A field study was carried out in order to derive a factor for the conversion of historic worker exposure data on airborne beryllium (Be) obtained by sampling according to the 37-mm closed faced filter cassette (CFC) 'total' particulate method into exposure concentration values to be expected when sampling using the 'Gesamtstaubprobenahmesystem' (GSP) inhalable sampling convention. Workplaces se...

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the possible ameliorative role of grape seed proanthocyanidins (GSP) against Cadmium (Cd) induced hepatic inflammation, apoptosis and hepatic mitochondrial toxicity in rats. Male Wistar rats were distributed in four experimental groups: control, GSP, Cd and Cd + GSP. Exposure to a hepatotoxic dose of Cd (5 mg/kg BW) caused liver damage, coupled with ...

Two experiments examined the link between interpretation and memory in individuals diagnosed with Generalized Social Phobia (GSP). In Experiment 1, GSP and control participants generated continuations for nonsocial and ambiguous social scenarios. GSP participants produced more socially anxious and negative continuations for the social scenarios than did the controls. On the subsequent test of r...

High-spatial and energy resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) can be used for detailed characterization of localized and propagating surface-plasmon excitations in metal nanostructures, giving insight into fundamental physical phenomena and various plasmonic effects. Here, applying EELS to ultra-sharp convex grooves in gold, we directly probe extremely confined gap surface-plasmon...

We consider variants of the cascade model of externalities in sponsored search auctions introduced independently by Aggrawal et al. and Kempe and Mahdian in 2008, where the click-through rate of a slot depends also on the ads assigned to earlier slots. Aggrawal et al. and Kempe and Mahdian give a dynamic programming algorithm for finding the efficient allocation in this model. We give worst-cas...

BACKGROUND The goal of the present study was to assess the effects of computed tomography (CT)-guided iodine-125 (125I) seed implantation or gelatin sponge particle (GSP) embolization on patients with giant benign sacral neurogenic tumors. METHODS A total of 24 cases with giant sacral neurogenic tumor were performed in a retrospective study between 2000 and 2012. Nineteen cases received surgi...

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is considered the gold standard for assessment of glycemic control in diabetic patients. HbA1c is inadequate in individuals homozygous or compound heterozygous for hemoglobin variants or in conditions with an altered red blood cell turnover. In these cases glycated albumin (GA) is proposed as an alternative assay. We aimed to evaluate the analytical performance of the Dia...

This paper is concerned with a problem on networks which we call the Generalized Subgraph Problem (GSP). The GSP is defined on an undirected graph where the vertex set is partitioned into clusters. The task is to find a subgraph which touches at most one vertex in each cluster so as to maximize the sum of vertex and edge weights. The GSP is a relaxation of several important problems of a ‘gener...

The effects of canopy development, solar elevation, and sky conditions on temporal variation in photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) were examined within a 9-year-old bigleaf maple stand on Vancouver Island (Canada). PPFD was measured every second and stored as 10-min averages from 18 May to 14 October 1996, at 52 microsites characterised according to their growing season %PPFD (GSP). PPFD...

Recent studies have shown that blood HbA1c levels alone may not accurately reflect serum glucose concentrations in all diabetic patients. For certain diabetic patients, there exists a glycation gap. It was reported that the glycation gap information obtained by measuring HbA1c and glycated serum protein (GSP) or glycated albumin (GA) together may improve evaluation of diabetic patients by more ...