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It is still unclear what initiates aneurysmal dilatation and what determines whether or not an aneurysm will continue to expand and rupture. Early detection and operative repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) still remains the only effective means of reducing the high mortality rate associated with the condition... |
A novel technique is proposed and demonstrated to improve the radiation hardness of MOS capacitors. This approach can be stated briefly that the poly-Si gate electrode of MOS device is formed by use of amorphous-Si film. Experimental results show that the improvement of radiation hardness by this technique is due to th... |
Xenografts of human large bowel cancer have been grown in immune‐deprived mice. Studies have been made of their intermitotic time and other proliferative characteristics, and their response to single doses of a number of chemotherapeutic agents has been measured. The indcations from this study are that, although the gr... |
In this paper, we propose a weighted undirected graph-based video scene detection method. The method is based on the idea of using the complete information of the graph. For this aim, each shot is represented by a vertex on the graph. Edge weights among vertices are evaluated by using spatial and temporal similarities ... |
Wound healing impairment in the elderly has been accepted as a medical reality for many years now. The most devastating wounds in the elderly include pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, and poorly healing surgical wounds. Recently, improved wound care products (see Table 8.1) and best practice ... |
Background. Hyperplastic processes of the endometrium (GGE) are among the most frequent gynecological diseases, leading to a loss of reproductive function and a decrease in the quality of life of women, and are the basis for the formation of malignant endometrial tumors. The aim of the study. To study the involvement o... |
The administration of LPS (4 mg/kg, i.p.), which is involved in several airway inflammatory diseases, causes hyperpolarization of tracheal Epi at 18 h. This study set out to understand the mechanism(s) by which LPS causes hyperpolarization. In the isolated, perfused trachea preparation (IPT), LPS had no effect on epith... |
Poverty is the biggest challenge in every government regime. However, in reality, the Village Law, especially in Bantul Regency, is still a less meaningful development solution due to overlapping policies. Statistically, it hasn't addressed a better number or is still in place. In turn, the large allocation of funds di... |
We demonstrate the feasibility of implementing carbon nano fiber based metal-insulator-metal (CNFMIM) capacitors on different substrates such as glass, alumina and silicon for use as integrated or discrete passive components on chips or interposers. The effects of biasing voltage and high operating temperatures on the ... |
Summary form only given. The Pulsed Power Group at AWE is interested in the generation of small, intense, multi-megavolt X-ray sources for radiographic applications. For this paper, research has been carried out into electron beam transport and focusing studies on one of our single pulse forming line flash X-ray machin... |
In this paper we propose a method for designing switching rules that enforce the state of the switched dynamic system to track a given reference signal. The method deals with the class of switched systems where each mode of operation is represented by a dynamical system with an affine vector field. The reference model ... |
Waste activated sludge (WAS) originating from kraft pulp mill effluent treatment plants represents an important environmental challenge for this industry. Anaerobic digestion is a promising option for WAS treatment, with the added benefit of biogas production. This paper presents the application of thermal, thermal-alk... |
Afro-American cultural discourse in and of itself is a complicated terrain to negotiate. To comprehensively situate it alongside other politically engaged theoretical discourses requires a breadth and depth the finite constraints of this essay do not allow. Thus, my title: A Prolegomenon. What follows, then, is in the ... |
In building capacity in research commercialisation and science‐based entrepreneurship, Australia has adopted neither the Swedish top‐down approach depending on government initiative, nor the American bottom‐up approach depending on incentive systems related to university ownership of intellectual property and a highly ... |
Glioma-infiltrating myeloid cells such microglia and macrophages (GAM) are a major component of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in glioblastoma (GBM). Especially their anti-inflammatory M2-like activation state might counteract efficacy of immunotherapeutic interventions by impairing effector T cell infil... |
Contact lens-related keratitis has been the subject of a number of rigorous epidemiologic studies over the past 20 years. This article summarizes data from such studies that address incidence and risk factors for this condition. Estimates of risk and associated predisposing factors have been quite consistent over time,... |
Cu electroplating on an ultrathin Co seed has been developed for superconformal filling of advanced interconnects, in an acidic CuSO4 electrolyte containing plating additives, i.e., halide, suppressor, accelerator, and leveler. A suppressor-halide adlayer is found to play a bifunctional role in both suppressing Cu gro... |
ABSTRACT One hundred clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and non-HIV-infected patients from Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela were separated according to varieties and tested for antifungal susceptibility. A high susceptibility to antifungal agents was observed among... |
The optimal power flow optimization problem plays a significant role in secure and economic operation of power systems. In this paper, based on bio-inspired computing, which have been already proposed in our related works, optimal power flow is optimized. The simulation results are compared and analyzed for further stu... |
Fuzzy Feedback Linearizing Controller and Its Equivalence With the Fuzzy Nonlinear Internal Model Control Structure This paper examines the inverse control problem of nonlinear systems with stable dynamics using a fuzzy modeling approach. Indeed, based on the ability of fuzzy systems to approximate any nonlinear mappin... |
The pressure dependence of the 35Cl-NQR frequencies in barium chlorate monohydrate and strontium chlorate, has been investigated up to 7000 kg cm-2. Ba(ClO3)2 · H2O shows a single 35Cl-NQR line at 29.337 MHz (T = 297 K, p = 1 bar). ν(35Cl) increases linearly with pressure in the range studied, with (1/ν )(∂ν/∂p)T = + 0... |
The roles of clinical and experimental optometry in the improvement of sports performance are considered in the light of existing research knowledge in vision and sport. A parallel is drawn between the manner in which the human performer uses vision to control skilled movement and the operation of a highspeed computer ... |
Objective: To investigate temporal and regional trends and risk factors of mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributed to cardiovascular diseases by age, sex, and disease throughout the world from 1990 to 2017, utilizing data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD 2017). |
Methods: Data for the disease burden of cardiovascular diseases in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017, including mortality, DALYs, age-standardized mortality rates, and age-standardized DALY rates, were estimated from the GBD 2017, using DisMod-MR 2.1, a Bayesian meta regression tool. Risk factors attribut... |
Results: The number of deaths from cardiovascular diseases increased by 48.62%, from 11.94 (95% UI 11.78 to 12.18) million in 1990 to 17.79 (17.53 to 18.04) million in 2017. However, the age-standardized mortality rate decreased from 334.70 (330.50 to 341.57) per 100,000 people to 233.07 (229.66 to 236.38) per 100,000 ... |
Conclusions: Despite reductions in the age-standardized mortality rate and age-standardized DALY, cardiovascular diseases remains a major global health burden due to increment in death numbers and DALYs. Aging and risk exposures, mainly including dietary risks, high systolic blood pressure, high fasting plasma glucose,... |
Funding Statement: This manuscript is based on research funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81903396). |
Declaration of Interests: None.Phenylacetic and Phenylpropionic Acids Do Not Affect Xylan Degradation by Ruminococcus albus |
ABSTRACT Since the addition of either ruminal fluid or a combination of phenylacetic and phenylpropionic acids (PAA/PPA) has previously been shown to dramatically improve cellulose degradation and growth of Ruminococcus albus, it was of interest to determine the effects of these additives on xylan-grown cultures. Altho... |
There have been significant advances in the treatment of multiple myeloma in the last 2 decades. Approximately 25% of patients with newly diagnosed myeloma have some degree of kidney impairment. During the course of illness, nearly 50% of myeloma patients will develop kidney disease. Moreover, approximately 10% of myel... |
The recent development in high‐throughput genotyping techniques requires new statistical methods to analyze large datasets. The current available linkage mapping software are time consuming and limited in terms of the maximum number of markers that can be mapped on a single linkage group. In this paper, we propose the ... |
This study aims to review the extant literature on workplace disability inclusion in the organised sector in India and presents an integrated model based on emergent themes in indigenous studies.,The review is directed by the following foci: In what contexts was workplace disability inclusion in India empirically inves... |
The paper offers an overview of the literature on bundling in the telecommunications sector and its application in the Spanish market. We argue that the use of bundling in the provision of services is associated to technological reasons. Therefore, there appears no need to regulate bundling activities. However, this is... |
After removing the green chloroplastic protein from fresh alfalfa juice, ultrafiltration and/or diafiltration was used to prepare a soluble, creamcolored protein concentrate. Ultrafiltration was useful in concentrating the protein by removing 80 to 90% of the water and nonprotein components. Continuous diafiltration re... |
Experiments have been performed at JET in view of optimizing the heating systems for ITER. To optimize coupling of ICRH in ITER with foreseen large antenna-plasma distances, gas puffing in the SOL has been successfully applied. Up to 8MW of ICRF power has been coupled in this way to ELMy H-Mode plasmas. The D fundament... |
Gonadal steroids are known to modulate both the synthesis and the release of gonadotropins by the pituitary and influence several brain functions that are apparently responsible for gender-specific differences in the regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. It is believed that the true rate-limiting... |
Influenza is an important contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Accumulation of genetic mutations termed antigenic drift, allows influenza viruses to inflict yearly epidemics that may result in 250,000 to 500,000 deaths annually. Over 90% of influenza-related deaths occur in the older adult population. This... |
The article presents the results of a stylistic analysis of diminutives in Taras Shevchenko's poetry. The paper describes parametrization of such concepts as "diminutiveness" and "diminutives ". Derivational transformation of the generic word in the direction of the formation of the diminutive is not accompanied by the... |
The effect of high excitation density in promoting nonlinear quenching that is 2nd or 3rd order in electron-hole density is generally understood to be a root cause of nonproportionality in scintillators. We report and discuss quantitative data on just how fast these nonlinear channels are in specific cases. Kinetic rat... |
ABSTRACT During acute measles virus (MV) infection, an efficient immune response occurs, followed by a transient but profound immunosuppression. MV nucleoprotein (MV-N) has been reported to induce both cellular and humoral immune responses and paradoxically to account for immunosuppression. Thus far, this latter activi... |
OBJECTIVE To observe patient care across hemodialysis facilities enrolled in the National Opportunity to Improve Infection Control in ESRD (end-stage renal disease) (NOTICE) project in order to evaluate adherence to evidence-based practices aimed at prevention of infection. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Thirty-four hemodial... |
A sea trial with a communication system using phase shift keying has been conducted. The communication system uses bit rates of 1.5-5 kbit/sec over a range up to approximately 3 km. The propagation paths are in the wake of the surface vessel thus the communication channel is heavily influenced by flow noise and propell... |
Using modelling, we have developed a treatment strategy for gliomas exhibiting low dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) that employs both a reduced dose-rate and pulsed treatment dose delivery. The model exploits the low dose hypersensitivity observed in some glioma cell lines at low radiation doses. We show, based on in ... |
Seasonally persistent models were first introduced by Andel (1986) and Gray et al. (1989) to extend autoregressive moving-average and fractionally differenced models and to encompass long-memory quasi-periodic behaviour. These models are, for certain ranges of parameters, stationary, and we prove here that the behaviou... |
We previously reported a patient with polycythemia vera whose platelets showed subnormal responses to thromboxane A2 (TXA2) (Thromb Haemostas 1987; 57: 158-64). The patient's platelets showed normal binding activity to TXA2 analogues but the generation of second messengers was defective. We further studied the mechanis... |
Presented here are recent experimental results of our continuing development activities associated with converting current processes for producing fission-product 99M0 from targets using high-enriched uranium (HEU) to low-enriched uranium (LEU). Studies were focused in four areas: (1) measuring the chemical behavior of... |
The centrality of a strong state security apparatus to the maintenance of authoritarian rule via the threat or use of repression has been highlighted in classic studies of single-party regimes as well as in more recent analyses of authoritarian resilience in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This article focuses on t... |
An experimental model of protein‐calorie malnutrition (PCM) has been successfully produced in young rhesus monkeys. The model showed close resemblance to the energy kinetics of the brain as observed in human PCM inasmuch as oxygen consumption was decreased while glucose uptake was increased. The cerebral blood flow was... |
We present a prototype system for effective management of a delivery fleet in the settings in which the traffic abnormalities may necessitate rerouting of (some of) the trucks. Unforeseen congestions (e.g., due to accidents) may affect the average speed along road segments that were used to calculate the routes of a pa... |
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