BACKGROUND Data from several studies support the hypothesis that thrombopoietin (TPO) plasma levels are regulated via circulating platelet (PLT) numbers by binding to PLT TPO receptors (TPO-Rs). In this study, PLT numbers and TPO plasma levels were measured following the transfusion of unmanipulated, sham-saturated, and TPO-R-saturated PLT preparations to provide additional in vivo evidence for...

resilient modulus of pavement materials is a key property required for the pavement thickness design. this paper describes the results of an experimental study on the effects of temperature and loading frequency on the resilient modulus of a sbs polymer modified asphalt concrete under dry and saturated conditions. dynamic creep tests were conducted on dry and saturated specimens of the mixture ...

We developed an equation of state (EOS) by Ihm, Song, and Mason (ISM) for polar fluids. The model consists of four parameters, namely, the second virial coefficient, an effective van der Waals co-volume, a scaling factor, and the reduced dipole moment. The second virial coefficient is calculated from a correlation that uses the heat of vaporization, and the liquid density at the normal boiling ...

two hundred eighty days old male broiler chicks(ross strain) were randomly distributed into seven groups with four replicates (10 birds in each replicate) and were fed diets supplemented with different dietary fat sources.the results indicated that the different dietary treatments did not affect weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio at 21 d (p>0.05). however, addition of dietary fa...

background: the modern dairy cows, due to intensive selection for higher milk production during past decades, have become more resistant to insulin. accompanied with dmi depression in per parturient dairy cow, insulin resistance may lead to a massive release of non-esterified fatty acids (nefa) to bloodstream which might act as a start point for development of other diseases. objectives: the pu...

A novel theory of sparse recovery is presented in order to bridge the standard compressive sensing framework and the one-bit compressive sensing framework. In the former setting, sparse vectors observed via few linear measurements can be reconstructed exactly. In the latter setting, the linear measurements are only available through their signs, so exact reconstruction of sparse vectors is repl...

We study some poset structures on the set of all compositions. In the first case, the covering relation consists of inserting a part of size one to the left or to the right, or increasing the size of some part by one. The resulting poset N was studied by the author in [5] in relation to non-commutative term orders, and then in [6], where some results about generating functions for standard path...

Given a set X, a collection F ⊆ P(X) is said to be k-Sperner if it does not contain a chain of length k + 1 under set inclusion and it is saturated if it is maximal with respect to this property. Gerbner, Keszegh, Lemons, Palmer, Pálvölgyi and Patkós conjectured that, if |X| is sufficiently large with respect to k, then the minimum size of a saturated k-Sperner system F ⊆ P(X) is 2k−1. In this ...