Plant extracts are extensively researched as a source of green corrosion inhibitors. Herein, we report on a highly efficient and thermally stable corrosion inhibitor from the stem extract of high-altitude shrub Berberis aristata. The corrosion inhibition efficiency (IE) of the extract was tested in 1.0 M H2SO4 for the corrosion protection of mild steel (MS) by using gravimetric and electrochemi...

T-cell responses to the immediate-early 1 (IE-1) protein of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) are associated with protection from viral disease. Thus, IE-1 is a promising target for immunotherapy. CD8 T-cell responses to IE-1 are generally strong. In contrast, CD4 T-cell responses to IE-1 were described to be comparatively infrequent or undetectable in HCMV carriers, and information on their target ...

Introduction Care processes in the ABCDE bundle (daily awakening, breathing trials, delirium management, early mobility) have been shown to improve a range of clinical outcomes in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. However, uptake of the ABCDE bundle has been inconsistent to date. We examined the effectiveness of a structured implementation program on ABCDE bundle adoption across ICUs in 6 dif...

The objective of this study was to investigate the possible effect of demecolcine, a microtubule-disrupting reagent, on induced enucleation (IE) of sheep meiotically maturing oocytes. Immunofluorescent staining with anti-tubulin antibodies was used to examine the spindle status of the oocytes. When the oocytes with intact germinal vesicles (GV) were cultured in the medium containing various con...

BACKGROUND Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) have an elevated risk of renal dysfunction because of extensive systemic inflammation and use of nephrotoxic antibiotics. In this randomized, placebo-controlled trial, we investigated whether perioperative sodium bicarbonate administration could attenuate postoperative renal dysfunction in patients with IE undergoing cardiac surgery. METHOD...

We consider a diffusion process Xt smoothed with (small) sampling parameter ε. As in Berzin, León and Ortega (2001), we consider a kernel estimate α̂ε with window h(ε) of a function α of its variance. In order to exhibit global tests of hypothesis, we derive here central limit theorems for the L deviations such as 1 √ h ( h ε ) p 2 ( ‖α̂ε − α‖pp − IE ‖α̂ε − α‖pp ) . Mathematics Subject Classificat...