Changes to somatic sensory pathways caused by peripheral tissue, inflammation or injury can result in behavioral hypersensitivity and pathological pain, such as hyperalgesia. Resveratrol, a plant polyphenol found in red wine and various food products, is known to have several beneficial biological actions. Recent reports indicate that resveratrol can modulate neuronal excitability, including no...

Article history: Received 1 July 2008 Received in revised form 17 October 2008 Accepted 2 November 2008 Available online 6 November 2008

This paper describes a possibility of expressing ordering constraints among non-sister constituents in binary branching syntactic structures on a local basis, supported by viewing the binary branching structure as a list (rather than a tree) of constituents within HPSGstyle grammars. The core idea of such a description of ordering is constituted by creating a type lattice for lists. The possibi...

In the low-energy regime light and strange baryons should be considered as systems of constituent quarks with confining interaction and a chiral interaction that is mediated by Goldstone bosons as well as by vector and scalar mesons. The flavorspin structure and sign of the short-range part of the spin-spin force reduces the SU(6)FS symmetry down to SU(3)F × SU(2)S , induces hyperfine splitting...

‎we consider nonconvex vector optimization problems with variable ordering structures in banach spaces‎. ‎under certain boundedness and continuity properties we present necessary conditions for approximate solutions of these problems‎. ‎using a generic approach to subdifferentials we derive necessary conditions for approximate minimizers and approximately minimal solutions of vector optimizatio...

This study aims to deal with a more realistic combined problem of project scheduling and material ordering. The goal is to minimize the total material holding and ordering costs by determining the starting time of activities along with material ordering schedules subject to some constraints. The problem is first mathematically modelled. Then a hybrid simulated annealing and genetic algorithm is...

Geometric shape and topology of constituent particles can alter many colloidal properties such as Brownian motion, self-assembly, and phase behavior. Thus far, only single-component building blocks of colloids with connected surfaces have been studied, although topological colloids, with constituent particles shaped as freestanding knots and handlebodies of different genus, have been recently i...

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a useful way of studying the new phase which may exist at extreme high energy densities on earth. Collectivity is one of the main evidences of the produced dense matter, named as quarkgluon plasma (QGP), produced in relativistic heavy-ion collider (RHIC) [1–4]. Due to the almond shape of the produced QGP in non-central collisions, there are more freeze-...

In this essay a new theory of stress and linguistic rhythm will be elaborated, based on the proposals of Liberman (1975).' It will be argued that certain features of prosodic systems like that of English, in particular the phenomenon of "stress subordination", are not to be referred primarily to the properties of individual segments (or syllables), but rather reflect a hierarchical rhythmic str...

‎We consider nonconvex vector optimization problems with variable ordering structures in Banach spaces‎. ‎Under certain boundedness and continuity properties we present necessary conditions for approximate solutions of these problems‎. ‎Using a generic approach to subdifferentials we derive necessary conditions for approximate minimizers and approximately minimal solutions of vector optimizatio...