Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui kekuatan sifat mekanik dan fisik komposit sandwich carbon fiber core kayu balsa dengan variasi jumlah layer skin (2, 4, 6 ), orientasi serat (0°/90°) ketebalan 5 mm. Matriks yang digunakan adalah resin epoxy bakelite EPR 174 manufaktur menggunakan metode hand lay-up vacuum bagging , dimana standar spesimen mengacu pada ASTM D790 pengujian bending D611...

Background: Patients affected by uterine fibroids were evaluated to define inclusion and exclusion criteria for treatment with Magnetic Resonance-guided Focus Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS), the non-invasive technique considered as an efficient alternative to hysterectomy and myomectomy. Methods: From October 2011 to December 2015, 174 patients aged from 23 to 51 years, affected by uterine fibroid...

The network theory of the immune system proposes that idiotype-anti-idiotype interactions provide important immunoregulatory controls (1). In many experimental systems, the passive administration of heterologous anti-idiotypic ant ibody has been shown to enhance (2) or suppress (3) immune responses. In addition, spontaneous auto-anti-idiotypic antibody has been detected after antigenic challeng...

Udder and teat morphology measurements were taken at approximately 7.5 hr after the a.m. milking for 131 East Friesian (EF) crossbred ewes at an average of 71 d in lactation. Additionally, milking time was recorded for each ewe during two evening and morning milkings. Average daily milk production, milking time, percentage of milk fat, percentage of milk protein, and somatic cell count were 2 L...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the safety and validity of cholecystomucoclasis (CM) and compared its intraoperative characteristics with those of standard cholecystectomy (SC). METHODS We enrolled 174 patients who underwent cholecystectomy and retrospectively evaluated the outcomes of patients in the SC and CM groups. RESULTS Significant differences in age (71.1 vs. 61.9 years), American Society o...

Serum triglyceride (TG) levels are increased in extremely obese individuals, indicating abnormalities in lipid metabolism and insulin resistance. We carried out a genome scan for serum TG in 320 nuclear families segregating extreme obesity and normal weight. Three hundred eighty-two Marshfield microsatellite markers (Screening Set 11) were genotyped. Quantitative linkage analyses were performed...

The dissociation energy of molecular hydrogen is determined theoretically with a careful estimation of error bars by including nonadiabatic, relativistic, and quantum electrodynamics (QED) corrections. The relativistic and QED corrections were obtained at the adiabatic level of theory by including all contributions of the order α(2) and α(3) as well as the major (one-loop) α(4) term, where α is...

We explore the ability of optimal foraging theory to explain the observation among marine bacteriophages that host range appears to be negatively correlated with host abundance in the local marine environment. We modified Charnov's classic diet composition model to describe the ecological dynamics of the related generalist and specialist bacteriophages phiX174 and G4, and confirmed that special...