The present study addresses the hypothesis that angiotensin type 1 receptors (AT1Rs) in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) contribute to the elevation of mean arterial pressure (MAP) in Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) rats fed a diet with a high NaCl content. Groups of DS or Dahl salt-resistant (DR) rats were fed diets containing either 0.3% NaCl (LNa) or 8% NaCl (HNa) for 3 weeks. Rats were ane...

In this paper we show how classical error estimates for various discretiza-tions of the source iteration map in slab geometry can be used to construct accurate approximate inverses in the context of fast multilevel methods. For discretizations that give strongly convergent collectively compact sequences of approximate source iteration maps, the Atkinson-Brakhage approximate inverse can be appli...

We investigate joint source channel coding for channels with intersymbol interference (ISI) where the source coder is a vector quantizer. In our previous work we used a block MAP equalizer, which takes into account the residual correlation between the VQ outputs and also provides for soft decisions to improve the performance. In this paper we propose the use of a vector channel approach and dis...

the efficiency of three statistical models, ahp surface-weighted density bivariate (semi-quantitative models), stepwise multivariate regression and logistic multivariate regression models were compared in chehel-chai watershed in golestan province, iran. in current study the hazard map was prepared according to the top model of landslide hazard map. chehel-chai watershed is located as one of go...

Microlensing uses gravitational lensing of individual stars to detect planets. In a microlensing event, the light from one star, the “source”, is magnified by the gravitational field of another star, the “lens”. A microlensing event occurs when the paths of two stars on the sky pass very close to each other, typically less than 1′′ [An arcsecond (′′) is 1/3600th of a degree. It may be further d...

iii Acknowledgments iv About the Authors v Introduction 1 1. General description of the source map 2 1.1