We consider the linearly constrained separable convex programming whose objective function is separable into m individual convex functions with non-overlapping variables. The alternating direction method (ADM) has been well studied in the literature for the special case m = 2. But the convergence of extending ADM to the general case m ≥ 3 is still open. In this paper, we show that the straightf...

Seventeen strains of mycobacteria, recovered from six armadillos experimentally infected with Mycobacterium leprae, were examined in ten different laboratories. This collaborative study included use of conventional bacteriological tests, lipid analyses, determination of mycobactins and peptidoglycans, characterization by Py-MS, and immunological, metabolic, pathological and DNA studies. These a...

Amyopathic dermatomyositis (ADM) is a clinical subtype of dermatomyositis, characterized by the absence of motor weakness and the presence of normal muscle enzyme levels. ADM is sometimes accompanied by interstitial pneumonia that shows a rapid progressive course associated with a poor prognosis. We describe a 70-year-old man who presented rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia associated w...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Intermedin (IMD) is a novel peptide with significant vasodilator and cardiac protective actions similar to the related peptide adrenomedullin (ADM). Unlike those of ADM the actions and expression of IMD in endothelial cells are poorly characterised. ADM expression can be increased during cardiovascular disease/stress in vitro and in vivo where it may have a role in several cardi...

Endothelin-1 (ET-1) and adrenomedullin (ADM) are circulating vasoactive peptides involved in vascular homeostasis and endothelial function. Elevated levels of plasma ET-1 and ADM, and their biologically stable surrogates, C-terminal-pro-endothelin-1 (CT-pro-ET-1) and midregional proadrenomedullin (MR-pro-ADM), are predictors of cardiac death and heart failure. We studied the association of comm...

Adrenomedullin (ADM) acts in a site-specific manner within autonomic centers of the brain to modulate mean arterial pressure (MAP). To determine the role of ADM in the pontine autonomic center, the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN), we used urethane-anesthetized adult Sprague-Dawley male rats to test the hypothesis that ADM increases MAP at this site through glutamate- and nitric oxide (NO)-d...

Adrenomedullin (ADM) is upregulated in cardiac tissue under various pathophysiological conditions. However, the direct inotropic effect of ADM on normal and compromised cardiomyocytes is not clear. In rat ventricular myocytes, ADM produced an initial (<30 min) increase in cell shortening and Ca(2+) transient and, on prolonged incubation (>1 h), a marked decrease in cell shortening and Ca(2+) tr...

A new modified Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) was utilized to obtain an analytical solution for the buckling of the nanocantilever actuators immersed in liquid electrolytes. The nanoactuators in electrolytes are subject to different nonlinear forces including ionic concentration, van der Waals, external voltage and electrochemical forces. The Duan–Rach modified Adomian decomposition method ...

Omnidirectional, supercardioid, and adaptive directional microphones (ADM) were evaluated in combination with the ADRO amplification scheme for eight participants with moderate sloping hearing losses. The ADM produced better speech perception scores than the other two microphones in all noise conditions. Participants performed the Hearing in Noise Test sentences at -4.5 dB SNR or better, which ...

Production of adrenomedullin (ADM), a vasodilator peptide, increases in response to ischemia and hypoxia in the vascular wall and the kidney. This may be an adaptive response providing protection against organ damage. We investigated the hypothesis that ADM has a nephroprotective effect in two prospective cohorts of patients with type 2 diabetes recruited in France. The highest tertile of plasm...