In the present study, we identified factors of cognitive and physical performances predicting self-rated health perception (SRH) using an SRH questionnaire in 660 (298 men 362 women) upper-middle-aged community dwellers. addition, neuropsychological test battery ability tests were applied. A multiple regression analysis was conducted forced entry method; digit cancellation (D-CAT1), logical mem...

The notion of pullback rewriting has been developed recently as a category theoretical framework for vertex replacement in graphs. Here, the technique is presented based on net morphisms, yielding a well-deened mechanism which is closely related to pullback rewriting in hypergraphs. Finally, a net reenement operation modifying the context of the reened transition is characterized in terms of pu...

Cationic amino acid transport activity in a canine lens epithelial cells (LEC) line was investigated. The transporter activity of arginine was 0.424 ± 0.047 nmol/mg protein min, while the presence of N-ethylmaleimide, an inhibitor of the canine cationic amino acid transporter (CAT), reduced transport activity by 30%. A full-length cDNA sequence of canine CAT1 was 2558 bp long and was predicted ...

The main purpose of this article is to introduce the categorical concept of pullback in Mizar. In the first part of this article we redefine homsets, monomorphisms, epimorpshisms and isomorphisms [6] within a free-object category [15] and it is shown there that ordinal numbers can be considered as categories. Then the pullback is introduced in terms of its universal property, and the Pullback L...

Survival of fungal species depends on the ability of these organisms to respond to environmental stresses. Osmotic stress or high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can cause stress in fungi resulting in growth inhibition. Both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells have developed numerous mechanisms to counteract and survive the stress in the presence of ROS. In many fungi, the HOG signaling pa...

Rickets and hyperparathyroidism caused by a defective vitamin D receptor (VDR) can be prevented in humans and animals by high calcium intake, suggesting that intestinal calcium absorption is critical for 1,25(OH)(2) vitamin D [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)] action on calcium homeostasis. We assessed the rate of serum (45)Ca accumulation within 10 min of oral gavage in two strains of VDR-knockout (KO) mice (L...

This study extends our previous work of using π-FLP strategy to develop metal-free hydrogenation catalysts. Using small MeN=CMe(2) imine (im1) as a model, we previously designed cat1 and cat2 catalysts. But it is unclear whether they are capable of catalyzing the hydrogenations of bulky imines. Using tBuN=C(H)Ph (im2) as a representative of large imines, we assessed the energetics of the cat1- ...

The class of  $n$-ary polygroups is a certain subclass of $n$-ary hypergroups, a generalization of D{"o}rnte $n$-arygroups and  a generalization of polygroups. The$beta^*$-relation and the $gamma^*$-relation are the smallestequivalence relations on an $n$-ary polygroup $P$ such that$P/beta^*$ and $P/gamma^*$ are an $n$-ary group and acommutative $n$-ary group, respectively. We use the $beta^*$-...

BACKGROUND The home hemodialysis (HHD) treatment option has been associated with improved patient outcomes compared to in-center hemodialysis (ICHD) programs. What is not quite clear is the influence of patient selection bias on the perceived benefits of HHD. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential benefits of HHD by comparing the admission patterns of HHD patients with a control...