The relative apportionment of hydrocarbons (HCs) coming from mobile, fixed, and other sources (not correlated either to carbon monoxide [CO] or sulfur dioxide [SO2] emissions as solvent evaporation and biogenic sources) is calculated as previously proposed by Riveros et al.1 through the linear approximation [HC] total = [HC]0 + m1 [CO] + m2 [SO2], where m1 and m2 are fitted constants. The obtai...

The role of postingestive factors in the preference for and overconsumption of high-fat (HF) foods, relative to high-carbohydrate (HC) foods, was investigated using a self-regulated intragastric feeding procedure. On one-bottle training days, rats drank one flavored saccharin solution [conditioned stimulus (CS) + HF] paired with intragastric infusions of an HF liquid diet, a second flavored sol...

The mechanism by which substrates for endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation are retrotranslocated to the cytosol remains largely unknown, although ubiquitination is known to play a key role. The mouse gamma-herpesvirus protein mK3 is a viral RING-CH-type E3 ligase that specifically targets nascent major histocompatibility complex I heavy chain (HC) for degradation, thus blocking the immu...

N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs), a major subtype of glutamate receptor mediating excitatory transmission throughout the CNS, participate in ischemia-induced neuronal death. Unfortunately, undesired side effects have limited the strategy of inhibiting/blocking NMDARs as therapy. Targeting endogenous positive allosteric modulators of NMDAR function may offer a strategy with fewer downside...

Using biodiesel in diesel engines is beneficial for reducing emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matters (PM). Biodiesel usually produced from vegetable oils or animal fats. When plant oil woody sources, can reduce a significant amount dioxide on life cycle basis. The objective this study to produce non-conventional source that is, crude tall oil, which dark bro...

On-road exhaust emissions from light-duty vehicles are greatly influenced by driving conditions. In this study, two passenger cars (LDPCs) and three diesel trucks (LDDTs) were tested to investigate the on-road emission factors (EFs) with a portable measurement system. Emission characteristics of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC) nitrogen oxides (NOx) emitted at different speeds, accelerat...

INTRODUCTION The quality of neonatal care is mainly determined by long-term neurodevelopmental outcome. The neurodevelopment of preterm infants is related to postnatal head growth and depends on medical interventions such as nutritional support. Head circumference (HC) is currently used as a two-dimensional measure of head growth. Since head deformities are frequently found in preterm infants, ...

Signal identification in large-dimensional settings is a challenging problem in biostatistics. Recently, the method of higher criticism (HC) was shown to be an effective means for determining appropriate decision thresholds. Here, we study HC from a false discovery rate (FDR) perspective. We show that the HC threshold may be viewed as an approximation to a natural class boundary (CB) in two-cla...