BACKGROUND Assessment of left ventricular (LV) function by tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is not well established in horses with heart disease. OBJECTIVES To describe the use of pulsed-wave (PW) TDI for the assessment of LV function, establish reference intervals, investigate effects of mitral regurgitation (MR), aortic regurgitation (AR), and primary myocardial disease (MD), and provide proof ...

The characterisation of individual nanoparticles by single particle ICP-MS (SP-ICP-MS) has paved the way for analysis smallest biological systems. This study suggests to adapting this method viruses (SV) identification and counting. With high resolution multi-channel sector field (MC SF) records in SV detection mode, counting master key ions can allow viruses. 2–500 virial units be performed 20...

Abstract The performance of a newly-developed 1D-long atmospheric-pressure microwave plasma, i.e. line plasma (APMLP), is demonstrated. Using vacuum ultraviolet atomic absorption spectroscopy, spatially uniform oxygen radical density along 50 cm length observed. With the APMLP using Ar/O 2 gas, very fast hydrophilic treatment polyimide (PI) film within 20 ms obtained. looped-waveguide-type APML...

The growing interest in personalized medicine requires making inferences from descriptive indexes estimated from individual recordings of physiological signals, with statistical analyses focused on individual differences between/within subjects, rather than comparing supposedly homogeneous cohorts. To this end, methods to compute confidence limits of individual estimates of descriptive indexes ...

Summary Mutations in genomic key elements can influence gene expression and function in various ways, and hence greatly contribute to the phenotype. We developed MutaNET to score the impact of individual mutations on gene regulation and function of a given genome. MutaNET performs statistical analyses of mutations in different genomic regions. The tool also incorporates the mutations in a provi...

A determinação de enxofre por espectrometria de massa com plasma acoplado indutivamente (ICP-MS) não é trivial, especialmente devido a intensas interferências espectrais causadas por íons poliatômicos como O2 , (OH)2 , NOH2 + e NO. Neste trabalho, espécies de argônio naturalmente presentes no plasma (padrões de interferência, IFS) são usadas para minimizar interferências espectrais na determina...

This study analyzes how the dynamic impacts of interest rate and mortgage shocks on housing prices varies under different regimes market, using MS-VAR model with three regimes. The suggests two-staged analysis; market are identified through MS-AR for prices, identification results used to estimate model. Variables considered Indices Apartment Housing Index, rates total amount lended. Data cover...

In this paper, we describe the processing and verification work undertaken to migrate WordStar for MSDOS to HTML4 formatted files. General Terms Preservation strategies and workflows, specialist content types, digital preservation marketplace, theory of digital preservation, case studies and best practice.

Génétique des Micro-organismes, Institut de Botanique, Boulevard du Rectorat, 27, 4000 Liège, Belgium (HH, JRM) University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre of Koper, Garibaldijeva 1, 6000 Koper, Slovenia (BK) Dipartimento Biologia Animale, Via Archirafi, 18-90123 Palermo, Italy (MS) Museu de Granollers–Ciències Naturals C/Francesc Macià, 51 08402 Granollers, Spain (AR) INRA, UMR CBGP (...

This study investigated the characteristics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) formed during the decomposition of benzene (C(6)H(6)) in radio-frequency (RF) plasma environments. The identification and quantification were accomplished by using a GC/MS for PAHs and an on-line Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer for the reactants and gaseous products. The analytical results sho...