We, the national Council on Renal Nutrition (CRN) Executive Committee (EC) members, have reviewed over 450 survey responses. Reviewing these responses which included many, to open-ended questions, has taken time and effort dissect come up with some solutions improvements for benefit of all current future National Kidney Foundation (NKF)-CRN members. Let me give an update our ongoing projects on...

Fluvial strath terraces provide a record of river incision and the timing of climatic perturbations to the fluvial system. Dating depositional surfaces like terraces that are older than the range of C, however, is difficult. We employ a Ž . cosmogenic radionuclide CRN profile technique that addresses a major problem of CRN dating on such surfaces: nuclide inheritance. By measuring Be and Al pro...

The popularity of ubiquitous Internet services has spurred the fast growth of wireless communications by launching data hungry multimedia applications to mobile devices. Powered by spectrum agile cognitive radios, the newly emerged cognitive radio networks (CRN) are proposed to provision the efficient spectrum reuse to improve spectrum utilization. Unlicensed users in CRN, or secondary users (S...

Two experiments were conducted simultaneously to evaluate the effects of supplemental ground flaxseed on site and extent of digestion and growth performance in beef cattle grazing summer native range. Six Angus heifers (initial BW 367 +/- 8.0 kg) fitted with ruminal and duodenal cannulas were used in Exp. 1, and 18 Angus cross steers (initial BW 368 +/- 4.6 kg) were used in Exp. 2. Cattle from ...

CrAlN coatings have earned significant attention for use in cutting tool coating applications due to their excellent properties such as high hardness and superb oxidation resistance. It is well known that the interlayer between substrate can influence mechanical of coatings. In this work, three interlayers—CrN, CrZrN, CrN/CrZrSiN—were synthesized a tungsten carbide improve thermal stability coa...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Lubricous oxides Hard coatings Lubricious oxides High temperature lubrication High temperature friction Temperature activated lubrication Multilayer coatings CrN/Mo 2 N In-situ lubrication Nanolayers Multilayered coatings Tool coatings Self lubrication Multi-layers Magnetron Sputtering Reactive sputtering CrN Mo 2 N CrN/Mo 2 N multilayers were deposited and TEM, ...

OBJECTIVE To describe for surgeons contemplating performing cytoreductive nephrectomy (CRN) on patients after neoadjuvant sunitinib compared to a benchmark of open radical nephrectomy, describing technical difficulties, safety and feasibility. PATIENTS AND METHODS We compared measurable surgical parameters and perioperative complications in 22 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mR...