The objective of the study was to estimate the contractility characteristics and electromechanical coupling of human internal thoracic artery (ITA) by mechanography and double sucrose gap technique to compare the effect of nitroglycerin with other pharmacological agents. The study of mechanical tension (mechanography) of the ITA segments has been performed in 14 patients undergone coronary arte...

In this paper, we define Dependency Structure Grammars (DSG), which are rewriting rule grammars generating sentences together with their dependency structures, are more expressive than CF-grammars and non-equivalent to mildly context-sensitive grammars. We show that DSG are weakly equivalent to Categorial Dependency Grammars (CDG) recently introduced in [6, 3]. In particular, these dependency g...

A virtual synchronous generator (VSG) can provide inertial support through renewables and energy storage. It generally operates in parallel with a diesel (DSG) an islanded microgrid. However, unforeseen interactive power oscillations occur the paralleled system when loads fluctuate. These may also burn out VSG owing to its low overcurrent capacity. The mechanism suppression strategy of oscillat...

BACKGROUND Adverse events associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) used to treat knee and hand osteoarthritis may be more frequent in certain patient populations. Topical NSAIDs, such as diclofenac sodium 1% gel (DSG), have equivalent efficacy and fewer adverse events compared with oral NSAIDs. This post hoc analysis assessed the long-term tolerability of DSG in elderly pat...

The species B human adenoviruses (HAdVs) infect cells upon attaching to CD46 or desmoglein 2 (DSG-2) by one or several of their 12 fiber knob trimers (FKs). To test whether DSG-2 and CD46 simultaneously serve as virus receptors for adenovirus type 3 (Ad3), we performed individual and combined CD46/DSG-2 loss-of-function studies in human lung A549 and 16HBE14o cells. Our results suggest that in ...

Humans are able to form a complex mental model of the environment they move in. This captures geometric and semantic aspects scene, describes at multiple levels abstractions (e.g., objects, rooms, buildings), includes static dynamic entities their relations person is in room given time). In contrast, current robots’ internal representations still provide partial fragmented understanding environ...

Background: Different concentrations of the simple carbon substrates i.e. glucose, fructose, and sucrose were tested to enhance the performance of the mediator-less double chamber microbial fuel cell (MFC). Objectives: The power generation potential of the different electron donors was studied using a mesophilic Fe (III) reducer and non-fermentative bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa</em...

Low concentrations of autocide AMI rescued aggregation and sporulation in the dsg mutant class of Myxococcus xanthus but were incapable of rescuing asg, bsg, or csg mutants. AMI-induced spores of dsg mutants were resistant to heat and sonication and germinated when plated on nutrient-rich agar. AMI accelerated aggregation and sporulation and increased the final spore number in submerged culture...