This study aims to introduce a new approach of a comprehensive paradigm to evaluate brain electrophysiological properties among addicts. Electroencephalographic spectral power as well as amplitudes and latencies of mismatch negativity (MMN), P300, and P600 components were evaluated among 19 male heroin addicts and 19 healthy nonsmoker subjects using a paradigm consisting of three subparadigms, ...

Submitted Chapter 6 104 Chronic stress is thought to be an important factor in the aetiology of depression, whereas social support has stress-reducing properties and a positive influence on the course of a depressive episode. 21 Days of chronic footshock stress was used as a model for affective disorders in rats and group housing of rats could provide a suitable model for social support to stud...

Anatase TiO2 nanocrystallines (17–29 nm) were successfully synthesized by the metal–organic chemical vapor deposition method (MOCVD). Moderate manipulation of system parameters of MOCVD can control the particle size. The electro-optical and photocatalytic properties of the synthesized TiO2 nanoparticles were studied along with several commercially available ultra-fine TiO2 particles (e.g., 3.8–...

Postmortem myofiber histochemistry was studied in longissimus muscles of pigs with differing degrees of stress susceptibility (SS). The histochemical reactivity of phosphorylase and the stainability of glycogen by the periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) reaction was enhanced in samples taken approximately 20 min. postmortem. In later postmortem samples from SS animals killed by stress treatment, phospho...

Background: The investigation of structural organisation in lignocellulose materials is important to understand changes in cellulase accessibility and reactivity resulting from hydrothermal deconstruction, to allow development of strategies to maximise bioethanol process efficiencies. To achieve progress, wheat straw lignocellulose and comparative model wood cellulose were characterised followi...

Background Studies have described the externalizing (e.g., antisocial propensity) and internalizing (e.g., anxiety, depression) characteristics of driving while impaired (DWI) recidivism. However, the respective contribution of those characteristics to recidivism risk and their underlying mechanisms are still unknown. Cortisol, a stress hormone, is a biomarker underlying various high-risk chara...

Rainwater utilization has great potentials for recovering hydrological cycles, for buffering extreme run-off situations in the watercourses, and for reducing the costs for water supply in urban area. However, little information is available on the water qualities and runoff properties of collected rainwater, which is critical for efficient design and maintenance strategies of rainwater harvesti...