A relationship based on the modified couple stress theory is developed to investigate the flexural sensitivity of an atomic force microscope (AFM) with assembled cantilever probe (ACP). This ACP comprises a horizontal cantilever, two vertical extensions and two tips located at the free ends of the extensions which form a caliper. An approximate solution to the flexural vibration problem is obta...

Bronchogenic carcinoma of the lung—lung cancer—comprises a group of malignant neoplasms that arise from bronchial epithelium. The four major pathologic cell types of lung cancer are small cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large cell carcinoma. Because they have overlapping clinical behavior and response to treatment, adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large ...

Asthma is characterized by narrowing of the airways in response to various stimuli and the presence of airway inflammation of varying degree. Unlike the more fixed or permanent airflow obstruction typical of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, and bronchiolitis, the airflow obstruction associated with asthma may be completely reversible [see 14:III Chronic Obstructiv...

The formation of 5-amino-1-ribosyl-4-imidazolecarboxamide 5’-phosphate by bacterial extracts incubated with adenosine triphosphate, an ATP-generating system, ribose-5-P, and glutamine has been reported by Love (1) and by Gots and Gollub (2). We have been able to confirm these observations; in addition we find that a derivative of ACP,1 rather than ACP itself, is formed when glutamine is omitted...

UNLABELLED The acp gene encoding the 13-kDa adhesin complex protein (ACP) from Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strain MC58 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, and the purified recombinant ACP (rACP) was used for immunization studies. Analysis of the ACP amino acid sequences from 13 meningococcal strains, isolated from patients and colonized individuals, and 178 strains in the Bacte...

INTRODUCTION Pediatric adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma (ACP) is a histologically benign but clinically aggressive brain tumor that arises from the sellar/suprasellar region. Despite a high survival rate with current surgical and radiation therapy (75-95 % at 10 years), ACP is associated with debilitating visual, endocrine, neurocognitive and psychological morbidity, resulting in excheptional...

Improving the anti-demineralizing/remineralizing and mechanical properties of amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) composites has been the focus of our recent research. In this study, an ethoxylated bisphenol A dimethacrylate (EBPADMA) was blended with triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and methacryloxyethyl phthalate (MEP) to form experimental resins wi...

INTRODUCTION Acute cor pulmonale (ACP) and patent foramen ovale (PFO) remain common in patients under protective ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We sought to describe the hemodynamic profile associated with either ACP or PFO, or both, during the early course of moderate-to-severe ARDS using echocardiography. METHODS In this 32-month prospective multicenter study, 1...

PURPOSE The types and ratio of anterior clinoid process (ACP) pneumatization in paranasal sinus Multidetector Computerized Tomography (MDCT) were investigated the importance of ACP in neurosurgical approaches discussed. METHODS Paranasal MDCT images of 499 subjects (259 male, 240 female), between 17 and 65 years of age, were included in the study. Presence and types of pneumatization of the A...

We have measured the CP asymmetry ACP ≡ (Γ(b → sγ) − Γ(b̄ → s̄γ))/(Γ(b → sγ) + Γ(b̄ → s̄γ)) to be ACP = (−0.079 ± 0.108 ± 0.022)(1.0 ± 0.030), implying that, at 90% confidence level, ACP lies between –0.27 and +0.10. These limits rule out some extreme non-Standard-Model predictions, but are consistent with most, as well as with the Standard Model.