Results of simulations of pion production and power dissipation by 8 to 30 GeV proton beams in co-axial and tilted targets of liquid gallium and platinum oxide, placed in a 20 T solenoid, are reported. Pion and muon distributions are followed through the matching solenoid and decay channel. I N T R O D U C T I O N The proposed p+p-col l ider complex [1] includes a rapid cycling (15 Hz) synchrot...

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The reactions of neutral ground-state yttrium (Y) atoms with 1,3- and 1,4-cyclohexadiene (CHD) were studied using crossed molecular beams. Formation of YC(6)H(6) + H(2) and YH(2) + C(6)H(6) was observed for both isomers at collision energies (E(coll)) of 31.3 and 13.0 kcal/mol. Measured product branching ratios at E(coll) = 31.3 kcal/mol indicated that YH(2) + C(6)H(6) was the dominant channel,...

The interaction between tumor cells and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins influences cell migration and the invasive behavior of cancer cells. In this study, we provide experimental evidence that collagen I and fibronectin affect ovarian cancer cell migration. In vitro wound healing assays and transwell migration assays were used to measure both total wound healing and directionality of indiv...

BACKGROUND Collateral circulation can maintain myocardial function and viability in chronic total coronary occlusion (TCO). The present study evaluates the relation of myocardial function and duration of occlusion to collateral function. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 50 patients underwent a successful recanalization of a TCO (>4 weeks' duration). Collateral function was assessed by intracoro...

The effect of homogeneous fibrin (Fb), collagen (Coll) and composite fibrin-heparin (Fb-Hp), fibrin-collagen (Fb-Coll) membranes on in vitro release of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-BB) was evaluated in the presence or absence of amoxicillin using of the ELISA immunoassay test. Amoxicillin concentration was determined spectrophotometrically at 272 nm. The process of the PDGF-BB growth fa...

1. Caiati C, Zedda N, Montaldo C, Montisci R, Iliceto S. Contrastenhanced transthoracic second harmonic echo Doppler with adenosine: a noninvasive, rapid and effective method for coronary flow reserve assessment. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;34:122–30. 2. Sudhir K, MacGregor JS, Barbant SD, et al. Assessment of coronary conductance and resistance vessel reactivity in response to nitroglycerin, ergono...

We report a high-quality, ab initio, full-dimensional global potential energy surface (PES) for the Cl((2)P, (2)P(3/2)) + CH(4) reaction, which describes both the abstraction (HCl + CH(3)) and substitution (H + CH(3)Cl) channels. The analytical PES is a least-squares fit, using a basis of permutationally invariant polynomials, to roughly 16,000 ab initio energy points, obtained by an efficient ...

In ubiquitous data stream mining, di®erent devices often aim to learn concepts that are similar to some extent. In many applications, such as spam ̄ltering or news recommendation, the data stream underlying concept (e.g., interesting mail/news) is likely to change over time. Therefore, the resultant model must be continuously adapted to such changes. This paper presents a novel Collaborative Dat...

INTRODUCTION The clinical significance of histologic variants of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) remains unclear. With the aim to determine presentation and outcome of the variants of FSGS in a hispanic population, we studied our cases of this glomerulopathy. METHODS In this retrospective study, all renal biopsies with FSGS (1998-2009), were classified according to the Colum...