Increasing atmospheres of absolute pressure (ATA) on the cardiopulmonary system results in a marked diuresis. The present investigation was designed to determine if the diuresis observed with increasing ATA is associated with increased release of the N-terminus of the atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) prohormone that contains two potent diuresis-producing hormones consisting of amino acids (aa) 1...

OBJECTIVES Enterovirus 71 (EV71) causes serious diseases in humans. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) on EV71 replication and to explore the underlying mechanism. METHODS To measure the activity of ATA in inhibiting the cytopathic effect (CPE) of EV71, a cell-based neutralization (inhibition of virus-induced CPE) assay was performed. The effect ...

This paper analyzes the clustering of trades on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) with respect to the trade direction variable. The ASX is a limit order market operating an electronic limit order book. The order book consists of buy limit orders (bids) and sell limit orders (asks). A trade takes place if a new order arrives which matches an existing order in the limit order book. If the match...

The aim of this work was to determine the presence of galectin-10 in nasal lavage fluid (NLF) of patients with aspirin-sensitive respiratory disease (ASRD) before and after challenge with L-ASA (aspirin) by ELISA. Fifteen ASRD patients, ten aspirin-tolerant asthmatics (ATA), and fifteen healthy controls (HC) were studied. The baseline presence of Galectin-10 in PBMC was determined using real ti...

Graph homomorphism is an ubiquitous notion in graph theory with a variety of applications, and a first step to understanding more general constraints given by relational structures, see e.g. the monograph of Hell and Nešetřil [5]. We write μ : G→ H if μ is a homomorphism from the graph G to H, or simply G → H if such a homomorphism exists. For example, a graph G is k-colorable iff it has a homo...

In the initial parts of this thesis, we start by approaching the problem of decidability of emptiness of one variable alternating stopwatch automata. We start off by presenting an overview of important results in the field of hybrid systems and useful subclasses and their proofs. Then we go on to alternating timed automata and redo the previously known result that one clock ATA has decidable la...

in this paper, a new alternative method for order reduction of high order systems is presented based on optimization of multi objective fitness function by using harmony search algorithm. at first, step response of full order system is obtained as a vector, then, a suitable fixed structure considered for model order reduction which order of original system is bigger than fixed structure model. ...

In the crystal structure of the title compound, [Ni(C(5)H(5)N(2)O(2)S)(2)(H(2)O)], the Ni(II) cation is located on a twofold rotation axis and chelated by two 2-amino-1,3-thia-zole-4-acetate (ata) anions in the basal coordination plane; a water mol-ecule located on the same twofold rotation axis completes the distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry. Inter-molecular O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydr...

Shear stress activated platelets undergo aggregation in the presence of large or unusually large von Willebrand factor (vWF) multimers without the addition of ristocetin or any other exogenous chemical. This phenomenon may be analogous to the platelet aggregation that leads to thrombosis in the narrowed arteries and arterioles of patients with atherosclerosis or vasospasm. A triphenyl-methyl co...