STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess whether the withdrawal of salmeterol treatment for 3 days (72 h) can restore its bronchoprotective ability on specific bronchial provocative test (sBPT) with allergen, which was completely lost after 1 week of regular treatment with salmeterol. STUDY DESIGN Single-blind design. PATIENTS AND METHODS We investigated 10 nonsmoking subjects (8 men and 2 women; mean +/-...

Protein phase separation is implicated in formation of membraneless organelles, signaling puncta and the nuclear pore. Multivalent interactions of modular binding domains and their target motifs can drive phase separation. However, forces promoting the more common phase separation of intrinsically disordered regions are less understood, with suggested roles for multivalent cation-pi, pi-pi, and...

Let $R$ be an associative ring with identity. An element $x in R$ is called $mathbb{Z}G$-regular (resp. strongly $mathbb{Z}G$-regular) if there exist $g in G$, $n in mathbb{Z}$ and $r in R$ such that $x^{ng}=x^{ng}rx^{ng}$ (resp. $x^{ng}=x^{(n+1)g}$). A ring $R$ is called $mathbb{Z}G$-regular (resp. strongly $mathbb{Z}G$-regular) if every element of $R$ is $mathbb{Z}G$-regular (resp. strongly $...

Figure 1: Phase mode AFM image of directionally crystallized P3HT, revealing the unique grain structure. The white arrow indicates the direction of the fiber axis and polymer chain axis. The scan is 4 by 4 μm. (Left) The cartoon shows a possible orientation of crystallites within the directionally crystallized film, as derived from XRD. Red crystallites are “edge-on” with their pi-pi stacking r...

in this paper, at first we mention to some results related to pi and vertex co-pi indices and then we introduce the edge versions of co-pi indices. then, we obtain some properties about these new indices.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Graves' disease (GD) is the most common hyperthyroid disorder, but the therapeutic strategy for choosing between medical or ablative therapy has not been standardized. Thyroid hypervascularity is an important diagnostic feature in GD. This study collected Doppler ultrasonography data from patients with GD, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and simple goiter to develop a hemodynami...

A 2-cell embedding of a graph G into a closed (orientable or nonorientable) surface is called regular if its automorphism group acts regularly on the flags mutually incident vertex-edge-face triples. In this paper, we classify the regular embeddings of complete bipartite graphs Kn,n into nonorientable surfaces. Such a regular embedding of Kn,n exists only when n = 2p a1 1 p a2 2 · · · p ak k (a...

in this paper, we present some inequalities for the co-pi index involving the some topological indices, the number of vertices and edges, and the maximum degree. after that, we give a result for trees. in addition, we give some inequalities for the largest eigenvalue of the co-pi matrix of g.