BACKGROUND Experimental diabetes promotes contractile dysfunction in cardiomyocytes, but the effects of swimming in this disorder are not known. OBJECTIVE To test the effects of a swimming training program (STP) on cardiomyocyte contractile dysfunction in rats with experimental diabetes. METHODS Wistar rats (age: 30 days; mean body weight: 84.19 g) with diabetes induced by streptozotocin (6...

Abstract Floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards, resulting in social and economic losses. As a flood-prone area, East China (EC) suffers floods mainly related to monsoons tropical cyclones (TC). However, how induced by heavy rain (HR) TC impact on human life, what their differences are, is not yet clear. In this paper, we assess spatiotemporal characteristics two types South (SC...

Does rehearsal facilitate association between to-be-remembered items and environmental context (EC) as well as it strengthen the individual traces of items? The answer from the present experiment was affirmative. Subjects, 183 undergraduates, studied a list of 15 familiar nouns by rehearsing aloud with a subsidiary task, and then received a free recall test under one of three conditions: immedi...

We propose a novel scheme for using supervised learning for function based classification of objects in 3D images. During the learning process, a generic multi-level hierarchical description of object classes is constructed. The object classes are described in terms of functional components. The multi-level hierarchy is designed and constructed using a large set of signature-based reasoning and...

The effect of prolactin (PRL) on ion transport across the rat colon epithelium was investigated using Ussing chamber technique. PRL (1 μg/ml) induced a sustained decrease in short-circuit current (I(sc)) in the distal colon with an EC(50) value of 100 ng/ml and increased I(sc) in the proximal colon with an EC(50) value of 49 ng/ml. In the distal colon, the PRL-induced decrease in I(sc) was not ...

A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2020 at Dhule ,Maharashtra (India) to determine efficacy of some insecticides, biopesticides and botanicals against shoot fruit borer (Leucinodes orbonalis Guenee.) on brinjal (Solanum melongena L.). The result showed that the Emamectin benzoate 5% SG (10.35% 15.91%) found most effective followed by Cypermethrin 25%EC (11.49 17.32%), Spinosad 45%SC...