This study was conducted to determine the concentration of 8 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in sandstorm depositions in Beijing, China. The PBDE concentrations in 10 samples collected in Beijing ranged from 8.47 to 29.02 ng g(-1), with BDE-209 as the predominant congener (>85%). Principal component analysis revealed that the major source of PBDEs in Beijing may be potentially associated...

© 2013 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1393 Journal Compilation © 2013 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Gout is a clinical syndrome presenting with recurrent, painful arthritis caused by deposition of monosodium urate. Urate crystal deposits are usually detected in the synovial membranes, joint capsules, articular cartilage, and periarticular tissue, and, rarely, in extra-articular...

MetaboLights is the first general-purpose open-access curated repository for metabolomic studies, their raw experimental data and associated metadata, maintained by one of the major open-access data providers in molecular biology. Increases in the number of depositions, number of samples per study and the file size of data submitted to MetaboLights present a challenge for the objective of ensur...

The storage of triglyceride (TG) droplets in nonadipose tissues is called ectopic fat storage. Ectopic fat is associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Not the triglycerides per se but the accumulation of intermediates of lipid metabolism in organs, such as the liver, skeletal muscle, and heart seem to disrupt metabolic processes and impair organ function. We descr...

Carbazole-based monomers are electrodeposited in dichloromethane with different water content and pH order to control the surface micro- nanostructures. The presence of makes depositions more porous by formation a micellar soft template. Due free amine groups, acidity plays role on structure protonation, limiting their polymerization ways thus controlling morphology structures. wetting properti...

The English auction is susceptible to tacit collusion when post-auction inter-bidder resale is allowed. We show this by constructing equilibria where, with positive probability, one bidder wins the auction without any competition and divides the spoils by optimally reselling the good to the other bidders. These equilibria interim Pareto dominate (among bidders) the standard value-bidding equili...

Background Recent studies in canines have shown that focal iron depositions within chronic scar tissue influences the electrical behavior of infarcted hearts. Further, T2weighted CMR of post-mortem sudden cardiac death (SCD) victims with chronic myocardial infarction (CMI) have consistently demonstrated regions of signal loss within the CMI territories. To date, the link between the post-infarc...

One of the major advantages of stencil lithography is the possibility to use stencils many times. However, when stencils contain nanoapertures, the clogging of the membranes limits the useful life time of the stencils. The clogging is due to the accumulation of material deposited inside the apertures of the stencil. Here, we report a study on the effect of the clogging on the life time of stenc...