UNLABELLED Glutathione is the predominant endogenous cellular antioxidant, playing a critical role in the cellular defensive response to oxidative stress by neutralizing free radicals and reactive oxygen species. With cysteine as the rate-limiting substrate in glutathione biosynthesis, the cystine/glutamate transporter (system xc(-)) represents a potentially attractive PET biomarker to enable i...

Introduction: The assessment of arterial stiffness is increasingly used for evaluating patients with a wide range of cardiovascular diseases. Arterial stiffness can be noninvasively estimated by measuring pulse wave velocity (PWV), which is directly related to vessel wall elasticity. Several methods have been proposed for measuring PWV using velocity-encoded MRI, including transit-time (TT) [1]...

This work presents the mathematical modeling of conveyor-belt dryer with tangential flow operating in co-current, which has advantage improving preservation organoleptic and nutritional qualities dried food. On one hand, it is a more cumbersome than perforated cross belt but, on other low air temperature final section where product moisture content and, therefore, heat sensitive. The results al...

The Xilinx FPGA architecture is very regular and gatearray-like, but it is not a simple sea-of-gates. An understanding of the architecture and the resources it provides can make designs become more efficient in both speed and density. This Application Note focuses on the features of the XC4000 architecture and its supporting software that improve design efficiency. It also describes advanced de...

Each Bers slice is a holomorphically embedded copy of Teichmüller space within XC(S). While it follows that BY can be locally described as the common zero locus of finitely many analytic functions on XC(S), it is known that the Bers slice is not a locally algebraic set [DK]—this is used to show that W. Thurston’s skinning map is not a constant function [DK]. We prove a stronger result about the...

We report a systematic investigation of Ba(Fe1 xCox)2As2 based on transport and As NMR measurements, and establish the electronic phase diagram. We demonstrate that doping progressively suppresses the uniform spin susceptibility and low frequency spin fluctuations. The optimum superconducting phase emerges at xc ’ 0:08 when the tendency toward spin ordering completely diminishes. Our findings p...

A real hyperelliptic curve X is said to be Gaussian if there is an automorphism α : XC → XC such that α = [−1]C ◦ α, where [−1] denotes the hyperelliptic involution on X. Gaussian curves arise naturally in several contexts, for example when one studies real Jacobians. In the present paper we study the properties of Gaussian curves and we describe their moduli spaces. MSC 2000: 14H15, 14H37, 14P...

2014 Measurements of the NMR absorption line shapes have been used to establish the phase diagram for orientational ordering of the J = 1 molecules in solid mixtures of paradeuterium (J = 1) and orthodeuterium (J = 0) for para concentrations 42 X 75 % and temperatures 0.035 T 2.5 K. As in solid hydrogen, we observe three phases : a rotationally disordered phase, a long range orientationally ord...