conclusions: in this study, kidney transplant recipients with a lower ri and pi and a higher edv at 1week showed better graft function at 6 months after transplantation. results: fourteen patients (15.4%) had impaired graft function after 6 months (gfr less than 60 ml/min/1.73m2). multivariate linear regression analysis showed significant correlation between gfr at 6 months and ri, pi and edv w...

A lack of diversity and durability of resistant soybean varieties complicates management of the soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines, exemplified by the current overdependence on the PI 88788 source of resistance. Of interest is the effect of adaptation of a SCN population to a source of resistance on its subsequent ability to develop on others. Female indices (FI) from virulence as...

BACKGROUND Use of a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) immunosuppressant following kidney transplantation is associated with development of vasomotor nephrotoxicity. This study was undertaken to evaluate and compare the influences of CNI-based and CNI-free immunosuppressant regimens on two intrarenal vascular resistance parameters, the resistive index (RI) and the pulsatility index (PI), in renal tran...

Although color Doppler ultrasonography has been used to evaluate testicular blood flow in many species, very little has been done in goat. Eight male Shiba goats were exposed to a single intramuscular injection of either gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH group; 1 µg/kg BW) or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG group; 25 IU/kg BW). Plasma testosterone (T), estradiol (E2) and inhibin (INH) were...

Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) with retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) under high central venous pressure (CVP) is often used in aortic arch surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We hypothesized that DHCA with RCP under high CVP causes cerebral vascular compression because of increased perivascular pressure due to extravasation of fluid into intracranial tissue. In a retrospe...

Using a recently proposed gauge covariant diagonalization of $\pi a_1$-mixing we show that the low energy theorem $F^{\pi}=e f_\pi^2 F^{3\pi}$ current algebra, relating anomalous form factor $F_{\gamma \to \pi^+\pi^0\pi^-} = and neutral pion $F_{\pi^0 \gamma\gamma}=F^\pi$, is fulfilled in framework Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model, solving long standing problem encountered extension including vec...

Due to the coarse granularity of data accesses and the heavy use of latches, indices in the B-tree family are not efficient for in-memory databases, especially in the context of today’s multi-core architecture. In this paper, we present PI, a Parallel in-memory skip list based Index that lends itself naturally to the parallel and concurrent environment, particularly with non-uniform memory acce...

The edge and total versions of geometric-arithmetic (GA) index of graphs are introduced based on the end-vertex degrees of edges of their line and total graphs, respectively. In this paper, the edge and total GA indices are computed for some graphs by using some results on GA index and graphs.

Introduction: Biological Width is needed to maintain the health of gingiva around teeth that need restoration. Crown Lengthening (CL) surgery can be used to prevent  invading the BW by sub-gingival restoration. The aim of this study was to evaluate gingival indices before and after CL surgery. Materials and Methods: In this analytical-longitudinal study, 23 teeth of 18  patients referred to ...