INTRODUCTION In the treatment of patients with diabetes, one objective is an improvement of cardiac metabolism to alleviate the left ventricular (LV) function. For this study, we compared the effects of acetyl-l-carnitine (one of the carnitine derivatives) and of oxfenicine (a carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 inhibitor) on cardiac pumping mechanics in streptozotocin-induced diabetes in male Wis...

Collagen porous scaffolds have been widely employed as a dermal equivalent to induce fibroblasts infiltration and dermal regeneration. To eliminate the disadvantageous drawback of the fast degradation speed, a cross-linking method was adopted by using a water-soluble carbodiimide, 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-carbodiimide (EDAC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) in the presence of amino acids...

Spinless fermions in one dimension with nearest-neighbor transfer amplitude $\ensuremath{-}t$ and interaction $V$ display a Kosterlitz-Thouless-type quantum phase transition from Luttinger liquid metal to charge density wave insulator at finite strength ${V}_{\mathrm{c}}=2t$. The authors use the matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method on rings $L\ensuremath{\le}512$ sites for an accurate loc...

We constructed a force platform to investigate the scaling relationships of the detailed dynamics of jumping performance in striped marsh frogs (Limnodynastes peronii). Data were used to test between two alternative models that describe the scaling of anuran jumping performance; Hill's model, which predicts mass- independence of jump distance, and Marsh's model, which predicts that jump distanc...

$r$-module. in this paper, we explore more properties of $max$-injective modules and we study some conditions under which the maximal spectrum of $m$ is a $max$-spectral space for its zariski topology.

{ 26 { makes expander codes inappropriate for on-line communications, but they may be useful for storage on write-once media, because of their eecient decoding algorithms. Both of these recent developments were inspired by the innuential role that codes play in the theory of probabilistically checkable proof systems. In a forthcoming paper, Arora 2] explores this role in depth. His work formali...