PURPOSE The present study aimed to measure the thickness of the subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) at the site of the surgical incision for axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) and to record potential anatomical variations in the medial cutaneous nerve of the arm (MCNA), the intercostobrachial nerve (ICBN), the lateral thoracic vein (LTV), the lateral thoracic artery (LTA) and the pectoral musc...

Brucella abortus vaccine was prepared from strain 19 imported from Germany. The vaccine induced a good immune response in guinea pigs as evidenced by a serological titre of 328 international units (IU)/ml 10 days post-vaccination. Vaccinated guinea pigs also withstood an experimental challenge of 5,000 colony-forming units of a locally isolated virulent B. abortus strain. This vaccine, containi...

Excess adiposity is associated with chronic inflammation, which takes part in the development of obesity-related complications. The aim of this study was to establish whether subcutaneous (SAT) or visceral (VAT) adipose tissue plays a major role in synthesis of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Concentrations of interleukins (IL): 1β, 6, 8 and 15 were measured at the protein level by an ELISA-based m...

One of the most studied models SAT is random SAT. In this model, instances are composed from clauses chosen uniformly randomly and independently each other. This model may be unsatisfactory in that it fails to describe various features instances, arising real-world applications. Various modifications have been suggested define industrial Here, we focus mainly on aspect community structure. Name...

Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...

This study uses analysis of co-variance in order to determine which cognitive/learning (working memory, knowledge integration, epistemic belief of learning) or social/personality factors (test anxiety, performance-avoidance goals) might account for gender differences in SAT-V, SAT-M, and overall SAT scores. The results revealed that none of the cognitive/learning factors accounted for gender di...

We begin by offering a new, direct proof of the equivalence between the problem of the existence of kernels in digraphs, KER, and satisfiability of propositional theories, SAT, giving linear reductions in both directions. Having introduced some linear reductions of the input graph, we present new algorithms for KER, with variations utilizing solvers of boolean equations. In the worst case, the ...

The physiological processes leading to enhanced growth of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) following fertilization are not clearly understood. Part of the debate revolves around the temporal response of net photosynthetic rate (A(n)) to fertilization and whether the A(n) response is always positive. We measured light-saturated photosynthetic rate (A(sat)), dark respiration rate, growth and crown ...

Searching for optimal solutions to a problem using lower bounds obtained from a relaxation is a common idea in Heuristic Search and Planning. In SAT and CSPs, however, explicit relaxations are seldom used. In this work, we consider the use of explicit relaxations for solving MinCostSAT, the problem of finding a minimum cost satisfying assignment. We start with the observation that while a numbe...