BACKGROUND Oxidative stress is implicated in the etiology of coronary heart disease (CHD). New measures to capture oxidative stress are warranted. Fluorescent oxidation products (FlOPs) can be measured in plasma and have been shown to reflect levels of oxidative stress and to predict risk of CHD in men over 6 years of follow-up. The objective of this study is to determine whether measures of Fl...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Psychological distress has been hypothesized to be associated with adverse biologic states such as higher oxidative stress and inflammation. Yet, little is known about associations between a common form of distress - phobic anxiety - and global oxidative stress. Thus, we related phobic anxiety to plasma fluorescent oxidation products (FlOPs), a global oxidative stress ...

In the joint paper [8] with Y.-P. Lee and C.-L. Wang, we have shown that the big quantum ring is invariant under P flops of splitting type, after an analytic continuation over the extended Kähler moduli space. It is a generalization of our previous work for the case of simple P flops [7]. In this note, I would like to outline the results and concentrate mainly on the detailed study of a simple ...

We exhibit many examples of closed complex surfaces whose diffeomorphism groups are not simply-connected and contain loops that homotopic to symplectomorphisms.

Currently, the growth in the performance of supercomputers or high-end computing systems relies mainly on the increase in parallelism provided by many cores and special instruction sets. Consequently, researchers and developers of numerical algorithms and libraries must consider massive parallelism. At least O (10) threads and O (10) computational nodes should be effectively utilized. This will...

A novel timing characterization for dual-edge triggered flip-flops is presented in this paper. This characterization takes into account the real overhead taken from the clock cycle by the flip-flops. Our study shows the correctness of this new metrics when compared against data-to-output delay.

The proposed two types of multi-valued D flip-flops are NMAX-TG D flip-flop and NMIN-TG D flip-flop A NMAX-TG D flip-flop and a NMIN D flip-flop are composed of the components such as NMAX D flip-flops, NMIN D flip-flops and T-gate circuits. In the simulations, sampling frequencies of NMAX-TG D flip-flop and NMIN-TG D flip-flop are measured around 500 kHz and 1 MHz, respectively. The PDP parame...

We prove a generalization of Orlov's projectivization formula for the derived category Dcohb(P(E)), where E does not need to be vector bundle; Instead, is coherent sheaf which locally admits two-step resolutions. As special case, this also gives generalized universal hyperplane section formula. applications, (i) we obtain blowup along codimension two Cohen-Macaulay subschemes, (ii) new “flop-fl...