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Abstract In the cognitive linguistic literature, sentences like Nixon bombed Hanoi have long been explained in terms of metonymy, either ‘referential’ (i.e. the NP Nixon metonymically refers to the bomber pilots controlled by President Nixon), or ‘predicative’ (i.e. the verb bomb metonymically refer to the ordering of ... |
This paper presents a method to improve the spurious performance of integrated ceramic waveguide filters. Non-uniform width ceramic waveguide resonator and evanescent mode ceramic resonators are employed together to the resonant frequencies of higher order modes. The proposed designs give 75% improvement in stop band r... |
Enzymatic studies on aldolase isozymes have been carried out by techniques of protein engineering. Site-directed mutagenesis helps us to verify the roles of amino acid residues in catalytic reactions. Chimeric fusion proteins give us information about the regions which specify the characteristics of the isozymes. The r... |
The growth of many breast carcinoma cell lines is inhibited by vitamin A, and derivatives as well as synthetic retinoids. New retinoidal derivatives have recently been synthesized. These retinoidal benzoic acid derivatives displayed enhanced potency in their ability to reverse hamster tracheal keratinization and inhibi... |
A spatial multiplexing technique for distributed antenna systems is proposed, where the mobile co-located with multiple antennas is capable of receiving distinct sub-streams from multiple widely separated antennas. Modulation and power are adapted based on the knowledge of large-scale fading, which varies much slower t... |
Menopause is defined by its relationship to menstruation––it is the cessation of menstruation. Medical texts identify menopause as part of the cycle of “decay” associated with female reproductive functions; early menopause is often a dreaded result of various medical treatments and a sign of disfunction. |
It turns out that only three types of animals experience menopause: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, and humans, while other animals can reproduce until death. Although the precise relationship between evolutionary theory and the physical development of human menopause is still uncertain, scientists and anthro... |
The average woman will spend almost as many years “post-menopause” as they will menstruating, and they may spend four years (or more) experiencing perimenopausal symptoms, the transition time between “normal” menstruation and menopause. But legal issues relating to perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause are just ... |
This Essay is an initial effort to catalogue various legal approaches to menopause and to set out areas for further analysis. It briefly explores cultural images of menopause and post-menopausal women, including the ubiquitous hot flashes; analyzes potential legal claims for menopausal justice; and suggests the interre... |
Pipecuronium versus high dose vecuronium |
The onset time and tendency to cumulation of pipecuronium and high‐dose vecuronium were compared during nitrous oxide anaesthesia supplemented with a propofol infusion. Pipecuronium 0.06 mg·kg−1 had a similar duration of action to vecuronium 0.2 mg·kg−1 (49 vs 43). Patients who received vecuronium had a shorter onset t... |
In this study the mitogenic and immunomodulating effects of bacterial cell wall preparations were investigated. Cell walls, peptidoglycans, and teichoic acids from Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus Wood 45 activated both human T cells (supplemented with 10% monocytes) and B cells to proliferate and to produce... |
Nutritional deficiency can have dramatic effects on the physical and psychological status of older adults. Although food supplements can enhance nutritional status, several authors suggest that more ecological means could also have beneficial impacts. Therefore, a natural experiment was conducted to study the impact of... |
Maintenance strategies are typically implemented by optimizing only the cost whilst the reliability of facility performance is neglected. This study proposes a novel algorithm using multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) technique to evaluate the cost-reliability tradeoff in a flexible maintenance strategy... |
When a system such as a binary liquid is cooled rapidly from a homogeneous phase into a two–phase region, domains of the two equilibrium phases form and grow (‘coarsen’) with time. In the absence of an external drive, such as gravity or an imposed shear flow, a dynamical–scaling regime emerges in which the domain morph... |
One of the great hallmarks of conciliar reform is the restoration of God’s word in every sacramental celebration. Sacrosanctum Concilium 24 clearly states: “Sacred scripture is of the greatest importance in the celebration of the liturgy.” The dynamic of call-and-response is present in each of the sacraments, whether f... |
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine an optimal approach to program combined acoustic plus electric (A+E) hearing devices in the same ear to maximize speech-recognition performance. Design: Ten participants with at least 1 year of experience using Nucleus Hybrid (short electrode) A+E devices were evaluate... |
AIM |
To evaluate whether obesity represents a risk factor for the onset of ovarian cancer. |
PATIENTS AND METHODS |
One hundred and sixty-three patients with a body mass index (BMI) >30 kg/m2 (group 1) and 130 women with a BMI of <25 kg/m2 (group 2) were included in the study. |
RESULTS |
A Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Algorithm (ROMA) index above the cut-off (>13%) was found in 24.5% of group 1 patients, whereas a high ROMA score was identified in 5.3% of group 2 women. During the study, 13 out of 40 group 1 patients with ROMA >13% were deemed eligible for bariatric surgery. After bariatric surgery and d... |
CONCLUSION |
The ROMA index may function as a simple test able to screen obese women at risk of developing ovarian cancer.Social Media: No 'Friend' of Personal Privacy |
This comment examines the lack of regulation of social media websites, such as Facebook and MySpace, and the effects this lack of regulations has had on the liberties guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This comment argues that by establishing privacy settings on social networking webs... |
Variable-temperature Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopic mapping measurements were applied to study the phase separation of a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB)–poly(l-lactic acid) (PLA) (50:50 wt.%) polymer-blend film as a function of temperature between 25 and 175 °C. Because of the bet... |
Abstract Mining is a capital-intensive industry that requires hundreds of million-dollar investment in major equipment. In regards to surface mining operations, mine trucks are the most common pieces of equipment that are used for material haulage. Their maintenance cost, however, constitutes a significant proportion o... |
Japan's Diet passed legislation adding a new resolution regime for financial firms to the Deposit Insurance Act in June 2013. The new resolution regime provides a safety net for financial markets and for the entire financial industry aimed at protecting the stability of the financial system and avoiding a sharp decline... |
Several transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) superfamily members have been identified from mollusks. The significant effects of TGFbeta signaling pathways on bone formation in vertebrates give clues to the signal transduction mechanism and how the shell of oysters is formed. However, what kinds of mediators are in... |
To assess the e V ectiveness of selected food phytochemicals in reducing the toxic e V ects of the environmental toxicants, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and p,p (cid:2) -DDT (DDT), we tested the potencies of auraptene, nobiletin, zerumbone, and ( § )-13-hydroxy-10-oxo-trans-11-octadecenoic acid (13-HOA) i... |
Enterprises employing an Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturing strategy produce complex products designed specifically to customer requirements, on a project basis, under time and cost constraints. As a result of this complexity, wastes and inefficiency occur within the internal and external supply chain. To improve pr... |
COVID-19 in 2020 has created a dramatic and instant shift of many K-12 educational institutions to distance learning often without the preparation and training required to be successful. The pedagogy and technology used in teaching are ever changing. The role of teacher/faculty development is to provide instructors wit... |
Dear Editor, The phenomenon of one skin disease sparing the site of an area which was previously affected by another skin disease or by a physical or chemical insult has been recognized since 1981, when it was reported a case of a drug rash failing to appear in a previously irradiated area.1 Since then, a variety of ot... |
A problem of great importance in computational group theory is to generate (nearly) uniformly distributed random elements in a finite groupG. A good example of such an algorithm should start at any given set of generators, use no prior knowledge of the structure of G, and in a polynomial number of group operations retu... |
We disclose the first small molecule histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor (3, BRD73954) capable of potently and selectively inhibiting both HDAC6 and HDAC8 despite the fact that these isoforms belong to distinct phylogenetic classes within the HDAC family of enzymes. Our data demonstrate that meta substituents of pheny... |
We present our research on defining a correct semantics for forward chaining production systems (PS) programs. A correct semantics ensures that the execution of the program will not produce incorrect answers and execution will terminate; it also ensures that the answers are consistent. We define a class of stratified P... |
Optic nerves and retinas removed from hamsters experimentally inoculated with the scrapie agent contain a high titer of infectivity. Ophthalmoscopic examination of these animals revealed gross lesions of retinopathy as early as 3 weeks before the onset of clinical signs of brain degeneration. These results suggest that... |
Objective: To determine if 6 months of neo-adjuvant androgen deprivation is associated with the long-term risk of cardiac mortality. Methods: In the TROG 96.01 trial, 802 men with locally advanced prostate cancer were randomized to radiotherapy either alone or with 3 or 6 months of neo-adjuvant androgen deprivation the... |
In this paper, we find new conditions to ensure the existence of one nontrivial homoclinic solution and also infinitely many homoclinic solutions for the second order Hamiltonian system ü− a(t)|u|p−2u +∇W(t, u) = 0, t ∈ R, where p > 2, a ∈ C(R, R) with inft∈R a(t) > 0 and ∫ R ( 1 a(t) )2/(p−2)dt < +∞, and W(t, x) is, a... |
OBJECTIVE |
Used low density lipoprotein receptor knockout(LDLR KO) hamster as the model similar to human dyslipidemia to observe the lipid-lowering effect of equol on heterozygotes. |
METHODS |
With soy-free high cholesterol high fat diet, 12-week-old LDLR KO female heterozygous hamsters were randomly divided into negative control group(no addition), positive control group(add 0.004% ezetimibe), genistein group(add 0.1%), and low, medium and high-dose groups of equol(add 0.025%, 0.05%, 0.1% respectively). Bod... |
RESULTS |
There was no significant difference in body weight and average weekly food intake among the groups. The blood lipids in negative control group increased over time, and the cholesterol and triglyceride levels of LDLR KO heterozygous hamsters were significantly reduced by ezetimibe in the second week, while the high-dens... |
CONCLUSION |
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