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The α2-adrenoceptor agonists medetomidine and dexmedetomidine produce reliable sedation and some degree of analgesia, permitting minor procedures to be performed in clinical veterinary practice.Butorphanol is a synthetic opioid that is frequently used with medetomidine to enhance the quality of sedation in dogs.However... | In a prospective, randomised, blinded clinical trial, 56 client-owned dogs received one of two IM treatments: (1) 0.5 mg/m2 medetomidine + 0.1 mg/kg butorphanol (MB, n = 29); or (2) 0.5 mg/m2 medetomidine + 0.1 mg/kg butorphanol + 10 mg/m2 MK-467 (MB-MK, n = 27).Heart rates and visual sedation scores were recorded at i... |
the MB-MK group, which suggests that MK-467 did not override the central component of the bradycardic action of α2-agonists, although it was presumed to have been able to alleviate the baroreflex-mediated bradycardia caused by peripheral α2-adrenoceptor activation.The present results should not be over-interpreted, sin... | The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical usefulness of MK-467 (vatinoxan; L-659’066) in dogs sedated for diagnostic imaging with medetomidine-butorphanol.It was hypothesised that MK-467 would alleviate bradycardia, hasten drug absorption and thus intensify the early-stage sedation.Plasma drug concentration... |
binding action starts at the edge of the gold electrode.Secondly, as seen in the inset of Fig. 3, the electric field distribution suggests that LSPR-active region is mostly on the sidewall of the gold nanodiscs.The introduced antigen must bind to the antibodies residing on these sidewalls to obtain the full LSPR respon... | We report on the design and fabrication of a hybrid sensor that integrates transmission-mode localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) into a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for studying biochemical surface reactions.The coupling of LSPR nanostructures and a QCM allows optical spectra and QCM resonant frequency sh... |
different cations has a characteristic binding time of 0.01–1 ms; this is much faster than we could resolve in our experimental data.To form the force-bearing chain from integrin to F-actin of cytoskeleton, we see the following reactions necessary: 1) the binding of talin and kindlin to integrins, 2) the binding of pax... | When plated onto substrates, cell morphology and even stem-cell differentiation are influenced by the stiffness of their environment.Stiffer substrates give strongly spread (eventually polarized) cells with strong focal adhesions and stress fibers; very soft substrates give a less developed cytoskeleton and much lower ... |
Environmental factors, such as nutritional and psychological conditions during the fetal period, have been shown to impact health and disease conditions later in adulthood; this is now known as the theory of developmental origins of health and disease.Evidence to support this theory was originally established from the ... | Among various environmental chemicals, in utero and lactational dioxin exposure has been extensively studied and is known to induce higher brain function abnormalities in both humans and laboratory animals.Transfecting a constitutively active AhR plasmid into the hippocampus via in utero electroporation on gestational ... |
aged mice, a decrease in spine density in the hippocampal CA1 but not BLA was observed.Dendritic spines bear excitatory synapses that express glutamate receptors and play an important role in neuronal transmission."A decrease in hippocampal spine density was observed in patients with Alzheimer's disease, suggesting a r... | Increased prevalence of mental disorders cannot be solely attributed to genetic factors and is considered at least partly attributable to chemical exposure.However, how the perinatal dioxin exposure affects neuromorphological alterations has remained largely unknown.Therefore, in this study, we initially studied whethe... |
number of conserved divergences in some common kinase motifs.First, Phe and Gly in the DFG triad are often replaced by other hydrophobic residues.Second, in many FIKK kinases, the activation loop features proline in place of the more common alanine in the APE.Furthermore, the HRD motif in subdomain VI features a leucin... | FIKKs are protein kinases with distinctive sequence motifs found exclusively in Apicomplexa.Here, we report on the biochemical characterization of Plasmodium falciparum FIKK8 (PfFIKK8) and its Cryptosporidium parvum orthologue (CpFIKK) - the only member of the family predicted to be cytosolic and conserved amongst non-... |
The repofs source code is available under an Apache license on GitHub: https://github.com/AUEB-BALab/RepoFS/.Empirical software engineering work often involves studying revision control system repositories maintained using the popular Git system .Revision control systems offer the ability to store and traverse versions... | Empirical software engineering work often involves studying revision control system repositories maintained using the popular Git system.Checking out each revision one wants to study is inefficient.We introduce RepoFS, a tool that exposes a Git repository as a virtual user-level file system.Commits, branches, and tags ... |
.git-parents metadata directory.The difference between the two numbers gives the number of merge commits.5.How many directories were documented in the Seventh Research Edition Unix hierarchy and the FreeBSD 11.0.1 release?,The numbers are obtained by counting the number of indented paragraphs whose title ends with a sl... | On the other hand the examination of directories and files of past revisions using Git's commands suffers from a usability perspective.We illustrate these points through motivating examples and discuss the advantages and drawbacks of the proposed approach. |
not only a result of the Na and Mg leaching, but also of some degree of metal oxide particles agglomeration, which is revealed by the increase of the band gap energies relative to the fresh samples.Some decrease of the crystallinity of the zeolites after the reaction cycles can also be observed.Furthermore, it can be s... | The impact of desilication on the performance of a series of alkali-treated NaY zeolites impregnated with 5 wt.% of magnesium for glucose isomerisation into fructose has been studied.Desilication at different NaOH concentrations increases the mesoporous volume and external surface area, without compromising microporosi... |
can be used for expulsion of CR from waste water.The CCD model was effectively connected to examine the interactive impacts of adsorption factors and enhance the adsorption.The greatest adsorption effectiveness for evacuation with Pb@ZnFe2O4 at pH: 7.0, adsorbent mass: 250 mg, starting fixation CR dye: 150 mg L−1 at 90... | In the present research article we explore the synthesis method and adsorption capability of ZnFe oxides nanocomposites by using Pb as dopant.A conventional and simple batch adsorption method is selected and optimized.Pb@ZnFe2O4 NCs were fabricated by facile method i.e.co-precipitation method and characterized by FESEM... |
We propose a new method for training neural networks online in a bandit setting.Similar to prior work, we model the uncertainty only in the last layer of the network, treating the rest of the network as a feature extractor.This allows us to successfully balance between exploration and exploitation due to the efficient,... | This paper proposes a new method for neural network learning in online bandit settings by marginalizing over the last layer |
Antisense oligonucleotides are a growing class of versatile biomolecules, which have garnered much attention in the past decade as a mature and attractive platform for therapeutic drug development.Nearly 30 years of exhaustive research into antisense technology have advanced the platform into a rapid development stage ... | Antisense oligonucleotides are metabolized by nucleases and drug interactions with small drug molecules at either the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme or transporter levels have not been observed to date.Herein, a comprehensive in vitro assessment of the drug-drug interaction (DDI) potential was carried out with four 2′-O-... |
reference inhibitor, and reference inhibitors were used at concentrations of ≥10X the IC50 value, which corresponded to ≥85% inhibition.The inhibitory effects of ISIS 304801, 396443, 420915, and 681257 on transport of substrate by OAT1, OAT3, OCT1, OCT2, OATP1B1, OATP1B3, BCRP, P-gp, and BSEP was investigated.The trans... | Several investigations to describe the DDI potential of a 2′-MOE-ASO conjugated to a high-affinity ligand for hepatocyte-specific asialoglycoprotein receptors are explored.No significant inhibition (half maximal inhibitory concentration [IC50] > 100 μM) or induction was observed based on either enzymatic phenotype or m... |
polymersomes and the distributions of free and internalised polymersomes were identical.If the internalisation function was saturating, then distributions in the internalisation threshold and the number of binding sites n both showed an increased uptake with increasing standard deviation.Also the mean size of the polym... | This study is motivated by understanding and controlling the key physical properties underlying internalisation of nano drug delivery.We consider the internalisation of specific nanometre size delivery vehicles, comprised of self-assembling amphiphilic block copolymers, called polymersomes that have the potential to sp... |
Over the past two decades, researchers and practitioners in earth sciences, ecology, and cognate disciplines have been creating innovations in environmental monitoring technologies that combine Information and Communication Technologies with conventional monitoring technologies, and Environmental Sensor Networks.These ... | We present a meta-review of academic research on Smart Earth, covering 3187 across the full range of academic disciplines from 1997 to 2017, ranging from ecological informatics to the digital humanities.We then offer a critical perspective on potential pathways for evolution in environmental governance frameworks, expl... |
dimensions of Smart Earth governance.For example, Smart Earth creates not only new ways of sensing and administering environments, but also new categories of environmental assets.Some scholars have been concerned by the possibility that Smart Earth technologies may be harnessed to increase the efficiency of resource ex... | Environmental governance has the potential be significantly transformed by Smart Earth technologies, which deploy enhanced environmental monitoring via combinations of information and communication technologies (ICT), conventional monitoring technologies (e.g.remote sensing), and Internet of Things (IoT) applications (... |
planar substrates the P3HT arc is diffuse with the majority of scattering in the out-of-plane direction.After annealing the arc becomes narrower; indicating increased uniformity in the distance between polymer chains, due to improvements in polymer crystallinity.The intensity is at a maximum perpendicular to the substr... | Here we report a simple, solution based processing route for the formation of large surface area electrodes resulting in improved organic photovoltaic devices when compared with conventional planar electrodes.The nanostructured electrode arrays are formed using hydrothermally grown ZnO nanorods, subsequently infiltrate... |
the initial lower values.For the other samples, a significant drop is already observed after 7 weeks.Afterwards, the tensile strength decrease being lower than 50 MPa after 27 weeks of degradation and lower values for samples containing less TMC over the degradation time were measured."Therefore, although fibers with 1... | We have succeeded to modulated the degradation rate of poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) melt-spun multifilament fibers to extend the service lifetime and increase the resorption rate by using random copolymers of L-lactide and trimethylene carbonate (TMC).The presence of TMC units enabled an overall longer service lifetime but f... |
each target a gene-specific and intron-spanning primer was designed with Primer 3.For genes with no possibility for intron-spanning primer Maxima First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit was used.Using the standard curve method, the absolute amount of the specific PCR products for each primer set was quantified.Actb was amplifi... | Wnt/β-catenin and Hh signaling contribute to embryogenesis as well as to the maintenance of organ homeostasis through intensive crosstalk.describe that both pathways act largely complementary to each other in the healthy liver and that this crosstalk is responsible for the maintenance of metabolic zonation. |
at the state level for conservative estimates of the statistical significance.3,Additionally, all regression models were weighted by mean municipal population between 2012 and 2017 to account for the large heterogeneity in municipal population size.For analyses by cause of death, significance of p value testing was adj... | Findings: Between 2012 and 2017, 7 069 242 deaths were recorded among adults (aged ≥15 years) in 5565 municipalities in Brazil.During this time period, the mean crude municipal adult mortality rate increased by 8.0% from 143.1 deaths per 100 000 in 2012 to 154.5 deaths per 100 000 in 2017.An increase in unemployment ra... |
allow more accurate estimates of local recession effects.Although this is not ideal, these were the most granular data available and quarterly subnational data on unemployment are rarely available for many middle-income countries.Compared with national-level data, state-level unemployment rates allow regional variation... | Background: Economic recession might worsen health in low-income and middle-income countries with precarious job markets and weak social protection systems.Between 2014–16, a major economic crisis occurred in Brazil.We aimed to assess the association between economic recession and adult mortality in Brazil and to ascer... |
sensitivity and accuracy for each product.The first objective of the present study was to evaluate the performance of the FDA BAM Chapter 19B method in additional berry types to provide reliable laboratory support for FDA surveillance programs and for disease outbreak investigations related to berries.A second objectiv... | The efficacy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) method for detection of C. cayetanensis was evaluated in fresh berries (blackberries, strawberries, blueberries and mixed berries) and in frozen mixed berries.The protocol included seeding with C. cayetanensis oocysts, produce washing, DNA extraction and a dua... |
0.1% Alconox® detergent in the washing protocol was responsible for these consistent results across berry types.This washing solution, which contains the surfactant tetrasodium pyrophosphate, improved Cyclospora oocysts recovery rates in raspberries and it was shown to achieve recovery rates of 78–100% when used to was... | No significant differences were observed in C. cayetanensis CT values between fresh and frozen mixed berries at any seeding level.In conclusion, the FDA BAM Chapter 19B method for the detection of Cyclospora was robust, consistent, and showed high sensitivity in all types of berries analyzed.Evaluation of the FDA detec... |
Retention of high performing employees is important and is an essential component for success in an increasingly competitive and demanding environment.Today, organizations are becoming more concerned with employee retention but despite their efforts, employees still leave and this becomes worrisome.Hence, the importanc... | The article presented an integrated data on organisational retention strategies and commitment of selected ICT and Accounting firms in Nigeria.The study adopted a quantitative approach with a survey research design to establish the major determinants of employee retention strategies.The population of this study include... |
replacement of conventional domestic electric ovens by highly-efficient models would be beneficial from both the environmental and economic perspectives.However, to promote the uptake of HEO, the use of fiscal instruments may have to be considered.A number of options have been suggested by the European Committee of Dom... | Electric ovens are among the least energy efficient appliances, with the efficiency of only 10%-12%.With new policy instruments in Europe requiring energy reduction, manufactures are seeking to develop more efficient domestic appliances.The aim of this paper is to aid sustainable manufacturing of an innovative, highly-... |
not detected by FT-ICR-MS in our experiments, and therefore not targeted for quanification, this may not be the case for others using our approaches.Applications for the ability to detect phytohormones in plant growth media are far reaching, including developing understanding of interactions between soil microbes and p... | Phytohormones such as cytokinins, abscisic acid (ABA) and auxins play a vital role in plant development and regulatory processes.Despite these advances, external factors influencing the production of phytohormones are less well studied.The ability to detect phytohormones in matrices other than plant tissue presents the... |
on.Intriguingly, most induced polyploids that have been used in aquaculture are produced from natural polyploid fishes of the Cyprinidae and Salmonidae.In hexaploid gibel carp, several allopolyploid clones with 212 chromosomes or 208 chromosomes had been synthetized from different clones by incorporating an alien sperm... | For this reason, numerous species of natural polyploid fishes, such as common carp, gibel carp, crucian carp, salmon, and sturgeon, were chosen as important target species for aquaculture.Many artificial polyploids have been commercially utilized for aquaculture and most of them were created from natural polyploid fish... |
for the benefits of emergent role distribution, an interesting question for future research is how emergent and assigned role distributions relate to each other.For instance, in the present task role differentiation was not strictly required, whereas Richardson and colleagues’ task necessitated role distribution.It is ... | Many joint actions require task partners to temporally coordinate actions that follow different spatial patterns.This creates the need to find trade-offs between temporal coordination and spatial alignment.To study coordination under incongruent spatial and temporal demands, we devised a novel coordination task that re... |
lines.Taken together with the results of the current study, that has been unable to detect any evidence of off-target effects, we are confident that, although the chances of off target events are still present, the dangers of off-target site cutting by the CAS9 enzyme when co-injected as mRNA with gRNA are greatly exag... | We have successfully used comparative genomics to identify putative regulatory elements within the human genome that contribute to the tissue specific expression of neuropeptides such as galanin and receptors such as CB1.However, a previous inability to rapidly delete these elements from the mouse genome has prevented ... |
move outside of a cut off radius of 0.1 nm from the nearest lattice site.Fig. 8 represents this data, excluding the PKA energy 2 keV, producing a trend line with a gradient 16 keV−1, corresponding to Ed = 25 eV with κ = 0.8 equation.The function is continuous at E = 2Ed, and so is its first differential.The dependence ... | The environment dependent interatomic potential (EDIP) including Ziegler-Biersack-Littermark (ZBL) interactions for close encounters is applied to cascades starting from a host atom and from an interstitial atom.We find the room temperature displacement threshold to be 25 eV, increasing to 30 eV at 900 K. The latter co... |
.Predicting bacterial terpene synthases is very challenging, but extensive HMM analysis of the Pfam database can be applied to identify new terpene synthases and test them in production systems .Once the monoterpene synthase of interest has been identified, it must be brought into genomic context by choosing the approp... | Synthetic biology is opening up new opportunities for the sustainable and efficient production of valuable chemicals in engineered microbial factories.Here we review the application of synthetic biology approaches to the engineering of monoterpene/monoterpenoid production, highlighting the discovery of novel catalytic ... |
The proposed dataset is composed of seven tables in csv format.Table “activity” lists the data related to activities.In addition to the field dedicated to a unique identifier, the following two fields express the cost of activities: a fixed cost and a variable cost.PV is offered every year, but some costly activities c... | “Passeport Vacances”, abbreviated PV, is a set of leisure activities proposed to children to discover and enjoy during school holidays.During PV, activities are proposed several times, each one being an occurrence.This data set contains real data, collected by online registration during the summer of 2017.Children expr... |
1H NMR, 13C NMR, DEPT, HSQC, 1H-1H COSY, HMBC, NOESY, HRESIMS, and IR spectra of Ganodermanol A–H, together with Mo24-induced CD spectrum of Ganodermanol A, CD spectra of Ganodermanol D–E were presented in Figs. S1–109, the cytotoxicities and anti-HIV-1 activity of isolated compounds were presented in Tables S1 and 2.O... | The data included in this paper are associated with the research article entitled “Sesquiterpenoids from the cultured mycelia of Ganoderma capense” [1].1H NMR, 13C NMR, DEPT, HSQC, 1H–1H COSY, HMBC, NOESY, HRESIMS, and IR spectra of Ganodermanol A–H (1–11), together with Mo2(AcO)4-induced CD spectrum of Ganodermanol A,... |
autopolyubiquitination of TRAF6 itself, which enhances autophosphorylation of TAK1 and subsequently activates NF-κB.Unlike Lys48-linked polyubiquitination, which is operational in ubiquitin–proteasome-dependent protein degradation, Lys63-linked polyubiquitination serves to modulate a signaling activity of the polyubiqu... | We found by in cellulo ubiquitination studies that lansoprazole enhances polyubiquitination of the TNF receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) and by in vitro ubiquitination studies that the enhanced polyubiquitination of TRAF6 is attributed to the blocking of a deubiquitination enzyme, cylindromatosis (CYLD).Structural m... |
of medicines and food.In a conflict zone such as Turtuk, the interdependence of the Indian Army and the local population is deeply embedded for survival.Most, small towns and villages are cut off from the main supply routes for up to six months in a year.Even during the regular winter season, the Army provides all emer... | This study aims to understand community risk perception to environmental hazards in a border conflict zone context in high-mountain areas.The villagers were able to identify various environmental hazards and associated risk zones through participatory timeline diagram, and hazard and dream mapping exercises.They apply ... |
load to cause first cracking.For the ultimate load that the masonry wall panel can carry, the contribution of the inelastic joint interface parameters are ranked in order of importance as: joint cohesion; joint friction angle; and joint tension.The influence of the cohesive strength and friction angle of the interface ... | A study of the influence of the brick-mortar interface on the pre- and post-cracking behaviour of low bond strength masonry wall panels subjected to vertical in plane load is presented.Using software based on the Distinct Element Method (DEM), a series of computational models have been developed to represent low bond s... |
increased after treatment with MLN4924 as measured by an HRE luciferase reporter assay, and the HIF-1α target genes BNIP3L and enolase-1 were significantly upregulated 1 and 2 h after treatment with MLN4924.The knockdown of DEN-1 in T84 cells, an intestinal epithelial cell line, via lentivirus shRNA revealed decreased ... | There is intense interest in understanding how the purine nucleoside adenosine functions in health and during disease.In this review, we outline some of the evidence that implicates adenosine signaling as an important metabolic signature to promote inflammatory resolution.Studies derived from cultured cell systems, ani... |
differences from and similarities with previous MRI and nuclear imaging studies.Our study contradicts a recent morphometric study, which showed no significant associations between GM changes and UPRDS III using MRI surface displacements information.Surface displacement captures disease related changes in the shape of t... | Classical motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) such as tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and axial symptoms are graded in the Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) III.It is yet to be ascertained whether parkinsonian motor symptoms are associated with different anatomical p... |
Genetic modification of conventional crops enables safe and sustainable insect pest control in crop production systems.One of the more common approaches in insect-protected GM crops is expression of insecticidal proteins derived from the commonly occurring soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis to provide intrinsic inse... | Many insect-protected crops express insecticidal crystal (Cry) proteins derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), including both naturally-occurring Cry proteins and chimeric Cry proteins created through biotechnology.The Cry51Aa2 protein is a naturally-occurring Cry protein that was modified to incr... |
μg Cry51Aa2.834_16/mL diet, respectively.However, when heated to temperatures of 55, 75 and 95 °C for 15 min, the LC50 values were >60.0 μg Cry51Aa2.834_16/mL diet, a reduction in activity of >95% relative to the control Cry51Aa2.834_16 protein.For Cry51Aa2.834_16 and the other Cry51Aa2 variants, the Tier 1 assessment ... | The improved Cry51Aa2 variant, Cry51Aa2.834_16, and other developmental variants belong to the ETX_MTX2 family of proteins but share a low level of sequence similarity to other members of this family.This similarity is largely localized to the pore-forming and oligomerization protein domains, while sequence divergence ... |
contrast, unpublished dissertation research indicates that Cry51 is not toxic to the HepG2 cell line despite some structural similarity to Cry41Aa.The results of these in vitro studies confirm the importance of the receptor binding head domain for specificity of β-PFPs, lending further support to the concept of leverag... | The intact Cry51Aa2.834_16 protein was heat labile at temperatures ≥55 °C, and was rapidly degraded after exposure to the gastrointestinal protease pepsin.The weight-of-evidence therefore supports the conclusion of safety for Cry51Aa2.834_16 and demonstrates that amino acid sequence modifications can be used to substan... |
this pre-retrieval effect and reduced source memory accuracy.Due to the temporal and topographic differences between oscillatory and ERP preparatory memory effects, it seems unlikely that they are indexing exactly the same process, but it is evident that both measures of electrophysiological activity indicate an import... | Neural activity preceding memory probes differs according to retrieval goals.These divergences have been linked to retrieval orientations, which are content-specific memory states that bias retrieval towards specific contents.On the first trial of each memory task ('switch’ trials), preparatory ERPs preceding correct s... |
significant pattern emerged.First, colon biopsies from patients with ulcerative colitis confirmed the global increase in expression of CHRFAM7A, but now the analyses revealed that there was a concomitant and significant decrease in CHRNA7 expression in ulcerative colitis.These changes in ulcerative colitis were also hi... | But in humans, there exists a second gene called CHRFAM7A that encodes a dominant negative α7-nAChR inhibitor.Here, we investigated whether their expression was altered in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer.Methods: Quantitative RT-PCR measured gene expression of human α7-nAChR gene (CHRNA7), CHRFAM7A, T... |
remodelling in the hRI group .Further definition of this group may allow us to study firstly those with a very high likelihood of developing PE and secondly those where the initial impairment in remodelling is not sufficient to lead to the clinical condition.In this second group we could postulate that this is because ... | The pathologies of the pregnancy complications pre-eclampsia (PE) and fetal growth restriction (FGR) are established in the first trimester of human pregnancy.In a normal pregnancy, decidual spiral arteries are transformed into wide diameter, non-vasoactive vessels capable of meeting the increased demands of the develo... |
Mindfulness is a translation of the Pali term sati that in meditation context refers to remembering to keep awareness of one's practice.Mindfulness practice normally proceeds in stages, starting from the mindfulness of bodily sensations to awareness of feelings and thoughts, ultimately aimed at developing a present-cen... | Despite growing evidence for demonstrated efficacy of mindfulness in various disorders, there is a continuous concern about the relationship between mindfulness practice and psychosis.As schizotypy is part of the psychosis spectrum, we examined the relationship between long-term mindfulness practice and schizotypy in t... |
also completed the FFMQ to investigate the relationship between trait mindfullness and schizotypy.FFMQ has been derived from factor analysis performed on five of the most commonly used mindfulness measures.The five facets are observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, and non-reactiv... | Participants of study 2 also completed the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire which assesses observing (Observe), describing (Describe), acting with awareness (Awareness), non-judging of (Non-judgment) and non-reactivity to inner experience (Non-reactivity) facets of trait mindfulness.In both studies, meditators scor... |
risk individuals, alongside genetic risk and unusual thought content, and c) we found inverse correlation between ‘suspiciousness’ and Non-judgement in meditators only, MBIs might hold promise in preventing psychosis in high-risk individuals.Another novel finding of our investigation is higher score on ‘magical thinkin... | We conclude that mindfulness practice is not associated with an overall increase in schizotypal traits.Instead, the pattern suggests that mindfulness meditation, particularly with an emphasis on the Awareness, Non-judgment and Non-reactivity aspects, may help to reduce suspiciousness and excessive social anxiety. |
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus is the causative agent of porcine epidemic diarrhea, an enteric disease affecting pigs of all ages.The disease is characterized by acute watery diarrhea, dehydration and vomiting, with high mortality in neonatal piglets.Devastating outbreaks of PED in East Asia and in North America have ... | Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), a coronavirus discovered more than 40 years ago, regained notoriety recently by its devastating outbreaks in East Asia and the Americas, causing substantial economic losses to the swine husbandry.The virus replicates extensively and almost exclusively in the epithelial cells of t... |
in vitro but also in vivo.The GDU spike protein has high homology to the spike protein of the original highly virulent US strains whereas the UU spike protein is of the less virulent S INDEL type.Most of the variation in the spike proteins of the original virulent US strains and the S INDEL strains maps to the N-termin... | PEDV propagation in vitro requires the presence of trypsin(-like) proteases in the culture medium, which capacitates the fusion function of the S protein.Moreover, we summarize the recent progress on the proteolytic activation of PEDV S proteins, and discuss factors that may determine tissue tropism of PEDV in vivo. |
Conventional deep learning classifiers are static in the sense that they are trained ona predefined set of classes and learning to classify a novel class typically requiresre-training.In this work, we address the problem of Low-shot network-expansionlearning.We introduce a learning framework which enables expanding a p... | In this paper, we address the problem of Low-shot network-expansion learning |
current review are limited to a sample of otherwise healthy male and female adults.The outcomes, therefore, may not extrapolate to other potentially vulnerable groups and so this should be explored.It would also be of value to see a more active exploration of gender differences in the study of psychological benefits of... | However, few behavioural and dietary interventions have investigated psychological benefit as the primary outcome.Hence, systematic review methodology was adopted to evaluate the psychological outcomes of weight loss following participation in a behavioural and/or dietary weight loss intervention in overweight/obese po... |
being released.We did not detect a substantial effect of PBP1B on the rate of C15-PP degradation by the phosphatases.However, more experiments are needed to test the possibility that the degradation of C55-PP is faster when it is delivered directly from the polymerase than when it is freely diffusing in the membrane.Th... | Peptidoglycan (PG) is an essential component of the bacterial cell wall that maintains the shape and integrity of the cell.The PG precursor lipid II is assembled at the inner leaflet of the cytoplasmic membrane, translocated to the periplasmic side, and polymerized to glycan chains by membrane anchored PG synthases, su... |
Raw materials form the basis of Europe's economy to ensure jobs and competitiveness, and they are essential for maintaining and improving our quality of life.Securing reliable, sustainable, and undistorted access of raw materials and their circular use in the economy is, therefore, of growing concern within the EU and ... | Raw materials form the basis of Europe's economy to ensure jobs and competitiveness, and they are essential for maintaining and improving quality of life.Although all raw materials are important, some of them are of more concern than others, thus the list of critical raw materials (CRMs) for the EU, and the underlying ... |
is the scaled World Governance Index; t equals the trade adjustment; IR is the Import Reliance; EOLRIR is the End-of-Life Recycling Input Rate; and SISR = Substitution Index related to supply risk.The importance of a raw material to the economy of the Union is assessed by the indicator Economic Importance.This indicato... | Keeping the same methodological approach is a deliberate choice in order to prioritise the comparability with the previous two exercises, effectively monitor trends, and maintain the highest possible policy relevance. |
use of automated technology has less of an impact on eating behaviour than the knowledge that a researcher will be examining and weighing the food consumed.Alternatively, it may be that as the participants are regularly interrupted by the UEM software during the meal to make VAS ratings, this increases awareness of how... | To date, there have been no studies that have explicitly examined the effect of awareness on the consumption of food from a Universal Eating Monitor (UEM - hidden balance interfaced to a computer which covertly records eating behaviour).We tested whether awareness of a UEM affected consumption of a pasta lunch and a co... |
Copper alloys, including bronzes, are currently employed in a wide range of engineering applications because of their high ductility, high corrosion resistance, non-magnetic properties, excellent machinability, and high hardness .Copper is used for electric wiring and in heat exchangers, pumps, tubing, and several othe... | With the aim of obtaining copper alloys with favorable mechanical properties (high strength and high ductility) for various engineering applications, the microstructural characteristics of two conventional copper alloys — an aluminum bronze (AlBC; Cu–Al9.3–Fe3.8–Ni2–Mn0.8) and a brass (HB: Cu–Al4–Zn25–Fe3–Mn3.8) — and ... |
shown in Fig. 5, the hardness value increases with increasing rolling rate and decreasing rolling temperature.These trends are presumably due to the differences in dislocation density, deformation twinning, and internal stress arising during the rolling process, as indicated by the distributions of MO angles seen in Fi... | For the rolling process, the rolling rate and temperature were varied, whereas for the casting process, the solidification rate was varied.Complicated microstructures formed in CADZ led to high hardness and high tensile strength (σUTS), but low ductility (εf).For CADZ, casting at a high solidification rate allowed an i... |
Group II, it might be appropriate to ensure that strains from all three lineages are included.Similar issues also apply to Group I, and in particular the selection of suitable non-toxigenic strains for thermal sterilisation tests.A major future requirement is to increase understanding of the genomic diversity of C. bot... | The deadly botulinum neurotoxin formed by Clostridium botulinum is the causative agent of foodborne botulism.The increasing availability of C. botulinum genome sequences is starting to allow the genomic diversity of C. botulinum Groups I and II and their neurotoxins to be characterised.This information will impact on m... |
In tourism and travel related industries, most of the research on Revenue Management demand forecasting and prediction problems employ data from the aviation industry, in the format known as the Passenger Name Record.This is a format developed by the aviation industry .However, the remaining tourism and travel industri... | This data article describes two datasets with hotel demand data.One of the hotels (H1) is a resort hotel and the other is a city hotel (H2).Both datasets share the same structure, with 31 variables describing the 40,060 observations of H1 and 79,330 observations of H2.Each observation represents a hotel booking.Both da... |
and scenarios of development futures.Solar energy facility developers use PVSyst or System Advisor Model with long-term NSRDB data to estimate power output and assess specific cost and feasibility.A brief summary and description of the abovementioned models is provided in Table 1.The NSRDB has also been used in bioener... | The National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB), consisting of solar radiation and meteorological data over the United States and regions of the surrounding countries, is a publicly open dataset that has been created and disseminated during the last 23 years.This paper briefly reviews the complete package of surface obs... |
Cardiovascular diseases as life-threatening diseases are the most common cause of death in Western European countries .Myocarditis and non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy are acute or chronic disorders of heart muscle which arises mainly from myocardial inflammation or infections by cardiotropic viruses .More than 12 m... | MicroRNAs (miRNAs) can be found in a wide range of tissues and body fluids, and their specific signatures can be used to determine diseases or predict clinical courses.The miRNA profiles in biological samples (tissue, serum, peripheral blood mononuclear cells or other body fluids) differ significantly even in the same ... |
first time a panel of absent miRNAs in serum, PBMCs, EMBs, spinal fluid, urine, and ocular fluid of diseased patients including corresponding healthy controls.Implementing this spectrum in comparison to miRNA studies in different disorders, disease-specific miRNAs can be identified expeditiously.Further studies have to... | Complex profiles of deregulated miRNAs are of high interest, whereas the importance of non-expressed miRNAs was ignored.For the first time, non-detectable miRNAs in different tissues and body fluids from patients with different diseases (cardiomyopathies, Alzheimer's disease, bladder cancer, and ocular cancer) were ana... |
emerging post-Brexit landscape following the EU referendum in June 2016.Early signs are that the current Prime Minister Theresa May will continue to support and expand NCS.However, she is also grappling with a ‘new’ mapping of the Union along fragmented national mandates for ‘Leave’ or ‘Remain’, prompting the possibili... | This paper explores the politics of scale in the context of youth citizenship.We propose the concept of ‘brands of youth citizenship’ to understand recent shifts in the state promotion of citizenship formations for young people, and demonstrate how scale is crucial to that agenda.As such, we push forward debates on the... |
The dataset contains 3 folders: 1) The first folder is all the bibliographic information for thermal comfort and building control research.The total number is 5536 articles, and the publication range is from 1970 to 2016.Table 1 summarizes general information about the publications for the two different search periods.... | This dataset contains bibliography information regarding thermal comfort and building control research.In addition, the instruction of a data-driven literature survey method guides readers to reproduce their own literature survey on related bibliography datasets.Based on specific search terms, all relevant bibliographi... |
croplands .A meta-analysis was applied to synthesize information Regarding the original compilation, we decided to discard data that raised uncertainty by adopting the following criteria: i) data with incomplete information about the investigation, ii) incomplete reporting of missing data, iii) incomplete information o... | Based on international guidelines, the elaboration of national carbon (C) budgets in many countries has tended to set aside the capacity of grazing lands to sequester C as soil organic carbon (SOC).A widely applied simple method assumes a steady state for SOC stocks in grasslands and a long-term equilibrium between ann... |
although it does include items such as “I am often unhappy, down-hearted or tearful”.Depression is relatively uncommon before puberty, so adjustment for a wider range of emotional symptoms at this age could be a better way to account for differences in future depression risk, though residual confounding by childhood de... | Although maternal depression is a risk factor for adolescent depression, evidence about the association between paternal and adolescent depression is inconclusive, and many studies have methodological limitations.Parental depressive symptoms were measured with the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale in ... |
in Fig. 6 are visualized in Fig. 7.All compositions were confirmed with EDX analysis.The sample with the pre-oxidation layer removed from the hydrogen-facing side showed that Fe2O3 covered the entire surface of the sample.This breakaway oxidation layer exhibited a microstructure similar to the one discussed for shorter... | Dual atmosphere conditions have been shown to be detrimental for the ferritic stainless steel interconnects used in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) under certain conditions.In the present work, we analyze the influence of pre-oxidation on corrosion resistance in dual atmosphere with regard to two parameters: the pre-oxid... |
there was vanishingly smaller than those the subarctic and transition regions.As with the MPD of the bomb-derived 137Cs, the MPD of the Fukushima-derived 134Cs in the subtropical region was likely overestimated due to the subsurface maximum.In June 2011, about seven months earlier, Buesseler et al. observed the MPD of ... | We measured vertical distributions of radiocesium (134Cs and 137Cs) at stations along the 149°E meridian in the western North Pacific during winter 2012, about ten months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP1) accident.The Fukushima-derived 134Cs activity concentration and water-column inventory were ... |
There are two parts to the data.The first part of the data includes Table 1, which describes the detailed experimental conditions.The second part of the data includes raw CT images and processed Matlab matrices that show 3D maps of experimental results.For each of the nine sandstone core samples, two 3D CO2 saturation ... | This data article provides detailed explanation and data on CO2/water coreflooding experiments performed on nine sandstone rock cores.Refer to the research article “Predicting CO2 Residual Trapping Ability Based on Experimental Petrophysical Properties for Different Sandstone Types” [1] for data interpretation.The read... |
preferences and desired outcomes, and provide a more varied range of supervised exercise activities.Despite low adherence overall, those who engaged with the intervention demonstrated some notable benefits after just 10 weeks., The largest improvements were in negative symptoms.These symptoms are strongly associated wi... | Physical exercise is increasingly recognized as an important component of psychiatric care, although the feasibility of implementing exercise in residential care settings is not well understood.We evaluated the feasibility of a 10-week intervention of weekly fitness classes (delivered by a personal trainer) and other e... |
components.Table 14 shows the outcomes from component upgrades for the inter-array cables, assuming a linear manufacturing cost model.Improvements observed in most likely LCOE could be regarded as marginal; however, when considering the contribution to CAPEX from the electrical network they become more relevant.Improve... | Variability in the predicted cost of energy of an ocean energy converter array is more substantial than for other forms of energy generation, due to the combined stochastic action of weather conditions and failures.If the variability is great enough, then this may influence future financial decisions.This paper provide... |
air traffic statistics data source employed in SAGE called CAPSTATS.It was shown that the OAG and CAPSTATS air traffic movements data sources are very similar hence it is unlikely that a large portion of the 8% difference is due to SAGE incorporating OAG data.SAGE complemented the OAG flight schedules with radar data.T... | Estimates of global aviation fuel burn and emissions are currently nearly 10years out of date.Here, the development of the Aircraft Performance Model Implementation (APMI) software which is used to update global commercial aviation fuel burn and emissions estimates is described.The results from APMI are compared with p... |
such as online-to-offline, business-to-customer, business-to-business, and so forth, a large amount of information on effective individual needs becomes hidden in big data.An essential question in product design is how to mine and transform individual requirements in order to design customized equipment with high effic... | The development of technologies such as big data and cyber-physical systems (CPSs) has increased the demand for product design.The key technologies of intelligent design for customized products include: a description and analysis of customer requirements (CRs), product family design (PFD) for the customer base, configu... |
Partially observable Markov decision processes are a natural model for scenarios where one has to deal with incomplete knowledge and random events.Applications include, but are not limited to, robotics and motion planning.However, many relevant properties of POMDPs are either undecidable or very expensive to compute in... | This paper provides a game-based abstraction scheme to compute provably sound policies for POMDPs. |
developed stage of degradation, S, O, and Cl attack the alloy interior, reducing the integrity of the alloys and resulting in rapid mass loss and crack formation.For alloy 600 it was found that the oxide scale composition has a principally different composition than 310S and 800H/HT.No major Na-Cr-O formation was found... | Mechanisms of alloy degradation in a fireside N-S-O-C-H-Cl-Na-K atmosphere at 880 °C were elucidated using SEM-EDS, chemical equilibrium calculations, and XRD.Alloys 310S, 800H/HT, and 600 were studied after 0, 8000, and 16,000 h exposure in a boiler co-firing biomass waste.For 310S and 800H/HT it was shown that nitrog... |
an ash detection tool but further work investigating its effectiveness for other volcanic emissions would be interesting and worthwhile.This example demonstrates the importance of using multiple techniques and interpretations for guidance in a hazard situation and highlights the benefit of qualitative interpretation ov... | Despite the similar spectral signatures of ash and desert dust, relatively little has been done to explore the application of dust detection techniques to the problem of volcanic ash detection.The Saharan dust index (SDI) is routinely implemented for dust monitoring at some centres and could be utilised for volcanic as... |
The endothelium exerts many vasoprotective effects that are largely mediated by nitric oxide.These include anti-oxidative effects, anti-inflammatory effects, and anti-platelet aggregation effects.Endothelial dysfunction is an early, reversible step in atherosclerosis and is characterized by a reduction in the bioavaila... | The endothelium exerts many vasoprotective effects that are largely mediated by release of nitric oxide (NO).Endothelial dysfunction represents an early but reversible step in atherosclerosis and is characterized by a reduction in the bioavailability of NO.Previous studies have shown that eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), a... |
of any changes in eNOS expression, suggesting that the mechanism responsible for this benefit is related to eNOS efficiency rather than an increase in the total amount of enzyme or its activity.As noted earlier, when the process known as eNOS uncoupling occurs, excess O2− is generated instead of NO which both decreases... | Through a series of in vitro experiments, this study evaluated the effects of a combined treatment of EPA and the active metabolite of atorvastatin (ATM) on endothelial cell function under conditions of oxidative stress.Specifically, the comparative and time-dependent effects of these agents on endothelial dysfunction ... |
the DTW approach.Here the DTW approach only synchronizes batch trajectories of shorter batches while the batch end-product quality for those shorter batches is kept constant from their original endpoints.This paper has studied an approach to align uneven batch trajectories and the corresponding batch end-product qualit... | Batch processes are commonly characterized by uneven trajectories due to the existence of batch-to-batch variations.The batch end-product quality is usually measured at the end of these uneven trajectories.It is necessary to align the time differences for both the measured trajectories and the batch end-product quality... |
the same subcategory have shorter paths between them, requiring about one less transition from any starting-point job.The first and last rows of each table section show the closeness between non-green and green jobs.The number of connections between Green Rival and non-green jobs is similar to that of Green Rival and g... | This paper estimates the share of jobs in the US that would benefit from a transition to the green economy, and presents different measures for the ease with which workers are likely to be able to move from non-green to green jobs.Using the US O*NET database and its definition of green jobs, 19.4% of US workers could c... |
instances.In other instances, the indirect approach was employed, where the oxidation half reaction took place on a photoexcited n-type semiconductor.As shown in Fig. 20, the overall cell design is very similar to the conventional PEM electrolyzers, except that the anode is irradiated .The principal benefit of this set... | Solar fuel generation through electrochemical CO2 conversion offers an attractive avenue to store the energy of sunlight in the form of chemical bonds, with the simultaneous remediation of a greenhouse gas.While impressive progress has been achieved in developing novel nanostructured catalysts and understanding the mec... |
useful signatures are emerging."With the availability of 'omic technologies, researchers and clinicians can now generate large amounts of data on biological samples.The maturation of bioinformatics technologies is now allowing for the analysis of large data sets such as entire genomes in shorter time frames.The ability... | Precision medicine is an active component of medical practice today, but aspirations are to both broaden its reach to a greater diversity of individuals and improve its "precision" by enhancing the ability to define even more disease states in combination with associated treatments.Given complexity of human phenotypes,... |
and sensory effects including adverse effects and overdose; their physical and chemical properties and pharmacology; their traditional and modern cultural uses; the current state of scientific medical research; and national and international policy implications."Conducting a summit with this level of detail provides Fe... | The purpose of this commentary is to provide an introduction to this special issue of Neuropharmacology with a historical perspective of psychedelic drug research, their use in psychiatric disorders, research-restricting regulatory controls, and their recent emergence as potential breakthrough therapies for several bra... |
which they attempt either to bite each other on the shoulders or mount one another; grasshopper mice either compete to bite each other on the nape of the neck or lick, groom and nuzzle the sides of their partner’s shoulders; and gray mouse lemurs compete to bite each other on the face, groom each others’ faces and uppe... | Given that many behavior patterns cluster together in sequences that are organized to solve specific problems (e.g., foraging), a fruitful perspective within which to study behaviors is as distinct ‘behavior systems’.Unlike many behavior systems that are widespread (e.g., anti-predator behavior, foraging, reproduction)... |
which was stored at 4 to 20 °C are heated to 70 °C for 20 minutes.These conditions will inactivate the cell growth while protecting the cell damage and protein denaturation.15 g of these microalgae was mixed with 1 liter of water to have the un-sheared standard sample.To prepare the sheared samples, same amount of this... | It showed an exponential phase of growth up to 8 days and then a stationary phase of growth from 8 days to 15 days.The rheological properties of microalgae biomass during the growth represented power law model.Microscopic analysis showed the influence of shearing on variation of algal structure from clusters to complet... |
the different tools only need to map some information already available on the filesystem or provided by the operating system in internal data structures.Differently from Mammut, likwid does not have any means to monitor remote architectures.This is an important feature due to the capillary diffusion of computing devic... | Managing low-level architectural features for controlling performance and power consumption is a growing demand in the parallel computing community.More important, most existing tools can only be used through a command line interface and they do not provide any API.Moreover, in most cases, they only allow monitoring an... |
Melioidosis is a serious infection caused by the Gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei, found in soil and water.1,The reported incidence of human melioidosis is highest in northeast Thailand and northern Australia.2,3,Melioidosis also affects travellers to melioidosis-endemic regions of the world,4 which inc... | Background Melioidosis, an infectious disease caused by the Gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei, is difficult to cure.The standard oral regimen based on trial evidence is trimethoprim-sulfamethoxaxole (TMP-SMX) plus doxycycline.Findings We enrolled and randomly assigned 626 patients: 311 to TMP-SMX plus pl... |
and were the only feasible option to establish susceptibility in the five study sites.The estimated HR of discontinuation of the study drug due to treatment failure should be interpreted with caution because the Schoenfeld test provided weak evidence suggesting that the HR for this outcome might not be constant over ti... | This regimen is used in Thailand but is associated with side-effects and poor adherence by patients, and TMP-SMX alone is recommended in Australia.Methods For this multi-centre, double-blind, non-inferiority, randomised placebo-controlled trial, we enrolled patients (aged ≥15 years) from five centres in northeast Thail... |
find model parameters for individuals.An individualised model can aid design and optimisation of layouts for individual differences and abilities.The model can be used to compare frequently and infrequently used objects.In the experiment reported here, all objects had the same frequency.However, the model predicts, for... | We present a computational model of visual search on graphical layouts.It assumes that the visual system is maximising expected utility when choosing where to fixate next.Three utility estimates are available for each visual search target: one by unguided perception only, and two, where perception is guided by long-ter... |
average heat transfer coefficient goes up due to the temperature gradient increase between the base of heat sink and the airflow.Therefore, the thermal resistance is lower as it is inversely proportional to the surface area and coefficient of heat transfer, Eq.Thermal performance of plate-fin heat sinks with fillet pro... | Many researchers have studied the thermal performance of heat sinks, however to the best knowledge of the authors, the effect of flow direction (place of fan) on the thermal performance of plate-fin heat sinks with fillet profile have not yet been investigated.In this paper, the investigation develops a computational f... |
We present a deep reinforcement learning approach to minimizing the execution cost of neural network computation graphs in an optimizing compiler.Unlike earlier learning-based works that require training the optimizer on the same graph to be optimized, we propose a learning approach that trains an optimizer offline and... | We use deep RL to learn a policy that directs the search of a genetic algorithm to better optimize the execution cost of computation graphs, and show improved results on real-world TensorFlow graphs. |
an atypical member of the outgroup and that the outgroup did indeed hold contrasting values.Nonetheless, across the studies a picture emerges that imagining contact with an anti-normative outgroup member generates a positive situational construal that can also promote more positive responses to the outgroup as whole.A ... | Can imagining contact with anti-normative outgroup members be an effective tool for improving intergroup relations?Extant theories predict greatest prejudice reduction following contact with typical outgroup members.In contrast, using subjective group dynamics theory, we predicted that imagining contact with anti-norma... |
doxorubicin .A recent study confirmed the role of PSCs in radio-resistance by activating the integrin-FAK signaling in tumor cells .CAFs represent the majority of the cellular compartment of tumor microenvironment of PDACs."A study by Richard's et al. showed that CAFs exposed to chemotherapy play an active role in the ... | Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest forms of cancer.A major reason for this situation is the fact that these tumors are already resistant or become rapidly resistant to all conventional therapies.Like any transformation process, initiation and development of PDCA are driven by a well known p... |
arithmetic abilities.Specifically, prediction of the outcome of tracking a single object across occlusion effectively consists of adherence to the principles that 0 + 1 = 1 and 1 − 1 = 0.In this respect, this account is consistent with the argument that awareness of object permanence develops from perception of object ... | Investigating infants’ numerical ability is crucial to identifying the developmental origins of numeracy.Wynn (1992) claimed that 5-month-old infants understand addition and subtraction as indicated by longer looking at outcomes that violate numerical operations (i.e., 1 + 1 = 1 and 2 − 1 = 2).However, Wynn's claim was... |
The relevant data is provided in this article.See Table 1 and Table 1, and Figs. 1 and 2.The raw data files that were used in the analysis and interpretation are available in Institute for Atherosclerosis Research, Skolkovo Innovative Center, Moscow Region, Russian Federation.http://inat.ru/.This dataset report is dedi... | This dataset report is dedicated to mitochondrial genome variants associated with asymptomatic atherosclerosis.These data were obtained using the method of next generation pyrosequencing (NGPS).The whole mitochondrial genome of the sample of patients from the Moscow region was analyzed.In this article the dataset inclu... |
X-ray diffraction pattern for the Ag30Li70 alloy, including settings on the experimental run, followed by two columns with the 2θ and Intensity normalized to an Imax = 100.No zero-shift correction and no normalization were performed.The configuration of the diffractometer is Bragg-Brentano and the sample was polycrysta... | The Ag–Li system was analysed using first-principles calculations 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.152811 [1].The method included using density functional theory to optimize the crystal structure of the phases constituting the binary phase diagram by relaxing atomic positions, volume, and shape.The optimized structures were subs... |
test.The underlying assumption is that temperature-dependent stiffness variations for the elastomers inside the mount occupies a central position for service ageing.From the observations in this study, it can be interpreted that pure thermal effects would change the elastic modulus of the elastomers inside the engine m... | In general, understanding ageing-dependent stiffness is important for life cycle design.In this paper, a new experimental procedure is developed to study the ageing mechanisms of service-aged engine mounts using digital image correlation measurements.The present contribution demonstrates that the leading factors for ag... |
Tables 1 and 2 show data obtained through the literature review and calculated using the method described.Table 1 shows fluoride concentration in water supplies in different provinces of Iran.Table 2 lists the AAMT data by provinces and the calculated optimal fluoride concentrations in their respective water supply sys... | Fluoride concentrations in drinking water were analyzed relative to air temperature data collected in different provinces of Iran.Determining suitable concentrations of fluoride in drinking water is crucial for communities because of the health effects of fluoride on humans.This study analyzed fluoride concentrations i... |
erythroblasts, the isolated CD34+ haematopoietic stem cells from adult peripheral blood were divided into 2 groups.Aliquots of approximately 104 CD34+ cells were maintained in the media of a 3-stage erythroid culture system containing heparin or without heparin.The numbers of erythroid cells were evaluated every other ... | In vitro generation of red blood cells has become a goal for scientists globally.Directly, in vitro-generated red blood cells (RBCs) may close the gap between blood supply obtained through blood donation and high demand for therapeutic uses.In addition, the cells obtained can be used as a model for haematologic disorde... |
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