The mechanisms underlying the muscle wasting that accompanies CKD are not well understood. Animal models suggest that impaired differentiation of muscle progenitor cells may contribute. Expression of the myogenesis-suppressing transcription factor Ying Yang-1 increases in muscle of animals with CKD, but the mechanism underlying this increased expression is unknown. Here, we examined a profile o...

Abstract. In his study of quantum groups, Drinfeld suggested to consider set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation as a discrete analogon. As a typical example, every conjugacy class in a group, or more generally every rack Q provides such a Yang–Baxter operator cQ : x ⊗ y 7→ y ⊗ x . In this article we study deformations of cQ within the space of Yang–Baxter operators. Over a complete...

DOI: 10.1509/jmr.13.0532 *Christopher K. Hsee is Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing, University of Chicago (e-mail: chris.hsee@ chicagobooth. edu). Yang Yang is a doctoral student in Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University (e-mail: [email protected]). Xingshan Zheng is Associate Professor of Management, SJTU, and was visiting Texas A&M University during the project (e-mail...

A s recently as 2010, three groups received the J. J. Sakurai Prize for showing how spontaneous symmetry breaking explains the mechanism for generating vector boson masses, thus enabling the solution of one of the puzzles of the standard model of elementary particles. Since the Yang-Mills field strength incorporating a nonabelian feature is not only one of the cornerstones of the standard model...

We argue that the string theory dual to a certain sector of the four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory at large-N is the A-model wrapping N Lagrangian Dbranes on the twistor space of the complex two-dimensional projective space, with a certain flux and Wilson loop background, by finding that the targetspace beta function of this A-model coincides with the large-N beta function of the Yang-Mills the...

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) manifests with pain, joint stiffness, and limited function. In traditional Chinese medicine, knee OA is differentiated into three patterns: yang deficiency and cold coagulation, kidney deficiency, and blood stasis. The objective of this study was to determine whether yang deficiency cold coagulation patients respond better to thermal laser acupuncture treatment than do ...

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui determinan tekanan darah sistolik pada kelompok lanjut usia pria. Suatu studi dengan rancangan ‘cross sectional’ dilakukan di 4 kota besar di Indonesia dengan menggunakan metoda ‘multistage random sampling’. Jumlah responden 320 orang lanjut usia pria, yang merupakan sub-sampel dari 981 responden pada penelitian yang lebih besar. Pengumpulan data di...

Two new species of the leafhopper subgenus Empoasca (Empoasca) namely, E. (E.) dorsodenticulata Yu & Yang, sp. n. and E. (E.) spiculata Yu & Yang, sp. n. from China are described and illustrated and a key provided for Chinese subgenera of Empoasca.

Two new species of the empoascine leafhopper genus Membranacea Qin & Zhang are reported from China: Membranacea hubeiensis Yu & Yang, sp. n. and Membranacea stenoprocessa Yu & Yang, sp. n.. A key to distinguish all species of the genus is provided.

In general, Picard-Fuchs systems in N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories are realized as a set of simultaneous partial differential equations. However, if the QCD scale parameter is used as unique independent variable instead of moduli, the resulting Picard-Fuchs systems are represented by a single ordinary differential equation (ODE) whose order coincides with the total number of independe...