Address for correspondence: Maria Weryńska-Kalemba MD, PhD, Chair and Clinical Department of Internal Diseases, Dermatology and Allergology, Medical University of Silesia, 10 M. Skłodowskiej-Curie St, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland, phone: +48 664 968 021, fax: +48 32 271 31 65, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 9.03.2015, accepted: 11.05.2015. A case of lipoatrophic panniculitis in a 2-year-ol...

139 Address for correspondence: Dr. Shailesh Rajaram Deshpande, Chellaram Diabetes Institute, Lalani Quantum, First Floor, Mumbai-Bangalore Bypass Highway, Bavdhan Budruk, Pune 411 021, Maharashtra, India. E-mail: [email protected] Received: 15-Dec-2014 Revised: 29-Jan-2015 Accepted: 16-Feb-2015 Establishing rural and urban health training centers in AYUSH teaching institutes: A pivotal st...

We provide an existence proof for Generalized Marginal Cost Pricing with given tax-subsidy rules. The novelty is that our approach allows for economic environments where all the generalized marginal cost pricing equilibria are inefficient in the aggregate. An example is recalled in order to suggest how non-pathological these environments are. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Number...

Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) and nitric oxide (NO) are both gasotransmitters that can elicit synergistic vasodilatory responses in the in the cardiovascular system, but the mechanisms behind this synergy are unclear. In the current study we investigated the molecular mechanisms through which H(2)S regulates endothelial NO production. Initial studies were performed to establish the temporal and dose...

Therapeutic angiogenesis remains unsuccessful in coronary artery disease. It is known that plasma endothelium-derived microparticles (EMPs) are increased in coronary artery disease and that hypercholesterolemia can inhibit angiogenesis. We evaluated the relationship between EMPs and hypercholesterolemia in the impairment of angiogenesis. EMPs isolated from human umbilical vein endothelial cells...

NO production catalysed by eNOS (endothelial nitric-oxide synthase) plays an important role in the cardiovascular system. A variety of agonists activate eNOS through the Ser1177 phosphorylation concomitant with Thr495 dephosphorylation, resulting in increased ·NO production with a basal level of calcium. To date, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. We have previously demonstrated that per...

MaxWeight scheduling algorithms provide an effective mechanism for achieving queue stability and guaranteeing maximum throughput in a wide variety of scenarios. The maximumstability guarantees however rely on the fundamental premise that the system consists of a fixed set of sessions with stationary ergodic traffic processes. In the present paper we examine a scenario where the population of ac...

The successive approximation ADC has been the mainstay of data acquisition systems for many years. Recent design improvements have extended the sampling frequency of these ADCs into the megahertz region with 18-bit resolution. The Analog Devices PulSAR family of SAR ADCs uses internal switched capacitor techniques along with auto calibration and offers 18-bits at 2 MSPS (AD7641) on CMOS process...

1 Abstract Standard representations of irregular nite element meshes combine vertex data sample coordinates and node values and connectivity tetrahedron-vertex incidence. Connectivity speciies how the samples should be interpolated. It may beencoded for each tetrahedron as four vertex-references,