BACKGROUND Although cholesterol is a major cardiovascular risk factor, its association with stroke remains controversial. This study explored whether the cholesterol-related incidence of stroke and myocardial infarction is modified by plasma markers of inflammation in a large, population-based cohort with a long follow-up. METHODS AND RESULTS Plasma cholesterol and 5 inflammation-sensitive pl...

Crude extracts of Sedum formosanum N.E.Br. obtained from n-butanol partition (BP) and isopropanol salting-out pretreatment (ISP) were analyzed using antioxidation assays. The results indicated that the extract from ISP contained more potent antioxidants and thus exhibited more antioxidant activity in all the assays. The superoxide radical-scavenging activity and inhibition of nitric oxide radic...

This document is being prepared to serve as a reference for the tutorial with the same title that will be offered during EuroPVM/MPI 2009 in Espoo, September 7, 2009. In this tutorial, we will mostly focus on the topic of formal dynamic verification [1] of MPI programs using our tool ISP. There will also be a short session on shared memory program verification using our tool Inspect. Section 4 ...

Initial research suggests that rates of isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) are elevated in individuals with panic disorder and particularly low in individuals with other anxiety disorders. To further evaluate these findings, we examined rates of ISP in a sample outpatients with primary diagnoses of panic disorder (n=24), social anxiety disorder (n=18), or generalized anxiety disorder (n=18). We obt...

Digital images captured from CMOS image sensors suffer Gaussian noise and impulsive noise. To efficiently reduce the noise in Image Signal Processor (ISP), we analyze noise feature for imaging pipeline of ISP where noise reduction algorithm is performed. The Gaussian noise reduction and impulsive noise reduction method are proposed for proper ISP implementation in Bayer domain. The proposed met...

This paper presents findings of an empirical study that investigated the status of business planning-information systems planning (BP-ISP) integration with a sample of 33 Chinese companies. Using Teo and King’s (1997) model which describes four distinct levels of BP-ISP integration, the study examined the BP-ISP integration status in China. The study identified 15 factors that were important in...

We discuss Inverse Spaceelling Partitioning (ISP), a partitioning strategy for non-uniform scientiic computations running on distributed memory MIMD parallel computers. We consider the case of a dynamic workload distributed on a uniform mesh, and compare ISP against Orthogonal Recursive Bisection (ORB) and a Median of Medians variant of ORB, ORB-MM. We present two results. First, ISP and ORB-MM...

In order to ensure that employees abide by their organizations’ Information Security Policies (ISP), a number of information security policy compliance measures have been proposed in the past. If different factors can explain/predict the information security behavior of those employees who do know the ISP and of those who do not know the ISP, such as is suggested by stage theories, and the exis...

Two cytoplasmically inherited determinants related by their manifestation to the control of translation accuracy were previously described in yeast. Cells carrying one of them, [PSI(+)], display a nonsense suppressor phenotype and contain a prion form of the Sup35 protein. Another element, [PIN(+)], determines the probability of de novo generation of [PSI(+)] and results from a prion form of se...

The time course of electron transfer in vitro between soluble domains of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein (ISP) and cytochrome f subunits of the cytochrome b(6)f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis was measured by stopped-flow mixing. The domains were derived from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and expressed in Escherichia coli. The expressed 142-residue soluble ISP apoprotein was reconstituted with th...