We studied vascular responses in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) of both genders after methionine (Met) loading to test whether or not there were gender differences. SHRs were divided into 5 groups: male control (MSHR), female control (FSHR), methionine-loaded (+Met) males (MSHR[+Met]) and females (FSHR[+Met]), and male SHR with both 17beta-estradiol (E2) and Met administration (MSHR[+E2+...

Organizations still struggle to efficiently manage their complex product development projects (PDPs). A contributor poor project performance is the dynamics of engineering design rework (EDR), due both necessity adjusting being developed and disruption it causes process. The purpose this research evaluate EDR that negatively impacts PDPs suggest actions overcome those problems. soft systems thi...

Although Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is represented by a rigorously proven relation about intrinsic indeterminacy in quantum states, error-disturbance (EDR) has been commonly believed as another aspect of the principle. However, recent developments measurement theory made EDR testable to observe its violations. Here, we study for Stern-Gerlach measurements. In previous report [arXiv:1910...

Robots must plan and execute tasks in the presence of uncertainty. Uncertainty arises from sensing errors, control errors, and the geometry of the environment. By employing a combined strategy offorce and position control, a robot programmer can often guarantee reaching the desired final configuration from all the likely initial configurations. Such motion strategies permit robots to carry out ...

Formation of oxidized phosphatidylcholine (ox-PC), oxidatively fragmented phosphatidylcholine (PC) containing a short-chain and/or polar oxidative residue at the sn-2 position, in the process of LDL oxidation as well as its existence in atherosclerotic lesions has been demonstrated. To clarify the pathophysiological role of ox-PC in the vascular reactivity, we investigated the effects of variou...

AIM Monoamine oxidases (MAOs) are mitochondrial enzymes, with 2 isoforms, A and B that convert biogenic amines to their corresponding aldehydes via a reaction that produces hydrogen peroxide. Since MAO-A is the predominant form at vascular level we hypothesized that MAO-A-dependent H2O2 production may contribute to the development of endothelial dysfunction and, MAOs inhibition could improve th...

Video summarisation techniques aim to abstract the most significant content from a video stream. This is typically achieved by processing low-level image, audio and text features which are still quite disparate from the high-level semantics that end users identify with (the ‘semantic gap’). Physiological responses are potentially rich indicators of memorable or emotionally engaging video conten...

Philips recently released a new VCSEL and photodiode product family for the fast growing FDR InfiniBandTM generation. In this work we review the influence of production process variations on VCSEL characteristics, the FDR VCSEL transmission behavior as well as wear-out reliability characteristics. Data collected during an initial 15 wafers pilot production batch verify that FDR VCSEL manufactur...