OBJECTIVE Extensive remodeling of the valve ECM in calcific aortic valve sclerosis alters its mechanical properties, but little is known about the impact of matrix mechanics on the cells within the valve interstitium. In this study, the influence of matrix stiffness in modulating calcification by valve interstitial cells (VICs), and their differentiation to pathological phenotypes was assessed....

We propose a media converter framework which takes images, music, and other media as input and outputs different media while preserving the same impression for humans. The media converter is realized by combining multiple media database (DB) retrieval systems that use a common psychological impression space. Each of the media DB retrieval systems consists of a physical media feature extraction ...

This work examines the influence of mass media on rural out-migration using historical and contemporary data from a setting experiencing massive social and economic development in the last half-century. Data come from the Chitwan Valley Family Study, an ongoing study of an agrarian region in rural Nepal. Media are hypothesized to affect migration by inducing attitudinal and behavioral changes s...

Azotobacter vinelandii strain ATCC 12837 and A. chroococcum strain H23 (CECT 4435) were able to grow on N-free or NH4Cl-amended chemically-defined (Burk's) media, with protocatechuic acid (1-2 mmol 1(-1)) or sodium p-hydroxybenzoate (1-10 mmol 1(-1)) as sole carbon (C) sources. At a concentration of 2 mmol 1(-1), both substrates supported nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction assay) at similar...

The results of this study has revealed a significant increase in I(131) uptake of cultivated thyroid gland in the media containing petroleum ether extract of Commiphora mukul. Besides, T(3) resin uptake, protein bound iodine as well as free thyroxine index in the media are also observed to be significantly (P 0.001) increased. When explants are cultivated in the media containing melatonin, ther...

digestion and decontamination was done by the NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) -NALC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine) method, followed by centrifugation for 20 minutes at 3000 revolutions/minute. 0.5 ml of each concentrate was added into the 3 media. MGIT vials were monitored by the MGIT 960 system while the Bio FM and LJ media were examined upto 42 days and 56 days respectively for mycobacterial growth. Isolates ...

Three polycentric rumen fungi, LL, LC2 and Ruminomyces elegans (C2), isolated from the rumen of cattle were grown in six culture media. LL and LC2 were morphologically similar. Their characteristics resembled those of Orpinomyces and Neocallimastix joyonii, and they grew well and produced sporangia after 3-4 d growth in all the media. R. elegans differed morphologically from LL and LC2, but alt...

The relations between adolescents' habitual usage of media violence and their tendency to engage in aggressive and prosocial behavior in a school setting were examined in a cross-sectional study with 1688 7th and 8th graders in Germany who completed measures of violent media exposure and normative acceptance of aggression. For each participant, ratings of prosocial and aggressive behavior were ...

Over the past several years, we have seen the emergence of new paradigm in the Internet, online social media networking, which provide Internet users to communicate and collaborate with family, friends, social groups, and other community by using social media tools (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Youtube). The use of social media for communication is becoming more prevalent worldwide, wi...

In this paper, we investigate the Fourier transform of self-similar measures on R. We provide quantitative decay rates some measures. Our method is based random walks lattices and Diophantine approximation in number fields. also completely identify all sets which are uniqueness. This generalizes a classical result Salem Zygmund.