BACKGROUND Although gelatin-resorcinol-formaldehyde (GRF) glue is used for surgical repair of acute type A aortic dissections, late complications possibly ascribed to toxic effects of GRF glue have been reported. We analyzed the benefits and risks of using GRF glue. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 1990 and August 2003, 269 consecutive patients underwent emergency operations for acute typ...

Growth-regulating factor (GRF) genes play a regulatory role for plant growth and development. The recently available cucumber, melon and watermelon genomes provide an opportunity to conduct a comprehensive overview of the GRF gene family. In the present study, identification and analysis of the GRF gene family was conducted using bioinformatics methods. Totally, 24 potential GRF genes were iden...

We show that the character space of the vector-valued Lipschitz algebra $Lip^{alpha}(X, E)$ of order $alpha$ is homeomorphic to the cartesian product $Xtimes M_E$ in the product topology, where $X$ is a compact metric space and $E$ is a unital commutative Banach algebra. We also characterize the form of each character on $Lip^{alpha}(X, E)$. By appealing to the injective tensor product, we the...

Human growth hormone releasing hormone (GRF 1-44 or GRF 1-29) was administered to lambs at two different physiological stages (suckling: 5-6 week-old and weaned: 14-15 week-old) when growth hormone (GH) secretory patterns were different: suckling lambs exhibited flat basal GH profiles (5-10 ng/ml) while the weaned lambs had frequent spontaneous episodes of GH release (15-65 ng/ml). The iv injec...

Let $(X,d)$ be an infinite compact metric space, let $(B,parallel . parallel)$ be a unital Banach space, and take $alpha in (0,1).$ In this work, at first we define the big and little $alpha$-Lipschitz vector-valued (B-valued) operator algebras, and consider the little $alpha$-lipschitz $B$-valued operator algebra, $lip_{alpha}(X,B)$. Then we characterize its second dual space.

Let $H$ and $K$ be compact subgroups of locally compact group $G$. By considering the double coset space $Ksetminus G/H$, which equipped with an $N$-strongly quasi invariant measure $mu$, for $1leq pleq +infty$, we make a norm decreasing linear map from $L^p(G)$ onto $L^p(Ksetminus G/H,mu)$ and demonstrate that it may be identified with a quotient space of $L^p(G)$. In addition, we illustrate t...

let be a locally compact non?abelian group and be a compact subgroup of also let be a ?invariant measure on the homogeneous space . in this article, we extend the linear operator as a bounded surjective linear operator for all ?spaces with . as an application of this extension, we show that each frame for determines a frame for and each frame for arises from a frame in via the linear operator .

Three-dimensional ground reaction forces (3D-GRF) are essential for functional evaluation for rehabilitation. A platform path is required to obtain the 3D-GRF. The main shortcoming of these platform paths is that during double stance phases of gait, both feet can be placed on the same force platform causing the need for decomposing the 3D-GRF under each foot. Despite the high number of studies ...

in this paper, a new definition of fuzzy bounded sets and totallyfuzzy bounded sets is introduced and properties of such sets are studied. thena relation between totally fuzzy bounded sets and n-compactness is discussed.finally, a geometric characterization for fuzzy totally bounded sets in i- topologicalvector spaces is derived.

Conditionally specified Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) models with adjacency-based neighbourhood weight matrix, commonly known as neighbourhood-based GMRF models, have been the mainstream approach to spatial smoothing in Bayesian disease mapping. In the present paper, we propose a conditionally specified Gaussian random field (GRF) model with a similarity-based non-spatial weight matrix to...