Background Previous clinical trials have demonstrated the clinical and angiographic superiority of everolimus-eluting stents (EES) compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) in the small coronary vessel. However, the differences of vascular response including assessment of morphological neointimal tissue (NIT) characteristics using optical coherence tomography (OCT) have not been fully evalu...

AIMS The aim of the present study was to assess the performance of a new indicator test (NIT), based on the measurement of sweat production after exposure to dermal foot perspiration, in the diagnosis of both peripheral sensorimotor polyneuropathy (PSN) and autonomic neuropathy in patients with diabetes. METHODS One hundred and seventeen diabetic patients were examined. PSN was assessed using...

The objective of this study was the comparative evaluation of SIMPL silicone implants and NIT natural teat inserts to keep the teat canal patent after teat surgery. The study was performed on 100 teats of 97 cows treated surgically for milk flow disorders. After surgery, 53 teats were administered with SIMPL and 47 with NIT, and rested for several days. Before treatment and 1 and 6 mo later qua...

Robert Lampman was a seminal figure in the history of research on poverty in general and on the negative income tax (NIT) (see box, p. 2). He was also a key figure in the development of the War on Poverty, in the founding of the Institute for Research on Poverty, and in other important poverty-related events in the 1960s and early 1970s. In this essay I discuss Lampman’s writings on the NIT and...

Verticillium wilt is an economically important disease which inflicts serious losses in potato, cotton, alfalfa, some vegetable crops and fruit trees and occasionally ornamentals. Verticillium dahliae, infected cultivated species and weeds were collected from several areas in Iran during tewelve years from 1993-2005 and studied for their vegetative compatibility, host range and pathogenecity. T...

The density of interface traps along the Si/SiO2 interface of a “fresh” MOSFET considerably depends on the fabrication process and the device geometry. Necessity to consider a number of factors having different physical nature results in the absence of established model describing initial transistor defect profile even nowadays. Unfortunately, theoretical calculation of the defect concentration...

Introduction: Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG) is becoming more popular due to its weight reducing effect and promising anti-diabetic efficacy. However, long term results are still lacking. Methods: The study focuses on anti-diabetic efficacy of SG through retrospective analysis of data for patients who underwent SG in Germany from 2005 to 2011. Anti-diabetic efficacy was assessed at 1, 2 and up to 4 ye...

NMR and MD simulations have demonstrated that the flaps of HIV-1 protease (HIV-1p) adopt a range of conformations that are coupled with its enzymatic activity. Previously, a model was created for an allosteric site located between the flap and the core of HIV-1p, called the Eye site (Biopolymers 2008, 89, 643-652). Here, results from our first study were combined with a ligand-based, lead-hoppi...