet Åström and Lisbet Niklason for valuable assistance during experiments and in data analysis.
We thank Dr. Janet Warrington and Affymetrix, Inc. for valuable assistance and Fuping Zhang for technical assistance, and the members of the Warren laboratory for insightful discussion.
We are grateful to Lisa Manche and Janet Chang for valuable assistance, and Xavier Roca and Zuo Zhang for critical reading of the manuscript.
We would also like to thank the devoted staff of Hindawi for their high level of professionalism and valuable assistance through the entire editing process, and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Prof. Vandendorpe, for trusting us with this important assignment and helping us to fulfill it successfully.
