To assess the nutritional status, its change after surgery and impact of nutritional support on urinary nitrogen losses (UNL) and nitrogen balance (NB) based on changing serum albumin levels in a developing country, 89 patient (58 M) aged 39 yrs ±15 were studied. Nutritional assessment was done at admission and 2 weeks postoperatively. UNL and NB was assessed on postoperative day one (D1), two ...

Cadicivirus (CDV) is unique amongst picornaviruses in having a dicistronic genome with internal ribosomal entry sites (IRESs) preceding both open reading frames. Here, we investigated initiation on the 5'-terminal IRES. We report that the 982-nt long 5'UTR comprises 12 domains (d1-d12), five of which (d8-d12, nts 341-950) constitute a divergent Type I IRES. It comprises central elements (the ap...

This paper is concerned with the fast-lifting approach to H∞ analysis and design of sampleddata systems, and extends our preceding study on modified fast-sample/fast-hold (FSFH) approximation, in which the direct feedthrough matrix D11 from the disturbance w to the controlled output z was assumed to be zero. More precisely, this paper removes this assumption and shows that a γ-independent H∞ di...

An artificial diet to mass-rear Euschistus heros (F. 1798) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) was developed in the laboratory. Biological studies were conducted under controlled conditions of temperature (25 ± 2 °C), RH: 60 ± 10%, and photoperiod of 14:10 (L:D) h. Out of 13 diets tested, 2 diets (D9 and D11) were the most suitable. The artificial diets selected had the same composition (green beans, pea...

A pilot field study was conducted to assess the impact of bioaugmentation with two plasmid pJP4-bearing microorganisms: the natural host, Ralstonia eutropha JMP134, and a laboratory-generated strain amenable to donor counterselection, Escherichia coli D11. The R. eutropha strain contained chromosomal genes necessary for mineralization of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), while the E. coli...

It is frequently assumed in several domains of economics that demand functions are invertible prices. At the primitive level preferences, however, corresponding characterization has remained elusive. We identify necessary and sufficient conditions on a utility-maximizing consumer’s preferences for her function to be continuous invertible: strict convexity, monotonicity, differentiability sense ...

A (partially naïve) quasi-hyperbolic discounter repeatedly chooses whether to complete a task. Her net benefits of task completion are drawn independently between periods from time-invariant distribution. We show that the probability completing conditional on not having done so earlier increases towards deadline. Conversely, we establish nonidentifiability by proving for any time-preference par...