M-adhesive categories provide an abstract framework for a large variety of specification frameworks for modelling distributed and concurrent systems. They extend the well-known frameworks of adhesive and weak adhesive HLR categories and integrate high-level constructs like attribution as in the case of typed attributed graphs. This article presents M-adhesive transformation systems including ne...

We evaluated the efficacy and safety of preoperative intravenous administration of dezocine for comfortable birth by cesarean section under epidural anesthesia. Sixty primigravida women with full-term singletons underwent elective cesarean section, and were randomly divided into three groups. Patients in groups A and B were intravenously injected with 5 and 10 mg of dezocine, 10 min before skin...

The concentrations of 12 pharmaceutical compounds (atenolol, erythromycin, cyclophosphamide, paracetamol, bezafibrate, carbamazepine, ciprofloxacin, caffeine, clarithromycin, lidocaine, sulfamethoxazole and N-acetylsulfamethoxazol (NACS)) were investigated in the influents and effluents of two hospital wastewater treatment plants (HWWTPs) in Saudi Arabia. The majority of the target analytes wer...

In this paper, we propose a new approach to reduce the total running time (RT) of the progressive hedging algorithm (PHA) for solving multistage stochastic programs (MSPs) defined on a scenario tree. Instead of using the conventional scenario decomposition scheme, we apply a multi-scenario decomposition scheme and partition the scenario set in order to minimize the number of non-anticipativity ...

Most of modern ab initio theories rely on the Born-Oppenheimer approximation to separate the electronic and nuclear motion, due to the fact that the smallness of the mass ratio between electrons and nuclei drastically scales down the nonadiabatic coupling (NAC) terms, which can thus be assumed to be negligible. However, this approximation will break down if there exists degenerate states, i.e. ...

Although several studies have examined the subcortical circuitry underlying Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), the role of medial prefrontal cortex in this behavior is largely unknown. Elucidating the cortical contributions to PIT will be key for understanding how reward-paired cues control behavior in both adaptive and maladaptive context (i.e., addiction). Here we use bilateral lesions...

Abstract Introduction The goal of neoadjuvant chemothepaeutics(NACs) and surgical excision breast cancer is to control ultimately eliminate the malignant tumour. Despite advances in treatment, a subset patients will develop disease recurrence. Tumour stromal cells(TSCs) are non-cancerous cells that support malignancy within tumour microenvironment(TME). In particular, TSCs can suppress host imm...

Novel Approaches in Cancer Study Psycho Neuroendocrino Immune (PNEI) Therapy of Beyond Melatonin Paolo Lissoni*, Massimo Colgiago1, Franco Rovelli, Giusy Messina, Giorgio Porro, Alejandra Monzon, Desirée Merlini, Simonetta Tassoni2, Giuseppe Di Fede, Daniel Cardinali 3 1INRCA-IRCCS Institute, Casatenovo, Lecco, Italy 2Effatà Lucca, 3Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argen...