OBJECTIVE Magnesium supplementation has been reported to have a nephroprotective effect on cisplatin-induced renal dysfunction, but little evidence exists regarding the effect of magnesium preloading before cisplatin administration. We started to include magnesium preloading (8 mEq) in cisplatin-containing treatment regimens in January 2011. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether ...

Computer modelling and numerical FEM analysis of buried preloaded (prestressed) piping of a compressor station is shortly discussed in the present paper. The aim of the preloading is to reduce the stress intensity at the critical point of the piping. The necessary preloading force was computed as a non-linear function of the effects of bearing and friction at the pipe/soil interface. The real m...

INTRODUCTION 'Preloading' is a phenomenon where people drink alcohol at a private residence before going out. We aimed to identify whether preloading is a risk factor for alcohol-related emergency department attendance. We also wanted to identify where people became injured or unwell. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, anonymous, survey at peak drinking times in our emergency department....

CP-PACS is a massively parallel processor (MPP) for large scale scienti c computations. On September 1996, CP-PACS equipped with 2048 processors began its operation at University of Tsukuba. At that time, CP-PACS was the fastest MPP in the world on LINPACK benchmark. CP-PACS was designed to achieve very high performance in large scienti c/engineering applications. It is well known that ordinary...

Based on an improvement project of soft soil ground in Zhuhai City the Pearl River Delta, a comparative study vacuum preloading and surcharge was performed. The stratified settlements, excess pore water pressure, degrees consolidation are analyzed, along with horizontal displacement strength. results show that smaller secondary settlements than preloading. Primary settlement quickly increases i...

Municipal sludge is a sedimentation waste produced during the wastewater process in sewage treatment plants. Among recent studies, pilot and field tests showed that chemical conditioning combined with vacuum preloading can effectively treat municipal sludge. To further understand drainage consolidation characteristics of preloading, large deformation nonlinear numerical simulation model based o...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of various degrees of cyclic fatigue on torsional failure and torsional preloading on the cyclic fatigue life of heat-treated K3XF nickel-titanium (NiTi) instruments (SybronEndo, Orange, CA). METHODS The mean number of cycles until failure (Nf) of K3XF and K3 NiTi instruments was examined in a 3-point bending apparatus with a 7...

A steady-state level of about 240 nmol/mg (dry wt) occurs during lysine transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. No subsequent efflux of the accumulated amino acid was detected. Two transport systems mediate lysine transport, a high-affinity, lysine-specific system and an arginine-lysine system for which lysine exhibits a lower affinity. Preloading with lysine, arginine, glutamic acid, or asparti...