OBJECTIVES To examine the long-term effects of dioxin-exposure, particularly with regard to cancer mortality, in a follow-up 23 years after closure of the chemical plant (Hamburg, Germany). METHODS The study comprised all persons (1191 men/398 women) employed in the plant on a full-time basis for a minimum of 3 months between 1952 and 1984 when the plant was closed down. Mortality follow-up w...

This paper is aimed to investigate the strong $L^p$-closure $L_{\mathbb{Z}}^p(B)$ of vector fields on open unit ball $B\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ that are smooth up finitely many integer point singularities. First, such closure characterized for arbitrary $p\in[1,+\infty)$. Secondly, it shown what happens if integrability order $p$ large enough (namely, $p\ge 3/2$). Eventually, a decomposition theore...

In plants, chemical and mechanical traits are involved in the defense against environmental stressors. case of Mimosa touch-sensitive responses through leaf-closure provide a unique form defense. While past research has shown that impacts stressors such as competition or short-term drought may cause defenses plants to increase decrease, it is unknown how interaction these influence efficiency r...

Intervention Patients were allocated to standard mass closure of the abdomen with the surgeon using^ number-1 polydioxanone suture with either blunt-tipped (n = 46) or cutting (n=39) needles. Immediately before closure, the surgeon put on new gloves. After closure, gloves were examined both by inflating them with air and then immersing them in water and by filling them with water. During the se...

Acrolein reacted with deoxyguanosine at pH 7 and 37 degrees to give three major products, Adducts 1 to 3, which were separated by high-performance liquid chromatography. They were identified by their ultraviolet, mass, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, by the spectra of the corresponding guanine derivatives, and by chemical transformations. Adducts 1 and 2 were two rapidly equilibrating d...

This work presents a low-dimensional physical model of the glottis in which a 2-D fold displacement representation allows to represent both the vertical and longitudinal displacements of the folds. We use a one-mass mechanical model, coupled to aerodynamic driving forces, and we use a delay line representation to account for the propagation of the displacement on the body-cover. The waveform is...

the aim of this paper is to introduce $(l,m)$-fuzzy closurestructure where $l$ and $m$ are strictly two-sided, commutativequantales. firstly, we define $(l,m)$-fuzzy closure spaces and getsome relations between $(l,m)$-double fuzzy topological spaces and$(l,m)$-fuzzy closure spaces. then, we introduce initial$(l,m)$-fuzzy closure structures and we prove that the category$(l,m)$-{bf fc} of $(l,m...

The buccal ganglion of Aplysia contains a heterogeneous population of peptidergic, radula mechanoafferent (RM) neurons. To investigate their function, two of the larger RM cells (B21, B22) were identified by morphological and electrophysiological criteria. Both are low-threshold, rapidly adapting, mechanoafferent neurons that responded to touch of the radula, the structure that grasps food duri...