A matrix D is diagonal if all its off-diagonal entries are zero. If D is diagonal, then its eigenvalues are the diagonal entries, and the characteristic polynomial of D is fD(x) = ∏i=1(x−dii), where dii is the (i, i) diagonal entry of D. A matrix A is diagonalisable if there is an invertible matrix Q such that QAQ−1 is diagonal. Note that A and QAQ−1 always have the same eigenvalues and the sam...

Chronic inflammation is a pathophysiological cause of age-related diseases including sarcopenia. However, limited data are available on the association between diet-derived and Here, using Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII), we examined associations inflammatory potentials diet, sarcopenia/its components, serum markers. This cross-sectional study was performed in 2014 among 1,254 community-dwelli...

There is a widely acknowledged need for a single composite index that provides a comprehensive picture of the societal impact of disasters. A composite index combines and logically organizes important information policy-makers need to allocate resources for the recovery from natural disasters; it can also inform hazard mitigation strategies. This paper develops a Disaster Impact Index (DII) to ...

Technologies and methods have been developed within C4I systems that permit them to function as federates using the High Level Architecture (HLA). The HLA Runtime Infrastructure (RTI) has been shown to run successfully on C4I system hardware that is based on the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operational Environment (DII COE). The most prominent example to date has been the operation...

Although spinal commissural neurons serve as a model system for studying the mechanisms that underlie axonal pathfinding during development, little is known about their synaptic targets. Previously we identified a group of ventromedially located commissural neurons in rat spinal cord that are gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic and express L1 CAM on their axons. In this study, serial sagittal ...

Only one prospective study has analysed the relationship between the inflammatory properties of diet and risk of depression thus far. The aim of this study was to assess the association between the dietary inflammatory index (DII) and the incidence of depression. In a cohort study of 15 093 university graduates, participants completed a validated FFQ at baseline and after 10 years of follow-up....

Previous studies have shown that various dietary components may be implicated in the aetiology of pancreatic cancer. However, the possible relationship between diet-related inflammation and the risk of pancreatic cancer has not yet been investigated. We examined the ability of a newly developed literature-derived dietary inflammatory index (DII) to predict the risk of pancreatic cancer in a cas...

BACKGROUND Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the potential to replace infarct scar, but the long-term effects are unknown. We studied short- and long-term effects of MSC transplantation on left ventricular (LV) function in a rat myocardial infarction model. METHODS AND RESULTS Saline (n=46) or MSCs labeled with 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3'3'-testramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate (DiI; n=49, 2x...

Nitric oxide (NO) in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) is involved in the regulation of the excitability of PVN neurons. However, the effect of NO on the inhibitory GABAergic and excitatory glutamatergic inputs to spinally projecting PVN neurons has not been studied specifically. In the present study, we determined the role of the inhibitory GABAergic and excitatory glutamatergic inputs in the ...

Membrane tension modulates cellular processes by initiating changes in the dynamics of its molecular constituents. To quantify the precise relationship between tension, structural properties of the membrane, and the dynamics of lipids and a lipophilic reporter dye, we performed atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of DiI-labeled dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) lipid bilayers unde...