Impaired mass transfer characteristics of blood-borne vasoactive species such as adenosine triphosphate in regions such as an arterial bifurcation have been hypothesized as a prospective mechanism in the aetiology of atherosclerotic lesions. Arterial endothelial cells (ECs) and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) respond differentially to altered local haemodynamics and produce coordinated macro-scale r...

Introduction: Interhemispheric transmission of signal is done by corpus callosum (CC) as the largest fiber tract in brain. CC comprised 5 segments of rostrum, genu, body, isthmus, and splenium. Contradictory reports exist about sexual dimorphism of CC. We designed this study to assess probable sexual differences of CC and its different parts in men and women. Methods: We analyzed magnetic reso...

There has been much discussion on what a scientific theory of consciousness would look like, and even whether such a theory is possible. Some common misunderstandings of the nature of theories (e.g., in the physical sciences) have confused the discussion of theories concerning consciousness. Theories in the physical sciences establish hierarchies of descriptions that relate high-level descripti...

The present study provides the dietary intakes of macro elements (Ca, Mg, Na, K, P) and trace elements (Fe, Zn, Cu, Se) from the Italian total diet. The contribution of the most representative food groups of the total diet (cereals and cereal products, vegetables, fruit, milk and dairy products, meat and meat products, fish) to the daily intakes of these nutrients was also evaluated. The Italia...

Congestion in urban arterial road networks increases steadily. For long-range road investment planning it is essential to be able to evaluate the impacts of this congestion on road user costs and on the environment. The current method is to use transport planning models with static traffic assignment. This method, however, may significantly underestimate the impacts of congestion because of the...

BACKGROUND Improvement of the healing process to provide better aesthetical and functional results continues to be a surgical challenge. This study compared the treatment of skin wounds by means of conducted healing (an original method of treatment by secondary healing) and by the use of autogenous skin grafts. METHOD Two skin segments, one on each side of the dorsum,were removed from 17 rabb...

This paper describes an acoustic-to-phonetic decoder (APD) (based on a mixed strategy: a) bottom-up which hypothesizes the most robust information about the speech signal, b) top-down which makes some verifications about the acoustic features or about the macro-class localization on the speech signal. In this paper, only the bottom-up strategy is described. In our system, a phoneme is described...

This study generalizes the notion of information beyond its traditional scope and, at the same time, reduces the concept of information to patterns of discrete physical states and informing to patterns of physical states being developed and spread among entities. In its ultimate elementary states, reality appears to be discrete, so would be its representation and its elementary changes. If so, ...

This paper investigates linear and non-linear morphology in verbal inflection Ebira, a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria. The does not target the root, but rather occurs within pre-verbal auxiliary-like satellite units called STAMP (Anderson 2011, 2015, 2016), mnemonic for subject agreement, tense, aspect, mood, polarity. deconstructs Ebira STAMPs identifies individual sub-STAMP morphs based on e...