The retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) is composed of retinal pigmented epithelial cells joined by tight junctions and represents the outer blood-retinal barrier (BRB). The inner BRB is made of endothelial cells joined by tight junctions and glial extensions surrounding all the retinal blood vessels. One of the functions of the RPE is to maintain an osmotic transepithelial gradient created by i...

UNLABELLED To assess the cognition of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) using the Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRB-N). METHOD BRB-N was translated and adapted for control subjects. Subsequently, it was applied to a group of patients with relapsing-remitting (RR) MS. RESULTS The assessment on the healthy controls (n=47) showed that the correlation between t...

THE RETINAL VESSELS HAVE TWO BARRIERS: the retinal pigment epithelium and the retinal vascular endothelium. Each barrier exhibits increased permeability under various pathological conditions. This condition is referred to as blood retinal barrier (BRB) breakdown. Clinically, the most frequently encountered condition causing BRB breakdown is diabetic retinopathy. In recent studies, inflammation ...

Java’s Brantas River Basin (BRB) is an increasingly urbanized tropical watershed with significant economic and ecological importance; yet knowledge of its land-use changes dynamics drivers as well their importance have barely been explored. This the case for many other watersheds in Java, Indonesia beyond. study BRB (1) quantifies period 1995–2015, (2) determines patterns during (3) identifies ...

In recent years, the demand for maintaining building functions after large earthquakes has been increasing especially high-rise buildings. For this reason, importance of vibration control systems is which efficiently absorb energy buildings during an earthquake. Among several dampers, a buckling restraint brace (BRB) widely used in practice design high rise structures because its ease installat...

In order to realize the buckling-restrained brace (BRB) with high energy absorption performance, it is important prevent premature local bulging failure of restraining part. this study, strength BRB resist part considered be minimum value steel plate considering influence effect filling materials and bearing materials. Local prevented by larger than force acting in out-of-plane direction.

Activation of angiotensin II (Ang II) signaling during aging increases reactive oxygen species (ROS) leading to vascular senescence, a process linked to the onset and progression of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Consumption of fruits and vegetables, particularly berries, is associated with decreased incidence of CVD, which has mainly been attributed to the polyphenol content of these foods. Th...

For the sake of gaining competitive advantages, it is important to evaluate the satisfaction level of a product or service from the users’ perspective. This can be done by investigating the relationship among customer attributes (customer requirements) and design attributes (product configurations). However, such relationship would be highly non-linear in nature. In this regard, many approaches...

The Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) laser device consists of thousands of Metalized Film Capacitors (MFC). The Belief Rule Base (BRB) system has shown privileges in reflecting complex system dynamics. However, the BRB system requires the referenced values of each attribute to be limited. The traditional BRB learning and training approaches are no longer applicable since the referenced values ...

The adsorbents of starch grafted p-tert-butyl-calix[4,6,8]arene-SGCn (SGC4, SGC6, SGC8) are prepared. The products are characterized by FTIR, elemental analysis, thermal gravimetric analysis and scanning electron microscope. Static adsorption behavior is studied by using SGC8 as adsorbent, butyl Rhodamine B (BRB) solution as simulation dye wastewater. The adsorption of BRB onto SGC8 fits the se...