385 Aneurysmal dilation of AVF is due to the complex interplay between biologic factors like needle injury that induce outward wall remodeling, and physical factors such as wall tension that is directly proportional to intraaccess pressures. In a series of patients who underwent minimally invasive limited ligation endoluminal-assisted revision banding, pressure within the mid-fistula was reduce...

γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (Glu), major neurotransmitters in the brain, are recycled through glutamine (Gln). All three metabolites can be measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vivo, although GABA measurement at 3 T requires an extra editing acquisition, such as Mescher-Garwood point-resolved spectroscopy (MEGA-PRESS). In a GABA-edited MEGA-PRESS spectrum, Glu and Gln co-...

Rapid urbanization in developing countries has been observed to be relatively high in the last two decades, especially in the Asian and African regions. Although many researchers have made efforts to improve the understanding of the urbanization trends of various cities in Asia and Africa, the absence of platforms where local stakeholders can visualize and obtain processed urbanization data for...

Vitamin C (ascorbate) and glutathione (GSH) are the two most concentrated non-enzymatic antioxidants in the human brain. Double editing with (DEW) MEGA-PRESS at 4T was designed in this study to measure both antioxidants in the same amount of time previously required to measure one. In the occipital lobe of four human subjects, resolved ascorbate (Asc) and GSH resonances were detected repeatedly...

This paper reports on the integration of the higher-order theorem proving environment Tps [Andrews et al., 1996] into the mathematical assistant mega [Benzm uller et al., 1997]. Tps can be called from mega either as a black box or as an interactive system. In black box mode, the user has control over the parameters which control proof search inTps; in interactive mode, all features of theTps-s...

A "mega-journal" is a new type of scientific journal that publishes freely accessible articles, which have been peer reviewed for scientific trustworthiness, but leaves it to the readers to decide which articles are of interest and importance to them. In the wake of the phenomenal success of PLOS ONE, several other publishers have recently started mega-journals. This article presents the evolut...

Background: Health benefits of vitamin D has been proved by a large number of studies, however, to the best of our knowledge there has been no study investigating the effect of mega dose of vitamin D on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). This study was the first to assess the effect of postpartum injection of mega dose of vitamin D on blood pressure (BP) in GDM. Methods: This is a randomized ...

Gel-based analysis of thylakoid membrane protein complexes represents a valuable tool to monitor the dynamics of the photosynthetic machinery. Native-PAGE preserves the components and often also the conformation of the protein complexes, thus enabling the analysis of their subunit composition. Nevertheless, the literature and practical experimentation in the field sometimes raise confusion owin...

In this paper, we examine the benefits of split-TCP proxies, deployed in an operational world-wide network, for accelerating cloud services. We consider a fraction of a network consisting of a large number of satellite datacenters, which host split-TCP proxies, and a smaller number of mega datacenters, which ultimately perform computation or provide storage. Using web search as an exemplary cas...