... 0- no interstitial disease, 1- septal thickening without honeycombing, 2- honeycombing involving up to 25% of the lobe, 3honeycombing involving 25–49% of the lobe, 4- honeycombing involving 50–75% ... glass involving < 5% of the lobe, 2ground glass involving up to 25% of the lobe, 3- ground glass involving 25–49% of the lobe, 4- ground glass involving 50–75% of the lobe, 5- ground glass involving ... honeycombing involving > 75% of the lobe for interstitial score Each observer assessed the extent of involvement in each of defined regions: above aortic arch, between arch and inferior pulmonary veins...
... for infants’ GIT, contains up to 109 microbes/L in a healthy mother (Moughan et al., 1992) The predominance of beneficial bacteria in the intestinal microbiota of breastfed infants, can infer ... Functions of HMOs in infants HMOs are considered as (i) the growth factors for intestinal bifidobacteria in breast-fed infants and (ii) potential inhibitors of adhesion of pathogens in infants’ GIT ... functions of HMOs in the GIT of infants whose immune system is not perfectly developed, and continuous interest in finding enzymes that can be applied for HMOs production, especially in large-scale...
... within 24 hours and the average ORP value was -150mv On the other hand, DO in Run kept increasing within hours after feeding food waste from 0.5 to mg/ l and leveled off Low DO at the beginning ... concentrations in effluent decreased by installing biofilm inside the circulation tank (Run 3) as shown in Figure However, DOC concentrations increased as shown in Figure Higher DOC in Run than ... solubilization tank as shown in Figure Around 80 % of food waste supplied was mineralized in Run by installing biofilm into the circulation tank Most of the food waste supplied (98%) was mineralized when...
... Beta Emission – neutron changing into a proton 1 0 n → 1p + −1β • Positron Emission – proton changing into a neutron 1p → 0 n + +1β • Electron Capture – proton changing into a neutron 1p Tro, Chemistry: ... moving much faster produced from the nucleus −1 β −1 e • when an atom loses a β particle its atomic number increases by mass number remains the same • in beta decay, a neutron changes into ... A scintillation counter is able to count the number of flashes per minute 37 Natural Radioactivity • there are small amounts of radioactive minerals in the air, ground, and water • even in the...
... to describe fermions (half-integer spin), since there is no information about spin is in this equation This needs careful consideration, since spin must be an intrinsic part of a realtivistic ... anti-align their spins, thus gaining energy The solution is to add a pairing term to the binding energy, Bpair = A−1/2 −A−1/2 for N odd, Z odd for N even, Z even (4.9) The results including this term ... frequent occurrence in relativistic quantum theory (RQT) Many unmeasurable quantities become in nite, and we are only interested in the finite part remaining after removing the in nities This process...
... can be performed in several steps, after decomposing the antisymmetrizer into a sum over all permutations acting on spatial and spin-isospin coordinates: Since the potential terms in the Hamiltonian ... (3.9) taking into account eq (3.5) Since the generating integral eq (3.8) is just a Gaussian integral it can be done explicitly and the result can again be expanded in a power series in an and ... the coupled spin functions |SS > into linear combinations of products of elementary single particle spin functions by using again Clebsch-Gordan coefficients Then the operators acting on the product...
... continuously for 12 after injecting mL of 10 lm lucigenin (Sigma Chemical Co.) in HBSS into the stainless cell of the system The area under the curve was calculated to obtain total chemiluminescence ... Consensus DNA-binding motifs for NF-jB proteins exist in the promoters of immunologically relevant genes, such as the genes for IL-1b and IL-6 [45–47] Cytokine-induced NF-jB complexes containing p50 ... (Toxin Technology, Sarasota, FL, USA) was made up in normal saline solution The SEC1 used in this study contained £ 25 pgÆmL)1 endotoxin because none of the SEC1 solutions induced gelation in...
... plants in Paris in 1961 and came into force in 1968 It was revised in Geneva in 1972, 1978 and 1991 The 1978 Act came into force in 1981 and the 1991 Act in April 1998 There are two main Acts ... created in 1997 by cloning Creation of animals by cloning is patentable in some countries However, patenting of human cloning issue varies in different countries Japan banned human cloning in 2001, ... prohibits any kind of human embryo cloning but allows patenting of animal cloning In the controversial issue of cloning, no attempt has been made to implement strict legislation in US, but in Europe,...
... b-CN(1–25)4P] This result, obtained in an experimental model consisting of in vitro cells, is in agreement with results obtained using animals or everted intestinal tissue [21–24] It is FEBS ... only maintain Ca2+ in an absorbable form but also interact with the plasma membranes of certain cells, facilitating Ca2+ uptake 5006 Concerning the conflicting results of human studies, some in favor ... fluorescence intensity being recorded at 485 nm As fura-2 fluorescence increases with increasing [Ca2+]i at these wavelength settings, the changes in fluorescence intensity reflected the changes in [Ca2+]i...
... results were obtained on the other SiNWs, indicating that each single SiNW is a single crystal In order to reveal the micro-structure of SiNWs in detail, the HRTEM was employed to investigate them ... anion ions of anodizing electrolytes are incorporated in the formation of alumina template during the anodization procedure [19] A single SiNW is shown in Fig 2a, in which alumina is dissolved completely ... Fowler–Nordheim theory [25] is presented in the inset of Fig As can be seen, almost straight line is obtained, indicating that the field emission from SiNWs is a barrier tunneling quantum mechanical process...
... pyridine (5.2) In this case, the NH2 induces charges ortho and para to the in- ring N These charges interact indirectly with the dipole of the nitrogen in the ring and result in a net increase in ... dipole in a 12 substituent interacting through the intervening molecular cavity with a charge or dipole in the reaction center The substituent can also "induce" electric fields in R that can interact ... Testing and Training of Ionization pKa The ionization pKa calculator was trained on some 2400 compounds involving all the substituents and reaction centers shown in Table and The overall training...
... (1998) Human annexin is highly expressed during the differentiation of the epithelial cell line A 549: involvement of nuclear factor interleukin in phorbol ester induction of annexin Cell Growth ... directly or indirectly and induces the cleavage and nuclear translocation of ANX-1 We also investigated the involvement of other signaling molecules such as MEK, PI-3 kinase, and p38 in PMA-induced ... rottlerin on the cleavage and nuclear translocation of ANX-1 using immunocytochemical analysis (Fig 4B) In cells preincubated with rotterin, PMA was not able to induce the increase of ANX-1 in the...
... (Menschutkin reaction) and stated the problem of studying the medium effect on the reaction rate in a solution In 1888 N A Menschutkin introduced the term "chemical kinetics" in his monograph "Outlines ... Qualification in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Kinetics of the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics (from 1974 up now) His scientific interests lie in the following fields of chemical kinetics: ... chain reactions initiated interest in reactions involving active intermediates as free atoms and radicals An array of new experimental methods for the study of these very fast reactions was invented...
... attenuation in proinflammatory cytokine ⁄ chemokine production, indicating that the p38 pathway acts predominately in the AGE-HSA and LPS amplified in ammatory response and, thus, may serve as a main therapeutic ... pathways is involved in the AGE-HSA and LPS amplified cytokine ⁄ chemokine response using specific pharmacological inhibitors to block each individual signaling pathway Blockage of each individual ... chemokine storm by activating the intracellular signaling pathways, including MAP kinases and NF-jB [12,23,24] Previous studies have demonstrated that LPS and AGEs activate MAP kinases in various...
... the train can be continued in the direction of decreasing length scales in search for more fundamental information Second, we note that one can board the train in the direction of increasing length ... engineering, written by experts from academia and industry We are conscious that certain topics are not considered and some readers will find fault, but we ask them to bear in mind that in a single ... Coating Process Fundamentals Program, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering, University of Minnesota,...
... the train can be continued in the direction of decreasing length scales in search for more fundamental information Second, we note that one can board the train in the direction of increasing length ... engineering, written by experts from academia and industry We are conscious that certain topics are not considered and some readers will find fault, but we ask them to bear in mind that in a single ... Coating Process Fundamentals Program, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering, University of Minnesota,...
... using a very thin layer of boron nitride powder in- between the composite powder compact and the external ZrO2 powder coating, resulting in a spontaneous coating degradation during cooling In ... TiN, NbC or WC addition could be successfully HIPed (sinter canning) using a ZrO2 coating In order to facilitate the ZrO2 capsule removal after HIPing, a thin BN powder coating was applied in- between ... for HIPing above 1500°C A final method is the sinter-canning technique, which involves applying a coating of highly sinterable powder mixture to the green component [10] The powder coating should...
... strategies such as “gain scheduling” (changing controller gain and integral time) are frequently required in batch reactor control Rigorous nonlinear models must be used in analyzing batch reactors ... contents remain distributed and not mixed (if that is the reactor type) Mixing is typically achieved using internal agitators Gas sparging is also used to achieve mixing in systems that involve a ... goes into maintaining their existence and into growing new cells Sometimes, such as in wastewater treatment, we want the cells to break down the substrate and generate carbon dioxide and water In...
... Deactivation by Coking 5.3.a Introduction 5.3.b Kinetics of Coking 5.3.c Influence of Coking on the Selectivity 5.3.d Coking Inside a Catalyst Particle Example 5.3.d-I Coking in the Dehvdrogenution ... expressed in certain given units only This has been carefully indicated in the text, however All the numerical calculations in the text are in the above mentioned engineering units, but the intermediate ... Author Index Subject Index xv i CONTENTS Notation Two consistent sets of &its are listed in the following pages: one that is currently the most common in engineering calculations (including, for...