Seventeen patients with proven systemic sclerosis had a peroral jejunal biopsy performed. Four biopsies were regarded as showing abnormalities, which were mostly confined to the deeper structures, although in two there was a minimal degree of villous atrophy without epithelial cell changes. Passive intestinal permeability, as assessed by the cellobiose/mannitol test, was normal in all patients....

The stability of two semiconductor lasers that are spatially separated by a passive resonator is analyzed using the composite-cavity mode approach. We study the nonlinear interactions of three composite-cavity modes and identify regions of in-phase and out-of-phase laser locking in the parameter plane of the transmission coefficients of the coupling mirrors and the laser length difference. Bifu...

In this article, passivated Pb-Sn and Pb-Sb alloys with different compositions were studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The passive films were found to have a double-layer structure. Both Sn and Sb were found to play an important role during the growth of passive film, which resulted in different compositions of passive filJ;l1s. The Pb oxides, Pb sulfate, SnlSb oxides, and Pb-Sn...

Psychophysical studies have reported an overestimation of limb position in the direction of movement during the early part of active movements. The main hypothesis tested in this study is that the overestimation results from a process of forward prediction of limb state driven by an efference copy of the outgoing motor command. This hypothesis predicts that position overestimation should decrea...

When a piezoelectric transducer is incorporated in a mechanical structure, it is possible to damp the structural vibrations of the base structure by passive energy dissipation in the electrical domain [1]. Due to the strong electromechanical coupling in piezoelectric elements, the mechanical energy can be efficiently converted to electrical energy. By shunting the piezoelectric element to a pas...

1. introduction with regard to natural and human urban threats and risks which endanger security of the residents, ensuring urban safety and passive defense issues, especially before being hit by crisis and in peace situation such as natural disasters, war, etc., are the most significant duties of urban practitioners and planners. the main criterion of passive defense viewpoint is to increase t...

The dexterity of a manipulator with passive joints, also known as an underactuated manipulator, differs from the dexterity of a fully actuated one, even if their mechanical structures are identical. Therefore, for fault tolerance and energy saving purposes, it is important to study the dexterity of underactuated manipulators. The purpose of this work is to quantify the dexterity of underactuate...

This study compared the sentence production abilities of individuals with Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia in an attempt to explore the extent to which impaired lexical retrieval impedes sentence production. The ability to produce active and passive reversible and non-reversible sentences was examined when varying amounts of lexical information was provided. The results showed that both Wernicke'...

There is a consensus among researchers working on causation and causative constructions that the causal relation encoded in the meaning of a verb is decomposed into two events e1 and e2, such that e2 is temporally and causally dependent on e1 (Shibatani 1976; Dowty 1979; Pustejovsky 1991, among many others). Within the generative lexicon theory (Pustejovsky 1995), the causative verb break is as...