Distal revascularization-interval ligation (DRIL) empirically corrects steal after arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation in most cases, but because there is no topologic alteration in anatomy, it is unclear as to why it is effective. To explore this issue, nine symptomatic patients underwent intravascular pressure and flow measurements before and after DRIL following upper arm autologous AVFs. M...

In this paper, we provide in a general Hilbert space new characterizations of uniform prox-regularity involving outside but sufficiently close points considered sets. We show that the complement prox-regular set is nothing union closed balls with common radius. derive from given equivalent to semiconvexity property its distance function. Various estimates metric projection mapping are also esta...

A new design for a DRIFTS cell for in-situ studies in heterogeneous catalysis is presented, which allows for improved reaction control (i.e., gas flow, temperature, minimized background conversion) and for precise kinetic measurements. Specifically, the very low background activity of the cell itself for CO and H2 oxidation makes it possible to study the preferential CO oxidation in H2-rich gas...

Prox 1, a likely mouse homologue of the Drosophila homeobox gene prospero has been cloned and its expression pattern analyzed during development. In Drosophila, prospero is expressed in the developing CNS, lens-secreting cone cells of the eye, and midgut. In the mouse, Prox 1 is expressed in many of the same tissues: young neurons of the subventricular region of the CNS, developing eye lens and...

Modeling of semantic space is a new and challenging research topic both in cognitive science and linguistics. Existing approaches can be classified into two different types according to how the calculation are done: either a word-by-word co-occurrence matrix or a word-by-context matrix (Riordan 2007). In this paper, we argue that the existing popular distributional semantic model (vector space ...

CE MRA NCE MRA p ̃ x ql qu ̃ x ql qu LRA Ost. 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.5 5.0 0.51 Prox. 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.5 5.0 0.51 Dist. 4.0 3.0 5.0 3.0 2.8 3.0 0.11 Bran. 2.5 1.8 3.3 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.06 RRA Ost. 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.3 5.0 0.46 Prox. 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 3.5 5.0 0.29 Dist. 4.0 3.0 5.0 2.5 1.8 3.3 0.16 Bran. 2.0 1.8 3.5 1.0 1.0 1.3 0.13 Aorta 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.8 5.0 0.51 Overall 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 2.8 4.0 0.07 Diag...

The preferential oxidation of CO (CO-PrOx) to CO2 is an effective catalytic process for purifying the H2 utilized in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells power generation. Our current work reports on synthesis, characterization and CO-PrOx performance evaluation unsubstituted magnesium-substituted iron- cobalt-based oxide catalysts (i.e., Fe3O4, Co3O4, MgFe2O4 MgCo2O4). More specifically, abilit...

Bacteria have developed an epigenetic phase variation mechanism to control cell surface pili-adhesin complexes between heritable expression (phase ON) and nonexpression (phase OFF) states. In the pyelonephritis-associated pili (pap) system, global regulators [catabolite gene activator protein (CAP), leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp), DNA adenine methylase (Dam)] and local regulators (...

PURPOSE To study the morphologic alterations in the proximal and distal urethral edges from patients submitted to end-to-end bulbar urethroplasty. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed 12 patients submitted to anastomotic urethroplasty to treat bulbar strictures less than 2.0 cm in length. After excision of the fibrotic segment to a 28Fr urethral caliber, we obtained biopsies from the spongious t...

In this paper, we propose a new decomposition approach named the proximal primal dual algorithm (Prox-PDA) for smooth nonconvex linearly constrained optimization problems. The proposed approach is primal-dual based, where the primal step minimizes certain approximation of the augmented Lagrangian of the problem, and the dual step performs an approximate dual ascent. The approximation used in th...