SIRT6 has been demonstrated to exert protective effects on endothelial cells and is closely associated with lipid metabolism, glucose metabolism, and obesity, indicating an important role in the pathogenesis and progression of coronary artery disease (CAD). Nonetheless, the biological significance of SIRT6 variants on CAD is far to be elucidated. Here we aimed to investigate the influence of SI...

In elicitation tasks, people are asked to make estimates under conditions of uncertainty but elicitors then interpret these estimates as if the estimator were certain of them. An analysis of people’s patterns of responding during the elicitation of uncertainty, indicates that there are markers of confidence incorporated into these estimates that can be used to predict the person’s true level of...

The process of convening arbitrary real numbers bito a floating poini format is formalized as a mapping of the reals into a specified subset of real numbers. The structure of this subset, the set of n significant digit base ß floating point numbers, is analyzed and properties of conversion mapp.ngs are determined. For a restricted conversion mapping of the n significant digit base ^numbers to t...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus characterized by hyperglycaemia could affect sperm quality as a result of increased oxidative stress. This study was performed to investigate the effects of red palm oil (RPO), aqueous rooibos tea extracts (RTE) as well as their combination (RPO + RTE) on sperm motility parameters in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Diabetes was induced ...

Concentrations of serum testosterone, cortisol, thyroxine (free and total T4), triiodothyronine (free and total T3) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) were measured to assess adrenal and thyroid function as they relate to testicular activity and musth in captive elephants. Blood samples were collected approximately weekly from Asian (n=8) and African (n=12) bulls at seven facilities for peri...

Possible differences between men and women in age-related patterns of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to challenge were examined to test the hypothesis that women show greater age-related increase in HPA axis reactivity to challenge. Twenty-six younger subjects, 9 men and 17 women, ages 22-26 and 14 older subjects, 7 men and 7 women, ages 67-88 participated in the study. Patt...

This study investigated the Immunomodulating activity of Rhizopus nigricans meal with a view of comparing it with that exhibited by -glucan. The indicators of the immunomodulating activity employed in this study were: hormonal assay (testosterone estimation), testis homogenization (elongated spermatids evaluation) and internal organs histological examinations. R. nigricans meal supplementation ...

In this paper, we analyze the distribution of the eigenvalues of glued tridiagonal matrices. Such matrices provide a useful class of test matrix because, despite being unreduced, a glued matrix can have some eigenvalues agreeing to hundreds of decimal places. A glued matrix can be obtained from a direct sum of p copies of an unreduced symmetric tridiagonal matrix T by modifying the junctions, i...

2 The memory entitled " Theoretical study of the fluorinating power of SF 6 to vanadocene " corresponds to the work carried out by Luis Martínez Suárez to obtain the Official Master Title on Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, done in the Departament de Química Física of the Universitat de Barcelona and supervised by Dr. Juan J. Novoa Vide, whom certifies and gives his consent to its prese...