BACKGROUND Lung volume reduction coil (LVRC) treatment is established in daily endoscopic lung volume reduction routine. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of LVRC treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of 86 patients (male/female: 40/46, mean age: 64±7 years) with severe COPD and bilateral incomplete fissures. A total of 10 coils were uni...

Probiotic bacteria are defi ned by FAO/WHO as “Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amount confer a health benefi t” (Fuller, 1986; Reid et al., 2005). Probiotics are characterized by numerous antagonistic effects against the Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens. In addition, probiotics are also believed to reduce the risk of disorders from bacteria in the gastrointestin...

zogenes are differentiated cells capable of the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Hairy roots also have a high rate of proliferation. They are therefore expected to become widely used culture systems for the production of useful secondary metabolites and for studies on the production of biologically active compounds and transformation of organic substrates. We reported the production of a ...

Computing based on biochemical processes is a newest rapidly developing field of unconventional information and signal processing. In this paper we present results of our research in the field of biochemical computing and summarize the obtained numerical and experimental data for implementations of the standard two-input OR and AND gates with double-sigmoid shape of the output signal. This form...

Chandra ACIS observations of PKS 0521−365 find that the X-ray emission of this BL Lac object consists of emission from an unresolved core, a diffuse halo, and a 2 arcsec jet feature coincident with the inner radio/optical jet. A comparison with a new ATCA 8.6-GHz map also finds X-ray emission from the bright hotspot southeast of the nucleus. The jet spectrum, from radio to X-ray, is probably sy...

We demonstrate red-emitting silicon quantum dot (SiQD) phosphors as a low-cost and environment-friendly alternative to rare-earth element phosphors or CdSe quantum dots. After surface passivation, the SiQD-phosphors achieve high photoluminescence quantum yield = 51% with 365-nm excitation. The phosphors also have a peak photoluminescence wavelength at 630 nm and a full-width-at-half-maximum of ...

Background The Danish hospital reform requires that in future all acute patients be admitted to one common emergency ward (FAM) at hospitals specially designated for receiving them. At these hospitals they will undergo instant treatment irrespective of time of admittance 24/7/365. The challenges the designated acute hospitals face is how to plan the FAM in respect to both medical and physical r...

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA e-mail: [email protected], Phone: (845) 365 8644, Fax: (845) 365 8154. Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367, USA Idaho National Environmental and Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83404, USA Barnard College, New York, New York 10027, USA Department of Earth and...

The conserved epitopes of influenza nucleoprotein (NP) recognized by class I MHC-restricted CTL from CBA (H-2k) and C57BL/10 (H-2b) mice have been defined in vitro with synthetic peptides 50-63 and 365-379, respectively. Two Db-restricted clones were described that recognize different epitopes on peptide 365-379. Finally, the recognition of complete NP was shown to be approximately 200-fold les...

It’s easiest to begin by calculating the probability p(N) that N people in a room all have different birthdays. The probability of at least two people having the same birthday is then 1 − p(N). Assuming that birthdays are evenly distributed throughout the year, the probability that, in some arbitrary order, the second person in the room does not have the same birthday as the first is given by 3...