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AdipoRon may be benefit for atherosclerosis prevention

Atherosclerosis has serious role in coronary arteries disease,so it is important to establish effective strategies for prevention or even treatment of atherosclerosis. Adiponectin, as one of the most abundant adipokines, has insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties. Disturbed adiponectin actions through its receptor, (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) may be involved in atheros...

Early start of hemodialysis may be harmful.

BACKGROUND A dramatic increase in the "early start" of dialysis with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at least 10 mL/min/1.73 m(2) has occurred in the United States since at least 1996. Several recent studies have reported a comorbidity-adjusted survival disadvantage of early start of dialysis. The current study examines a relatively "healthy" dialysis cohort to minimize confoundi...

Why Even Good Defenses May be Bad

Large Pages May Be Harmful on NUMA Systems

Application virtual address space is divided into pages, each requiring a virtual-to-physical translation in the page table and the TLB. Large working sets, common among modern applications, necessitate a lot of translations, which increases memory consumption and leads to high TLB and page fault rates. To address this problem, recent hardware introduced support for large pages. Large pages req...

China ’ s treatments for Internet overuse may not be effective

InsIde IllInoIs onlIne: news.illinois.edu/ii/ • To subscrIbe: go.illinois.edu/iisubscribe I N D E X Monitored progress Industrial design professor Cliff Shin, center, offers assistance to graduate student Ehsan Noursalehi, left, and engineering student Kevin Verre during a meeting of the “A New Life for Laptops” research group. The group, with monetary support from Dell Corp., is searching for ...