Selecting appropriate ways of bringing engineered nanoparticles (ENP) into aqueous dispersion is a main obstacle for testing, and thus for understanding and evaluating, their potential adverse effects to the environment and human health. Using different methods to prepare (stock) dispersions of the same ENP may be a source of variation in the toxicity measured. Harmonization and standardization...

ENP2.0 is a music notation program written in Common Lisp, CLOS, and OpenGL. ENP provides a rich set of notational attributes called ENPexpressions. In this paper, we give an overview of the properties of ENP-Expressions. The underlying system used to handle the graphical representation of ENP-expressions is discussed in detail. A special attention is given to an expression called Score-BPF. Th...

OBJECTIVE To map the range and scope of emergency nurse practitioner (ENP) services in the Northern and Yorkshire Region as part one of a three phased study investigating the developing role of the ENP on a multi-professional context. METHODS A telephone survey was conducted in the 48 hospital trusts within the region. Semi-structured interviews were arranged with the senior nurses responsibl...

BACKGROUND Concerns about psychological distress are often used to justify treatment of girls with precocious puberty, but there is little evidence to support these concerns. The extent to which psychological problems are associated with central precocious puberty (CPP) compared with other forms of early puberty in girls has likewise not been established. METHODS Girls presenting with untreat...

Cysteinyl leukotrienes (CysLTs: leukotrienes C4, D4, and E4) have long been implicated in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases such as asthma. CysLTs are potent bronchoconstrictors that have the additional effects of edema, mucous secretion, and eosinophilic accumulation, and airway remodeling. LTE4 has been identified as a major metabolite of LTC4, and urinary LTE4 (U-LTE4) is considered as t...

Extramedullary noncutaneous plasmacytoma (ENP) is a myeloproliferative disorder of plasma cells that rarely affects cats. This paper describes an ENP case revealed by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the mass in the skeletal muscle of an 8-month-old, male, mixed breed cat, which had a nodule in the left hind limb. The rapid immunoassay test confirmed the presence of feline leukemia vir...

A diallel cross experiment of 4 rice (Oryza sativa L.) female and 6 male varieties was conducted to study the genetic effects and their interaction with salt-stress condition of 7 agronomic traits in normal and salt-stressed planting conditions. The panicle length (PL), effective number of panicles per plant (ENP), plumped number of grains per panicles (PNG), total number of grains per panicles...

The aims of this study were to investigate the concentrations and characteristics of nanoparticle exposure at various workplaces. We compared the concentration and characteristics of nanoparticles at nine workplaces of three types; i.e., small laboratories (LAB), large-scale engineered nanoparticle manufacturing workplaces (ENP), and unintended nanoparticle-emitting workplaces (UNP), using real...

The focus of this paper is on ENP-expressions that can beused for annotating ENP scores with user definable infor-mation. ENP is a music notation program written in Lispand CLOS with a special focus on compositional and mu-sic analytical applications. We present number of built-inexpressions suitable for visualizing, for example, musicanalytical information as a part...

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) were exploited extensively around the world and remain endangered. In the North Pacific their population structure is unclear and current status unknown, with the exception of a well-studied eastern North Pacific (ENP) population. Despite existing abundance estimates for the ENP population, it is difficult to estimate pre-exploitation abundance levels and gau...