BACKGROUND Air pollution exposure has been associated with increased blood pressure in adults. OBJECTIVE We examined associations of antenatal exposure to ambient air pollution with newborn systolic blood pressure (SBP). METHODS We studied 1,131 mother-infant pairs in a Boston, Massachusetts, area pre-birth cohort. We calculated average exposures by trimester and during the 2 to 90 days bef...

RATIONALE Short-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas the role of long-term exposures on the development of COPD is not yet fully understood. OBJECTIVES We assessed the effect of exposure to traffic-related air pollution over 35 years on the incidence of COPD in a prospective cohort study. METHODS We fol...

The purpose of this paper is to show how the methods of Sjj ostrand for proving the geometric bounds for the density of resonances 28] apply to the case of convex co-compact hyperbolic surfaces. We prove that the exponent in the Weyl estimate for the number of resonances in subconic neighbourhoods of the continuous spectrum is related to the dimension of the limit set of the corresponding Klein...

The microscopic mechanism of the occurrence ferroelectric properties in M-type barium hexaferrites is investigated by experimental and first-principle computation methods. analysis magnetic, X-ray, Mössbauer measurements BaFe12O19 samples ascertains correlation between thermal factor process annealing their functional properties. remnant polarization at room temperature contradicts description ...

Microporous manganese formate shows temperature-triggered gate opening for nitrogen and argon adsorption, which is not due to a structural change of the framework but due to dynamic opening of the pore aperture and/or sufficient kinetic energy of the adsorbates to overcome a diffusion barrier above a critical temperature.

Liposomes with cardiolipin (CL) and wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) were developed to permeate the blood-brain barrier and treat Alzheimer's disease. WGA-conjugated and CL-incorporated liposomes (WGA-CL-liposomes) were used to transport nerve growth factor (NGF) and curcumin (CUR) across a monolayer of human brain-microvascular endothelial cells regulated by human astrocytes and to protect SK-N-MC ...

generally, the measured secondary field data is inverted into resistivity using two principal models; the homogeneous half-space model and the layered half-space model. while the homogeneous half-space inversion uses single frequency data, the inversion is done individually for each of the frequencies used, the multi-layer 1d inversion is able to take the data of all frequencies available into ...

Spin unrestricted density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been used to investigate the molecular and dissociative adsorption of O2 on achiral substitutional nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes (N-SWNTs) with and without additional charges. Adsorption (dissociation) of O2 on the charged tubes is quite complex. The N-SWNTs with an additional electron with different orientation...

the physical adsorption of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide gases on the zigzag (5,0) carbon nanotubes doped with nitrogen was investigated through the application of b3lyp/6-31g* at the level of theory on gaussian 03 software. a variety of stable and high abundance structures of nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes were considered in order to study the interaction between the mentioned gases in ...

The physical adsorption of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide gases on the zigzag (5,0) carbon nanotubes doped with nitrogen was investigated through the application of B3LYP/6-31G* at the level of theory on Gaussian 03 software. A variety of stable and high abundance structures of nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes were considered in order to study the interaction between the mentioned gases in ...