Phenotypic traits vary greatly within populations and can have a significant influence on aspects of performance. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of individual variation in standard metabolic rate (SMR) on growth rate and tolerance to food-deprivation in juvenile crucian carp (Carassius auratus) under varying levels of food availability. To address this issue, 19 high and 16 ...

The main focus of this study is improvement of the steam-methane reforming (SMR) process by in-situ CO2 removal to produce high hydrogen content synthesis gas. Sorption-enhanced (SE) concept is applied to improve process performance. In the proposed structure, the solid phase CO2 adsorbents and pre-reformed gas stream are introduced to a gas-flowing solids-fixed bed reactor (GFSFBR). One dimens...

BACKGROUND Patients with celiac disease have an increased risk of death from gastrointestinal malignancies and lymphomas, but little is known about mortality from other causes and few studies have assessed long-term outcomes. METHODS Nationwide data on 10 032 Swedish patients hospitalized from January 1, 1964, through December 31, 1993, with celiac disease and surviving at least 12 months wer...

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Seagate for funding this project through the Data Storage Systems Center at CMU. We also thank the members and companies of the PDL Consortium (including Abstract Modern Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are fast approaching the superparamagnetic limit forcing the storage industry to look for innovative ways to transition from traditional magnetic recording to Hea...

Soluble mannose receptor (sMR) and soluble haemoglobin scavenger receptor (sCD163) are macrophage activation markers which have previously been demonstrated to be increased in patients with inflammation, auto-immunity and malignancies. To investigate the clinical diagnostic and prognostic significance of preoperative serum sMR and sCD163, the present study investigated 143 gastric cancer (GC) p...

BACKGROUND Graphite electrode manufacturing workers are exposed to coal tar and its volatiles containing a variety of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), silica and graphite dusts, and asbestos. AIMS To investigate mortality from cancer and other diseases among workers in a graphite electrode production plant in Italy. METHODS A total of 1291 males actively employed between 1 January 19...

Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology increases the areal density of hard disk drives. Among the three types of SMR drives on the market today, Host Aware SMR (HA-SMR) drives look the most promising. In this paper, we carry out evaluation to understand the performance of HA-SMR drives with the objective of building large-scale storage systems using this type of drive. We focus on evaluat...

10.1016/S1674-6384(14)60044-7 Objective Shengmai Recipe (SMR) is a Chinese patent medicine used for the treatment of chronic heart disease. In order to further assess the renal-protective effect against ischemia lesion of SMR, the cardioprotective effect of SMR on pressure overload-induced left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and the potential mechanism on alleviating myocardial damage, ...

BACKGROUND We compared mortality by cause of death in HIV-infected adults in the era of combined antiretroviral therapy with mortality in the general population in the same age and sex groups. METHODS Mortality by cause of death was analyzed for the period 1999-2006 in the cohort of persons aged 20-59 years diagnosed with HIV infection and residing in Navarre (Spain). This was compared with m...

BACKGROUND Although stainless steel has been produced for more than a hundred years, exposure-related mortality data for production workers are limited. AIMS To describe cause-specific mortality in Finnish ferrochromium and stainless steel workers. METHODS We studied Finnish stainless steel production chain workers employed between 1967 and 2004, from chromite mining to cold rolling of stai...