Skeletal muscle oxidative enzyme capacity is impaired in patients suffering from emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This effect may result as a consequence of the physiological derangements because of the emphysema condition or, alternatively, as a consequence of the reduced physical activity level in these patients. To explore this issue, citrate synthase (CS) activity was me...

Introduction Variations of human hand extensor muscles have been previously described [1]. The extensor medii proprius (EMP) is one such variation reported with an incidence ranging from 0.8% (2 out of 263 specimens) [2], to 10.3% (6 out of 58 dissected hands) [3]. The EMP often co-exists with the extensor indicis muscle or its variant, the extensor indicis proprius on one hand or both hands [1...

Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is an uncommon plasma cell neoplasm results from plasma cell proliferation and consists of monoclonal plasmacytic infiltration, without bone marrow involvement and any other systemic characteristics of multiple myeloma. EMP accounts for 3% of all plasma cell neoplasms and approximately 80% to 90% of EMP involve submucosa of the upper aerodigestive, while scrota...

The ability to attach to host ligands is a well-established pathogenic factor in invasive Staphylococcus aureus disease. In addition to the family of adhesive proteins bound to the cell wall via the sortase A (srtA) mechanism, secreted proteins such as the fibrinogen-binding protein Efb, the extracellular adhesion protein Eap, or coagulase have been found to interact with various extracellular ...

Testicular cancer accounts for nearly 1% of all malignant disease in male patients. The annual incidence of testicular cancer in Japan ranges from approximately 0.7 to 1.8/100,000 patients. A total of 90%e95% of testicular cancers are categorized as germ cell tumors, including seminoma and non-seminoma. Other non-germ cell tumors account for <10%. Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is reported t...

When new CP-violating interactions are dominated by flavor changing neutral particle exchanges, that may occur in many extensions of the standard model. We examine a type 3 two Higgs doublet model and find that direct CP asymmetries can be as large as about 25% . Time-dependent and time-integrated mixing-induced CP asymmetries up to 85 and 40 %, respectively, are possible without conflict with ...

The paper proposes a new message passing algorithm for cycle-free factor graphs. The proposed ”entropy message passing” (EMP) algorithm may be viewed as sumproduct message passing over the entropy semiring, which has previously appeared in automata theory. The primary use of EMP is to compute the entropy of a model. However, EMP can also be used to compute expressions that appear in expectation...

In a universe being dragged into disorder by the second law of thermodynamics, living cells must expend energy to maintain their complex organization. In addition to providing a carbon source for biosynthesis, the classical Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas (EMP) and Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathways help to satisfy this energetic demand by generating ATP during glucose metabolism (1). Based on simple stoich...

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an EBV-associated malignant tumor of nasopharynx. As extremely rare condition, the second primary cancer of nasopharynx can occur in NPC patients synchronously or subsequently. Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a rare tumor and commonly originates in the head and neck region. However, there is no report to describe a collision tumor of NPC and EMP occurring ...

Framework, concepts, and methods of Environmental Management Planning (EMP) are discussed. A landscape-ecological approach was taken to integrate the environmental indices. EMP focuses on regional factors natural, social, amenity related and becomes more sensitive as the scale of study increases. The processes of EMP include a vertical aspect, dealing with pollution, conservation, and amenities...