To decrease total body iodine is a key point in preparation for radioiodine study and therapy. We introduced a stringent self-managed low iodine diet (LID) and compared the outcome to that of the conventional restricted iodine diet (RID) for outpatients. We measured urine iodine to creatinine ratios (I/Cr) in patients prepared with RID for one week, LID for one week, or LID for two weeks. Mean ...

The main goal of this study is determination the effect of GCR (gray component replacement) levels on colorimetric characteristics of color proof. To determine the effect of GCR levels on colors of color proofs, a comparison of 2D and 3D color gamuts depending on GCR level have been performed. In addition to obtain better assessment of the effect of GCR levels on color gamut were calculate volu...

Identification of the signaling pathways that influence the reprogramming of Müller glia into neurogenic retinal progenitors is key to harnessing the potential of these cells to regenerate the retina. Glucocorticoid receptor (GCR) signaling is commonly associated with anti-inflammatory responses and GCR agonists are widely used to treat inflammatory diseases of the eye, even though the cellular...

We investigate some geometric aspects of lightlike hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds, tangent to the structure vector field, by paying attention to the geometry of leaves of integrable distributions. Theorems on parallel vector fields, Killing distribution, geodesibility of those leaves are obtained. The geometrical configuration of such lightlike hypersurfaces and leaves of its sc...

It is shown that, on a manifold with a Finsler metric of Lorentzian signature, the lightlike geodesics satisfy the following variational principle. Among all lightlike curves from a point q (emission event) to a timelike curve γ (worldline of receiver), the lightlike geodesics make the arrival time stationary. Here “arrival time” refers to a parametrization of the timelike curve γ. This variati...

We study Einstein lightlike hypersurfaces M of a Lorentzian space form M̃(c) admitting a semi-symmetric non-metric connection subject to the conditions; (1) M is screen conformal and (2) the structure vector field ζ of M̃ belongs to the screen distribution S(TM). The main result is a characterization theorem for such a lightlike hypersurface.

We introduce new concepts and properties of lightlike distributions and foliations (of dimension and co-dimension 1) in a space-time manifold of dimension n, from a purely geometric point of view. Given an observer and a lightlike distribution Ω of dimension or co-dimension 1, its lightlike direction is broken down into two vector fields: a timelike vector field U representing the observer and ...

BACKGROUND Glucocorticoid (GC) resistance is a major barrier in COPD treatment. We have shown increased expression of the drug efflux pump, Pgp1 in cytotoxic/pro-inflammatory lymphocytes in COPD. Loss of lymphocyte co-stimulatory molecule CD28 (lymphocyte senescence) was associated with a further increase in their pro-inflammatory/cytotoxic potential and resistance to GC. We hypothesized that l...

We study field theories in the limit that a compactified dimension becomes lightlike. In almost all cases the amplitudes at each order of perturbation theory diverge in the limit, due to strong interactions among the longitudinal zero modes. The lightlike limit generally exists nonperturbatively, but is more complicated than might have been assumed. Some implications for the matrix theory conje...