With the steady rise of health and environmental awareness, the number of bicyclists is increasing. However, there are few epidemiologic studies on bicycling under the influence (BUI). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of BUI and the associated risk factors in a representative Korean population. The data of 4,833 adult bicyclists who participated in the Korean National Healt...

The present study determined the effect of organically quaternizing either of the two tertiary nitrogen sites of nicotine to assess the in vivo effects of the permanently ionized states of the synthesized N-[14C]methylnicotines on brain uptake in rat after intracarotid injection. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used to measure the brain uptake index (BUI) by single-pass clearance in brain after r...

The effect of oxygen saturation and PCO2 on brain uptake of glucose analogues was studied in rabbits. Using a modified Oldendorf technique, 14C-labeled glucose analogues with a 3H2O reference standard were introduced into the cerebral circulation via the common carotid artery, and the radioactivity of the ipsilateral cerebral cortex was counted and expressed in terms of a brain uptake index (BU...

Distributed Activation Energy Modelling for Thermal Decomposition of Microalgae Residues Khanh-Quang Tran , Hau-Huu Bui , Wei-Hsin Chen a Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway b The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand c Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics –...

BUI: Browser User Interface. BUI is a technology which unifies the desktop environment inside the browser. Implementing such an interface will radically alter the desktop environment. First and foremost, the concept of a separate browser running on a desktop is eliminated. In fact, the browser will be the desktop. The need for having browser as a separate application running on the desktop is e...

Purpose: Pelvis fractures are associated with bladder and urethral injury (BUI). The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors BUI in patients pelvic fracture.Methods: Patients (> 18 years) (<i>N</i> = 314) at our hospital between January 2015 June 2020 were retrospectively analyzed for age, sex, cause injury, initial vital signs, urine red blood cell (RBC) count, Glasgo...

In their comment, Bui et al argue that the approach we described in our report is vastly inferior in efficiency to alternative off-the-shelf technologies. Their conclusion is invalid, as they compare efficiencies in completely different operating conditions. Here, using heat transfer and thermodynamics principles, we show how Bui et al's conclusions about the efficiencies of off-the-shelf techn...

Fed and starved rats were studied on successive days during a 5-day starvation period. The ability of ketone bodies to pass the blood-brain barrier was estimated by single common carotid injections of labeled ketone bodies and water, and results were expressed as the ratio between the normalized activities of tracers in tissue and blood, the brain uptake index (BUI). BUI of D-3-hydroxybutyrate ...