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Effect of Protein Intake on Strength, Body Composition and Endocrine Changes in Strength/Power Athletes (2006)

Hoffman, Jay R, Ratamess, Nicholas A, Kang, Jie, Falvo, Michael J, Faigenbaum, Avery D

Abstract Comparison of protein intakes on strength, body composition and hormonal changes were examined in 23 experienced collegiate strength/power athletes participating in a 12-week resistance...

Conjugated Linoleic Acid Supplementation Does Not Reduce Visceral Adipose Tissue in Middle-Aged Men Engaged in a Resistance-Training Program (2006)

Adams, Roger E, Hsueh, Andie, Alford, Betty, King, Clay, Mo, Huanbiao, Wildman, Robert

Abstract Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) supplementation has shown convincing effects at reducing body fat in animals; yet human study results have been somewhat inconclusive. The purpose of this...

Optimization algorithms in wireless and quantum communications (2007)

Stojnic, Mihailo

Since the first communication systems were developed, the scientific community has been witnessing attempts to increase the amount of information that can be transmitted. In the last 10--15 years...

Forgotten Digital Tourniquet: Salvage of an Ischaemic Finger by Application of Medicinal Leeches

Durrant, C, Townley, WA, Ramkumar, S, Khoo, CTK

Individual finger tourniquets are appropriate to the management of a wide range of conditions presenting to an accident and emergency department. They are simpler and more comfortable to use than...

Changes in the provision of vascular surgery in a single health region over 10 years.

Stechman, M. J., Magee, T. R., Galland, R. B.

INTRODUCTION: This study examines changes in vascular service provision and activity in a single UK health region over 10 years. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A questionnaire on involvement in vascular...

Lost ‘Swab’ at Inguinal Hernioplasty Under Local Anaesthesia

Gostling, Julie, McKain, E Steve, Dumont, Steve, Stephenson, Brian M

Small surgical swabs should not be placed adjacent to polypropylene mesh prosthetics

Rare Presentation of Boerhaave's Syndrome – A Tale of the Unexpected

Harris, AM, Lucey, R, Deshpande, S, Muench, C, Weber, B, Wynne, KS

The case is described of a patient presenting with signs and symptoms of a large bowel obstruction with perforation, who at laparotomy was found to have caecal volvulus but no obvious cause for the...

THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE FOR THE REACTION $Li + FH \rightarrow LiF + H$ (1995)

Zhao, Sui-Sheng, Shavitt, Isaiah

This work was supported by a grant of computer time from the Ohio Supercomputer Center.

MICROWAVE SPECTRUM OF THE FURAN-CO VAN DER WAALS COMPLEX (1995)

Brupbacher, Thomas, Bauder, A.

Author Institution: University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z1.; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zürich.

INFRARED ABSORPTION INTENSITIES OF LIQUID $C_{6}H_{6}$ AND $C_{6}D_{6}$. (1995)

Bertie, John E., Keefe, C. Dale

1. P. E. Maslen, N. C. Handy, R. D. Amos and D. Jayatilaka, J. Chem. Phys. 97, 4233 (1992). 2. L. Goodman, A. G. Ozkabak and S. N. Thakur, J. Phys. Chem. 95, 9044 (1991).

Inferring genome-scale rearrangement phylogeny and ancestral gene order: a Drosophilacase study (2007)

Bhutkar, Arjun, Gelbart, William M, Smith, Temple F

Abstract A simple, fast, and biologically inspired computational approach for inferring genome-scale rearrangement phylogeny and ancestral gene order has been developed. This has been applied to...

PathFinder: mining signal transduction pathway segments from protein-protein interaction networks (2007)

Bebek, Gurkan, Yang, Jiong

Abstract Background A Signal transduction pathway is the chain of processes by which a cell converts an extracellular signal into a response. In most unicellular organisms, the number of signal...

The subunit composition of human extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) regulate enzymatic activity (2007)

Petersen, Steen V, Valnickova, Zuzana, Oury, Tim D, Crapo, James D, Chr Nielsen, Niels, Enghild, Jan J

Abstract Background Human extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) is a tetrameric metalloenzyme responsible for the removal of superoxide anions from the extracellular space. We have previously...

Jämförelse av standarder för interaktivitet mellan distribuerade objekt (1998)

Kjellgren, Peter

Mycket tyder på att utveckling av framtida informationssystem i huvudsak kommer att utgöras av montering av mjukvarukomponenter. Med mjukvarukomponenter avses suveräna objekt som utför en viss...

The economics of rural areas in the proximity of urban networks: Evidence from Flanders (2003)

Cabus, P, VANHAVERBEKE, Wim

Flanders is a densely populated, strongly urbanised region in Northwest Europe, but with still recognisable peri-urban rural territories. These territories have a distinct economic profile that is...

SPINAL CARE EDUCATION AS A PREVENTATIVE STRATEGY FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY: A New Role for Chiropractors

Tuchin, Peter J.

Objective: To evaluate the cost effectiveness of a spinal care lecture (conducted by a chiropractor) in reducing the number of spinal injuries and their associated costs in the workplace.

Ovarijalni neuroektodermalni tumori (2007)

Morović, Anamarija, Damjanov, Ivan

U ovom smo radu pregledali objavljenu literaturu o primarnim neuroektodermalnim tumorima jajnika. Ovi rijetki monofazični teratomi, sastavljeni isključivo ili gotovo isključivo od...

Construction of force measuring optical tweezers instrumentation and investigations of biophysical properties of bacterial adhesion organelles (2007)

Andersson, Magnus

Optical tweezers are a technique in which microscopic-sized particles, including living cells and bacteria, can be non-intrusively trapped with high accuracy solely using focused light. The technique...

Supercritical transition to turbulence in an inertially-driven von Karman closed flow (2007)

Ravelet, Florent, Chiffaudel, Arnaud, Daviaud, Francois

We study the transition from laminar flow to fully developed turbulence for an inertially-driven von Karman flow between two counter-rotating large impellers fitted with curved blades over a wide...

Stromal Cell-Derived Factor-1 Promotes Cell Migration and Tumor Growth of Colorectal Metastasis1

Kollmar, Otto, Rupertus, Kathrin, Scheuer, Claudia, Junker, Bastian, Tilton, Bettina, Schilling, Martin K, ...

In a mouse model of established extrahepatic colorectal metastasis, we analyzed whether stromal cell-derived factor (SDF) 1 stimulates tumor cell migration in vitro and angiogenesis and tumor growth...

The MDM-2 Antagonist Nutlin-3 Promotes the Maturation of Acute Myeloid Leukemic Blasts1

Secchiero, Paola, Zerbinati, Carlotta, Melloni, Elisabetta, Milani, Daniela, Campioni, Diana, Fadda, Roberto, ...

The small-molecule inhibitor of murine double minute (MDM-2), Nutlin-3, induced variable apoptosis in primary acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blasts and promoted myeloid maturation of surviving cells,...

Mechanism of age-dependent susceptibility and novel treatment strategy in glutaric acidemia type I

Zinnanti, William J., Lazovic, Jelena, Housman, Cathy, LaNoue, Kathryn, O’Callaghan, James P., Simpson, Ian, ...

Glutaric acidemia type I (GA-I) is an inherited disorder of lysine and tryptophan metabolism presenting with striatal lesions anatomically and symptomatically similar to Huntington disease. Affected...

AMPA type glutamate receptor mediates neurotransmission at turtle vestibular calyx synapse

Bonsacquet, Jérémie, Brugeaud, Aurore, Compan, Vincent, Desmadryl, Gilles, Chabbert, Christian

Glutamate is thought to be the main neurotransmitter at the synapse between the type I vestibular hair cell and its cognate calyx afferent. The present study was designed to identify the type of...

Visualization of the UF polarized layer by holographic interferometry (1998)

Fernández Torres, María José, Ruiz Beviá, Francisco, Fernández Sempere, Julio, López Leiva, Miguel

The technique of holographic inte rferometly used to visualize the ultrafiltration membrane surroundings makes it possible to visualize solute retention and verifi whether or not there is cake...

An improved model with time-dependent adsorption for simulating protein ultrafiltration (1997)

Ruiz Beviá, Francisco, Gomis Yagües, Vicente, Fernández Sempere, Julio, Fernández Torres, María José

In a recent paper, Gekas et al. (Chem. Engng Sci. 48, 2753-2765) presented a theoretical approach to study the adsorption interplay in protein ultrafiltration. The model is based on transient mass...

Effect of molecular weight cutt-off, material membrane, pH and ionic strength over the removal of natural organic matter (2005)

Sentana Gadea, Irene, Rodríguez Pastor, Manuel, Franco, Darío, Varó Galvañ, Pedro, Sentana Cremades, Eloy, Prats Rico, Daniel

Comunicación presentada en el 10th Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering, Barcelona, November 15-18, 2005. Resumen publicado en el libro de abstracts.

Effect of ionic strength and pH over the removal of natural organic mater. Cationic-Anionic PAN membranes (2006)

Sentana Gadea, Irene, Rodríguez Pastor, Manuel, Sentana Cremades, Eloy, Prats Rico, Daniel

Natural organic matter in aquatic environments can form carcinogenic organochlorine compounds when is chlorinated. On the other hand, the lack of water in the southeast of Spain is the main reason to...

Measurements by holographic interferometry of concentration profiles in dead-end ultrafiltration of polyethylene glycol solutions (2004)

Fernández Sempere, Julio, Ruiz Beviá, Francisco, Salcedo Díaz, Raquel

Anoptical method (microscopic holographic interferometry) has been used to visualize concentration changes in the vicinity of the membrane surface while a polyethylene glycol 2000 (PEG) solution was...

θ-z test for QSO - galaxy physical association (1999)

Sapre, A. K, Nashine, R, Mishra, V. D

The θ-z test devised by Burbidge et al, (1972, 1990) may serve as a powerful test to decide the reality or otherwise of the physical association hypothesis for the QSO-bright galaxy close pairs with...

Using the natural evolution of a rotavirus-specific human monoclonal antibody to predict the complex topography of a viral antigenic site (2007)

McKinney, Brett A, Kallewaard, Nicole L, Crowe, James E, Meiler, Jens

Abstract Background Understanding the interaction between viral proteins and neutralizing antibodies at atomic resolution is hindered by a lack of experimentally solved complexes. Progress in...

Distinct evolutionary mechanisms for genomic imbalances in high-risk and low-risk neuroblastomas (2007)

Gisselsson, David, Lundberg, Gisela, Øra, Ingrid, Höglund, Mattias

Abstract Background Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial solid tumour of childhood. Several genomic imbalances correlate to prognosis in NB, with structural rearrangements, including...

Enzyme Localization Can Drastically Affect Signal Amplification in Signal Transduction Pathways

Van Albada, Siebe B, Ten Wolde, Pieter Rein

Push–pull networks are ubiquitous in signal transduction pathways in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. They allow cells to strongly amplify signals via the mechanism of zero-order...

Signalling Pathways Involved in Adult Heart Formation Revealed by Gene Expression Profiling in Drosophila

Zeitouni, Bruno, Sénatore, Sébastien, Séverac, Dany, Aknin, Cindy, Sémériva, Michel, Perrin, Laurent

Drosophila provides a powerful system for defining the complex genetic programs that drive organogenesis. Under control of the steroid hormone ecdysone, the adult heart in Drosophila forms during...

Applying psychological theories to evidence-based clinical practice: Identifying factors predictive of managing upper respiratory tract infections without antibiotics (2007)

Eccles, Martin P, Grimshaw, Jeremy M, Johnston, Marie, Steen, Nick, Pitts, Nigel B, Thomas, Ruth, ...

Abstract Background Psychological models can be used to understand and predict behaviour in a wide range of settings. However, they have not been consistently applied to health professional...

A Short Report about Motion Safety (2007)

Fraichard, Thierry

Motion safety for robotic systems operating in the real world is critical (especially when their size and dynamics make them potentially harmful for themselves or their environment). Motion safety is...

The SCI Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale (ESES): development and psychometric properties (2007)

Kroll, Thilo, Kehn, Matthew, Ho, Pei-Shu, Groah, Suzanne

Abstract Background Rising prevalence of secondary conditions among persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) has focused recent attention to potential health promotion programs designed to reduce such...

Jämförelse av standarder för interaktivitet mellan distribuerade objekt (1998)

Kjellgren, Peter

Mycket tyder på att utveckling av framtida informationssystem i huvudsak kommer att utgöras av montering av mjukvarukomponenter. Med mjukvarukomponenter avses suveräna objekt som utför en viss...

Trainee programs - A source of success? : An explorative study of companies in the Swedish IT-Industry (2007)

Sahlin, Daniel, Linderoth, Lisa, Sjögren, Gustav

Background: Firms are today competing for educated and qualified people within the IT-industry, due to the high business activity. Firms require new employees to have both a formal education and...

A neuro-fuzzy system for sequence alignment on two levels (2004)

Weyde, Tilman, Dalinghaus, Klaus

The similarity judgement of two sequences is often decomposed in similarity judgements of the sequence events with an alignment process. However, in some domains like speech or music, sequences have...

The rationale and plan for creating a World Antimalarial Resistance Network (WARN) (2007)

Sibley, Carol, Barnes, Karen I, Plowe, Christopher V

Abstract Drug resistant malaria was a major factor contributing to the failure of a worldwide campaign to eradicate malaria in the last century, and now threatens the large investment being made by...

Implementing a glass fracture module in the BRANZFIRE zone model (2003)

Parry, R., Wade, C.A., Spearpoint, M.J.

A glass fracture routine has been successfully implemented in the BRANZFIRE zone model, based largely on the heat transfer model developed by Sincaglia and Barnett and the fracture criterion of Pagni...

Gender identity and meaning making in specialist IT classes. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April 11-15, 2005 (2005)

Abbiss, J.

An exploration of how year 12 students in a New Zealand high school make meaning of their experiences of different specialist IT (information technology) courses shows that gender identity is a...

Ancient intron insertion sites and palindromic genomic duplication evolutionally shapes an elementally functioning membrane protein family (2007)

Tanaka-Kunishima, Motoko, Ishida, Yoshihiro, Takahashi, Kunitaro, Honda, Motoo, Oonuma, Takashi

Abstract Background In spite of the recent accumulation of genomic data, the evolutionary pathway in the individual genes of present-day living taxa is still elusive for most genes. Among ion...

Visual spatial localization and the two-process model (2006)

Uddin, Muhammad Kamal

This review paper begins with a brief history of research on localization followed by its definition and classification. It also presents important parameters of localization and factors that affect...

Is deck C an advantageous deck in the Iowa Gambling Task? (2007)

Chiu, Yao-Chu, Lin, Ching-Hung

Abstract Background Dunn et al. performed a critical review identifying some problems in the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH). Most of the arguments presented by Dunn focused on the insufficiencies...

Dissociating object familiarity from linguistic properties in mirror word reading (2007)

Proverbio, Alice M, Wiedemann, Friederike, Adorni, Roberta, Rossi, Valentina, Del Zotto, Marzia, Zani, Alberto

Abstract Background It is known that the orthographic properties of linguistic stimuli are processed within the left occipitotemporal cortex at about 150–200 ms. We recorded event-related...

Tubular adenoma with high-grade dysplasia in the ileal segment 34 years after augmentation ileocystoplasty: report of a first case (2007)

Armah, Henry B, Krasinskas, Alyssa M, Parwani, Anil V

Abstract Neoplasms of the urinary bladder following augmentation ileocystoplasty are rare. We present the case of a 39-year-old male with a tubular adenoma with high-grade dysplasia in the ileal...

Troubled social background of male anabolic-androgenic steroid abusers in treatment (2007)

Skarberg, Kurt, Engstrom, Ingemar

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to investigate the social background and current social situation of male abusers of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS). Methods We compared thirty-four...

The role of the N-terminal segment of CCR5 in HIV-1 Env-mediated membrane fusion and the mechanism of virus adaptation to CCR5 lacking this segment (2007)

Melikyan, Gregory B, Platt, Emily J, Kabat, David

Abstract Background HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) induces membrane fusion as a result of sequential binding to CD4 and chemokine receptors (CCR5 or CXCR4). The critical determinants of CCR5...

Socioeconomic status and hospitalization in the very old: a retrospective study (2007)

Antonelli-Incalzi, Raffaele, Ancona, Carla, Forastiere, Francesco, Belleudi, Valeria, Corsonello, Andrea, Perucci, Carlo A

Abstract Background Socioeconomic status could affect the demand for hospital care. The aim of the present study was to assess the role of age, socioeconomic status and comorbidity on acute hospital...