Enhanced glucose flux via the hexosamine biosynthesis pathway (HNSP) has been implicated in insulin resistance. We measuredl-glutamine:d-fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase activity (GFAT, a rate-limiting enzyme) and concentrations of UDP- N-acetyl hexosamines (UDP-HexNAc, major products of HNSP) in muscle and liver of growth hormone (GH)-deficient male dwarf (dw) rats. All parameters measure...

Synthesis of single-wavelength temporal phase-shifting algorithms (PSA) for interferometry is well-known and firmly based on the frequency transfer function (FTF) paradigm. Here we extend the single-wavelength FTF-theory to dual and multi-wavelength PSA-synthesis when several simultaneous laser-colors are present. The FTF-based synthesis for dual-wavelength (DW) PSA is optimized for high signal...

Fig. 3. DWSI of rat brain using (a) DW-EPSI and (b) DW-LSEPSI. The left images show NAA maps and the right graphs show average spectra in the red rectangles in the left images. Yellow lines in the left images show edges of a rat head. (c) ADC map of NAA using DW-LSEPSI. Color represents ADC value. Fig. 1. Sequence diagram of DW-LSEPSI. Diffusion-weighted Line-scan Echo-planar Spectroscopic Imag...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and differentiation of perforated and nonperforated appendicitis cases, with histopathologic correlation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty consecutive patients (34 males, 26 females; mean age, 35.6±15.5 years...

A cream-white-coloured, aerobic, Gram-positive, ovoid to spherical-shaped bacterial strain, designated L-143(T), was isolated from soil in Taiwan. The highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of strain L-143(T) (98.3-95.8%) were with members of the genus Rothia. Chemotaxonomic and phenotypic properties of this organism were consistent with its classification in the genus Rothia. The novel is...

Developing a data warehouse (DW) is a complex, time consuming and prone to fail task. Different DW models and methods have been presented during the last few years. However, none of them addresses the whole development process in an integrated manner. In this paper, we present a DW development method, based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Unified Process (UP), which addresses the...

The paper presents a: a) brief overview and analysis of existing approaches to the data warehouse (DW) evolution problem, and b) detailed description of the research idea for the DW evolution problem (primarily intended for structured data sources and realizations with relational database engines). We observe the DW evolution problem as a double issue from the DW perspective, and from the maste...

Mosquitoes transmit serious human diseases, causing millions of deaths every year. Use of synthetic insecticides to control vector mosquitoes has caused physiological resistance and adverse environmental effects in addition to high operational cost. Insecticides of botanical origin may serve as suitable alternative biocontrol techniques in the future. The present investigations were made to eva...

A data warehouse (DW) provides information from external data sources for analytical processing, decision-making, and data mining tools. External data sources are autonomous, i.e. they change over time, independently of a DW. Therefore, the structure and content of a DW has to be periodically synchronized with its external data sources. This synchronization concerns DW data as well as schema. C...