Inflammation from dialysis, can it be removed?

Inflammation from dialysis, can it be removed?

Mortality among hemodialysis patients remains unacceptably high in the USA, especially among newly diagnosed end-stage renal disease patients. Chronic inflammation is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease among HD patients. It has been shown that complications of the arteriovenous (AV) access are not just limited to overt infectious complications but they may also pose a threat as a haven fo...

Muscle damage and inflammation after eccentric exercise: can the repeated bout effect be removed?

The current consensus in exercise physiology is that the repeated bout effect always appears after few eccentric exercise sessions. This is the first attempt to challenge this tenet, by exploiting specificity in muscle plasticity. More specifically, we examined whether the opposing adaptations in muscle induced after concentric and eccentric exercise can attenuate and/or remove the repeated bou...

A 20-year retained guidewire, should it be removed?

Flip-pushdown automata: nondeterministic ε-moves can be removed

Flip-pushdown automaton is pushdown automaton which has ability to flip its pushdown throughout the computation. This model was introduced in [3] by Sarkar. Here we solve in the affirmative the following open problem posed by Holzer and Kutrib in [1]: What is the power of ε-moves for nondeterministic flip-pushdown automata – can they be removed without affecting the computational capacity? (ε d...

How Many Routes Can Be Removed in Airline Network?

Since the pioneering work of O’Kelly[5], designing an airline network has been an alluring topic in operations research studies, and seemingly hub location problems are main concerns in the literature, see [1] for recent survey. In this paper a different approach is taken to the design problem in an attempt to find a compact and efficient sub-network of the original airline network. In Fig. 1 J...