In recent years, mercury has received increasing attention because of its known or suspected impacts on human health. Historically, this concern has resulted from occupational exposures (e.g., “Mad Hatter’s” disease), and from large-scale poisonings (Minamata and Iraq). Currently, however, concern is also focused on more subtle health effects. While use of thimerosal (an organic mercury compoun...

Transmission control protocols have to overcome common problems in wireless networks. TCP employing both packet loss discrimination mechanism and available bandwidth estimation algorithm, known as the good existing solution, shows significant performance enhancement in wireless networks. For instance, TCP New Jersey which exhibits high throughput in wireless networks intends to improve TCP perf...

In this work, we fabricated the antireflection microstructures (ARMs) on ZnSe surfaces using a femtosecond Bessel direct laser writing in burst mode. The morphology and transmittance performance of ARMs with different single-pulse energies (from 200 nJ to 500 nJ), modes (burst 1, 3, 5 modes), periods 3 μm 6 μm), arrangements were investigated. results revealed that tetragonally arranged by ener...

The generation in cyclic fashion of 26 mutable R-Navajo (mR(nj)) alleles in maize involved transposition of a non-specific repressor of gene action, Modulator (Mp), first away from, and then back to, the R locus represented by the R-Navajo (R(nj)) allele on chromosome 10. The mR(nj) alleles reconstituted in this way varied widely, and continuously, in mutability to R(nj)-that is, in transpositi...

Cyclodextrin-based host-guest chemistry has been exploited to facilitate co-crystallization of recombinant human acid β-glucosidase (β-glucocerebrosidase, GlcCerase) with amphiphilic bicyclic nojirimycin analogues of the sp(2)-iminosugar type. Attempts to co-crystallize GlcCerase with 5-N,6-O-[N'-(n-octyl)iminomethylidene]nojirimycin (NOI-NJ) or with 5-N,6-S-[N'-(n-octyl)iminomethylidene]-6-thi...

Neonatal jaundice is caused by high levels of unconjugated bilirubin. It is usually a temporary condition caused by delayed induction of UGT1A1, which conjugates bilirubin in the liver. To reduce bilirubin levels, affected babies are exposed to phototherapy (PT), which converts toxic bilirubin into water-soluble photoisomers that are readily excreted out. However, in some cases uncontrolled hyp...

BACKGROUND Malignant gastric outlet obstruction (MGOO), a late complication of advanced carcinoma of the stomach, duodenum, periampulla or pancreas, causes significant malnutrition and morbidity. The current treatment for MGOO is palliative in nature, with the goal of maintaining the best quality of life possible during the terminal phase of the illness. METHODS A total of 38 patients with MG...

The phase structure of the generalized Yang–Mills theories is studied, and it is shown that almost always, it is of the third order. As a specific example, it is shown that all of the models with the interaction ∑ j (nj − j+N) exhibit third order phase transition. (nj is the length of the j-th row of the Yang tableau corresponding to U(N).) The special cases where the transition is not of the t...

Severe Alkalemia (pH 7.85): Compatible with Life? A Triple Acid-Base Conundrum Kishan B Patel1, James Espinosa2, Joan Wiley3, Nicholas Roy4, Alan Lucerna5 1Department of Emergency medicine/ Internal Medicine resident at Rowan-SOM in Stratford, NJ, USA. 2Assistant professor, Department of Emergency at Rowan-SOM and an attending physician at Kennedy USA. 3Associate program director of emergency m...

A new diagnostic method for measuring transverse size of electron beam by nondestructive interaction of Compton scattering of laser beam has been proposed”). A first model of this spot size monitor is under construction for the FFIB SLAC experiment, in order to measure the electron beam size of 60 nanometer vertical by 1, micrometer horizontal, using Nd: YAGlaser of 1.064 p wavelength. In this ...