We have formulated a general approach for transforming an analytical equation of state ~EOS! into the crossover form and developed a generalized cubic ~GC! EOS for pure fluids, which incorporates nonanalytic scaling laws in the critical region and in the limit r→0 is transformed into the ideal gas equation EOS. Using the GC EOS as a reference equation, we have developed a generalized version of...

Certain international sports federations are requesting that glucocorticoids (GCs) be removed from the World Antidoping Agency's list of banned products. Their arguments are based on the fact that GCs are in widespread use in sports medicine and have no demonstrated ergogenic activity. This article shows that there is scientific evidence that GCs mediate ergogenic effects in animals and humans....

BACKGROUND Glucocorticoids (GCs) are the most potent anti-inflammatory agents available for allergic diseases including asthma, which are routinely believed to need several hours to take effect through regulating gene expression. Our previous report had shown that GCs could inhibit allergic asthma within 10 min, which the classical mechanism could not explain. OBJECTIVE To confirm the existen...

The endothelium plays a crucial role in inflammation. A balanced control of inflammation requires the action of glucocorticoids (GCs), steroidal hormones with potent cell-specific anti-inflammatory properties. Besides the classic anti-inflammatory effects of GCs on leukocytes, recent studies confirm that endothelial cells also represent an important target for GCs. GCs regulate different aspect...

This article presents empirical findings of a literature review focusing on the effects of gaming design characteristics on learning. Gaming characteristics (GCs) are believed to play a critical role in improving instructional quality of computer-assisted learning. In particular, researchers suggest that linking GCs with specific learning outcomes can harness the power of games and inform learn...

In this paper, we present a new compactly supported kernel for SVM based image recognition. This kernel which we called Geometric Compactly Supported (GCS) can be viewed as a generalization of spherical kernels to higher dimensions. The construction of the GCS kernel is based on a geometric approach using the intersection volume of two n-dimensional balls. The compactness property of the GCS ke...

Since the demonstration of the potent anti-infl ammatory and immunosuppressive effects of glucocorticoids (GCs) halfway through the previous century, GCs have been the most frequently and generally used anti-infl ammatory and immunosuppressive class of drugs in a wide spectrum of immune-mediated diseases such as systemic autoimmune diseases, including the arthritides like rheumatoid arthritis (...

BACKGROUND The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is popular, simple, and reliable, and provides information about the level of consciousness in trauma patients. Nevertheless, the necessity of using a more complex system than GCS has been questioned recently. The revised Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation system (APACHE II) is a physiologically based system including 12 physiological variable...

BACKGROUND Variables derived from electroencephalogram like cerebral state index (CSI) have been used to monitor the anesthesia depth during general anesthesia. Observed evidences show such variables have also been used as a detector of brain death or outcome predictor in traumatic brain-injured (TBI) patients. OBJECTIVES The current study was designed to determine the correlation between Gla...

Dentate gyrus granule cells (GCs) have been suggested to synthesize both GABA and glutamate immediately after birth and under pathological conditions in the adult. Expression of the GABA synthesizing enzyme GAD67 by GCs during the first few weeks of postnatal development may then allow for transient GABA synthesis and synaptic release from these cells. Here, using the GAD67-EGFP transgenic stra...