The phthalidyl ester (BRL.8988, talampicillin) of ampicillin gave serum levels in man two and a half times those obtained with ampicillin itself.

Abstract With increasing urbanization and critical issues of food insecurity emerging globally, urban agriculture is expanding as an agroecosystem with a distinct soil type. Growing in cities challenged by legacy contaminants soils, which necessitates the use imported, safe soils composts. To promote long-term sustainability agriculture, we examined agronomic potential constructing safe, locall...

Intelligent traffic light control (ITLC) aims to relieve congestion. Some multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithms have been proposed for ITLC, and most of them use neural networks make decisions. However, the abundant parameters structure lead time-consuming training process MADRL. Recently, a broad (BRL) approach has improve efficiency an agent. Unlike MADRL that architectur...

The Banrock Station brand, owned by wine producer BRL Hardy, has been highly successful in the UK and USA, and in the Australian premium wine market. In part, success has arisen from the positive attributes of being a ‘new world’ wine, but the case study shows that it is branding as a ‘green’ wine that supports conservation activities that has given Banrock Station a distinctive edge. The exper...

Prince of Songkla University, Thailand Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad, Serbia Abstract: In this paper we analyze the performance in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER) and Frame Error Rate (FER) of a turbo coded system over Rayleigh flat fading channels. A new type of interleaver, Block Random in Line (BRL) interleaver, is proposed and compared with the S-interleaver on the basi...

BACKGROUND Improving the carbohydrate quality of the diet by replacing the common cereal staple white rice (WR) with brown rice (BR) could have beneficial effects on reducing the risk for diabetes and related complications. Hence we aimed to compare the effects of BR, WR, and BR with legumes (BRL) diets on 24-h glycemic and insulinemic responses among overweight Asian Indians. SUBJECTS AND ME...

In this paper, we consider Bayesian reinforcement learning (BRL) where actions incur costs in addition to rewards, and thus exploration has to be constrained in terms of the expected total cost while learning to maximize the expected longterm total reward. In order to formalize cost-sensitive exploration, we use the constrained Markov decision process (CMDP) as the model of the environment, in ...

In this paper, we consider the safe learning scenario where we need to restrict the exploratory behavior of a reinforcement learning agent. Specifically, we treat the problem as a form of Bayesian reinforcement learning in an environment that is modeled as a constrained MDP (CMDP) where the cost function penalizes undesirable situations. We propose a model-based Bayesian reinforcement learning ...

BACKGROUND The adrenergic system and progesterone play major roles in the control of the uterine function. Our aims were to clarify the changes in function and expression of the α2-adrenergic receptor (AR) subtypes after progesterone pretreatment in late pregnancy. METHODS Sprague Dawley rats from pregnancy day 15 were treated with progesterone for 7 days. The myometrial expressions of the α2...

Gap junctions mediate direct communication between cells; however, toxicological cascade triggered by nonessential metals can abrogate cellular signaling mediated by gap junctions. Although cadmium (Cd) is known to induce apoptosis in organs and tissues, the mechanisms that underlie gap junction activity in Cd-induced apoptosis in BRL 3A rat liver cells has yet to be established. In this study,...