BACKGROUND Estrogens stimulate growth of breast or uterine cells but have the opposite effect on vascular smooth muscle cells, in which they protect against coronary artery disease with or without concomitant administration of progesterone. A possible cause of differences in hormone action is variable tissue-specific expression of hormone receptor. Therefore, we analyzed the structure of estrog...

depends on the scale. For small Prandtl (or Schmidt) number Pr < 10 one gets two ranges, δ (1) g = 1 for small scale r and δ (1) g =5/3 for large r, both as expected. But for large Pr > 1 one gets a third, intermediate range in which the signal is extremely wrinkled and has δ (1) g = 2. In that range the passive scalar structure function Dθ(r) has a plateau. We calculate the Pr-dependence of th...

In this study we analyzed the National Hospital Rate-Setting Study findings concerning the effects of State prospective reimbursement (PR) programs on Medicare expenditures and utilization; we used Medicare beneficiary-based data complied from a sample of approximately 1,300 counties in States with and without rate-setting programs for the 5-year period 1974-78. The statistical evidence suggest...

Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 1000204 J Appl Mech Eng ISSN:2168-9873 JAME, an open access journal Arc Energy Characteristics Analysis of AC Square Wave Submerged Arc Welding using WVD Si-Wen X1,3, Wang C1,2, Zhi-Peng Z1,2 and Kuan-Fang H1,2,* 1College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiantan 411201, PR China 2Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Health ...

Results There were no deaths. Median ICU and hospital stay were 5 and 11 days respectively. Median postoperative (discharge) PV peak gradient (PG) was 23mmHg, median pulmonary regurgitation (PR) 2+/4+ and median tricuspid regurgitation (TR) 1+/4+. Ten patients were followed up for a median of 13 months. For this particular group of patients postoperative vs. follow-up measurements (median value...

Laboratory for Micro-sized Functional Mate Capital Normal University, 100048 Beijing, Fax: +86 10 68901751; Tel: +86 10 6890252 Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 95064, USA. E-mail: [email protected]; Fa National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing, PR China Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministr ...

BACKGROUND Opioids are the most important pharmacological treatment for moderate-to-severe cancer pain, but side effects limit their use. Transdermal fentanyl (TDF) and oral prolonged-release oxycodone-naloxone (OXN-PR) are effective in controlling chronic pain, with less constipation compared to other opioids. However, TDF and OXN-PR have never been directly compared. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ca...

BACKGROUND Data on the prevalence of primitive reflexes (PR) in adulthood, their pathological significance and relationship to age and cognition are controversial. OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between PR and cognition in 30 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 154 control subjects. METHOD Diagnosis of probable AD was based on DSM-IV, NINCDS-ADRDA, and CAMDEX criteria. ...

Two kinds of dual functional carbazole-based chromophores are synthesized to enhance the photorefractive (PR) performance of the polymers by attaching the electron-donating and electronaccepting groups with a diazo bridge on the 3and 6-positions of the N-ethylcarbazole. The electrondonating group is N,N-diethanol aminophenyl. The electron-accepting group is either p-nitrophenyl or 5-nitrothiazo...

The development of simple, accurate, rapid and cost-effective technologies for mutation detection is crucial to the early diagnosis and prevention of numerous genetic diseases, pharmacogenetics, and drug resistance. Proofreading PCR (PR-PCR) was developed for mutation detection in 1998 but is rarely applied due to its low efficiency in allele discrimination. Here we developed a modified PR-PCR ...