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Observation of Polarization-Dependent Changes in Higher Order Mode Responses as a Function of Transverse Beam Position in TESLA-Type Cavities at FAST Higher-order modes (HOMs) in superconducting rf cavities present problems for an electron bunch traversing the cavity in the form of long-range wakefields from previous ...
Death and dying in contemporary society: an evaluation of current attitudes and the rituals associated with death and dying and their relevance to recent understandings of health and healing. This paper develops a model which is intended to help nurses and other health professionals in the understanding of contemporar...
Optimal Control of PMSG Based Wind Energy Conversion System using State-Dependent DRE Generation of electricity from wind is becoming more economical and popular with improved system design with modern control techniques. To capture energy from the inherently variable wind source and converting it into good quality el...
Improving Chinese-English patent machine translation using sentence segmentation This paper presents a method using sentence segmentation to improve the performance of Chinese-English patent machine translation. In this method, long Chinese sentence was segmented into separated short sentences using some features from...
Influences of potential oil and gas development and future climate on Sage-grouse declines and redistribution. Multiple environmental stressors impact wildlife populations, but we often know little about their cumulative and combined influences on population outcomes. We generally know more about past effects than pot...
Comparison of Resin Composite and Biodentine Cervical Marginal Elevation on the Marginal Gap of Two Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacture Endocrown Materials: In Vitro Study Objective: This study is the impact of resin composite and bio dentine cervical marginal elevation on vertical marginal gap using two ...
Mothers' emotional reactions to crying pose risk for subsequent attachment insecurity. Links between maternal emotional reactions to crying (anger and anxiety) and infant attachment security were examined in 119 mother-infant dyads. Mothers rated the intensity of their emotional responses to videotapes of crying infan...
Autonomous Corrective Action in Consensus Tracking Algorithms with Unknown Delays Consensus tracking problem with constant heterogeneous communication and input delays is studied for double-integrator systems. Contrary to previous works on this topic where the delays are known a priori, this paper studies the converge...
175 Maternal Diet and Type 2 Diabetes in the Offspring It is over twenty years since epidemiological studies revealed that there was a relationship between patterns of early growth and risk of developing type 2 diabetes in later life. Studies of identical twins, individuals who were in utero during periods of famine a...
[Electroejaculation and lower motor neuron lesion: a report of cases]. Semen was obtained by transrectal electrostimulation from two spinal injured men who had not ejaculated since their injuries. Vibratory stimulation was unsuccessful. Side effect-pain, was reported in one of the patient. A silicone catheter was used...
Publications Received for Review who will arrange for the copies to be sent to them. At the same time, he will inform them about the expected length of the review as well as other technical details, and suggest a date for submitting the manuscripts. The time allotted for preparing reviews will on principle be kept as ...
In vitro chemosensitivity to gemcitabine, oxaliplatin and zoledronic acid predicts treatment response in metastatic gastric cancer. Individual response of disseminated cancer to chemotherapy is unpredictable. In vitro chemotherapy-induced apoptosis can be measured and might be a method to evaluate in vivo activity of ...
Numerical modelling of meso-scale finish machining with finite edge radius tools Finite edge radius plays a significant role in finish machining processes when the undeformed chip thickness is often less than a few hundred microns and comparable to the size of the cutting edge. At suboptimal cutting speeds, edge radiu...
Improved Dissolution of Albendazole from High Drug Loaded Ternary Solid Dispersion: Formulation and Characterization Bioavailability of a poorly water-soluble drug, e.g., widely used anthelmintic drug Albendazole (ABZ), is very low and thus, to obtain an optimized therapeutic efficacy, the aqueous solubility of such d...
T2 estimates in healthy and diseased brain tissue: a comparison using various MR pulse sequences. Fourteen patients and five healthy individuals underwent magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to determine an effective multiple spin echo pulse sequence for estimating T2. Lesions examined included infarction, glioma, multipl...
Does Size Matter? Knowledge-Based Development of Second-Order City-Regions in Finland Abstract Achieving knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) depends profoundly on not only encouraging the development of economic activities, but also strengthening the societal, environmental and governance bases of city-regions. I...
Acute intermittent porphyria presenting with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: A case report Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an inborn error caused due to inherited deficiency of porphobilinogen (PBG) deaminase leading to increased levels of aminolevulinic acid and PBG. AIP is rarely associated with ...
Secondary medical prevention in patients with peripheral arterial disease - prescriptions of vascular surgeons and medical doctors (angiologists) in a multidisciplinary vascular centre. BACKGROUND We compared medical secondary prevention in patients with peripheral arterial disease stage II (Fontaine) located in the f...
Default and Credit Constraint in General equilibrium We study an economy where infinitely living agents face uninsurable shocks and are allowed default on their debt. After having defaulted, agents are excluded from the economy. We present a equilibrium definition allowing for both credit constraints and default inequ...
A study of indoor positioning based on UWB base-station configurations Indoor positioning has become an important topic for the researchers in science and business with the growing need of position acquisition for the public in indoor environment. Given the rise of wireless communication applications nowadays, many wi...
Transformative Learning, Affect, and Reciprocal Care in Community Engagement Drawing on interviews with writing teachers, this article highlights some of the affective responses that may arise for students, community partners, and teachers when we situate our pedagogies in public sites beyond the classroom. I analyze ...
Academic Voice Reimag(in)ed: Interest and Design in Artwork and Three Dimensional Artefacts Abstract Although ‘voice’ is a contested concept used in many different ways, it is often used to indicate degrees of authorial agency and, as such, is useful for exploring interest and design in artwork and three dimensional a...
Studies of Systems : the ENTERPRICE Model Traffic Information Centres (TICs) have acquired strategic role in the system approach adopted for traffic and mobility services management in the Trans European Transport Network. TIC systems allow collecting information from a variety of sources, processing such information,...
Fourteen weeks of treatment with Viscofiber increased fasting levels of glucagon-like peptide-1 and peptide-YY. Fermentable dietary fiber has been shown to cause fat loss and to increase peptide-YY (PYY) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) levels in rodents. In single meal tests, humans have an increase in PYY and GLP...
The adiabatic flame temperature and laminar flame speed of methane premixed flames at varying pressures This paper studies the influence of equivalence ratio, pressure and initial temperature on adiabatic flame temperature and laminar flame speed of methane-air mixture. The results indicate that adiabatic flame temp...
Structural changes in the cytoplasmic domain of phospholamban by phosphorylation at Ser16: a molecular dynamics study. Phospholamban is a 52-residue integral membrane protein that regulates the activity of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump in cardiac muscle. Its inhibitory action is relieved when phospholamban i...
Stability of the liberal order, moral learning, and constitutional choice: an unresolved tension in James Buchanan’s political economy Buchanan mentions at several points in his oeuvre the necessary role for a constitutional attitude. This attitude is both explanatory and evaluative; it explains why citizens value lib...
Intergenerational equity and dual discounting Abstract Dual discounting is a new approach under consideration for use in environmental cost–benefit analysis. This paper updates the literature on this subject and subjects it to the assessment of an international panel of experts on environmental discounting by means of...
Energetically optimized pharmacophore modeling to identify dual negative allosteric modulators against group I mGluRs in neurodegenerative diseases Abstract Glutamate is the key neurotransmitter in human brain that regulates the important functions such as learning, memory and cognition. Abnormal regulation of glutama...
Perspective—Electrolyte Design for Aqueous Batteries: From Ultra-High Concentration to Low Concentration? High voltage aqueous Li-ion batteries have the potential for sustainable large-scale energy storage due to their intrinsic advantages of safety, low cost, as well as environmental friendliness. “Water-in-salt” e...
Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Probiotics for Primary Prevention: No Clinical Effects of Lactobacillus GG Supplementation BACKGROUND. The value of probiotics for primary prevention is controversial. Published trials vary considerably in study design and the applied probiotics, thereby limiting c...
Oltipraz inhibits liver X receptor‐alpha‐dependent lipogenic gene induction and hepatic steatosis via AMPK‐S6K1 pathway Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is closely associated with metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. This study investigated the role of S6K1 in LXRalpha activation and the effects of oltipraz on L...
A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Argumentative Thesis Statements: A Preliminary Pilot Study Although it is universally acknowledged that argumentative texts constitute the core of academic discourse and that their production is the most difficult task for students to master, there is hardly any research available on the pi...
Image Adaptive Watermarking Technique for Digital Phone Digital watermarking has been proposed as a solution to the problem of copyright protection of digital images in digital phone camera. There are two important issues that watermarking algorithms need to address. First, watermarking schemes are required to provide...
A Method for Finding Link Hijacking Based on Modified PageRank Algorithms As the search result ranking is getting important for attracting visitors and profits, more and more people are now trying to mislead search engines in order to get higher ranking. Since link-based ranking algorithm is one of the most important ...
An observational assessment of change in two groups of behaviourally disturbed boys. SUMMARY Two groups of 5–7-year-old behaviourally disturbed boys involved in a group therapy programme were observed on several occasions near the beginning and near the end of the programme. Observers recorded occurrences of aggres...
[Study on the influencing factor of cultivating mungbean sprouts rich in chromium]. Getting organic chromium by cultivating chromium-enriched mungbean sprouts was studied. Chromium content in mung-bean sprouts was determined and the growth performance was observed under different conditions. The result showed that the...
Influence of COVID-19 on asymmetric cost behavior and intellectual capital efficiency: a comparison of Australian and Chinese listed firms ABSTRACT This study examines whether intellectual capital efficiency affects the asymmetric cost behavior of managers and whether such influences were impacted by the COVID-19 pand...
Comparative Analysis of Fault Detection for HVDC Transmission System Using Wavelet Transform Based on Standard Deviation Electrical losses and capital cost are two important factors for an efficient transmission of electrical power from generation station to load center. High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) for its high...
Differential Diagnosis of rSr’ Pattern in Leads V1‐V2. Comprehensive Review and Proposed Algorithm One of the more frequent dilemmas in ECG interpretation is the differential diagnosis of an rSr’ pattern in leads V1‐V2. We often face this finding in asymptomatic and otherwise healthy individuals and the causes may var...
Jacques Ellul’s Concern With The Amorality Of Contemporary Communications In the very complex issues now surrounding mass media ethics, communication scholars will have to cooperate internationally and support each other in providing analysis and guidelines. Jacques Ellul, the French social philosopher, adds something...
Keyword Augmented Retrieval: Novel framework for Information Retrieval integrated with speech interface Retrieving answers in a quick and low cost manner without hallucinations from a combination of structured and unstructured data using Language models is a major hurdle. This is what prevents employment of Language m...
Assessing patient dependence in Alzheimer's disease. BACKGROUND While cognitive and functional deficits are the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), loss of social function (and the dependence this implies) is also critical, especially in early stages of disease. Little attention has been directed to this facet of de...
Anmerkungen und Betrachtungen zur Schulstatistik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland School statistics in the Federal Republic are carried out under the responsibility of the Länder. There are regional school statistics mainly for administrative purposes and there are, at the federal level, standardised school statistic...
Generosity, fairness, trust and time: the performance of therapeutic community residents in economics experiments Purpose Therapeutic communities (TCs) assume that residents are capable of working together to overcome substance abuse and criminal behavior. Economic games allow us to study the potential of cooperative...
Model-Centric Volumetric Point Cloud Attributes Point clouds have recently gained interest, especially for real-time applications and for 3D-scanned material, such as is used in autonomous driving, architecture, and engineering, to model real estate for renovation or display. Point clouds are associated with geometry ...
Sub-MeV dark matter detection with bilayer graphene The light dark matter mass regime has emerged as the next frontier in the direct detection experiment due to the lack of any detection signal in the higher mass range. In this paper, we propose a new detector material, a bilayer stack of graphene to detect sub-MeV da...
Characterizing noise in daily GPS position time series with overlapping Hadamard variance and maximum likelihood estimation We assess the noise characteristics of daily position time series (Jet Propulsion Laboratory global solutions) from 12 International GNSS Service sites located in China, using both overlapping Ha...
A Wideband Two-Way Digital Doherty Transmitter in 40nm CMOS A 40nm CMOS wideband digital Cartesian push-pull inverted Doherty operating in class-E is presented. Wideband Doherty operation is achieved over a 1.9-to-3GHz frequency band, using an off-chip power combining network. The fully digital transmitter (DTX) provi...
Impulsivity, suicidality, and emotional dysregulation in women having borderline personality disorder with and without substance dependence Objective The objective of this article is to detect differences between women having borderline personality disorder (BPD) with and without substance dependence regarding impulsi...
Reassessment of Beijing’s economic and military aid to Hanoi’s War, 1964–75 ABSTRACT Although China’s assistance to North Vietnam was substantial, playing a vital role in Hanoi’s war against the United States, this policy was made based on Beijing’s strategic calculation and ideological conviction rather than on Hanoi...
An Improved Concatenation Scheme of Polar Codes With Reed–Solomon Codes An improved Reed–Solomon (RS)-polar code concatenation scheme with a threshold is proposed. It applies successive cancellation list and hard-decision decoding based on the low-complexity chase algorithm. A new multiplicity assignment module is pro...
UHF RFID Tag Response Measurements Using a Do-It-Yourself Platform and Components Off-the-Shelf In this article, we present cost-effective techniques to assess UHF RFID performance for real world applications. This includes a positioner, based on stepper motors and braided fishing lines, which can position a tag in 3-...
Acquisition and generalization of action effects Three experiments studied the acquisition of action-contingent events (action effects). In a first, acquisition phase participants performed free-choice reactions with each keypress leading to the presentation of either a particular category word (e.g., animal or furnit...
Polarizability effects in molecular dynamics simulations of the graphene-water interface. The importance of including the polarizability of both water and graphene in molecular dynamics simulations of the water/graphene system was quantified. A thin film of either rigid single point charge extended (SPC/E) water or po...
Artificial bee colony algorithm based automatic generation control in two-area non-reheat thermal power system using SMES In modern real world power system is very complex and uncertainties of parameters are controlled is a huge task of the problem due to continuous power demand variations. The proper balance between ...
[Mortality of dilated myocardiopathies as a function of continuation of alcohol drinking. Multivariate analysis concerning 236 patients]. A retrospective study was conducted in 236 consecutive patients with dilated cardiomyopathy to determine the characteristics of the disease in heavy alcohol drinkers (n = 110) and t...
Virological response and resistance profiles after 18 to 30 months of first- or second-/third-line antiretroviral treatment: a cross-sectional evaluation in HIV type 1-infected children living in the Central African Republic. A total of 242 HIV-1-infected children were followed up at the Complexe Pédiatrique of Bangui...
Anti-Cancer Drug HMBA Acts as an Adjuvant during Intracellular Bacterial Infections by Inducing Type I IFN through STING The anti-proliferative agent hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA) belongs to a class of hybrid bipolar compounds developed more than 30 y ago for their ability to induce terminal differentiation of tra...
Environmental Enrichment for Australian Mammals Many of Australia's nocturnal mammals are rare or endangered in the wild. The behavioural integrity of captive populations of endangered species can be maintained through the application of environmental enrichment techniques. This study investigated the effectiveness of...
Incidence Estimates of Perinatal Arterial Ischemic Stroke in Preterm- and Term-Born Infants: A National Capture-Recapture Calculation Corrected Surveillance Study Introduction: Data on valid incidence estimates of perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS) are scarce. This analysis aims to determine incidence of PAIS i...
Transgender in modern olympic sports: problems and ways of their solution Background. In recent years, there have been active disputes and disagreements among international sports leaders, including representatives of the International Olympic Committee, about the possibility of including transgender athletes in the n...
Traveller Recurrence and Inter- versus Intratraveller Speed Variability: Analysis with Bluetooth Data This paper proposes a linear mixed model of route speed distributions that separates the variability into an intertraveller component, consistent across days and time intervals for each recurrent traveller, and an int...
The ambiguity function of a linear signal space and its application to maximum-likelihood range/Doppler estimation The concept of the ambiguity function (AF) is extended to linear signal spaces. Some properties of the AF of a linear signal space, its relations with other space representations, and the results obtained...
Influence of carbon monoxide leaks on the measurement error of total haemoglobin mass Abstract Total haemoglobin mass (Hbmass) can be assessed with low measurement error using carbon monoxide (CO) rebreathing. However, variability in measurement error of Hbmass has been reported across laboratories and it has previous...
The observation of self-channeling of a relativistically-intense laser pulse in an underdense plasma Four spatial/spectral imaging diagnostics show relativistic self-channeling of a 25 TW, 1 ps laser pulse limited only by the length of the gas-jet target. Collective scattering of a probe beam provides a spectrally-res...
Analysis of Temperature and Thermal Stress Distribution on KDP Crystal Wire Saw Slicing Temperature variation of KDP crystal is an important reason for its cracking. A finite element model was constructed to analyze temperature and thermal stress distribution of KDP crystal during wire saw slicing. The results showed ...
Treatment of urinary incontinence in the elderly. The most common and most difficult type of urinary incontinence in older people is associated with a low-capacity neurogenic bladder. Patients with cerebrovascular disease are particularly affected. A basic consideration in treatment is provision of adequate facilities...
The K computer: user-friendly. The News & Analysis article “Utility sacrificed for speed, supercomputer critics say” (D. Normile, 5 October, p. [26][1]) discussed our project, the Japanese 10-petaflops supercomputer (or “K computer”). Some criticisms reported in the article were based on misunderstandings, which I wou...
Incidence and predictors of postoperative ischemic stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting Data on the incidence and outcomes of ischemic stroke in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in the current era are limited. The goal of this study was to examine contemporary trends, predictors, and ...
Formation of Microgrooving on C110 Casing Steel After Sulfide Stress Cracking Test NACE TM0177 is a commonly used materials qualification standard specifying how sulfide stress cracking (SSC) tests must be conducted and interpreted to verify the suitability of material application in sour service. This standard specif...
Comparison between one-session psychological treatment and benzodiazepine in dental phobia. To compare the effects of a single session of psychological treatment and acute administration of benzodiazepine, 50 dental phobic patients were allocated either to psychological treatment, benzodiazepine, or no treatment for a...
Metabolic fate of pitavastatin, a new inhibitor of HMG-CoA reductase--effect of cMOAT deficiency on hepatobiliary excretion in rats and of mdr1a/b gene disruption on tissue distribution in mice. Pitavastatin is a potent competitive inhibitor of HMG-CoA reductase. In the current study, to elucidate the hepatobiliary ex...
Tapered Photonic Crystal Microcavities Embedded in Photonic Wire Waveguides With Large Resonance Quality-Factor and High Transmission We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of a microcavity that exhibits simultaneously high transmission and large resonance quality-factor (Q-factor). This microcavity ...
Finnish Ecosystem Observatory (FEO) - operationalizing remote sensing analyses for threatened habitats and biodiversity monitoring Biodiversity crisis calls for better knowledge of the status of biodiversity, but also drivers and pressures behind the ecosystem change and the vulnerability of habitats. There is growing...
Epidemiologic Study and Containment of a Nosocomial Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in a Medical Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Objective. We conducted an epidemiologic investigation at the beginning of a nosocomial outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to clarify the dynamics of SARS transmi...
Influence of Mucoid Coating on Clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Lungs Pulmonary infection with mucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in present in the majority of cystic fibrosis patients with chronic lung disease. It has been postulated that this mucoid coating may act to decrease lung clearance of Pseudom...
Highly stereoselective epoxidation with H2O2 catalyzed by electron-rich aminopyridine manganese catalysts. Fast, efficient, and highly stereoselective epoxidation with H2O2 is reached by manganese coordination complexes with e-rich aminopyridine tetradentate ligands. It is shown that the electronic properties of these...
Cardiac beta-adrenoceptors during normal growth of male and female rats. 1 A binding assay involving (-)-[3H]dihydroalprenolol (DHA) and KCl-washed cardiac membranes were used to assess the numbers and affinities of beta-adrenoceptors in hearts from male and female rats varying in age from about 2 weeks to 18 months. ...
Effect of electrode surface roughness on the electrical impedance of ionic polymer–metal composites In this paper, we study the effect of electrode surface roughness on the electrochemical response of ionic polymer–metal composites (IPMCs) subjected to a time-varying voltage input. We use the linearized Poisson–Nernst...
Forecasting with Panel Data This paper gives a brief survey of forecasting with panel data. Starting with a simple error component regression and surveying best linear unbiased prediction under various assumptions of the disturbance term. This includes various ARMA models as well as spatial autoregressive models. The ...
On the study of the semantics of the animal style: The functional purpose of the artistic bronze of proto-circassians This article discusses the possibility of deciphering the Koban-Scythian animal style artifacts in terms of the transfer of information about the functional purpose of the object on the basis of the Ci...
1973 Annual Meeting Notices one was teaching courses in a prison, this would be fairly well known throughout the institution.) But in five of the eleven, one respondent said that this was now present in the institution, while the other respondent said that it had never been considered as an option! In fourteen institu...
Time-parallel algorithms for simulation of multiple access protocols We present time-parallel algorithms for parallel simulation of multiple access protocols for medium access-in particular slotted Aloha and slotted p-persistent CSMA. Two mechanisms are presented-regeneration point-based and fix up-based. Aloha is sim...
Resounding the great divide: theorising music in everyday life at the end of life Abstract Music in contexts of death and dying is an important but often-overlooked aspect of music in everyday life. In this article I develop an ecological perspective for end of life experience that takes account of the temporal-cultur...
The alcohol-impaired dentist: an educational challenge. A cross-sectional survey of 370 dental practitioners, a 74% response rate, was conducted and data collected. Prevailing attitudes within the dental profession toward the alcohol abuser and the role of peer intervention were recorded. Data collectively indicated a...
Dynamic Power Allocation for Downlink NOMA Dynamic Power Allocation for Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is a critical research area in wireless communication systems. This study focuses on implementing and evaluating dynamic power allocation strategies in the context of downlink NOMA. We compare the per...
Public School Music Teachers' Perceptions of the Effect of Certain Competencies on Pupil Learning A list of competencies was developed and rated by 201 public school music teachers. Fifty-one competencies were classified as musical, and 59 were identified as teaching competencies. General music, instrumental, and chor...
Maximizing Design Accommodations for Composite User Populations: Methodology Applicable to Mixed Male and Female Populations Methods for maximizing the accommodation of composite user populations in designs, with fixed limit constraints, are delineated. Initially, the probability density function (PDF) for a composite...
Nonlinear Superconducting Magnetoelectric Effect A supercurrent flow can induce a nonvanishing spin magnetization in noncentrosymmetric superconductors with spin-orbit interaction. Often known as the non-dissipative magnetoelectric effect, these are most commonly found at linear order in supercurrent flow. Here, we ar...
Roles of heme iron-coordinating histidine residues of human hemopexin expressed in baculovirus-infected insect cells. Hemopexin (Hx), the major heme-binding plasma glycoprotein, scavenges circulating heme and performs an antioxidant function. In the present study, human Hx was expressed in a baculovirus system and its...
Video Face Recognition on Invariable Moment There are three limitations in video face recognition. Firstly, face does not lie in image center, secondly, the size of face is bigger or smaller than those in the facial database, and lastly it exists possibly rotation in the face. In order to overcome these drawback cause...
Rigidification Dramatically Improves Inhibitor Selectivity for RAF Kinases. One effective means to achieve inhibitor specificity for RAF kinases, an important family of cancer drug targets, has been to target the monomeric inactive state conformation of the kinase domain, which, unlike most other kinases, can accommod...
Inverse-Covariance-Intersection-Based Distributed Estimation and Application in Wireless Sensor Network In a sensor network, estimation performance may degrade when unknown correlations among local estimates are not addressed carefully. This article presents a novel distributed estimation algorithm based on inverse co...
586 GLYCOLYTIC ENZYME DEFICIENCY IN NEONATAL GRANULOCYTES Newborn infants are known to be particularly susceptible to infections. Various contributing factors have been implicated including defective chemotaxis and phagocytosis of their neutrophils. The energy required for these two neutrophil functions is derived fro...
Timely redistribution of information for epidemiological surveillance and alert: the experience from the French communicable diseases network Since 1984 the French Communicable Disease Network (FCDN) collects and analyses epidemiological information obtained online from a team of "Sentinel General Practitioners" (SGPs...
1852 PROSTAGLANDIN (PG) SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS AND LUNG DEVELOPMENT IN FETAL SHEEP Before delivery in fetal sheep tracheal fluid production decreases and surfactant content of lung increases. This occurs as plasma Cortisol and PGE2 concentrations increase. As PGE2 infusions decrease tracheal fluid production and increas...
Optimization of Injection Molding Process by using different types of Conformal Cooling Channels This paper objects to deliver a brief summary on different types of Conformal cooling channel designs available for injection molding process, Also, the conformal cooling channel plays very important role in plastic inject...
Lactarius guangdongensis sp. nov. (Russulaceae, Russulales), a species of Lactarius sect. Deliciosi growing with a vulnerable five-needle pine, Pinus kwangtungensis Lactarius sect. Deliciosi is a group of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms showing high host specificity with trees of Pinaceae and more rarely Fagales. A new spec...
The Effectiveness of Parenting Interventions on Psychosocial Adjustment in Parents of Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis. AIMS Parenting interventions in this review refer to supportive parenting training provided for parents or primary caregivers of children and adolescents with type 1 dia...