BACKGROUND We sought to identify the long-term renal survival rate and related risk factors of progression to renal failure in Chinese adult patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) and to quantify the effects of proteinuria during the follow-up on outcome in patients with IgAN. METHODS Patients with biopsy-proven primary IgAN in the Nanjing Glomerulonephritis Registry were studied. Renal surviva...

Plantar cutaneous afferent transmission is critical for recovery of locomotion in spinalized animals, whereas a phase-dependent reflex modulation is apparent during fictive or real locomotion. In nine people with a chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) the effects of foot sole stimulation on the soleus H-reflex and tibialis anterior (TA) flexion reflex modulation patterns during assisted stepping we...

Continuous intramuscular electromyograms (EMGs) were recorded from the soleus (Sol), medial gastrocnemius (MG), tibialis anterior (TA), and vastus lateralis (VL) muscles of Rhesus during normal cage activity throughout 24-h periods and also during treadmill locomotion. Daily levels of MG tendon force and EMG activity were obtained from five monkeys with partial datasets from three other animals...

Chapter 1 The synthesis and reactivity of [N3N]Ta=E complexes is presented where E is a la, l or la, 21t donor and [N3N] 3= [(Me3SiNCH 2CH2)3N]. [N3N]Ta=PPh reacts with excess lithium metal in tetrahydrofuran to give "[N3N]Ta=PLi" which reacts with RX at -35 'C to afford the phosphinidene complexes, [N3N]Ta=PR (R = Me, n-Bu, SiMe3 , SiMe2Ph). [N3N]TaCl 2 reacts with two equivalents of LiN(H)R (...

This letter describes the design of a broadband and FSS-based transmitarray (TA) antenna for 5G millimeter-wave applications. Two different elements are proposed to avoid issues geometrical parameter resizing obtain 2 bit transmission phase {-?, -?/2, 0, ?/2} achieve TA with wideband behaviors. Both two show low insertion loss below 1 dB from 24 38 GHz. Moreover, can sets discrete phases {- ?, ...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of phytase superdoses alone or in combination with citric acid (ca) in canola meal-based diets severely limited in available phosphorus (pa) on growth performance, plasma phosphorus (p), and tibia ash (ta) in broilers from 22 to 42 d of age. two hundreds and eighty 21-d-old male broilers were used in 28 pens of 10 birds per each. the exper...

OBJECTIVES The level of benzene exposure in the petrochemical industry during regular operation has been well established, but not in turnaround (TA), where high exposure may occur. In this study, the characteristics of occupational exposure to benzene during TA in the petrochemical companies were investigated in order to determine the best management strategies and improve the working environm...

Electrode stability, interdiffusion, phase purity and deviation from stoichiometry at the PZT-electrode interface are key issues in PZT thin film integration. This article highlights the use of transmission electron imaging combined with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) for the investigation of these phenomena. The accuracy of the EDS analysis is discussed. It will be shown that using a sta...

The effect of dietary supplementation DL-alpha-tocopheryl acetate (a-TA) on growth performance, feed efficiency, survival, and salinity resistance Asian catfish (Clarias macrocephalus) fry was evaluated. A total 750 were divided into five treatments with three replicates fed experimental diets containing varying levels alpha-TA: 0, 100, 200, 300, 400 mg·kg-1 diet for 45 days. Results show that ...

The overall aim of the present thesis was to enhance and revive the practical understanding of the active ingredients in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (TA) and to define and lay down elements of TA, which makes it a distinct and replicable method of treatment. The thesis includes three empirical studies of a videotaped one-year long TA Group Therapy with 10 clients. Three different key a...