The present paper is a note on the relative tensor degree of finite groups. This notion generalizes the tensor degree, introduced recently in literature, and allows us to adapt the concept of relative commutativity degree through the notion of nonabelian tensor square. We show two inequalities, which correlate the relative tensor degree with the relative commutativity degree of finite groups. 1...

Bowles, D. K., M. H. Laughlin, and M. Sturek. Exercise training increases K1-channel contribution to regulation of coronary arterial tone. J. Appl. Physiol. 84(4): 1225–1233, 1998.—The present study examined whether regulation of coronary tone in conduit arteries (.1.0 mm ID) is altered by exercise training. Yucatan miniature swine were treadmill trained for 16–20 wk (Ex) and compared with sede...

The rat ClC-K1 chloride channel is a kidney-specific member of the ClC chloride channel family found exclusively in the thin ascending limb of Henle's loop in the kidney. To gain insight into the mechanism(s) of kidney-specific expression of ClC-K1, a genomic clone that contains the 5'-flanking region of the rat ClC-K1 gene was isolated. A single transcription start site was located 84 bp upstr...

Cardiac ventricular myocytes possess an extensive t-tubular system that facilitates the propagation of membrane potential across the cell body. It is well established that ionic currents at the restricted t-tubular space may lead to significant changes in ion concentrations, which, in turn, may affect t-tubular membrane potential. In this study, we used the whole cell patch-clamp technique to s...

We present a family of identities ‘cyclic sum formula’ and ‘sum formula’ for a version of multiple q-zeta star values. We also discuss a problem of q-generalization of shuffle products. Introduction and notation The classical idea of introducing an additional parameter to an expression or formula we wish to deal with, is quite fruitful in many situations. This may simplify a proof of the corres...

N. V. Efimov [Efi64] proved that there is no complete, smooth surface in R with uniformly negative curvature. We extend this to isometric immersions in a 3-manifold with pinched curvature: if M has sectional curvature between two constants K2 and K3, then there exists K1 < min(K2, 0) such that M contains no smooth, complete immersed surface with curvature below K1. Optimal values of K1 are dete...

We give a simple representation of all elements in K1 of a Waldhausen category and prove relations between these representatives which hold in K1.

A total of 174 blood isolates of Escherichia coli, collected during a 5-year period at the University Hospital Utrecht, were serotyped with rabbit sera against 171 O antigens and 73 capsule (K) antigens. The four most prevalent O-antigen serotypes were O6 (n = 22), O18 (n = 19), O1 (n = 19), and O2 (n = 15). Thirty-one strains were not typeable with any of the O-antigen-typing sera. Of the 148 ...

Neonatal bacterial meningitis continues to be an important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Escherichia coli possessing the K1 capsular polysaccharide is the most common Gram-negative pathogen causing neonatal meningitis. Here we present the complete genome sequence of neonatal meningitis-associated E. coli strain CE10, a unique K1 strain with a functional type III secretion system. ...