Nutrition is a necessary condition for cell proliferation, including pancreatic β cells; however, over-nutrition, and the resulting obesity and glucolipotoxicity, is a risk factor for the development of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), and causes inhibition of pancreatic β-cells proliferation and their loss of compensation for insulin resistance. Here, we showed that Retinoic acid (RA)-inducible ...

A technique of Raman compensation for a two-channel soliton-based fiber communication system is introduced. By fixing the wavelength spacing between two channels, one can calculate the pumping wavelength and intensity in such a way that balance between loss and gain is reached for each channel. In this computation the Raman conversion between two channels plays an important role in simultaneous...

Photovoltaic-electrolysis water splitting (PV-EWS) is the most promising approach for high solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency. The present PV-EWS systems achieve highest STH performance by using a III-V triple-junction configuration, which, however, involves complex and expensive manufacture process. Therefore, in this work, we demonstrate III–V double junction device that can be used as an alt...

objective(s): noise-induced hearing loss (nihl) is the major cause of acquired hearing loss.  celecoxib, a cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) inhibitor, is a non- steroidal anti- inflammatory drug (nsaid) with known antioxidant and antineoplastic activity. therefore, we monitored the extent of temporary noise- induced threshold shifts (tts) and cochlear damage caused by high level 4- khz noise exposure t...

From 1999 to 2010, the number of Veterans of the United States military receiving compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for serviceconnected PTSD increased 222% to 386,882. This dramatic and rapid increase in the rate of diagnosed service-connected PTSD has intensified longstanding concerns that the VA’s disability policies, procedures, and treatment programs promote compens...

Irreversible lithium loss in the initial cycles appreciably reduces energy density of lithium-ion batteries. Prelithiation is an effective way to compensate for such loss, but current methods suffer from either instability or low capacity prelithiation reagents. Lithium oxalate (Li2C2O4) has shown great potential as a lithium-compensation material because its high theoretical (equivalent metal)...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Tibial fractures comprise 10% of all fractures in children. To our knowledge there have been no previous reports of treatment injuries in these fractures. We analyzed compensation claims concerning treatment of these fractures in Finland. We used this information to determine preventable causes of treatment injuries. MATERIAL AND METHODS In Finland, the Patient Insuranc...

Nanoplasmonic devices are promising for next generation information and communication technologies because of their capability to confine light at subwavelength scale and transport signals with ultrahigh speeds. However, ohmic losses are inherent to all plasmonic devices so that further development of integrated plasmonics requires efficient in situ loss compensation of signals with a wavelengt...