BACKGROUND Due to numerous complications associated to gastrointestinal augmented cystoplasty, this study aimed to analyze the anatomic repair of the bladder of 10 female dogs using grafts of porcine small intestinal submucosa (SIS) seeded with cultured homologous smooth muscle cells, and compare them with the acellular SIS grafts. RESULTS We assessed the possible side effects and complicatio...

Aim: In our study, the therapeutic effect of resveratrol against toxicity cisplatin in rats with experimental diabetes mellitus streptozotocin was investigated.
 Material and Method: 64 were used study. 8 groups randomly formed, each group. Group 1 determined as control 2 (STZ) injected 60 mg/kg intraperitoneally (ip) on first day to induce diabetes. 3 (RES) given 100 orally every day. 4 (...

In order to facilitate improved returns to research and development in African agriculture, the innovation systems approach which engenders the involvement of multiple stakeholders in its innovation pathway, has been proposed. Despite the potential of this approach, the understanding of its implementation and particularly of the process of setting up its multi-stakeholder platform is still larg...

For the Global Positioning System (GPS), signal-in-space (SIS) performance is key to the positioning accuracy and the integrity. In practice, SIS anomalies occasionally happens and the consequent user range errors of tens of meters or even more have been observed. In this paper, all potential SIS anomalies in the last decade are screened out by comparing the broadcast ephemerides/clocks with th...

South Asians are estimated to have a 40% increased risk for coronary artery disease as compared populations from other regions. Nepal, Asian country, should also analyze the burden of and its factors minimize cardiovascular morbidity mortality. We reviewed barriers care services in low- middle-income countries, including Nepal. The identified included factors, access, cost, adherence care, awar...

A Safety Instrumented System (SIS) is designed to achieve or maintain a safe state of the process when unacceptable process conditions are detected. An SIS is an Independent Protection Layer that is covered by the performance-based standard ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004. The risk reduction allocated to the SIS determines its target safety integrity level (SIL). ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004 allows a combinat...

Intelligent video surveillance (IVS) technology is widely used in various security systems. However, quality degradation images (SIs) may affect its performance on vision-based tasks, leading to the difficulties IVS system extracting valid information from SIs. In this paper, we propose a hybrid no-reference image assessment (NR IQA) model for SIs that can help identify undesired distortions an...

We investigate several spin-related phenomena in a confined two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) using the Hartree-Fock approximation for the mutual Coulomb interaction of the electrons. The exchange term of the interaction causes a large splitting of the spin levels whenever the chemical potential lies within a Landau band (LB). This splitting can be reinterpreted as an enhancement of an effect...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE After short periods of ischemia, commonly used staining methods yield only moderate differences in optical contrast between normal and damaged brain tissue when gray-scale images are used for computer-assisted image analysis. We describe a high-contrast silver infarct staining (SIS) method that allows an early delineation of ischemic tissue as soon as 2 hours after middle...

Nonbiased V gene usage for V(D)J joining is essential for providing an optimal immune system, but no cis-acting sequence with this function has been uncovered. We previously identified a recombination silencer and heterochromatin targeting element in the Vκ-Jκ intervening sequence of germline Igκ transgenes, which we termed Sis. We now have generated Sis knockout mice in the endogenous locus. I...