BACKGROUND Recommendations for rheumatology nursing management of chronic inflammatory arthritis (CIA) from European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) states that nurses should take part in the monitoring patients' disease and therapy in order to achieve cost savings. The aim of the study was to compare the costs of rheumatology care between a nurse-led rheumatology clinic (NLC), based on perso...

We experimentally demonstrate that the plasmonic heat delivered by a single layer of homogeneously distributed gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), immobilized on glass substrate, can be optically tuned taking advantage properties an organic based azobenzene and nematic liquid crystal (NLC) molecules. The effect, which exploits dependence NLC refractive index value molecular director orientation, is rea...

background: adult stem cells (asc) are undifferentiated cells found throughout the body. these cells are promising tools for cell replacement therapy in neurodegenerative disease. adipose tissue is the most abundant and accessible source of asc. this study was conducted to evaluate effect of selegiline on differentiation of adipose-derived stem cells (adsc) into functional neuron-like cells (nl...

The topic of this paper is the expected (from modelling) and observed sensitivity of the brightness β of noctilucent clouds (NLC) on the ambient water vapour mixing ratio f (H 2 O). Firstly, we show that state-of-the-art models of NLC layer formation predict that in the Arctic summer, a 10% increase of f (H 2 O) in the upper mesosphere should 5 lead to a 22% increase in β. Secondly, we review o...

In this note we give Guineapig simulation results for the luminosity and luminosity spectrum of three baseline NLC designs at 0.5~TeV and 1.0~TeV and compare the simulation results with analytic approximations. We examine the effects of varying several design parameters away from the NLC-B-500 and NLC-B-1000 designs, in order to study possible trade-offs of parameters that could ease tolerances...

The very first klystron in the XC series, (XCl), The SLAC design for a l-TeV collider (NLC) requires klystrons with a performance which is well beyond the state-of-the-art for microwave tubes in the United States or abroad. The electrical specifications for the NLC klystrons are not fully established, but they are approximately as follows: Frequency: Peak Power:

Lipid peroxidation (LPO) was studied in lung tissues of patients with lung cancer (LC, n = 37) or nonlung cancer (NLC, n = 13) and its relationships with the smoking habits and the degree of airway obstruction were investigated. Specimens of peripheral lung parenchyma, free of tumor tissue, were taken and the malondialdehyde (MDA) content was measured in the S-12 fractions. Airway obstruction w...

In this work, the transfer matrix method (TMM) is employed to investigate optical properties of one-dimensional periodic and quasiperiodic photonic crystals containing nematic liquid crystal (NLC) layers. This structure expressed as (ABC)J(CBA)J made alternated layers isotropic dielectrics SiO2 (A), BGO (B) (C). The simulation study shows that proposed ternary configuration exhibits tunable def...

Negative linear compressibility (NLC), the increase in a unit cell length with pressure, is a rare phenomenon in which hydrostatic compression of a structure promotes expansion along one dimension. It is usually a consequence of crystal structure topology. We show that the source of NLC in the Co(ii) citrate metal-organic framework UTSA-16 lies not in framework topology, but in the relative tor...