The link between non-linear chiral effective Lagrangians and the Walecka model description of bulk nuclear matter [1] is questioned. This fact is by itself due to the Mean Field Approximation (MFA) which in nuclear mater makes the picture of a nucleonnucleon interaction based on scalar(vector) meson exchange, equivalent to the description of a nuclear matter based on attractive and repulsive co...

Results 54 subjects (median age 49, range 24-81, 26 males) were recruited. We noted poor agreement and correlation in the pre contrast T1s in both blood and myocardium. There was strong correlation, but poor agreement in post contrast T1 measurements. However, mean Vd(m) at equilibrium was 0.258±0.032 using MFA FLASH and 0.263±0.034 with ShMOLLI, with good agreement on Bland Altman analysis (Fi...

One of the sources of resistance to the implementation of electronic health records is that it often takes years to roll out a fully functional system. The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) has set a new standard for rapid EHR implementation by bringing 99 physicians and 130 residents and interns live in less than 30 days in a complex academic setting. MFA leveraged ...

In this paper, an improved bacterial foraging algorithm (IBFA) is employed to solve economicemission dispatch (EED) problem. Regarding to more interest to renewable energy sources especially wind energy in recent years, it is necessary to use of incorporate wind power plants into EED problem. To consider realistic conditions, EED is included bi-objective of cost and NOx emission. The problems e...

BACKGROUND It is essential that the human race limits the environmental damage created by our consumption. A realistic pathway to limiting consumption would be to transition to a system where materials are conserved and cycled through the economy as many times as possible and as slowly as possible, greatly reducing the greenhouse gas intensive processes of resource extraction, resource processi...

MFA sonar operations occur repeatedly on Navy ranges that are known to contain populations of Blainville’s (Mesoplodon densirostris, Md) and Cuvier’s (Ziphius cavirostris, Zc) beaked whales. Strandings of these species have been associated with the use of Navy sonar [1], [2]. A population of Md is known to use the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) range in the Tongue Of The O...

A challenge in microarray data analysis concerns discovering local structures composed by sets of genes that show homogeneous expression patterns across subsets of conditions. We present an extension of the mixture of factor analyzers model (MFA) allowing for simultaneous clustering of genes and conditions. The proposed model is rather flexible since it models the density of high-dimensional da...

Abstract We present multiple factor analysis for contingency tables (MFACT) and its implementation in the FactoMineR package. This method, through an option of the MFA function, allows us to deal with multiple contingency or frequency tables, in addition to the categorical and quantitative multiple tables already considered in previous versions of the package. Thanks to this revised function, e...

Intracellular protein degradation is primarily performed by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and the autophagic-lysosomal pathway (ALP). The interplay between these two pathways has been rarely examined in intact animals and the mechanism underlying the interplay remains unclear. Hence, we sought to test in vivo and in vitro the impact of inhibition of the ALP on UPS proteolytic performanc...

The Rate-All-That-Apply (RATA) method, an intensity-based Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) variant, has recently been developed for sensory characterization involving untrained panellists. The aim of this study was to investigate the sensory profiles of ten model (double) emulsions with subtle perceptual differences obtained from the Rate-All-That-Apply (RATA) method with untrained panellists (n = 8...