Objective: Drawing on Finkel and Eckhardt’s I3 theory (Finkel & Eckhardt, 2013), this experimental study examined the effects of emotion regulatory efforts on aggressive verbalizations during anger arousal. Methods: Participants were 236 male and female college students with and without a history of intimate partner aggression (IPA) perpetration. Participants were randomized to 1 of 3 emotion r...

The efficacy of a new skin disinfectant, 2% (w/v) chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) in 70% (v/v) isopropyl alcohol (IPA) (ChloraPrep), was compared with five commonly used skin disinfectants against Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A in the presence or absence of protein, utilizing quantitative time-kill suspension and carrier tests. All six disinfectants [70% (v/v) IPA, 0.5% (w/v) aqueous CHG, 2% (w...

In a single-blind study six male patients (mean age 39.5 years) with moderate insomnia were treated with placebo for three nights, 100 mg indole-3-pyruvic acid (IPA) for three nights, 200 mg IPA for three nights, 100 mg IPA for two nights and placebo for two nights. Polygraphic recordings were made and total sleep time, sleep efficiency, sleep latency, slow wave sleep latency, rapid eye movemen...

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a life-threatening disease of immunocompromised patients that requires aggressive therapy. Detection of the disease and monitoring of the therapeutic response during IPA are complex, and current molecular diagnostics are not suitably robust. Here, we explored proteomic profiles of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) specimens from a persistently neutrop...

A new algorithm is proposed for protein alignment based on their 3D structures. Initial protein matching uses comparison of their secondary structure elements. Each element of secondary structure is described by a vector representing its principal axis of inertia. All possible pairs of vectors from both proteins are chosen to compute similarity function values. A number of matched vector pairs ...

We previously demonstrated that bovine subcutaneous preadipocytes promote adipogenic gene expression in muscle satellite cells in a co-culture system. Herein we hypothesize that saturated fatty acids would promote adipogenic/lipogenic gene expression, whereas mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids would have the opposite effect. Bovine semimembranosus satellite cells (BSC) and intramuscular prea...

BACKGROUND Two serologic assays, Aspergillus latex agglutination testing (LA) and plasma (1-->3)-beta-D-glucan (BDG) measurement, are used when invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is suspected. Despite the high specificity of these assays, false-positive results are frequent for neutropenic patients. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of LA and BDG and to investigate the cause...

The aim of this study was to investigate the value of serum Galactomannan (GM) detection for the early diagnosis of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis (IPA) in children as a reference for clinical diagnosis and treatment. A total of 80 high-risk children with IPA were selected (including three confirmed cases, 20 clinically diagnosed cases, 25 suspected cases, and 32 non-IPA patients) for the det...

Thecontinuous Constrained Optimization Problem (COP) often occurs in industrial applications. In this study, we compare three novel algorithms developed for solving the COP.The first approach consists of an Interval Partitioning Algorithm (IPA) that is exhaustive in covering the whole feasible space. IPA has the capability of discarding sub-spaces that are sub-optimal and/or infeasible, similar...

The immunoperoxidase antibody (IPA) technique was used to develop two new tests for serodiagnosis of respiratory syncytial virus infections: a microneutralization test based on the reduction of the number of infected cells and an IPA test for determination of virus-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG). Neutralizing antibody was determined both in the presence and absence of complement. In a group of...