BACKGROUND Restoration of normal bladder volume and function (i.e., bioequivalent bladder) are observed within 8 weeks of performing subtotal cystectomy (STC; removal of ~70 % of the bladder) in 12-week old rats. For analysis of bladder function in rodents, terminal urodynamic approaches are largely utilized. In the current study, we investigated the potential for Computed Tomography (CT) and M...

This paper introduces an alternative way of injecting noise for DSL testing. Distribution: ETSI STC TM6 working group members Status: For information This contribution has been prepared to assist ETSI Standards Committee STC TM6. This document is offered as a basis for discussions and is not a binding proposal of FTW. FTW specifically reserves the right to add to, amend or withdraw the statemen...

In this paper, a super twisting controller (STC) is designed to control the chaotic behavior of the Duffing-Holmes system in stabilization and tracking cases. Due to lack of availability of the performance evaluation of STC in controlling Duffing-Holmes system, this paper aims to test the performance of STC in controlling DuffingHolmes system. In order to achieve this control design, a modifica...

Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is an alternative surgical approach to alleviate fecal incontinence and constipation. This study aimed to explore the effects and underlying mechanisms of SNS with acupuncture on gut transit time and colon c-kit protein expression in rats with slow transit constipation (STC). Fifty Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into five groups: blank control, SNS, Mos...

We previously developed a self-referencing differential spectroscopic (SRDS) method to detect lesions by identifying a spectroscopic biomarker of breast cancer, i.e., the specific tumor component (STC). The SRDS method is based on the assumption of the exclusive presence of this spectroscopic biomaker in malignant disease. Although clinical results using this method have already been published,...

Employing Reuber rat hepatoma cells, H4-II-E, the effects of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and sterigmatocystin (STC), which exhibit a similar cytotoxicity but a marked difference in hepatocarcinogenicity, on the hormonal induction of tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT), on glucocorticoid receptors, and on their nuclear acceptor sites were investigated. AFB1 strongly inhibited hydrocortisone-inducible TAT ac...

We consider a space–time coded (STC) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system with multiple transmitter and receiver antennas over correlated frequencyand time-selective fading channels. It is shown that the product of the time-selectivity order and the frequency-selectivity order is a key parameter to characterize the outage capacity of the correlated fading channel. It is also...

A saw-toothed chessboard, or STC for short, is a kind of chessboard whose boundary forms two staircases from left down to right without any hole inside it. A rook at square (i, j) can dominate the squares in row i and in column j . The rook problem of an STC is to determine the minimum number of rooks that can dominate all squares of the STC. In this paper, we model an STC by two particular gra...

Purpose: To assess the results of 1-minute and 5-minute Schirmer's test (ST) when the eyes are open (STo) and closed (STc) in normal participants. Methods: In a comparative, observational case series study, 34 normal volunteers were included in the study. Inclusion criteria were normal ophthalmologic findings except for refractive errors, no use of contact lenses, no history of previous medical...

The versatile anaerobic metabolism of the Gram-negative bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (SOMR-1) relies on a multitude of redox proteins found in its periplasm. Most are multiheme cytochromes that carry electrons to terminal reductases of insoluble electron acceptors located at the cell surface, or bona fide terminal reductases of soluble electron acceptors. In this study, the interaction ...