BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The vascular supply of extra-axial brain tumors provided by the external carotid artery has not been studied with RPI. The purpose of this work was to determine whether RPI assessment is feasible and provides information on the vascular supply of hypervascular extra-axial brain tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Conventional ASL and RPI studies were performed at 3T in 8 cons...

BACKGROUND A rural pharmacy initiative (RPI) designed to increase access to medicines in rural Kyrgyzstan created a network of 12 pharmacies using a revolving drug fund mechanism in 12 villages where no pharmacies previously existed. The objective of this study was to determine if the establishment of the RPI resulted in the unforeseen benefit of triggering medicine price competition in pre-exi...

The aim of this study was to determine the sensitivity, specificity and the level of association between two indicators of overweight and obesity among women. Sixty-five women (from 50-77 years of age) participated in the study. They showed mean body mass of 70.3 ± 11 kg and mean stature of 158.0 ± 5.5 cm. The body mass index (BMI) and the reciprocal of ponderal index (RPI) were computed. Perce...

Four kinds of retrovirus protease inhibitors (RPI-856 A, B, C and D) were isolated as white powder from the culture filtrate of a soil isolate, Streptomyces sp. AL-322 by column chromatography using Diaion HP-20, Sephadex LH-20, ODS reversed phase HPLC and SP-2SW ion exchange HPLC. The structures of these inhibitors were elucidated by physico-chemical properties, chemical reactions and spectral...

This paper presents a detailed numerical study on the performance of the standard phasing algorithms with random phase illumination (RPI). Phasing with high resolution RPI and the oversampling ratio σ=4 determines a unique phasing solution up to a global phase factor. Under this condition, the standard phasing algorithms converge rapidly to the true solution without stagnation. Excellent approx...

Traditional models for transcription initiation by RNA polymerase I include a stepwise assembly of basic transcription factors/regulatory proteins on the core promoter to form a preinitiation complex. In contrast, we have identified a preassembled RNA polymerase I (RPI) complex that contains all the factors necessary and sufficient to initiate transcription from the rDNA promoter in vitro. The ...

Reference point indentation (RPI) was developed as a novel method to assess mechanical properties of bone in vivo, yet it remains unclear what aspects of bone dictate changes/differences in RPI-based parameters. The main RPI parameter, indentation distance increase (IDI), has been proposed to be inversely related to the ability of bone to form/tolerate damage. The goal of this work was to explo...

University graduates in the UK are more concentrated in regions where the cost of housing is higher than other groups. This implies that many graduates face a higher cost-of-living that could possibly reduce the graduate real wage relative to other groups and carry implications for measures of wage dispersion. This paper aims to reassess how estimates of wage inequality from 1997 to 2008 vary w...

The received power imbalance (RPI) effect exists in multiple antennas wireless communications system due to design flaw, operator’s negligence etc. The range of RPI can be from −10 dB to 0 dB and if the RPI information is not available at the receiver terminal, it can implement turbo iterative receiver by concatenating multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexi...

In contrast to traditional approaches to fracture risk assessment using clinical risk factors and bone mineral density (BMD), a new technique, reference point microindentation (RPI), permits direct assessment of bone quality; in vivo tibial RPI measurements appear to discriminate patients with a fragility fracture from controls. However, it is unclear how this relates to the site of the most cl...