Acute lung injury (ALI), which is associated with a mortality of 30-40%, is attributable to inflammation that develops rapidly across the lung's vast vascular surface, involving an entire lung or even both lungs. No specific mechanism explains this extensive inflammatory spread, probably because of the lack of approaches for detecting signal conduction in lung capillaries. Here, we addressed th...

After more than a century since its birth, Quantum Theory still eludes our under1 standing. If asked to describe it, we have to resort to abstract and ad hoc principles about 2 complex Hilbert spaces. How is it possible that a fundamental physical theory cannot be de3 scribed using the ordinary language of Physics? Here we offer a contribution to the problem, 4 providing a short non-technical p...

In 2009 a major next step was made in our effort to develop a two-dimensional (2D) radiation-hydrodynamics code for laser plasma simulations, namely, a new scheme for solving the radiation transport equation has been constructed and tested. The new code has been named RALEF-2D (Radiative Arbitrary LagrangianEulerian Fluid dynamics). The RALEF-2D code is based on the CAVEAT hydrodynamics package...

Neuromuscular Diseases are a heterogeneous molecular, clinical and prognosis group. Progress has been achieved in the understanding and classification of these diseases.Cardiac involvement in neuromuscular diseases namely conduction disorders, ventricular dilatation and dilated cardiomyopathy with its impact on prognosis, is often dissociated from the peripheral myopathy. Therefore, close surve...

Correspondence to Dr Charles Fisch, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, 1111 West Tenth Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. The earliest electrocardiogram illustrating bizarre intraventricular conduction of supraventricular impulses was published by Sir Thomas Lewis in 1910.' In a subsequent communication Lewis labelled this form of abnormal conduction "aberration" and the ventricular complexes ...

ABSTRACT Advances in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a cornerstone structure elucidation of polycyclic 'cage' scaffolds. Due to the compactness these compounds, much overlap, as well unique through-space and bond NMR interactions are frequently observed. This review serves guide for future derivatives by providing some typical relevant aspects characteristic trends, substituent...

We have studied the effect of the spatial distribution of B, N and C domains in 2-dimensional borocarbonitrides and its influence on carrier mobility, based on density functional theory coupled with the Boltzmann transport equation. Two extreme features of C-domains in BN-rich B2.5CN2.5, namely, BCN-I (random) and BCN-II (localized), have been found to exhibit an electron (hole) mobility of ∼10...

The effect of halothane on the amplitude and conduction time of the evoked nerve action potential of a mammalian nerve preparation was determined in vitro. The action of 4 per cent v/v halothane on the action potential was measured at three different hydrogen ion concentrations in the Krebs perfusate, namely, pH 6.57, pH 7.40, pH 8.00. Halothane potency, assessed by the depression of the action...

BDE-85 is a congener of a class of flame-retardant compounds called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). Although there are some studies on other congeners of PBDEs, there are none on the toxicity potential of this penta-BDE member. This study, therefore, reports the oxidative status and sciatic nerve conduction properties following BDE-85 treatment in rodents. The oxidative stress markers, ...