Widespread evidence supports the existence of an endogenous digitalis-like compound in mammals. We report here the development of a novel enzyme immunoassay for ouabain that, in conjunction with a detailed HPLC study, identifies a ouabain-like compound (OLC) in extracted human plasma. The assay is sensitive-minimum detection limit for OLC 37 pmol/L (11 pmol/L in plasma)-and has a working range ...

This paper delineates an instrumental multi-case study conducted in Taiwan with university faculty. The study explores higher education teachers’ standpoints concerning adoption of online learning community (OLC) as a strategy for continuing professional development (CPD) taking advantage of the technique frequently applied to program planning or decision making analyses on internal effects of ...

If gaugino condensations occur in the early universe, domain walls are produced as a result of the spontaneous breaking of a discrete R symmetry. Those domain walls eventually annihilate with one another, producing the gravitational waves. We show that the gravitational waves can be a probe for measuring the gravitino mass, if the constant term in the superpotential is the relevant source of th...

Functional studies indicate that the sympathoexcitatory and pressor responses to an increase in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) [Na+] by central infusion of Na+-rich artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF) in Wistar rats are mediated in the brain by mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) activation, ouabain-like compounds (OLC), and AT1-receptor stimulation. In the present study, we examined whether increasin...

Let G denote a connected reductive group, defined and split over Z, and let M ⊂ G denote a Levi subgroup. In this paper we study varieties of geodesic triangles with fixed vector-valued side-lengths α, β, γ in the Bruhat-Tits buildings associated to G, along with varieties of ideal triangles associated to the pair M ⊂ G. The ideal triangles have a fixed side containing a fixed base vertex and a...

Following Keating and Rudnick, we say that a character Λ : B× → C× is “even” if it is trivial on the subgroup k×. The quotient group B×/k× is the group of “big” Witt vectors mod X with values in k. Recall that for any ringA, the groupBigWitt(A) is simply the abelian group 1 +XA[[X]] of formal series with constant term 1, under multiplication of formal series. In this group, the elements 1 +XA[[...

Let ψ be a smooth character of a closed subgroup, H, of a reductive p-adic group G. If P is parabolic subgroup of G such that PH is open in G, we define the constant term of every smmoth fubction on G which transforms by ψ under the right action of G. The example of mixed models is given: it includes symmetric spaces and Whittaker models. In this case a notion of cuspidal function is defined an...