Methods The experiments were approved by the institution ethics committee under protocol n. 23080.006492/2011-61. Male Swiss mice were randomly divided in the following groups (n=8): naive, control (not treated), Off (LED device turned off), LEDT 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 (treated with energy densities of 1 through 9 J/cm2). Control, Off and LEDT groups were submitted to a 5mm longitudinal PI (right hin...

Abstract This paper develops a theory of propositional identity which distinguishes necessarily equivalent propositions that differ in subject-matter. Rather than forming Boolean lattice as extensional and intensional semantic theories, the space forms non-interlaced bilattice. After motivating departure from tradition by way number plausible principles for subject-matter, I will provide Finean...

A study of lung function in 203 twin pairs aged 18-34 years living in Sydney detected significant genetic variation in females and males. There was no evidence of family environmental effects in either sex and most of the repeatable variation in females was heritable. However, there was evidence for systematic environmental differences between males affecting lung function so that the heritabil...

Although the ultrasonic pulsatility index (PI) is used as a test of arterial inflow, the relationship between proximal arterial stenosis and PI has not been fully evaluated. In a series of experiments on dogs, over 200 measurements of pressure, flow (using an indwelling electromagnetic flowmeter), and PI were made distal to implanted arterial stenoses of varying length (0.5--9 mm) and cross-sec...

Isoelectric focusing has allowed us to fractionate pituitary extracts into basic (pI 8-9) and acidic (pI 4-5) fibroblast growth factor. The acidic fibroblast growth factor (a) is stable upon refocusing, (b) migrates as an acidic protein in urea-containing gel electrophoresis; (c) is not cell-specific, being active with fibroblasts, adrenal, and glial cells, and (d) is a heterogeneous protein fr...

In this paper some upper and lower bounds for the greatest eigenvalues of the PI and vertex PI matrices of a graph G are obtained. Those graphs for which these bounds are best possible are characterized.

The series and shunt control scheme of unified power flow controller (UPFC) impacts the performance stability system during swing. UPFC is most versatile voltage source converter device as it can real reactive transmission simultaneously or selectively. When any subjected to disturbance fault, there are many challenges in damping oscillation using conventional methods. This paper presents neura...