OBJECTIVE Endothelial dysfunction is central to the pathogenesis of many rheumatic diseases, typified by vascular inflammation and damage. Immunosuppressive drugs induce disease remission and lead to improved patient survival. However, there remains a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease in these patients even after adequate disease control. The purpose of this study was to determine the ...

In this technical report we define an operational net semantics for the stochastic process algebra MPA based on generalized stochastic Petri nets. As a consequence of the definition of such a semantics, we present an interesting modeling technique for concurrent systems which is based on MPA. 1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Piazza di Porta S. Donato 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy.

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Fracture of a repaired denture base often occurs at the junction of the base and repair materials rather than within these materials. PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to evaluate the shear bond strengths of 4 denture base acrylic resins following the use of 3 chemical solvents and to examine treated acrylic resin surfaces under a field emission scanning electron micro...

statement of the problem: porcelain may fracture or chip if exposed to any traumas and can be repaired by using a resin composite. purpose: this study was aimed to evaluate the influences of er:yag laser on shear bond strength (sbs) of resin composite to feldspathic porcelain. materials and method: seventy-two porcelain blocks were divided into six groups (n=12): g1: no treatment (control group...

Rainbow trout gill epithelial cells (RTgill-W1) are used in a cell-based biosensor that can respond within one hour to toxic chemicals that have the potential to contaminate drinking water supplies. RTgill-W1 cells seeded on enclosed fluidic biochips and monitored using electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) technology responded to 18 out of the 18 toxic chemicals tested within one ho...

Two strings x and y are said to be Abelian equivalent if x is a permutation of y, or vice versa. If a string z satisfies z = xy with x and y being Abelian equivalent, then z is said to be an Abelian square. If a string w can be factorized into a sequence v1, . . . , vs of strings such that v1, . . . , vs−1 are all Abelian equivalent and vs is a substring of a permutation of v1, then w is said t...

in order to study of hydropriming and halopriming on germination and early growth stage of wheat (triticum aestivum l.) an experiment was carried out in laboratory of the department of agronomy and plant breeding, shahrood university of technology. seed treatments consisted of t1: control (untreated seeds), t2: soaking in distilled water for 18 h (hydropriming). t3: soaking in -1.2 mpa solution...

Abstract The CatWISE2020 Catalog consists of 1,890,715,640 sources over the entire sky selected from Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE survey data at 3.4 4.6 μ m (W1 W2) collected 2010 January 7 to 2018 December 13. This set adds two years that used for CatWISE Preliminary Catalog, bringing total six times as many exposures spanning 16 large a time baseline AllWISE catalog....

LL-37 is the only antimicrobial peptide (AMP) of the human cathelicidin family. In addition to potent antimicrobial activity, LL-37 is known to have the potential to inhibit lipolysaccharide (LPS)-induced endotoxic effects. To provide the stability to proteolytic digestion and increase prokaryotic selectivity and/or antiendotoxic activity of two Lys/Trp-substituted 19-meric antimicrobial peptid...

We report a novel treatment for giant congenital melanocytic nevi (GCMN) that involves the reuse of resected nevus tissue after high hydrostatic pressurization (HHP). However, the remaining melanin pigments in the inactivated nevus tissue pose a problem; therefore, we performed a long-term observation of the color change of inactivated nevus tissue after HHP. Pressurized nevus specimens (200 MP...