Interaction among and between mushroom / white rot and brown rot fungi or soft rot fungi, studied by the dual culture plate assays showed that the outcome of a specific interaction was strongly dependent on the two organisms concerned. Phanerochate chrysosporium as one of the partner in dual cultures, invariably scored grade 2 for colony interaction as it overgrew and covered the colony of othe...

A young man presented with hoarseness of voice and was found to have left vocal cord paralysis and a large opacity on chest X-ray in the left upper zone. CT angiography showed a giant aneurysm of the aortic arch involving the left subclavian artery. Using a dual perfusion system, with the femoral bypass circuit taking care of the spinal protection and the aortic bypass circuit providing the cer...

Neural stem and progenitor cells (NSC/NPCs) are multipotent self-renewing cells that are able to generate neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes (OLs) within the adult central nervous system. We cultured NSC/NPCs from the rat subventricular zone as neurospheres (NS) and studied apoTransferrin (aTf) effects on oligodendroglial specification and maturation. Our findings suggest that aTf acts at...

This paper proposes an adaptive approximation-based controller for uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown dead-zone nonlinearity. Dead-zone constraint is represented as a combination of a linear system with a disturbance-like term. This work invokes neural networks (NNs) as a linear-in-parameter approximator to model uncertain nonlinear functions that appear in virtual and act...

Subependymal nodular heterotopia (SNH) is a cortical development malformation that is commonly associated with medically resistant epilepsy. Cases of SNH are challenging to treat surgically because there are typically multiple nodules, which may be involved in epileptogenesis. Moreover, dual pathology may exist in these patients. Here, we present a case with unilateral subependymal heterotopic ...

A 31-year-old patient with Brugada syndrome presented at our clinic after an electrical shock from his dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD – Biotronik Iperia), implanted in secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death (ventricular fibrillation zone > 214 bpm, detection counter 18/24; monitor ventricular tachycardia zone > 176 bpm with supraventricular tachycardia discrimina...

Dual systems of steel moment frame and reinforced concrete shear wall have combined the advantages of steel frames and reinforced concrete shear wall. These walls have increased the lateral stiffness of steel frames and have reduced seismic demands on steel frames thus providing opportunities to use such system. In this research intermediate dual system of steel moment frame was chosen with int...