The aim of this study is to contribute sex determination studies from the scapula in Turkish population and compare with previous studies. This was performed 200 scapulae (100 males 100 females). age range patients between 18-93 years old. Computed tomography scans were used length glenoid cavity (LGC), breadth (BGC), depth (DGC), perimeter (PM) volume (VL) measured. Randomly selected 20 measur...

Ventilatory accommodation of changing metabolic rates is a relatively little-studied aspect of the discontinuous gas exchange cycles (DGCs) that occur in a wide variety of terrestrial arthropods. We used correlation analysis of resting metabolic rate (RMR, measured as the rate of CO(2) emission; V(CO2)) and several components of the DGC to examine accommodation to both temperature-induced chang...

In practical applications of ranging technology commonly used in wireless sensor positioning algorithm, ranging between nodes will inevitably produce errors due to environmental factors and measurement hardware effects. The wireless sensor network localization algorithm DGC-TWCL proposed in this paper takes advantage of the Cayley-Menger determinant used to provide distance geometry constraints...

GABAergic signaling in hippocampal pyramidal neurons undergoes a switch from depolarizing to hyperpolarizing during early neuronal development. Whether such a transformation of GABAergic action occurs in dentate granule cells (DGCs), located at the first stage of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit, is unclear. Here, we use noninvasive extracellular recording to monitor the effect of synaptical...

Real-world scenes always exhibit objects with clutter backgrounds, posing great challenges for deep salient object detection models. In this paper, we propose by engaging two saliency cues, i.e. , the part-whole hierarchies and contrast resulting in a PWHCNet. Specifically, branches, which cons...

OBJECTIVES Our goal was to examine the role of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in lipolysis regulation in heart failure (HF) patients. BACKGROUND Enhanced adipose tissue lipolysis can contribute to myocardial lipid overload, insulin resistance, and cachexia in advanced HF. Natriuretic peptides were recently recognized to stimulate lipolysis in healthy subjects. METHODS Ten nondiabetic HF p...

Insects breathe through valved openings (spiracles) in their cuticle. Many insects open and close their spiracles in a cyclic pattern (discontinuous gas-exchange cycles, or DGC). These cycles were observed over half a century ago, their hypothesized function being to minimize loss of water from the tracheal system. However, numerous recent studies have found that respiration accounts for a smal...

The aim of this study was to investigate the evolution of the adrenergic and insulin-mediated regulation of lipolysis during different phases of a 6-mo dietary intervention. Eight obese women underwent a 6-mo dietary intervention consisting of a 1-mo very low-calorie diet (VLCD) followed by a 2-mo low-calorie diet (LCD) and 3-mo weight maintenance (WM) diet. At each phase of the dietary interve...

BACKGROUND Couples with unexplained infertility (UI) tend to have low fertilization rates with current IVF procedures. Here, we attempted to identify spermatozoa with apoptotic markers in couples with UI and unsuccessful intrauterine insemination (IUI) and we investigated the efficiency and benefit of magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) for sperm preparation in such patients. METHODS Sixty...