-
Article
35th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
-
Article
Loss Mechanisms in Piezoelectrics
Losses in piezoelectrics are considered in general to have three different mechanisms; dielectric, mechanical and piezoelectric losses. This paper deals with the phenomenology of losses, first, then how to mea...
-
Article
Dielectric Properties of Highly Oriented Lead Zirconium Titanate Thin Films Prepared by Reactive RF-Sputtering
Highly (100) and (111) oriented lead zirconium titanate (PZT) thin films have been grown by using reactive rf-sputtering. PZT thin films with rhombohedral composition have been grown in different orientations ...
-
Article
Atom trap trace analysis
A new method of ultrasensitive isotope trace analysis has been developed. This method, based on the technique of laser manipulation of neutral atoms, has been used to count individual 85Kr and 81Kr atoms present ...
-
Article
Low body weight and its association with bone health and pubertal maturation in Chinese girls
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of low body weight in Bei**g pubertal girls and to establish the cut-off for body mass index (BMI) for underweight for Chinese pubertal girls.
-
Article
The use of metamodeling techniques for optimization under uncertainty
Metamodeling techniques have been widely used in engineering design to improve efficiency in the simulation and optimization of design systems that involve computationally expensive simulation programs. Many e...
-
Article
Identification of Lps2 as a key transducer of MyD88-independent TIR signalling
In humans, ten Toll-like receptor (TLR) paralogues sense molecular components of microbes, initiating the production of cytokine mediators that create the inflammatory response. Using N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea, we in...
-
Article
Epitaxial growth of solution deposited Bi \(_\mathsf{2}\) Sr \(_\mathsf{2}\) CaCu \(_\mathsf{2}\) O \(_\mathsf{x}\) films
The epitaxial growth of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O x (Bi2212) high temperature superconducting thin films was studied. The films were solution-deposited from a polymer-containing precursor on...
-
Article
The nonsense allele oblivious reveals a sensor of di-acylglycerides acting in conjunction with TLR2 and TLR6
-
Article
Epitaxial growth of solution deposited YBa2Cu3O7-δ films
The solution deposition of YBa2Cu3O7-δ (Y123) high temperature superconducting thin films was studied. The films were prepared from a polymer-containing precursor onto SrTiO3 (001) and LaAlO3 (001) substrates ...
-
Article
p78/MCRS1 forms a complex with centrosomal protein Nde1 and is essential for cell viability
The centrosome, an organelle that functions as the major microtubule-organizing center, plays an essential role in the formation of the mitotic spindle and guiding accurate chromosome segregation. Centrosome a...
-
Article
Centrosomal proteins Nde1 and Su48 form a complex regulated by phosphorylation
The centrosome modulates spindle formation and plays a critical role in guiding proper segregation of chromosomes during cell division. Centrosome aberrations, frequently seen in human tumors, may cause abnorm...
-
Article
Propagation of elliptical cosh-Gaussian beams and off-axial elliptical cosh-Gaussian beams in apertured optical systems
Based on the fact that a hard-edged elliptical aperture can be expanded approximately as a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions in tensor form, an analytical propagation expression for an elliptical cosh-G...
-
Article
Oral benfotiamine plus α-lipoic acid normalises complication-causing pathways in type 1 diabetes
We determined whether fixed doses of benfotiamine in combination with slow-release α-lipoic acid normalise markers of reactive oxygen species-induced pathways of complications in humans.
-
Article
Propagation characteristics of stochastic electromagnetic array beams
A stochastic electromagnetic array beam that is generated by an electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model source is introduced by using tensor method. An analytical expression for the cross-spectral density matrix...
-
Article
Simulated 18O kinetic isotope effects in enzymatic hydrolysis of guanosine triphosphate
We compare the computed on the base of quantum mechanical-molecular mechanical (QM/MM) modeling kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) for a series of the 18O-labeled substrates in enzymatic hydrolysis of guanosine triph...
-
Article
Experimental investigation on the efficiency of the pulley-drive CVT
Because of their outstanding advantages over other transmissions, rubber V-belt pulley drive CVTs have been extensively used in low-power vehicles, such as scooters and snowmobiles. A rubber V-belt CVT install...
-
Article
A new green synthesis method of CuInS2 and CuInSe2 nanoparticles and their integration into thin films
A new preparation method for CuInS2 and CuInSe2 nanoparticles synthesis is described without using any organic solvent. Heating Cu, In, and S/Se precursors dissolved in water for 30 min in a microwave oven in the...
-
Article
Open AccessMesenchymal stem cell as salvage treatment for refractory chronic GVHD
Refractory chronic GVHD (cGVHD) is an important complication after allogeneic hematopoietic SCT and is prognostic of poor outcome. MSCs are involved in tissue repair and modulating immune responses in vitro and i...
-
Article
Multi-holed clay nanotubes and their modification with a polyaniline nanolayer
A facile in situ mechanical–chemical polymerization method for synthesis of polyaniline/halloysite nanocomposites was developed. Electron micrographs of the composites showed novel multi-holed clay nanotubes m...
