Deposition of ceramic nanoparticles (dispersed in a non-aqueous suspension) on in-plane electrodes and under the influence of AC electric fields in the frequency range of 0.01 Hz - 10 kHz is investigated. Analysis of the particle response to the applied field is a difficult task due to the mutual effect of electric- and hydrodynamic force which are present in the system. In this work, however, ...

Epilepsy is the third-leading cause of psychiatry disability in China, and intellectual disability (ID) is also 1 major type of disabilities in China. This study estimates the prevalence of comorbidities with ID and epilepsy-related psychiatry disability (EPD) and examines mutual associations within ID and EPD.Data were taken from the Second China National Sample Survey on Disability, which was...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of a locally applied 8.5% nanostructured doxycycline (DOX) gel in preventing alveolar bone loss in experimental periodontal disease (EPD) in rats by using the tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM). MATERIAL AND METHODS EPD was induced in 24 Wistar rats. Animals were treated with the doxycycline gel topically, immediately after EPD...

Molecularly imprinted polymeric films (MIPFs) highly selective to 1R,2S(-)ephedrine (L-ephedrine, EPD) were produced by phase inversion post-polymerization imprinting on poly(acrylonitrile-co-methyl methacrylate-co-acrylic acid) (PAMA) terpolymers. The inclusion of methyl methacrylate (MMA) to the polymer formulation resulted in enhanced EPD selectivity which appears to be dictated by polymer c...

Polled Hereford sires (n = 47) were divergently selected on published yearling weight (YW) and maternal (MAT) expected progeny differences (EPD) and mated to grade Angus cows to produce 457 calves in five spring calf crops. Sires selected for high and low YW differed by an average of 6.3 kg in YW EPD and those selected for high and low MAT differed by an average of 4.0 kg in MAT EPD based on 19...

AIM To compare outcomes between pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) and extended pancreaticoduodenectomy (EPD) from all published comparative studies in the literature. METHODS Using meta-analytical techniques the present study compared operative details, post-operative adverse events and survival following PD and EPD. Comparative studies published between 1988 and 2005 of PD versus EPD were include...

Performance records from 1982 to 1992 on 1365 calves for birth weight (BW) and 1492 calves for weaning weight (WW) were analyzed to estimate relationships of purebred sire expected progeny difference (EPD) values for BW and W W to actual crossbred progeny performance. Sires of the calves were Polled Hereford, Simmental, Angus, Salers, Tarentaise, or Charolais. The pooled-across-breed regression...