Three immobilization protocols were investigated for direct electron characteristics of laccase at 3D-hierarchical carbon nanotubes composite materials (3D-CNT/CMF). Electrochemical comparison between randomly adsorbed laccase molecules and those possessing site-directed covalent binding to the support are presented. The high current densities measured are suggesting an excellent compatibility ...

Validated trauma classification systems are the sole means to provide the basis for reliable documentation and evaluation of patient care, which will open the gateway to evidence-based procedures and healthcare in the coming years. With the support of AO Investigation and Documentation, a classification group was established to develop and evaluate a comprehensive classification system for cran...

Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Primary Breast Cancer Adjuvant chemotherapy reduces the relative risk of relapse by about 25% – independent of the nodal status. Anthracycline-containing regimens are considered standard for adjuvant chemotherapy. In single studies, superiority to CMF has only been shown for anthracyclinecontaining polychemotherapies with at least three substances or a sequential anthra...

In this paper, we propose the heterogeneous CDMA (H-CDMA) protocol, a time code division multiple access (TCDMA) protocol consisting of the centralized single-allocation function (CSF), the centralized multipleallocation function (CMF), and the distributed multiple-allocation function (DMF). CSF or CMF can achieve high throughput and support differentiated service quality in conventional cellul...

A necessary and sufficient condition of comparability for using SMR was studied mathematically by considering the equivalence between SMR and CMF, as CMF was a perfectly comparable index. This condition was expressed by either proportionality of mortality vectors or proportionality of projected person-years to the plane spanned by mortality vectors of reference and index groups. We could obtain...

This paper evaluates the relationship between the cloud modification factor (CMF) in the ultraviolet erythemal range and the cloud optical depth (COD) retrieved from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) “cloud mode” algorithm under overcast cloudy conditions (confirmed with sky images) at Granada, Spain, mainly for non-precipitating, overcast and relatively homogenous water clouds. Empirical C...

A technique for recording a three-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) without increasing the number of channels and electrodes in a commercially available two-channel Holter recorder was devised. On channel 1, a V5-like lead (CM5 lead) was recorded for 24 consecutive hours. On channel 2, the device could switch continuously between a V2-like lead (CM2 lead) and a II- or III- or a VF-like lead (CMf lea...

OBJECTIVE The development of heart failure is invariably associated with extensive fibrosis. Treatment with Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR) ligands has been shown to attenuate cardiac fibrosis, but the molecular mechanism underlying this protective effect has remained largely unknown. In this study the potential of each PPAR isoform (PPARalpha, delta, and gamma) to attenuate c...

During cardiac remodeling, cardiac fibroblasts (CF) are influenced by increased levels of interleukin-1α (IL-1α) and transforming growth factor-β1 (TGFβ1). The present study investigated the interaction between these two important cytokines on function of human CF and their differentiation to myofibroblasts (CMF). CF were isolated from human atrial appendage and exposed to IL-1α and/or TGFβ1 (b...