We have developed a general quenched-flow approach to study platelet function as early as 0.3 seconds after stimulation. Phosphorylation of 20- and 40-kd proteins has been analyzed during the first five seconds of platelet response to thrombin from 0.1 to 5.0 U/mL and compared with the progress of aggregation and serotonin secretion. The onset time for aggregation and phosphorylation of both pr...

In the present study, the sinter-crystallization behavior of a glass from municipal solid waste incineration ashes was investigated. The crystallization kinetics were estimated by DTA at different heating rates and the formed crystalline phases were evaluated by XRD. The sintering was studied at different heating rates and at different holding temperatures by dilatometry, measuring the % of lin...

An identifying code in a graph G is a subset of vertices with the property that for each vertex v ∈ V (G), the collection of elements of C at distance at most 1 from v is non-empty and distinct from the collection of any other vertex. We consider the minimum density d(Sk) of an identifying code in the square grid Sk of height k (i.e. with vertex set Z × {1, . . . , k}). Using the Discharging Me...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the characteristic differences in alexithymic construct in various psychiatric disorders because of a paucity of direct comparisons between psychiatric disorders. Therefore, this study explored disorder-related differences in alexithymic characteristics among Korean patients diagnosed with four major psychiatric disorders (n=388). METHODS Alexithymic tendencies...

Excess proteolytic activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) contributes to the development of arthritis, cardiovascular diseases and cancer progression, implicating these enzymes as therapeutic targets. While many small molecule inhibitors of MMPs have been developed, clinical uses have been limited, in part by toxicity and off-target effects. Development of the endogenous tissue inhibitors...

The sensor characteristics of a coated Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) thermal sensor for cryogenic temperatures depends mainly on the coating materials. The sensitivity of the coated FBG can be improved by enhancing the effective thermal strain transfer between the different layers and the bare FBG. The dual coated FBG’s has a primary layer and the secondary layer. The primary coating acts as an int...

In this work, we examine the quality of several statistical machine translation systems constructed on a small amount of parallel Serbian-English text. The main bilingual parallel corpus consists of about 3k sentences and 20k running words from an unrestricted domain. The translation systems are built on the full corpus as well as on a reduced corpus containing only 200 parallel sentences. A sm...