Activated platelets release angiogenic growth factors and have therefore been proposed to contribute to tumor angiogenesis within a potentially prothrombotic tumor microcirculation. The aim of the study was to investigate interactions of platelets with the angiogenic microvascular endothelium of highly vascularized solid tumors during growth and in response to endothelial stimulation in compari...

It has been suggested that the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) is involved in the temporal representation of both envelope periodicity and pitch. This hypothesis is tested using iterated rippled noise (IRN), which is generated by a cascade of delay and add [IRN(+)] or delay and subtract [IRN(-)] operations. The autocorrelation functions (ACFs) of the waveform and the envelope of IRN(+) have a fir...

Juncture flows associated with surface-mounted obstacles can be characterized by a U-shaped tubular vortical flow known as horseshoe vortex (HSV). Horseshoe vortices are usually detrimental to engineering applications. In order identify boundary geometry that may effectively reduce HSV’s strength for further design of HSV-reduction devices, or otherwise enhance it disaster prevention avoiding s...

Computing connected components in undirected graphs is a fundamental problem in graph analytics. The size of graph data collections continues to grow in many different scientific domains, which motivates the need for high performance distributed memory parallel graph algorithms, especially for large networks that cannot fit into the memory of a single compute node. For a graph G(V,E) with n ver...

The development of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) provides a new approach to limiting the waste natural resources. In present study, mechanical properties and deformability RACs were improved by adding basalt fibers (BFs) using external restraints, such as fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) jacket or PVC pipe. Samples tested under axial compression. results showed that RAC (50% replacement aggre...

Electrical activation of the auditory cortex has been shown to elicit an auditory sensation; however, the perceptual effects of auditory cortical microstimulation delivered through penetrating microelectrodes have not been clearly elucidated. This study examines the relationship between electrical microstimulus location within the adult rat auditory cortex and the subsequent behavior induced. F...

In order to examine the effect of ageing on P removal capacity, the phosphorus (P) removal capacity of three types of slag, argon oxygen decarburisation slag (AOD), blast furnace slag (BFS) and electric arc furnace slag (EAF), was examined after 0, 10, 13 and 19 months in batch experiments. The results showed that ageing reduced P removal capacity, e.g. by 78.4% for 19-month-old AOD slag. For B...

Repetitive acoustic stimulation, auditory fear conditioning, and focal electric stimulation of the auditory cortex (AC) each evoke the reorganization of the central auditory system. Our current study of the big brown bat indicates that focal electric stimulation of the AC evokes center-surround reorganization of the frequency map of the AC. In the center, the neuron's best frequencies (BFs), to...

if the structure to be mapped is a DAG. We presented heuristics to handle the above cases. Finally we presented a performance study that bears out our analytical results, and shows that the optimal clustering and Smart-BFS techniques perform much better than pre-order clustering on path length measures, and only a little worse on pre-order traversal. Our techniques are likely to be of importanc...

The solidification of heavy metal Cr has always been a challenge in the treatment Cr-containing wastes, due to its high mobility alkaline environments. In addition, mechanism not fully investigated. this study, blast furnace slag (BFS)-based cementitious materials were used as binders for immobilization investigate different hydration products. From XRD, FTIR, XPS, and XANES analyses, it could ...