4 Running title: HLA SNPs interact with HBV mutations in liver diseases 5 6 Qi Zhang, Jianhua Yin, Yuwei Zhang, Yang Deng, Xiaowei Ji, Yan Du, Rui Pu, 7 Yifang Han, Jun Zhao, Xue Han, Hongwei Zhang, and Guangwen Cao 8 9 a Department of Epidemiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China 10 11 b Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Sec...

H. Cao, Xunya Jiang, Y. Ling, J. Y. Xu, and C. M. Soukoulis Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112 Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China ~Receive...

To optimize CaF2 content in highly basic CaO-18%Al2O3-SiO2-10%MgO-CaF2 (%CaO/%SiO2=6, denoted as C/S=6) refining slags used for the production of Al-killed duplex stainless steel with high cleanliness demand, effect on viscosity and ability were studied compared typical CaF2-free CaO-30%Al2O3-SiO2-10%MgO (C/S=6) slag. The addition decreasing slag becomes less obvious increasing temperature cont...

Patients with central airway obstruction (CAO) may need endobronchial intervention to relieve their symptoms. This report is on a single-center experience of using interventional bronchoscopy in terms of complications and survival. This retrospective study was conducted in a university hospital and involved 614 patients (464 men, 150 women; mean age, 60.2 years) with benign (n = 133) and malign...

Because of their ability to perfuse remote regions and deliver oxygen, hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) may be considered in the treatment of several ischemic conditions such as acute coronary syndromes or high-risk percutaneous intervention. Here we studied the effects of intracoronary infusion of ex vivo preoxygenated HBOC-201 during brief total coronary artery occlusion (CAOs) on myo...

By using a thermogravimetric analyser under argon atmosphere, the pyrolysis process and the kinetic model of phoenix tree residues (the little stem, middle stem, and leaf) at a 30 °C min−1 heating rate and the phoenix tree mix at three different heating rates (10 °C min−1, 30 °C min−1, and 50 °C min−1) were examined. The catalyst and the co-pyrolysis samples were at a 30 °C min−1 heating rate. ...

We hypothesized that the occurrence of spontaneous Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), in diastole, might be a mechanism for the saturation of twitch potentiation common to a variety of inotropic perturbations that increase the total cell Ca. We used a videomicroscopic technique in single cardiac myocytes to quantify the amplitude of electrically stimulated twitches and to monito...

Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse traitent de l’utilisation de la Réalité Virtuelle (RV) et plus particulièrement du retour d’effort pour améliorer l’interaction dans les applications de Conception Assistée par Ordinateur (CAO). Dans ce document, nous décrivons le rôle actuel du Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) dans l’industrie, et plus spécifiquement la place tenue par l’outil CAO. Celu...

To understand the thermodynamic characteristics of reaction between Al and SiO2 during continuous casting process high-aluminum steel, activity coefficients MnO in molten slags (18–43%) CaO-(33–64%) SiO2-(9–21%) Al2O3-(2–3%) MgO-(<2.4%) were measured at 1400°C, 1450°C 1500°C by experiments Si Mn equilibrium liquid copper slag graphite crucible under mixed gas atmosphere CO Ar. The effects SiO2,...

We consider the set Gn,k of graphs of order n with the chromatic number k ≥ 2. In this note, we prove that in Gn,k the Turán graph Tn,k has the maximal spectral radius; and Pn if k = 2, Cn if k = 3 and n is odd, C1 n−1 if k = 3 and n is even, K (l) k if k ≥ 4 has the minimal spectral radius. Thus we answer a problem raised by Cao [D.S. Cao, Index function of graphs, J. East China Norm. Univ. Sc...