Divorce has been identified as a risk factor for suicide. However, little research has been conducted on the time trajectory of the influence of relationship separation on suicidal outcomes. This study aimed to assess the effects over time of relationship breakdown and separation on suicidality. Data were drawn from 6616 Australian adults participating in the PATH through Life Project, a popula...

Liposomes are used widely as drug delivery systems in different forms including nanosuspensions, osmotic pumps, infusion pumps, and IV injections. Some of these systems (e.g. infusion or osmotic pumps) might stay stagnant for a long time during or before administration, and therefore, might face phase separation. In spite of these, there are no data available about the behavior of liposomal sys...

Resolution of racemic tert-butyl-1-(2-methylnaphthyl)-phosphine oxide 1, a chiral phosphorus compound, was achieved using selectors developed from a small peptide library. Separation factors as high as 3.2 were observed. The library consists of 81 peptide-based potential chiral selectors on polymeric synthesis resins. The linker needed to immobilize the identified chiral selectors onto silica g...

Asymmetric tubular alumina-supported poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) membranes were created and characterized by pervaporation separation of binary mixtures of methanol and methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE). The active separation layer was created by free-radical graft polymerization of PVAc and PVP onto a vinylsilane-modified alumina substrate with an average native p...

Postnatal maternal separation increases hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) gene expression and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and behavioral responses to stress. We report here that environmental enrichment during the peripubertal period completely reverses the effects of maternal separation on both HPA and behavioral responses to stress, with no effect on CRF mRNA expressi...

Chitosan (CS) and alginate (Alg) are complementary in their membrane performance, but the combination of them is normally difcult to use due to their different solubilities. Layer-by-Layer deposition appears to be an effective method for improving the separation efciency of a composite membrane. In this work, the polyelectrolyte multilayer composite membranes (PEMCMs) wer...

The presence of an area of reversed blood flow due to flow separation in the interval carotid artery is a normal finding in Doppler ultrasound studies in vivo as well as in model carotid bifurcations. This flow separation phenomenon is caused by the geometry of the carotid bifurcation and the fluid dynamics of blood. We demonstrated the flow separation phenomenon on lateral-projection intra-art...

Parke-Davis bovine thrombin was resolved into three distinct protein peaks on a Sephadex G-200 column. A stepwise chromatographic technique on diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) cellulose was developed for the complete separation and partial purification of thrombin and activated Factor X. Thrombin was quantitatively eluted in the first protein peak with 0.1 M NaCl, pH 7.0. A second peak with residual th...

Cellulase activity increased in separation-zone tissues 1 day after "Valencia" orange (Citrus sinensis [L.] Osbeck) was treated with 20 micrograms per milliliter cycloheximide. Exocellulase was detected only in the separation zones of treated fruit, whereas endocellulase was present in zones from both treated and control fruit. Endocellulase activity in separation-zone tissue of treated fruit w...

This doctoral thesis is about a rather new model-based signal processing methodology that is based on factor graphs and message-passing algorithms. Using this, we have developed exemplary signal processing algorithms for various biomedical applications. The main application to evaluate and demonstrate this new methodology was in the field of electromyographic (EMG) signal analysis. EMG signals ...