The authors developed a Web-based mission-based reporting (MBR) system for their university's (UC Davis's) health system to report faculty members' activities in research and creative work, clinical service, education, and community/university service. They developed the system over several years (1998-2001) in response to a perceived need to better define faculty members' productivity for facu...

BACKGROUND Systematic nodal dissection (SND) is regarded as a core component of lung cancer surgery. However, there has been a concern on the increased morbidity associated with SND. This study was performed to investigate whether or not SND induces significant immune response. METHODS Sixteen dogs were divided into two groups; group 1 (n = 8) underwent thoracotomy only, and group 2 (n = 8) u...

Frequency-domain analyses were used to determine the effect of heat stress on the relationships between the discharge bursts of sympathetic nerve pairs and sympathetic and phrenic nerve pairs in chloralose-anesthetized rats. Sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) was recorded from the renal, splanchnic, splenic, and lumbar nerves during increases in core body temperature (Tc) from 38 to 41.4 ± 0.3°C...

We used blockade of excitatory amino acid (EAA) neurotransmission in the medullary lateral tegmental field (LTF) and rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) to assess the roles of these regions in the control of inferior cardiac sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) in urethan-anesthetized, baroreceptor-denervated cats. Bilateral microinjection of a non-N-methyl-D-aspa...

Discharge of wastewater contained high amount nitrogen would cause eutrophication to water bodies. Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) has been confirmed as an effective process, the isolation SND bacteria is crucial for its successful operation. In this study, strain was isolated identified Pseudomona aeruginosa LS82, which exhibited a rapid growth rate (0.385 h−1) good remova...

Membrane fouling presents the greatest challenge to the application of membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology. Formation of biofilms on the membrane surface is the suggested cause, yet little is known of the composition or dynamics of the microbial community responsible. To gain an insight into this important question, we applied 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing with a curated taxonomy and fluor...

Although membrane bioreactor (MBR) systems provide better removal of pathogens compared to conventional activated sludge processes, they do not achieve total log removal. The present study examines two MBR systems treating municipal wastewater, one a full-scale MBR plant and the other a lab-scale anaerobic MBR. Both of these systems were operated using microfiltration (MF) polymeric membranes. ...

Orer HS, Gebber GL, Barman SM. Role of serotonergic input to the ventrolateral medulla in expression of the 10-Hz sympathetic nerve rhythm. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 294: R1435–R1444, 2008. First published March 12, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00012.2008.—We studied the changes in inferior cardiac sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) produced by unilateral microinjections of 5-hydroxytr...

Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems use statistical models of spoken language. These models are typically learned from corpora comprising many hours of transcribed speech. While a variety of machine learning approaches have been applied to this learning task, the optimal learning strategy is unknown. This thesis focusses upon a relatively recent and successful approach, the applic...

The general purpose spherical nonmagnetic detector ( SND ) is now taking data at VEPP-2M ee collider in BINP ( Novosibirsk ) in the centre of mass energy range of 0.2 ÷ 1.4 GeV. The energy calibration of the NaI(Tl) calorimeter of the SND detector with cosmic muons is described. Using this method, the energy resolution of 5.5 % (σ) for 500 MeV photons was achieved.