Background: Paraquat (PQ), an herbicide, is a very poisonous compound for both humans and animals. This study was conducted to examine the protective effect of the Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in newborn rats from pregnant rats pre-treated with PQ. Methods: The experiments were conducted on 25 rats, divided in five groups randomly and equally: 1 - Control Group received normal saline (0.1ml/day); 2...

Let the collection of arithmetic sequences {din+ bi : n ∈ Z}i∈I be a disjoint covering system of the integers. We prove that if di = pq for some primes p, q and integers k, l ≥ 0, then there is a j 6= i such that di|dj . We conjecture that the divisibility result holds for all moduli. A disjoint covering system is called saturated if the sum of the reciprocals of the moduli is equal to 1. The a...

edaravone, an antioxidant and radical scavenger, showed protective effects against oxidative stress-like condition. paraquat (pq) is a toxic herbicide considerable evidence suggests that oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction contribute to pq toxicity. in this study, protective effect of edaravone against pq induced toxicity and reactive oxygen species (ros) generation in a549 cells and...

Conjugacy classes of primitive words in the free group of rank two can indexed by the rationals. A representative for each conjugacy class is given by a recursive enumeration scheme and the representative, usually called a Farey word, is denoted by Wp/q where p and q are relatively prime integers. Primitive pairs, that is, pairs of words that generate the free group, correspond to pairs of word...

Boneh et al. showed at Crypto 99 that moduli of the form N = pq can be factored in polynomial time when r ' log p. Their algorithm is based on Coppersmith’s technique for finding small roots of polynomial equations. In this paper we show that N = pq can also be factored in polynomial time when r or s is at least (log p); therefore we identify a new class of integers that can be efficiently fact...

We present a variant of the Lagrange-Gauss reduction of quadratic forms designed to minimize the norm of the reduction matrix within a quadratic complexity. The matrix computed by our algorithm on the input f has norm O f 1 2 Δ 4 f , which is the square root of the best previously known bounds using classical algorithms. This new bound allows us to fully prove the heuristic lattice based attack...

A priority queue (pq) is said to be monotone if the value of the smallest element stored in the priority queue is a non-decreasing function of time. We consider the problem of maintaining a monotone priority queue on a set of integers in the range 0 : :2 w ? 1 on a unit-cost RAM with word size w bits. We give a monotone pq that, starting with an empty collection of items, processes a sequence o...

This paper presents an elementary proof of the HannenhalliPevzner theorem on the reversal distance of two signed permutations. It uses a single PQ-tree to encode the various features of a permutation. The parameters called hurdles and fortress are replaced by a single one, whose value is computed by a simple and efficient algorithm.

Let N = pq be an RSA modulus, i.e. the product of two large unknown primes of equal bit-size. In the X9.31-1997 standard for public key cryptography, Section 4.1.2, there are a number of recommendations for the generation of the primes of an RSA modulus. Among them, the ratio of the primes shall not be close to the ratio of small integers. In this paper, we show that if the public exponent e sa...

Taking a combinatorial point of view on cyclotomic polynomials leads to a larger class of polynomials we shall call the inclusion-exclusion polynomials. This gives a more appropriate setting for certain types of questions about the coefficients of these polynomials. After establishing some basic properties of inclusion-exclusion polynomials we turn to a detailed study of the structure of ternar...