An experiment has been conducted to evaluate the effects of a liquid prebiotic (LP) on the carcass, digestive tract, and productive traits of Japanese quail. Eighty 7-day-old Japanese quails were randomly divided into 2 treatments. Each treatment consisted of 4 replicates (pens) of 10 birds each. The first treatment (control) contained a standard recommended diet with no added prebiotic. The se...

The present study is an attempt to explore any significant relationships between learners’ preferences for error correction, demotivation, and language proficiency (LP). One hundred Iranian EFL students, including both males and females, studying at the departments of foreign languages of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman and Tehran University took part in this study. In order to obtain the r...

To elucidate how the proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor alirocumab modulates lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] plasma levels, the authors performed a series of Lp(a) uptake studies in primary human hepatocytes and dermal fibroblasts and measured Lp(a) secretion from human hepatocytes. They found that Lp(a) cellular uptake occurred in a low-density lipoprotein receptor-independ...

Last lecture we introduce linear programs (LP) and saw how to model problems with LPs. In this lecture we study duality of LPs. Roughly speaking, the dual of a minimization LP is a maximization LP which its solutions provide lower bounds for the optimum of the original LP. First we show how to construct dual of an LP. Then we talk about relation between the optimum of an LP and its dual. In par...

We show that solving linear programming (LP) relaxations of many classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems is as hard as solving the general LP problem. Precisely, the general LP can be reduced in linear time to the LP relaxation of each of these problems. This result poses a fundamental limitation for designing efficient algorithms to solve the LP relaxations, because finding such ...

We study the medium-induced energy loss −∆E0(Lp) suffered by a heavy quark produced at initial time in a quark-gluon plasma, and escaping the plasma after travelling the distance Lp. The heavy quark is treated classically, and within the same framework −∆E0(Lp) consistently includes: the loss from standard collisional processes, initial bremsstrahlung due to the sudden acceleration of the quark...

Uremic patients have increased plasma lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels and elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. Lp(a) is a subfraction of LDL, where apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] is disulfide bound to apolipoprotein B-100 (apoB). Lp(a) binds oxidized phospholipids (OxPL), and uremia increases lipoprotein-associated OxPL. Thus, Lp(a) may be particularly atherogenic in a uremic setting. We therefor...

Lactoperoxidase (LP) is one of the most prominent enzymes in bovine milk and catalyses the inactivation of a wide range of micro-organisms in the lactoperoxidase system (LP-s). LP-systems are also identified as natural antimicrobial systems in human secretions such as saliva, tear-fluid and milk and are found to be harmless to mammalian cells. The detailed molecular structure of LP is identifie...

Background: C-reactive protein (CRP) and lipoprotein (a) (Lp[a]) play essential roles in cardiovascular disease incidence. This study aimed to review the association between the intake of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in the form of dietary supplement or enriched food with different treatment durations and the levels of Lp(a) and CRP in human studies.Methods: All the articles published i...