Background: Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) affected by HIV/AIDS frequently experience placement/ residential changes, inconsistent caregivers, abuse, neglect, disruptions in their lives and several mental health problems. This may lead to a disorder of emotional functioning, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), where the child exhibits wary, watchful, and emotionally withdrawn. Despite it...

The largest class of algebraic hyper structures satisfying the module like axioms is the v H module. In this paper, we consider the category of v H -modules and prove that the direct limit always exists in this category. Direct limits are defined by a universal property, and so are unique. The most powerful tool in order to obtain a module from a given v H module is the quotient out procedure. ...

Let G be a connected reductive algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p > 0. Our first aim in this note is to give concise and uniform proofs for two fundamental and deep results in the context of Serre’s notion of G-complete reducibility, at the cost of less favourable bounds. Here are some special cases of these results: Suppose that the index (H : H◦) is...

BACKGROUND Ras associated with diabetes (Rad) inhibits vascular lesion formation by reducing the attachment and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). However, the transcriptional regulation of Rad in VSMCs is unclear. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We found that Platelet-Derived Growth Factor (PDGF)induced Rad expression in a time- and dose-dependent manner in rat aortic smoo...

Agrawal, Kayal, and Saxena recently introduced a new method of proving that an integer is prime. The speed of the Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena method depends on proven lower bounds for the size of the multiplicative semigroup generated by several polynomials modulo another polynomial h. Voloch pointed out an application of the Stothers-Mason ABC theorem in this context: under mild assumptions, distinct...

Evaluation of hepatic functions of the bioartificial liver (BAL) module is essential for developing an optimal BAL system which can be applied to a patient with fulminant hepatic failure. Although hepatic function in BALs has been evaluated only in biochemical activities in previous reports, we assessed a newly designed BAL from a hollow fiber type not only in biochemical activities such as glu...

BACKGROUND Rad (Ras associated with diabetes) GTPase is a prototypic member of a new subfamily of Ras-related GTPases with unique structural features, although its physiological role remains largely unknown. In the present study, we characterized the Rad function in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and the influence of adenovirus-mediated Rad (Ad-Rad) gene delivery on vascular remodeling af...

Rad is the prototypic member of a new class of Ras-related GTPases. Purification of the GTPase-activating protein (GAP) for Rad revealed nm23, a putative tumor metastasis suppressor and a development gene in Drosophila. Antibodies against nm23 depleted Rad-GAP activity from human skeletal muscle cytosol, and bacterially expressed nm23 reconstituted the activity. The GAP activity of nm23 was spe...

Using 95% limits of agreement (LOA), this study examined the reproducibility of indices of isokinetic leg strength in pubertal soccer players. Following familiarization, 23 boys performed isokinetic assessments of the knee joint muscles at 1.08, 2.16, and 4.32 rad/s during concentric exercise and at 2.16 rad/s during eccentric actions on two separate occasions. Peak torque values were recorded ...

In this paper we study G-extensions of real and complex representations of a closed normal subgroup H of a compact Lie group G when G/H is connected. The main result gives a necessary and sufficient condition for every complex irreducible H-module to extend to a G-module. In particular, we show that every complex Hmodule extends to a G-module if the fundamental group of G/H is torsion free. We ...