Iridology is an art of knowledge to detect a specific disease of human body from the iris. The detection will tell each individual organ when it has low or high performance (abnormal). The iris reveals conditions change of every part of the body. Every organ and part of the body are represented in the iris in a well-defined area. The objective of research is to develop an iris database of colon...

BACKGROUND The goal of haemodialysis treatment in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients is to correct the complications of the uraemic condition. Among the main complications are fluid overload and subsequent hypertension that are corrected by achievement of 'dry weight'. We report in this study the evolution of post-dialysis body-weight and blood pressure in patients who began their HD treat...

To examine whether the cerebrum is essential for producing the rapid cardiovascular adjustment at the beginning of overground locomotion, we examined heart rate (HR), mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), and integrated electromyogram (iEMG) of the forelimb triceps brachialis muscle in freely moving decerebrate cats during locomotion. Two to four days after decerebration surgery performed at the ...

The Clebsch method provides a unifying approach for deriving variational principles for continuous and discrete dynamical systems where elements of a vector space are used to control dynamics on the cotangent bundle of a Lie group via a velocity map. This paper proves a reduction theorem which states that the canonical variables on the Lie group can be eliminated, if and only if the velocity ma...

We discuss the concept of the so-called shadow boundary belonging to a given direction x of Euclidean n-space R lying in the boundary of a centrally symmetric convex body K. Actually, K can be considered as the unit ball of a finite dimensional normed linear (= Minkowski) space. We introduce the notion of the general parameter spheres of K corresponding to the above direction x and prove that i...

In the present in vivo study, we have investigated whether inhibitors of the Na(+)/Mg(2+) exchanger quinidine and imipramine influence the development of hypertension and whether this is associated with modulation of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activation in arteries and kidneys of hypertensive rats. Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into four groups (n =6/group): control (vehicle), a...

In several organisms, the first barrier against microbial infections consists of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) which are molecules that act as components of the innate immune system. Recent studies have demonstrated that AMPs can perform various functions in different tissues or physiological conditions. In this view, this study was carried out in order to evaluate the multifunctional activity ...

Small-body landing missions present difficult challenges to Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems. A typical mission profile makes a distinction between a mapping phase and a terminal navigation phase. In the mapping phase, analysts on the ground process spacecraft sensor data to generate a geometric and visual model of the body. This model is used to pick a particular landing site. T...