Adult Brown Norway (BN) rats exhibit numerous internal elastic lamina (IEL) ruptures in the abdominal aorta (AA) and a lower aortic elastin-to-collagen ratio (E/C) compared with other strains. We studied here AA mechanical properties in BN compared with control strains. AA stiffness (assessed by plotting elastic modulus/wall-stress curves obtained under anesthesia), thoracic aorta elastin and c...

prompt decrease in BP. In three subjects, hypotension occurred after BN (BP <120/70 mmHg), and intradialytic ultrafiltration had to be decreased. Five patients required continuation of one antihypertensive drug. While in our centre, antihypertensive therapy was more intense during the last years of the study with 5.8 (5–6) daily antihypertensive agents compared with only 4.4 (4–5) in the years ...

Bhargava has given a formula, derived from a formula of Serre, computing a certain count of extensions of a local field, weighted by conductor and by number of automorphisms. We interpret this result as a counting formula for permutation representations of the absolute Galois group of the local field, then speculate on variants of this formula in which the role of the symmetric group is played ...

We characterize those measures μ for which the Hardy-Orlicz (resp. weighted Bergman-Orlicz) space HΨ1 (resp. AΨ1 α ) of the unit ball of CN embeds boundedly or compactly into the Orlicz space LΨ2 ( BN ,μ ) (resp. LΨ2 (BN ,μ)), when the defining functions Ψ1 and Ψ2 are growth functions such that L1 ⊂ LΨ j for i, j ∈ {1,2}, and such that Ψ2/Ψ1 is non-decreasing. We apply our result to the charact...

Objective: Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED) are conditions that are difficult to treat and for which there are very few approved treatments. Clinical studies have shown baclofen effectiveness in BED, but this must be confirmed. Methods: The present study is an Internet survey targeting the use of baclofen for the treatment of BN and BED. Survey questions were released on the...

Let G be a graph, u be a vertex of G, and B(u)(or BG(u)) be the set of u with all its neighbors in G. A sequence (B1, B2, ..., Bn) of subsets of an n-set S is a neighborhood sequence if there exists a graph G with a vertex set S and a permutation (v1, v2, ..., vn) of S such that B(vi) = Bi for i = 1, 2, ..., n. Define Aut(B1, B2, ..., Bn) as the set {f : f is a permutation of V (G) and (f(B1), ...

In this study, the microstructural development and its effect on thermal conductivity of polyamide6 (PA6)/polypropylene (PP) blends containing boron nitride (BN) reduced graphene oxide (rGo) as hybrid fillers were investigated. Blend samples prepared using masterbatch method to localize BN rGo in matrix phase (PA6). Dynamic rheological results consistent with selective localization PA6 evidence...

Bottleneck (BN) feature has attracted considerable attentions by its capacity of improving the accuracies in speech recognition tasks. Recently, researchers have proposed some modified approaches for extracting more effective BN feature, but these approaches still need further improvement. In this paper, motivated by both deep belief networks (DBN) and hierarchical Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), ...

Various techniques including plasma-arc, laser ablation, and chemical vapor-phase synthesis have been employed to Ž . produce bulk amounts of non-carbon such as boron nitride, BN nanotubes with some success, but in general the yields are low. We describe a new high-yield plasma-arc method that easily and reliably produces macroscopic amounts of pure BN nanotubes. Interestingly, the method produ...

Abstract. If {an}n=1 and {bn}n=1 are two sequences such that a1 = b1 and bn + a1bn−1 + · · ·+ an−1b1 = nan (n > 1), then we say that (an, bn) is a Newton-Euler pair. In the paper we establish many formulas for Newton-Euler pairs, and then make use of them to obtain new results concerning some special sequences such as p(n), σ(n) and Bn, where p(n) is the number of partitions of n, σ(n) is the s...