The Pax gene Pox meso (Poxm) was the first and so far only gene whose initial expression was shown to occur specifically in the anlage of the somatic mesoderm, yet its role in somatic myogenesis remained unknown. Here we show that it is one of the crucial genes regulating the development of the larval body wall muscles in Drosophila. It has two distinct functions expressed during different phas...

INTRODUCTION We examined the responsiveness of both cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) to the stress of survival training in military men and evaluated relationships to performance, peritraumatic dissociation, and the subsequent impact of stressful events. METHODS Baseline salivary cortisol samples were self-collected by 19 men at 0900 and 1930 in a free-living (FL) environme...

BACKGROUND Pre- and postoperative rehabilitation are important to the management of patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, but little attention has been given to the costs. This study evaluated the pre- and postoperative rehabilitation charges in patients with ACL reconstruction in the United States. HYPOTHESIS Patients receive preoperative rehabilitation less commonly...

Fluctuating and intermittent solar energy cause shut-down reduce resilience of photovoltaic powered membrane (PV-membrane) systems. A charge controller based on pre-set voltage thresholds for supercapacitors (SC) is designed employed varied days to cope with these issues. Several parameters—number events (#SD), duration (tSD) factor in flux (RFflux)—are quantified. The reduces tSD by 37% (partl...

The activities of nalidixic acid, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, ofloxacin, pefloxacin, flerofloxacin, sparfloxacin, grepafloxacin, gatifloxacin, moxifloxacin, trovafloxacin, levofloxacin and clinafloxacin against a panel of Haemophilus influenzae strains were assessed by three susceptibility testing methods: Etest, agar dilution and the reference broth microdilution method using Haemophilus test ...

We report that EphB receptors direct unique axonal behaviors required for mapping the dorsal-ventral (D-V) retinal axis along the lateral-medial (L-M) axis of the superior colliculus (SC). EphBs are expressed in a D-V gradient, ephrin-B1 in a L-M gradient in SC, and ephrin-B3 at its midline. EphBs and ephrin-Bs are expressed in countergradients in retina and SC. Developmental analyses reveal th...

The Switched Capacitor (SC) Integrator mentioned in this paper, is part of a test chip that has been designed in 0.5 μm CMOS technology. With this novel test structure, precision investigations on major nonidealities in such a circuit can be performed. Keywords— SC integrator, analog CMOS switch, channel charge, clock feed-through.

In this work, four different supercapacitive microbial fuel cells (SC-MFCs) with carbon brush as the anode and an air-breathing cathode with Fe-Aminoantipyrine (Fe-AAPyr) as the catalyst have been investigated using galvanostatic discharges. The maximum power (Pmax) obtained was in the range from 1.7 mW to 1.9 mW for each SC-MFC. This in-series connection of four SC-MFCs almost quadrupled Pmax ...

BACKGROUND As removal of pro-inflammatory cytokines is limited in conventional diffusive or convective extracorporeal therapies, we studied in two polysulphone membranes with an industrial albumin sieving coefficient of 0.05 (Type A) and 0.13 (Type B) cytokine (IL-6, IL-8, IL-1beta, IL-1ra, TNF-alpha) and plasma protein (albumin, cystatin C, total proteins) permeability profiles. Based on the c...