Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) is a metabolite of trichloroethylene (TRI) thought to contribute to its hepatocarcinogenic effects in mice. Recent studies have shown that peak blood concentrations of TCA do not occur until approximately 12 hr after an oral dose of TRI; however, blood concentrations of TRI reach a maximum within 1 hr and is nondetectable after 2 hr. The objective of this study was to...

Multi-modal virtual environments succeed better, than single-channel technologies, in creating the 'sense of presence'. We hypothesize that the underlying cognitive mechanism is related to a faster mental processing of multimodal events. Comparing reaction time in uni-modal, bimodal and tri-modal events, we show that the processing speed is: uni-modal > bi-modal > tri-modal. Given this advantag...

background :   chitosan is unbranched polysaccharide composed of d-glucosamine and n-acetyl-d-glucosamine. chitosan, derived from shrimp shell, has broad antimicrobial properties against gram-negative, gram-positive bacteria and fungi.   methods :  chitosan was extracted from shrimp shell and studied for cell entrapment and anti-bacterial properties. the hydrogel chitosan was used as the beads ...

The Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive (CRBEHA) project received an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) leadership grant in September 2001. The grant was titled: Engaging the Public with Digital Primary Sources: A Tri-State Online History Database and Learning Center. The institutions involved in the project were Washington State University Vancouver, Washington State Univ...

Abstract  This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with HTTP requests and responses. It describes  three new headers, Cookie, Cookie2, and Set-Cookie2, which carry state information between participating origin servers and user agents. The method described here differs from Netscape’s Cookie proposal [Netscape], but it can interoperate with HTTP/1.0 user agents that use Nets...

This paper proposes a low power EHC that performs synchronous energy conversion on a tri-plate variable capacitor to improve the maximum achievable power. A tri-plate macro electrostatic generator with capacitor variation of 405 pF to 1.15 nF and 405 pF to 1.07 nF on two complementary adjacent capacitors operating 180° out of phase at 98 Hz is fabricated and used in the characterization of the ...

Acute cytotoxicity (lactate dehydrogenase release) of trichloroethylene (TRI), S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)glutathione (DCVG), and S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine (DCVC) in freshly isolated renal cortical cells and hepatocytes from male and female rats was evaluated to test the hypothesis that the assay provides a valid indicator of sex- and tissue-dependent differences in sensitivity to TRI and its ...

We give further support to Smirnov’s conjecture on the exact kink S-matrix for the massive Quantum Field Theory describing the integrable perturbation of the c = 0.7 minimal Conformal Field theory (known to describe the tri-critical Ising model) by the operator φ2,1. This operator has conformal dimensions ( 7 16 , 7 16) and is identified with the subleading magnetic operator of the tri-critical...