Cushing's syndrome (CS) due to ectopic adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) is associated with a variety of tumours most of which arise in the thorax or abdomen. Prostate carcinoma is a rare but important cause of rapidly progressive CS. To report a case of severe CS due to ACTH production from prostate neuroendocrine carcinoma and summarise previous published cases. A 71-year-old male presented...

The ability to achieve meaningful decreases in sediment loads to reservoirs requires a determination of the relative importance of sediment sources within the contributing basins. In an investigation of sources of fine-grained sediment (clay and silt) within the Perry Lake Basin in northeast Kansas, representative samples of channel-bank sources, surface-soil sources (cropland and grassland), a...

Purpose: To investigate the effect of salt form on the antioxidant activities of chitosan aqueous solution. Methods: The antioxidant activities of chitosan acetate (CS-acetate), chitosan hydroxybenzotriazole (CS-HOBt), chitosan thiamine pyrophosphate (CS-TPP) and chitosan ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (CS-EDTA) solution were determined employing various established in vitro system such as sup...

The uniaxial compressive strength of weak rocks (UCSWR) is among the essential parameters involved for the design of underground excavations, surface and underground mines, foundations in/on rock masses, and oil wells as an input factor of some analytical and empirical methods such as RMR and RMI. The direct standard approaches are difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, especially with highl...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is responsible for up to one-third of ischemic strokes and associated with silent cerebral infarctions and transient ischemic attacks. Any method that predicts the stroke or unmasks the silent PAF would contribute to the treatment of ischemic stroke. Intraatrial conduction time (ICT) has been shown to be associated with intermittent AF. In this study, we evaluated the v...

The novel concept of joint Compressive Sensing (CS) and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding is conceived for Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) supporting a massive number signals. More explicitly, we demonstrate this specific scheme, which supports signals simultaneously, using small Internet Things Nodes (IoTNs) based on the CS. compressed are LDPC coded ...

Source/Description: A polymorphic region consisting of repeats of the dinucleotide (GT), was identified with a (CA),0 oligonucleotide probe in a cosmid (1) containing the KM. 19 and CS.7 probe fragments near the CFTR gene (2). A fragment containing the polymorphic region, and lying approximately 3 kb centromeric to the CS.7 probe fragment (3), was cloned and sequenced (EMBL # X60680) to reveal ...

Millimeter continuum and spectral line observations with 10", 30", and 60" resolution are used to characterize the structure and chemistry of the gas around the young, embedded star, IRAS 05338-0624. On arcminute scales, emission from dense gas tracers outline an isolated condensation centered on the IRAS source position. The condensation is characterized by a size of ~60", a density of 2 x 105...

Microwave-assisted acid decomposition and oil-in-water emulsification were evaluated as sample pretreatment procedures to determine Al, Ba, Mo, Si and V in lubricating oils by high-resolution continuum source flame atomic absorption spectrometry (HR-CS FAAS). Average recoveries of Al, Ba and V in oil digests (107, 103 and 101%) were close to those obtained for emulsions prepared in kerosene med...