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Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) is associated with neurotoxic effects of heavy alcohol use and nutritional deficiency, in particular thiamine deficiency (TD), both of which induce inflammatory responses in brain. Although neuroinflammation is a critical factor in the induction of ARBD, few studies have addressed th... |
METHODS |
Adult rats were randomly divided into 6 conditions: chronic EtOH treatment (CET) where rats consumed a 20% v/v solution of EtOH for 6 months; CET with injections of thiamine (CET + T); severe pyrithiamine-induced TD (PTD); moderate PTD; moderate PTD during CET; and pair-fed controls. After the treatments, the rats were... |
RESULTS |
CET led to minor fluctuations in neuroimmune genes, regardless of the structure being examined. In contrast, PTD treatment led to a profound increase in neuroimmune genes and proteins within the thalamus. Cytokine changes in the thalamus ranged in magnitude from moderate (3-fold and 4-fold increase in interleukin-1β [I... |
CONCLUSIONS |
These data suggest an overt brain inflammatory response by TD and a subtle change by CET alone. Also, the prominent role of TD in the immune-related signaling pathways leads to unique regional and temporal profiles of induction of neuroimmune genes.Encoding strategies in multilayer neural networks |
Neural networks capable of encoding sets of patterns are analysed. Solutions are found by theoretical treatment instead of by supervised learning. The behaviour of 2R (R in N) input units is studied and its characteristic features are discussed. The accessibilities for non-spurious patterns are calculated by analytic m... |
In this paper, we continue the study of the Raman amplification in plasmas that we initiated in [Colin and Colin, Diff. Int. Eqs. 17 (2004) 297–330; Colin and Colin, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 193 (2006) 535–562]. We point out that the Raman instability gives rise to three components. The first one is collinear to the inci... |
Fuzzy histon, an extension of histon, is a contour plotted on the top of the histograms of the color components such that the pixels with high degree of correlation are visualized as belonging to one singular value. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy histon roughness index based thresholding algorithm for the segmentati... |
Plants are gifts by nature as they gives alot of benefits to human race. Medicinal herb Curcuma longa has a long history of use in medicine due to its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, analgesic, antimicrobial and against cancer progression. Turmeric contain two classes of secondary metabolites, Curcuminoids (curcumin, d... |
In this paper, a fusion of facial symmetry information method is developed for improving two-dimensional principal component analysis. The proposed method uses the characteristic of facial symmetry to generate odd-even symmetry images, by weighting odd-even symmetry matrix to replace original image matrix extracting fe... |
SSL protocol affords the data of network secure transmission dependable ensuring. The pivotal factor effecting on the performance of the server is the SSL connection on the server is raised, the throughput will be decreased. According to the standard SSL protocol, an optimized model of SSL combines Diffie-Hellman algor... |
The Unitary Correlation Operator Method (UCOM) provides a powerful scheme for carrying out ab initio nuclear structure calculations [1, 2, 3, 4]. In particular, it makes it possible to combine numerically affordable manybody Hilbert spaces with modern realistic NN interactions. Short-range correlations are explicitly t... |
We have studied superluminescent diodes (SLDs) and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) based on an (AlxGa1-x)As/GaAs single quantum well structure with an Al content x ∼ 0.1 in a 10-nm-thick active layer. Depending on the length of the active channel, the single-mode fibre coupled cw output power of the SLDs is 1 t... |
Evaluation of the impact of a social intervention is complex. A social intervention cannot be designed as an invariant input for un-mixed and singular results. Agents and conditions of implementation confound outcomes. But evaluators of impact in search of certainties have often focused on direct and more immediate out... |
Light field cameras become increasingly popular recently, as they can capture 3-D geometry of the scene in a single snap-shot. Many post-capture adjustments can be realized after the disparity map or the equivalent depth map being estimated. Recent studies about light field depth recovery are more designed for commerci... |
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), a structural lateral curvature of the spine of uncertain etiology, is the most common cause of spinal deformity in adolescents. In its most severe form, AIS is characterized by progressive spinal curvature that may lead to a permanent deformity. Thus, the goal of treatment is earl... |
Paediatric Infectious Diseases. A Comprehensive Guide to the Subspecialty. By G J Noel, J J Stavola, and V Schauf. (Pp 361; £20 paperback.) Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8018-5564-0. |
Is paediatric infectious disease a subspecialty? In the UK this is only true in some tertiary centres. Elsewhere children with infectious diseases are cared for by general paediatricians working with microbiologists. Whatever the arguments for or against …[H. pylori in development of allergic diseases in patients with ... |
AIM |
To discover relations between allergic diseases and H. pylori infection in patients with gastroduodenal diseases. |
MATERIAL AND METHODS |
The study was made of 113 patients (age 22-65, 34 males and 79 females) with chronic gastritis and duodenal ulcer. Of them, 60 patients (group 1) had concomitant allergy (urticaria, bronchial asthma, atopic dermatitis, food allergy, pollinosis), while 53 patients (group 2) had no allergy. H. pylori infection was diagno... |
RESULTS |
In group 1 total AB to H. pylori were positive in 48 (80%), IgG-AB and IgA-AB to H. pylori in 38 (63.3%) and 43 (71.6%) patients, respectively. In elevated concentration of AgG-AB to H. pylori 46 (76.6%) patients had elevated total IgE (mean 364 IU.l). In group 2 total AB to H. pylori were detected in 45 (85.0%) patien... |
CONCLUSION |
Patients with gastroduodenal diseases associated with H. pylori and allergy and not associated had similar level of total AB to H.pylori, while higher total IgE and specific IgE-AT to H. pylori occurred in the former. Thus, H. pylori infection is associated with allergic (atopic) immune response.Data-driven SOH predict... |
As electric vehicles (EVs) have been popularized, research on battery management system (BMS) of EVs' core technology has considerably drawn attention. Among various functions of BMS, predicting state-of-health (SOH) that indexes batteries' aging is the most crucial to determine replacement time of the battery or to es... |
Nausea and vomiting are among the most problematic symptoms experienced by patients with cancer who are receiving chemotherapy. 5-hydroxytryptamine 3(5-HT3)-receptor antagonists, NK1 receptor antagonists(aprepitant)and dexamethasone are now the standard therapies for preventing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting(... |
I rarely feel moved to turn my birthday into a public celebration. That might have been a problem if I had been Queen, but as things are it has been easy to let my 30th, 40th, and 50th birthdays sidle past with some bubbly and a family meal. Soon my 57th will do the same. |
Fifty-seven is a special age for male doctors. With statutory retirement at 65 we are into the last eight, in Olympic phraseology. |
It is …Embodied Meaning in Hegel and Merleau-Ponty |
Abstract In this paper it is argued that the conceptions of embodied meaning and of intuition that Hegel appeals to in the Aesthetics anticipate some of Merleau-Ponty’s insights concerning the distinctive character of pre-conceptual, sensuous forms of meaning. It is argued that, for Hegel, our aesthetic experience of t... |
Naphthalene and aniline oxidation by intact and induced enzyme systems of rat liver microsomes, NADPH and O2 has been studied in a broad temperature range. The oxidation of the same substrates has also been studied in the systems "microsomes--cumene hydroperoxide" and "purified cytochrome P-450--cumene hydroperoxide". ... |
Abstract: the vector control of asynchronous motor variable frequency speed regulating system is a high performance control system, has been used in many high precision, high performance applications applications. In vector transform based many control methods, such as the speed sensorless control and adaptive control,... |
This paper introduces a joint equalizer compensating chromatic dispersion, nonlinearity with reduced complexity and improved performance for Optical orthogonal frequency multiplexing (OOFDM) transmission. It presents performance comparison for M-ary Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) by varying M to 16 and 64. Simul... |
Steel tubular pile technology is an effective method to reinforced foundation in retrofitting of existing buildings. Mirco-steel tubular pile is constructed with concrete filled steel tubular, the infilled concrete could reinforced the strength of mirco-pile and prevented the local-buckling of steel tubular. According ... |
We have studied the electron mobility behaviour in double-gate silicon on insulator (DGSOI) inversion layers as a function of temperature. It has been shown that as in the case of room temperature, volume inversion plays a very important role, being responsible for the enhancement of the electron mobility in a certain ... |
In today's marketplace, dominated by business models predicated on continual consumption and globalized production systems that have major environmental and social impacts, the concept of 'sustainable fashion' takes on an almost paradoxical quality. This paper explores this paradox by focusing on a previously under-res... |
In this paper, we obtain a generalized BB acklund transformation for the bilinear representation of the two-dimensional Toda lattice equation, in which BB acklund parameters are functions of x, y, n. Furthermore, corresponding nonlinear superposition formula are derived and using these results, we obtain some new expli... |
To elucidate the functional significance of the three distinct types of generation glands that have been identified among cordylid lizards, we mapped gland type to the terminal taxa in the most recent phylogenetic tree for the Cordylidae. We used the phylogenetic programme Mesquite and applied the principle of parsimon... |
Separate studies have implicated the lateral habenula (LHb) or amygdala-related regions in processing aversive stimuli, but their relationships to each other and to appetitive motivational systems are poorly understood. We show that neurons in the recently identified GABAergic rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg), whi... |
The mechanisms of threshold voltage (Vth) drift in nanocrystalline silicon (nc‐Si:H) TFTs have been investigated. Using bias‐temperature stress measurements, it is found that the dominant mechanism of Vth drift is charge trapping in the SiNx gate insulator. This result is confirmed by a study on ambipolar nc‐Si:H:TFTs.... |
In the climactic finale to the first act of Oscar Wilde's 1895 play An Ideal Husband, Gertrude Chiltern convinces her husband, a Member of Parliament, not to support the construction of a boondoggle Argentinean canal. Gertrude, not her husband, is the ostensibly moral character here, since the canal's only purpose is t... |
Objective: To test prospectively depolarisation and repolarisation body surface maps (BSMs) for mirror image reversal, which is less susceptible to artefact, in patients with acute ischaemic-type chest pain, and to compare these BSM criteria with previously published 12 lead ECG criteria Methods: An 80 lead portable BS... |
All the news used to rage about the Web, then the dot bomb hit and an end of an era. But wait, there is a new king. The Web finally realized its full potential: Google Adwords, one-to-one marketing, and now social media. The new SAS® Web Analytics takes Web analytics to the next level making Web analytics an integral p... |
Green turtles Chelonia mydas are listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, yet in the South Pacific few conservation-relevant data are available for the species, especially relating to foraging and habitat use. Here, in situ observations and stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N) were used to evaluate green turtle di... |
Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) is an autosomal dominant bone disorder characterized by the presence of multiple benign cartilage-capped tumors. EXT1 located on chromosome 8q23-q24 and EXT2 located on 11p11-p12 are the main disease-causing genes which are responsible for ~90% of HME cases. Mutations of EXT1 or EXT2... |
Aims and background: Hyperbilirubinemia is often observed in chronic hemolysis and results in the formation of pigment cholelithiasis that could be increased by the presence of defected enzymes involved in the bilirubin metabolism. Indeed, this is the first report that interested in the study of polymorphisms in genes ... |
Background and Aim: Military personnel, parallel to appropriate personality traits to the military environment, need virtues and character strengths(CS) that contain values appropriate to the environment. We designed a model that examines the impact of comprehensive virtues and CS in reducing psychological distress. Me... |
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