OBJECTIVES There is a lack of information on sexual violence (SV) among men who have sex with men and transgendered individuals (MSM-T) in southern India. As SV has been associated with HIV vulnerability, this study examined health related behaviours and practices associated with SV among MSM-T. DESIGN Data were from cross-sectional surveys from four districts in Karnataka, India. METHODS M...

Plane-wave density functional theory has been used to study oxygen adsorption on graphene, graphite, and (12,0) zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes with without Stone–Wales (SW) single-vacancy (SV) defects understand the role of carbonaceous material reactivity. Atomic leads formation an epoxide defect-free graphene graphite ether exterior wall SW-defected materials. O2 chemisorption is endot...

In this article we introduce and study the notions of ( , ) s v r  -lacunary strongly summable, ( , ) s v r  Cesàro strongly summable, ( , ) s v r  statistically convergent and ( , ) s v r  -lacunary statistically convergent sequence of fuzzy numbers. Consequently we construct the spaces   ( , ) F sv r L  ,   1 ( , ) F sv r   ,   ( , ) F sv r S  and   ( , ) F sv r S  respecti...

Low-absorption optics made of OH-reduced fused silica are a key technology for future gravitational wave detectors such as the Advanced LIGO. We developed a sensitive method to measure the absorption inside the beam splitter of the GEO 600, taking advantage of the effect of thermal lensing. Using this method, we derived a bulk absorption of less than 0.25 ppm/cm for a piece of Suprasil 311 SV a...

UNLABELLED Currently, Saphenous vein (SV) and internal thoracic artery (ITA) are still the most common graft materials in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) whereas SV graft have a lower long-term patency than ITA. Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) phenotype conversion, proliferation and migration may play a key role in mechanism of vein graft restenosis. To explore differential gene exp...

Specific ventilation (SV) is the ratio of fresh gas entering a lung region divided by its end-expiratory volume. To quantify the vertical (gravitationally dependent) gradient of SV in eight healthy supine subjects, we implemented a novel proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method. Oxygen is used as a contrast agent, which in solution changes the longitudinal relaxation time (T1) in lung tis...

We propose a new spectral viscosity (SV) scheme for the accurate solution of nonlinear conservation laws. It is proved that the SV solution converges to the unique entropy solution under appropriate reasonable conditions. The proposed SV scheme is implemented directly on high modes of the computed solution. This should be compared with the original nonperiodic SV scheme introduced by Maday, Oul...

Background High fidelity 12-lead ECG is important for physiological monitoring during cardiovascular interventions. A dominant ECG R-wave is essential for synchronizing cardiac MRI. Obtaining the real ECG in MRI is challenging due to a superimposed Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic (MHD) voltage (VMHD) [1], & strong induced voltages from MRI switched gradients. Detecting acute ischemia by ST segment [2] is...

16 [16] S. Mallat Multiresolution approximation and wavelet orthonormal bases of L 2 (R) Transactions of AMS. vol 135 (1989) [17] K.J. Marfurt Accuracy of nite-dierence and nite-element modeling of the scalar wave equation. [21] V. Perrier & C. Basdevant La d ecomposition en ondelettes p eriodiques, un outil pour l'analyse de champs inhomog enes. Th eorie et algorithmes. La Recherche A erospati...

To determine if expression of mutant p21 ras could convert Simian Virus 40-immortalized human uroepithelial cell line (SV-HUC) to tumorigenicity, SV-HUC cells were transfected with pSV2-neo (a neomycin-resistant gene) or PREJ/ras (c-HA-ras-1 with the 12th codon mutation and neo). Seven independent G418-resistant clones (A----G) were isolated from each group (SV-HUC/ras and SV-HUC/neo). SV-HUC/r...