text stringlengths 0 10.1k |
|---|
Cells respond to the mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) through formation of focal adhesions (FAs), re-organization of the actin cytoskeleton and adjustment of cell contractility. These are energy-demanding processes, but a potential causality between mechanical cues (matrix stiffness) and cellular... |
Knowing the state of degradation of electrical insulation materials is important for any type of equipment, but it is imperative in the case of equipment for nuclear plants. A study was conducted to evaluate the use of oxygen under pressure to accelerate thermo-oxidative degradation rate in EVA compound used as cable j... |
Electrochromic properties of transition metal oxides had much attention in recent years. The electrochromic thin films can be assembly as electrochromic devices (ECDs) and then used for applications in devices such as mirrors, panels and smart windows. A kind of complementary ECD is popular in resent years. Therefore, ... |
The environmental instability and protection of black phosphorus (BP) is one of the most attractive hotspots in two-dimensional materials. The generation of superoxide is believed to be the key culprit, while the photogenerated electron dynamics is yet to be known. In this work, we carry out time domain ab initio nonad... |
The dynamic characteristics of a slider flying over various servo patterns on a discrete track medium surface were investigated. The investigation shows that the air-flow field is disturbed and causes flying amplitude during the transition from grooved longitudinal discrete tracks to a transversal and near-random patte... |
remains of organic intellectuals of past societies (thus, for instance, ecclesiastical intellectuals at present are what is left of feudal organic intellectuals) ; alternatively, traditional intellectuals could also spring from isolated groups of rebels against the ruling class who have been neutralized by it thru co-o... |
The role of descending noradrenergic fibers in the spinal motor systems was investigated using spinal reflexes in acutely spinalized rats. In rats pretreated with the MAO inhibitor clorgyline-HCl (1 mg/kg, i.v.), L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-dopa) (5 mg/kg, i.v.), a precursor of dopamine and noradrenaline, markedly ... |
Monolithic four-quadrant (FQ) switches that have both bidirectional current and reverse-voltage blocking (RVB) capabilities are appealing candidates for use in current-source inverters (CSI) in order to significantly reduce the switch conduction losses. However, the FQ characteristics of these switches present challeng... |
Optical marker-based motion capture is the dominant way for obtaining high-fidelity human body animation for special effects, movies, and video games. However, motion capture has seen limited application to the human hand due to the difficulty of automatically identifying (or labeling) identical markers on self-similar... |
The path evaluation operator is one of the most important operators in a Geographical Information System. Networks are modelled with graphs (i.e., a set of labelled vertices -named nodesand a set of labelled edges). This operator is applied on huge graphs since the data set associated with a network is very important. ... |
The dielectric constant of metastable e-Ga2O3 was evaluated for the first time by using a transparent heteroepitaxial structure of e-Ga2O3/indium tin oxide/yttria-stabilized zirconia. The dielectric e-Ga2O3 layer was grown by the facile solution route of mist chemical vapor deposition at atmospheric pressure. The highe... |
The pKa and log P of 20 compounds, including six substituted phenols, two substituted quinolines, N-methylaniline, five barbiturate derivatives, two phenothiazines, and several other molecules of pharmaceutical interest, were determined by the potentiometric technique at 25 degrees C and ionic strength 0.1 M (KNO3). Th... |
The development of Viagra in the late 1990s ushered in a new age of conversation about sex and sexuality, as men's bodily abilities were put on display for all to discuss. In 2005, the video-sharing technology YouTube was launched. Taken together, these technological innovations – both biomedical and representational –... |
Hippocrates induced healing (salutogenesis) with t he "principle of similarity" - like cures like. The similarity principle has been used in the holistic mind-body medicine develo ped by the Swedish physician Bengt Stern, which recently has been found highly efficient in improving quality of life and normaliz ing sense... |
Xanthine dehydrogenase has been reported to be present in an endothelial cell in beef or rat liver and also in peroxisome of a hepatic cell. However, as the most enzyme was recovered in 100,000xg supernatant of rat or chicken liver homogenate, cellular and subcellular localization in liver are still obscure. We reexami... |
betaPix (Pak-interacting exchange factor) isoforms are recently identified guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) for Rho family GTPases, Rac/Cdc42, that are key players in the regulation of actin dynamics. Here we show that a novel 105-kDa betaPix isoform, betaPix-bL, is generated by alternative translation of bet... |
Site-directed mutagenesis was used to examine the importance of five carboxyl-containing amino acids localized in the putative membrane-spanning regions of the Na,K-ATPase (i.e., E327, E778, D803, D807, and D925 of the rat alpha 2 isoform). The substitutions were introduced into a cDNA encoding a ouabain-resistant isof... |
Multi-agent systems can be used to address problems in a variety of domains, including robotics, distributed control, telecommunications, and economics. The complexity of many tasks arising in these domains makes them difficult to solve with preprogrammed agent behaviors. The agents must instead discover a solution on ... |
All over the world there are millions of people who are living with long-term motor impairments caused by a stroke or any other kind of corticospinal tract injuries. The physical rehabilitation of these patients is usually slow and demotivating. In this paper we introduce Kinteract, a novel solution that applies the pa... |
A model independent d étermination of the form factors %(q^) a n d h as been made, measuring, in intervais of , the partial branching ratio T(^^-^)lT{¥i%-^) and using the results of the Dalitz plot density analysis. No expéri mental évidence has been found for a strong déviation from a linear dependence of the form fa... |
An Immunoreactive Score (IRS) was compared to the Composition Adjusted Receptor Level (CARL) evaluating prognostic significance of estrogen receptor (ER) expression in 61 ovarian cancers after > or = 8 years. CARL of ER allowed for calculating individual risk curves in stage III and IV, Grade 2 and 3, serous ovarian ca... |
Many patients with irreversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) claim symptomatic improvement with steroid therapy, despite a lack of objective improvement in their spirometric data. To determine if steroids actually increase the exercise capacity of these individuals, 13 clinically stable patients (mean a... |
The Planet Simulator is a Model of Intermediate Complexity (MIC) which can be used to run climate and paleo-climate simulations for time scales up to 10 thousand years or more in an acceptable real time. The priorities in development are set to speed, easy handling and portability. Its modular structure allows a proble... |
The work presents some results concerning robust fault detection for dynamic processes using a disturbance decoupling technique. The first step of the approach consists of exploiting input-output descriptions of the monitored system. In particular, the disturbance term of a model can be used to take into account unknow... |
Abstract:Congestive heart failure represents a disease process of epidemic proportions in the United States, with 900,000 annual hospitalizations for New York Heart Association class III to IV symptoms. The inexorable deterioration of this group of patients has, until recently, been delayed by pharmacotherapy and by th... |
Abstract There is a long-standing tradition in Chomskyan generative grammar of rejecting the relevance of corpus studies. A variety of arguments are put forth to justify this rejection, most importantly, that corpora are necessarily “finite and somewhat accidental” while the set of grammatical utterances is “presumably... |
The total penetration of femoral heads into acetabular cups is achieved by a combination of long-term wear and early non-recoverable deformation or creep. The former is important in determining the total rate of production of polyethylene wear debris, recently implicated in the development of osteolysis and loosening, ... |
In September 2014, the American Physical Therapy Association published the Choosing Wisely list of “Five Things Physical Therapists and Patients Should Question,”1,2 in a partnership with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation. In April 2015, the ABIM Foundation instituted a new process that requires... |
The Work Group consisted of APTA staff and staff-appointed physical therapist members representing a broad range of clinical expertise, practice settings, and patient populations. The Work Group was charged with (1) conducting a new literature search and review for Recommendation 1 (“Don't use passive physical agents e... |
Abstract The conditions for drama in compulsory education vary from country to country. The situation in Queensland, Australia, is interesting as Drama was introduced as an arts subject in the compulsory school curriculum (P-10) in 2002. This paper uses a case study approach, to describe and analyses the context and co... |
With the development of novel combined-field separation techniques, the influence of external fields on the thermodynamic properties of working systems is an important area of study. A study on the phase equilibrium of n-butanol/citric acid/water under an electric field was carried out. The effects of field strength, t... |
This issue features three original research articles and an issues & policy article. The first article in the issue is by David McCarthy (Oxford University, UK). A Life Cycle Analysis of Defined Benefit Plans examines optimal benefit design within the context of a lifecycle model. The model finds that the structure of ... |
Summary form only given. In order to optimize the design of future Nd:glass laser drivers for inertial confinement fusion experiments, accurate computer models predicting all aspects of laser performance are needed. It will be especially important to have accurate predictions for the performance of the amplifiers, beca... |
During autumn 1992, we observed two unrelated family outbreaks of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection. Family A consisted of grandmother (aged 77 yrs), father (aged 41 yrs), mother (aged 38 yrs), daughter (aged 10 yrs), and two sons (aged 6 yrs and 3 months, respectively). The grandmother and daughter suffered from pneumoni... |
Stakeholder theory has evolved from a corporate-centric perspective into a more comprehensive research field which addresses business-society relations from various points of views. To reflect on and to guide such theoretical developments is the purpose of second-order theories. However, the second-order stakeholder th... |
BACKGROUND |
The recommended intake of clear liquids until 2 hours before surgery is reportedly safe and effective. We investigated whether oral rehydration therapy before surgery had improved satisfaction, stress response, and hemodynamics in patients during perioperative period. |
METHODS |
Patients scheduled to undergo laparoscopic colectomy were enrolled and randomly divided into 2 groups. The oral rehydration therapy (ORT) group (29 cases) was allowed to drink clear liquids until 2 hours before anesthesia induction and the control group (29 cases) fasted from 21 : 00 the night before surgery. All patie... |
RESULTS |
There were no differences in patient satisfaction, stress response, and hemodynamics between the 2 groups. Intraoperative urine volume was significantly larger in the ORT group. Vomiting and aspiration were not observed in any patient |
CONCLUSIONS |
Oral rehydration therapy until 2 hours before surgery seemed safe but did not improve satisfaction, stress response, and hemodynamics in perioperative patients.: Comparative Studies for Selection of Technologies 77 the main pathway of this metalloid in the organism where its absorption takes place in the stomach and in... |
This paper present the possible alternative removal options for the development of safe drinking water supply in the arsenic-affected areas. Each alternative option was studied in the Environmental Engineering Laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. In this paper conventional precipitation ... |
We investigated Na(+)-HCO3- cotransport as a mechanism for regulation of intracellular pH (pHi) in rat alveolar pneumocytes grown in primary culture. pHi was monitored using the fluorescent pH-sensitive dye 2',7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF). Cells incubated in 6 mM N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-... |
The aim of this research is to develop for the Russian Federation Non-Cher nozem Zone competitive prototypes of winter wheat cul tivars with several genes for resistance to stem rust (in clu ding race Ug99) based on new sources of resistance with the use of molecular markers. The individual plants and then lines of win... |
This study computes technical efficiency for Idaho sugarbeet farms and decomposes it into pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and congestion efficiency using nonparametric procedures. The results indicate that the average efficiency is 0.88 with 45% of the farms in the sample exhibiting full efficiency. Improp... |
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the major cause of cervical cancer worldwide. HPV-E6 protein targets the p53 tumor suppressor protein for degradation by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis making such cancers resistant to p53-gene therapy. Here we show that infection of human cancer cells by E6-expressing adenovirus (Ad-E6) l... |
This study examines whether the network characteristics represented on the Internet drive or reflect other events and occurrences in the offline environment. More specifically, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the web visibility network of Korea’s National Assembly members and the am... |
The integration of cognitive radio (CR) into satellite networks is recognized as an effective strategy to enhance the efficiency of radio spectrum. This paper investigates the ergodic capacity of a multiple antenna cognitive satellite terrestrial network, where the secondary terrestrial system can coexist with the prim... |
Significance The mammary gland is functional for only a brief period of a female’s lifetime. During this time, it operates not for the survival of the individual, but for the survival of her species. Here, we visualize the nature of alveolar contractions in the functionally mature mammary gland, revealing how specializ... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.