The objective of this paper is to propose a new algebra, called decision map algebra (DMA), especially devoted to multicriteria spatial modeling. DMA is a generic and context-independent modeling language inspired from map algebra and other similar languages. It supports the conventional geometric objects and cartographic maps and adds a rich set of new operands representing different spatial m...

The local anesthetics lidocaine (lido) and prilocaine (prilo) are metabolized to their constituent aromatic amines 2,6-dimethylaniline (DMA, 2,6-xylidine) and 2-methylaniline (MA, o-toluidine), respectively, which are both tumorigenic in rats. The capacity of lido and prilo to form DNA adducts was assessed in major target tissues for aromatic amines in male F344 rats in comparison to equimolar ...

Background and aims: Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2007-2010 were used to evaluate factors that affect observed variability in urinary phytoestrogens. Methods: Data for six phytoestrogen variables, namely, daidzein (DAZ), o-desmethylangolensin (DMA), equol (EQU), enterodiol (ETD), enterolactone (ETL), and genistein (GNS) were available for analyses. Regression m...

N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-5-methyl-3-isoxazolecarboxamide (D2624) belongs to a new series of experimental anticonvulsants related to lidocaine. This study was undertaken to understand the pharmacokinetics and metabolism of D2624 in rats and humans, with emphasis on the possible formation of 2,6-dimethylaniline (2,6-DMA). After oral administration of stable isotope-labeled parent drug to rats and G...

The aim of the study was to standardize the pellet cryopreservation procedure for chicken semen. Mericanel della Brianza male chicken breeders (Italian breed) were used. Pooled semen samples were processed according to the following conditions: (1) dilution in prefreezing extender to 1 versus 1.5 bill cells/mL sperm working concentration (SWC); (2) 6% versus 9% dimethyl acetamide (DMA) concentr...

A device driver has been developed to apply the PEXOR hardware for Linux OS. It is realized as a char driver kernel module, currently for kernel versions 2.6.27. The driver operations for read() and write() implement PIO to the PEXOR on-board memory. Operation mmap() allocates kernel buffers for DMA operations and maps these to user space addresses. The pexor kernel module manages these buffers...

Inorganic arsenic is a known human carcinogen of the skin and respiratory tract. Epidemiologic evidence indicates that it is also carcinogenic to the urinary bladder and other internal organs. Lack of an animal model has limited progress on understanding the mechanism of arsenic carcinogenesis. It was recently reported that high doses of an organic arsenical, dimethylarsinic acid (DMA), increas...

Three different methyltransferases initiate methanogenesis from trimethylamine (TMA), dimethylamine (DMA) or monomethylamine (MMA) by methylating different cognate corrinoid proteins that are subsequently used to methylate coenzyme M (CoM). Here, genes encoding the DMA and TMA methyltransferases are characterized for the first time. A single copy of mttB, the TMA methyltransferase gene, was cot...

Distributed microphone array (DMA) processing has recently started attracting a lot of attention as a promising alternative to conventional microphone arrays with co-located elements. To perform efficient blind source separation (BSS) in distributed manner, we have recently proposed a clustering based BSS approach that utilizes a distributed expectation-maximization algorithm. In this paper, we...