To determine if dietary fat composition affects the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), we overfed male Sprague-Dawley rats low (5%) or high (70%) fat diets with different fat sources: olive oil (OO), corn oil (CO), or echium oil (EO), with total enteral nutrition (TEN) for 21 days. Overfeeding of the 5% CO or 5% EO diets resulted in less steatosis than 5% OO (P < 0.05). Af...

BACKGROUND Osteoid osteomas (OO) are small, benign osteoblastic lesions. Ethmoid bone OO has been very rarely reported so far. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 16-year-old boy suffering from persistent epiphora and a mild pain in the area of median canthus, due to a bone density mass within the right ethmoid air cells extending to the ipsilateral right orbit. The mass was removed via a...

Introduction: Osteoid Osteoma (OO) is uncommon in the carpal bones and extremely rare in the trapezium. We report the third case of OO of the trapezium. Case Presentation: Patient was a 45year -old man with chronic left wrist pain for 19 months. Pain was intense at night and responsive to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. There was a local tenderness on the trapezium. The wrist X-ray images...

| In this paper we present the multistage oo-line method, a new and rather natural way to model oo-line packet routing problems, which reduces the problem of oo-line packet routing to that of nding edge disjoint paths on a multistage graph. The multistage oo-line method can model any kind of routing pattern on any graph and can incorporate the size of the maximum queue allowed in any processor....

We compare EER and OO data models from the point of view of design quality. Quality is measured in terms of (a) correctness of the conceptual schemas being designed, (b) time to complete the design task, and (c) designers' preferences of the models. Result of an experimental comparison of the two models reveal that the EER model surpasses the OO model for designing unary and ternary relationshi...

In object-oriented (OO) software engineering, objects, attributes and processes are often specified in natural language descriptions. Following a precise methodology, we here look at the analysis phase of OO software engineering and show that robust computational linguistic tools initially developed for knowledge extraction from text can provide useful support during this initial but crucial ph...

This paper provides a new approach for object-oriented reengineering. One of the difficulty in software testing and maintenance has been identified as caused by the convention that code and its tests are developed and described separately. This paper develops a method of built-in test (BIT) for OO reengineering. The advantage of this method is that the BITs in reengineered OO software (OOS) can...

Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) has two distinct CGHC redox-active sites; however, the contribution of these sites during different physiologic reactions, including thrombosis, is unknown. Here, we evaluated the role of PDI and redox-active sites of PDI in thrombosis by generating mice with blood cells and vessel wall cells lacking PDI (Mx1-Cre Pdifl/fl mice) and transgenic mice harboring PDI...