By coupling direct numerical simulation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence with a localised solution the convection–diffusion equation, we model rate transfer solute (mass transfer) from surface small, neutrally buoyant, axisymmetric, ellipsoidal particles (spheroids) in dilute suspension within turbulent fluid at large Péclet number, $\textit {Pe}$ . We observe that, {Pe} = O(10)$ , average f...

The present work was carried out to study the effect of vacuum packaging and pomegranate peel extract (PE) treatments on the quality of pacific white shrimp (Peneous vannamei) during refrigerated storage. Changes in pH, thiobarbituric acid (TBA), total volatile base nitrogen (TVB-N), trimethylamine (TMA), aerobic plate counts, psychrophilic, lactic acid bacteria and enterobacteriaceae counts, m...

Can we model speech recognition in noise by exploring higher order statistics of the combined signal? How will changes in these statistics affect speech perception in noise? This study addresses these questions in two experiments. One investigated the relationship between an established ”glimpsing” model and the fourth order statistic, kurtosis. The glimpsing model [1] proposes that listeners c...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the patient-specific risk of pre-eclampsia (PE) at 35-37 weeks' gestation by a combination of maternal characteristics and medical history with multiples of the median (MoM) values of mean arterial pressure (MAP), uterine artery pulsatility index (UtA-PI), serum placental growth factor (PlGF) and serum soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1), and stratify women into hi...

Aims/Objectives/Background The shared features of pulmonary embolism (PE) and COVID-19 create a diagnostic challenge for Emergency Departments. Raised D-dimer CRP are predictive PE, critical illness mortality from COVID-19, however guidelines state there is insufficient evidence to recommend that biomarkers be used guide practice diagnose PE. This retrospective observational study analyses char...

Background. A study was undertaken to assess the usefulness of the SimpliRED D-dimer test, arterial oxygen tension, and respiratory rate measurement for excluding pulmonary embolism (PE) and venous thromboembolism (VTE). Methods. Lung scans were performed in 517 consecutive medical inpatients with suspected acute PE over a one year period. Predetermined end points for objectively diagnosed PE i...

Increased production of reactive oxygen species (ros) is implicated in the process of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, known to be induced by different stimuli, like angiotensin ii, pressure overload and phenylephrine (pe). Although targeting adrenoreceptors and therefore sharing common signaling processes, recent studies point to different mechanisms activated by these stimuli, in which different no...

BACKGROUND Acute liver failure (ALF) caused by viral and non-viral hepatitis is often accompanied with severe metabolic disorders, the accumulation of toxic substances and continuous release and accumulation of a large number of endogenous toxins and inflammatory mediators. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of various combined non-biological artificial liver treatments for pati...

INTRODUCTION Botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) is a neurotoxin that inhibits acetylcholine release by cleaving cytosolic synaptosome-associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) and results in bladder relaxation. A BTX-A intravesical injection has been established as an effective option for treating detrusor overactivity. STUDY DESIGN Sixty female Sprague Dawley rats were equally divided into control and experime...

Autoantibodies to the ANG II type I receptor (AT1-AA) are associated with preeclampsia (PE). We found that vitamin D supplementation reduced AT1-AA and blood pressure (MAP) in the RUPP rat model of PE. However, it was undetermined whether the decrease in AT1-AA was the mechanism whereby vitamin D lowered MAP or if it were through factors downstream of AT1-AA. Uterine artery resistance index, pl...