The overall mission of the National Center for Nuclear Security (NCNS) Source Physics Experiment (SPE-N) at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) near Las Vegas, Nevada is to improve upon and develop new physics based models for underground nuclear explosions using scaled, underground chemical explosions as proxies. Infrasound has been used for many years to study explosive sources both abov...

Background: The purpose of this study was to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based assessments of multifidus muscle to predict development of proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK). Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 62 patients with lumbar degenerative disease (LDD) who underwent fusion of L5 and all the upper instrumented vertebrae (UIVs) in the thoracolumbar spine (T9-L2), with ≥2 years’ ...

The expression of activated cell antigens (Ags) on adult T cell leukemia (ATL) cells at different clinical stages (acute, chronic, and smoldering), and ATL cells from enlarged lymph nodes were studied using monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs). The expressions of CD25 (Tac), CD28, T9 (transferrin receptor), and Ki-67 (proliferating cell nuclear antigen) Ags were high, and that of CD7 Ag was low in bot...

STUDY DESIGN Experimental study of a localized device for the control of the vertebral growth using an immature porcine model. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to experimentally evaluate a localized device acting on the epiphyseal growth plates without bridging the intervertebral disc of immature hybrid pigs over 3 months of growth. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Based on current published li...

this study was accomplished to investigate the effect of artemia urmiana nauplii enriched with pediococcus acidilactici as probiotic on growth performance and survival rate of great sturgeon, huso huso.  artemia nauplii were enriched with p. acidilactici at a final concentration of 1010 cfu ml-1 in three time dependent treatments as 3 h (t3), 6 h (t6), 9 h (t9), and one non-enriched artemia as ...

The case report titled “Acute renal failure during a trial of spinal cord stimulation: Theories as to a possible connection” by Larkin et al (1) addressed that spinal T9 stimulation could lead to diminished renal blood flow by the decreased sympathetic input. Renal sympathetic innervation is widely acknowledged to involve the maintenance of fluid homeostasis and modulation of renal hemodynamics...

The popular M-toN thread scheduling model multiplexes many user-level threads on top of fewer kernel-level threads. While this model is designed to be scalable and eecient without excessive resource consumption, we isolate several elementary examples under which the M-toN model exhibits highly nonintuitive performance. We use a runtime performance monitor for multithreaded programs which we hav...