In the present investigation we have analyzed the association between functional dependence and inflammatory biomarkers using the Barthel Index (BI) and the Katz Index (KI). This analysis may contribute to translational medicine by incorporating the clinical and laboratory data to better understand the relationship between chronic inflammation and functional dependence in the elderly population...

The mechanism of formic acid decomposition on the Pd(111) surface has been investigated by several theoretical methods in previous studies, including PBE and PW91. These results indicated that is different from methods, even using same method (i.e., PBE), also different. In this study, we have revisited another density functional RPBE van der Waals interaction which neglected studies. Our showe...

This paper develops a bi-objective portfolio selection problem that maximizes returns and minimizes a risk measure called conditional Drawdown (CDD). The drawdown measures include the maximal Drawdown and Average Drawdown as its limiting case. The CDD family of risk functional is similar to conditional value at Risk (CVaR). In this paper, the fuzzy method has been used to solve the bi-objec...

The kinetics of the substitution reactions between the mono-functional Au(III) complexes, [Au(dien)Cl](2+) and [Au(terpy)Cl](2+) (dien = 3-azapentane-1,5-diamine, terpy = 2,2';6',2''-terpyridine) and bi-functional Au(III) complexes, [Au(bipy)Cl(2)](+) and [Au(dach)Cl(2)](+) (bipy = 2.2'-bipyridine, dach = (1R,2R)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane) and biologically relevant ligands such as l-histidine (l-H...

background: the aim of the present study was to investigate the in vitro effects of mercury (hg+2), lead (pb+2), silver (ag+2), tin (sn+2), bismuth (bi+3) and indium (in+3) ions on sperm creatine kinase. methods: creatine kinase was isolated from human sperm homogenates after chromatography on a deae cellulose column. results: at 60 µg ml-1 metal concentration, 70% of the creatine kinase activi...

We present a monadic treatment of symmetric state-based bidirectional transformations, and show how it arises naturally from the well-known asymmetric lens-based account. We introduce two presentations of a concept we dub the “entangled” state monad, and prove their equivalence. As a step towards a unifying account of bidirectionality in general, we exhibit existing classes of statebased approa...

On the basis of initial velocity and product inhibition studies a nonclassical Ping Pong Bi Bi Uni Uni mechanism has been proposed for pyruvate carboxylase from chicken liver. The nonclassical feature of this mechanism is the proposal that each active site on the enzyme is composed of two separate and functionally distinct catalytic sites, i.e., a separate catalytic site exists for the reactant...

On the basis of initial velocity and product inhibition studies a nonclassical Ping Pong Bi Bi Uni Uni mechanism has been proposed for pyruvate carboxylase from chicken liver. The nonclassical feature of this mechanism is the proposal that each active site on the enzyme is composed of two separate and functionally distinct catalytic sites, i.e., a separate catalytic site exists for the reactant...

Dietary cholesterol absorption contributes to a large part of the circulating cholesterol. However, the mechanism of sterol intestinal uptake is not clearly elucidated. Scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI), major component in the control of cholesterol homeostasis, is expressed in the intestine, but its role in this organ remains unclear. We have generated transgenic mice overexpressing SR...