The respective roles of protein kinase C (PKC) and endogenous prostaglandin formation in angiotensin II (Ang II)-induced myocardial secretion of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) was studied in cultured, spontaneously beating, neonatal-rat cardiomyocytes. Incubation of cardiomyocytes with 0.1 microM Ang II led to a rapid but transient increase in particulate-bound PKC activity, a response accomp...

As companies and organizations have grown to rely on their computer systems and networks, the issue of information security management has become more significant. To maintain their competitiveness, enterprises should safeguard their information and try to eliminate the risk of information being compromised or reduce this risk to an acceptable level. This paper proposes an information security ...

Purpose –The goal of an company is to produce products that can satisfy their consumers. The purpose of this study is to explore the key successful factors of the product customization in Taiwan and how to improve it. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the three constructs and 12 principles concluded from the past research and using DEMATEL in combination with ANP, this study explores the r...

Purpose Making techniques PROMETHEE, direction of research in this emerging field. Design/Methodology/Approach: literature related to MCDM techniques PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, VIKOR and TOPSIS. Literature has been segregated to understand various issues and work related to MCDM techniques PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, VIKOR and TOPSIS. A detailed review is used to sort out the literature and develop the resear...

The effects of angiotensin II (A II) and ANP on spontaneously active neurons in the subfornical organ (SFO), anteroventral third ventricle (AV3V) and supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN) were investigated using slice preparations and extracellular recordings. Application of A II (10(-7)M) excited the neural activity of 66% of the SFO neurons, 28% of the AV3V neurons and 44% of the...

Abstract PROMETHEE is an important method for multi-criteria decision-making. Inspired by ensemble methods, this paper proposes an ensemble PROMETHEE II model, in which multiple preference functions are used to reduce the risk of choosing a particularly preference function. One example of competitiveness evaluation of the ports of Circum-Bohai-Sea is included to illustrate the proposed method. ...