BACKGROUND Two types of adipose tissues, white (WAT) and brown (BAT) are found in mammals. Increasingly novel strategies are being proposed for the treatment of obesity and its associated complications by altering amount and/or activity of BAT using mouse models. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPLE FINDINGS The present study was designed to: (a) investigate the differential expression of genes in LACA mice...

0965-9978/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2008.08.002 * Corresponding author. Present address: Civil Eng ican University of Sharjah, P.O. Box 26666, Sharjah, U E-mail addresses: [email protected] ( edu.tr, [email protected] (E. Kahya). URL: http://atlas.cc.itu.edu.tr/~kahyae (E. Kahya). 1 Present address: Department of Water Engineering of Twente, P.O. Box...

Dieser Beitrag stellt das ” Security Workflow Analysis Toolkit“ (SWAT) vor, eine Plattform für die formal fundierte Analyse von Geschäftsprozessen. Ausgehend von als Muster formalisierten Sicherheitsanforderungen dient SWAT als Basis für die Analyse von Prozessmodellen und Prozesslogs. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt anhand von Beispielen, welche Arten von Analysen mit SWAT möglich sind und wie S...

Browning is characterized by the formation of beige/brite fat depots in subcutaneous white adipose tissue (sWAT). This study aimed to examine whether the chronic activation of PPARalpha by fenofibrate could induce beige cell depots in the sWAT of diet-induced obese mice. High-fat fed animals presented overweight, insulin resistance and displayed adverse sWAT remodeling. Fenofibrate significantl...

Selecting the right model to simulate a specific watershed has always been a challenge, and field testing of watersheds could help researchers to use the proper model for their purposes. The performance of three popular Geographic Information System (GIS)-based watershed simulation models (European Hydrological System Model (MIKE SHE), Agricultural Policy/Environmental Extender (APEX) and Soil ...

We developed a practical method to accelerate execution of Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) using open (free) computational resources. The SWAT source code (rev 622) was recompiled using a noncommercial Intel FORTRAN compiler in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Linux platform, and newly named iOMP-SWAT in this study. GNU utilities of make, gprof, and diff were used to develop the iOMP-SWAT package, profil...

SWAT is a GIS-based basin-scale model widely used for the characterization of hydrology and water quality of large, complex watersheds; however, SWAT has not been fully tested in watersheds with karst geomorphology and downstream reservoir-like embayment. In this study, SWAT was applied to test its ability to predict monthly streamflow dynamics for a 1,555 ha karst watershed, Chapel Branch Cree...