BACKGROUND This study investigated the validity of self-reported concentration and memory problems (CMP) in residents environmentally exposed to manganese (Mn). METHOD Self-report of CMP from a health questionnaire (HQ) and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) was compared to neuropsychological assessment (Trails A&B; Digit Span; Digit Symbol; Similarities; Auditory Consonant Trigrams,...

Recent advances in semiconductor manufacturing and engineering technologies have led to the inclusion of more than one CPU core in a single physical processor package. This, popularly known as Chip Multi Processing (CMP), allows multiple instruction streams to execute at the same time. CMP is in addition to today’s Simultaneous Multi Threading (SMT) capabilities, like Intel R © Hyper-Threading ...

Our project starts from investigating if instruction-based sharing exists on commercial workloads such as Apache, Zeus, Jbb, and Oltp running on CMPs. We find that there is a large amount of instruction-based sharing on CMPs. Constructive interference at the instruction cache miss level also exists among different CMP cores. We further study if the implementation of a shared Markov table can he...

The research methods and the first results obtained in study of roughness single-crystal silicon (111) substrates processed at final stage by various are described: traditional polishing without use chemical-mechanical (CMP), with CMP CMP, but oxide cerium nanopowders. efficiency using CeO 2 nanopowders has been demonstrated. following effective values were obtained: - 3.56 nm, 0.54 0.93 nm. Ke...

CMAH CMPN -acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase CMP-Kdn Cytidine monophospho-2-keto-3 deoxynonulosonic acid CMP-Neu5Ac Cytidine monophosphoN -acetylneuraminic acid CMP-Neu5Gc Cytidine monophosphoN -glycolylneuraminic acid Gal Galactose GlcNAc N -Acetylglucosamine ITIM Immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif Kdn 2-Keto-3 deoxynonulosonic acid Neu5Ac N -Acetylneuraminic acid Neu5Gc N -Glycoly...

The expression of O-acetylated sialic acids in human colonic mucins is developmentally regulated, and a reduction of O-acetylation has been found to be associated with the early stages of colorectal cancer. Despite this, however, little is known about the enzymatic process of sialic acid O-acetylation in human colonic mucosa. Recently, we have reported on a human colon sialate-7(9)-O-acetyltran...

Myocardial inflammation is one of the commonest mechanisms in cardiomyopathy (CMP). Mannose binding lectin (MBL) is a key molecule in innate immunity, while macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a constitutive element of the host defenses. We investigated the possible association between polymorphisms of MBL2 and MIF genes and CMP in Turkish children. Twenty-children with CMP and 30 h...

A potentially low-risk surgery to improve hemodynamics and functional class in heart failure patients and others with advanced ventricular dysfunction, dynamic cardiomyoplasty (CMP) has been performed over 1,000 times worldwide. During long-term follow-up, arrhythmic sudden cardiac death remains a major cause of death with any advanced medical management (i.e., a 15%−50% risk of recurrent cardi...