"Upper limits of normal" antistreptolysin O (ASO) and antideoxyribonuclease (ADN) B titers were determined on serum specimens from various age groups of pediatric patients with no history of a recent streptococcal infection and on healthy adult hospital employees. The upper limit of normal value is that level of antibody titer exceeded by no more than 15% of the total subjects in each age group...

Cranial nerve visceral afferents enter the brain stem to synapse on neurons within the solitary tract nucleus (NTS). The broad heterogeneity of both visceral afferents and NTS neurons makes understanding afferent synaptic transmission particularly challenging. To study a specific subgroup of second-order neurons in medial NTS, we anterogradely labeled arterial baroreceptor afferents of the aort...

This simple method for sequentially quantifying hypoxanthine (HYP), inosine (INO), and adenosine (ADN) concentrations exploits the H2O2 peroxidase-catalyzed chemiluminescence of luminol. Though applied here only to tissue and plasma, this method can be adapted to analyze other body fluids. HYP in human plasma was stable for 30 min in 10 mmol/L EDTA reagent, whereas ADN was slowly converted to I...

Scheduling flexible sources to promote the integration of renewable generation is one fundamental problem for operating active distribution networks (ADNs). However, existing works are usually based on power flow models, which require network parameters (e.g., topology and line impedance) that may be unavailable in practice. To address this issue, we propose an efficient constraint learning met...

The evolution of distribution networks to active systems as a consequence the increased penetration distributed energy resources and electrification traditionally fuel-based activities have changed drastically landscape power operation promoting necessity benchmarking tools for planning studies. Nevertheless, there is scarcity such that enable holistic analysis modern according new grid standar...

The uncertainty of distribution network operation is increasing with the integration large-scale renewable distributed generation (DG) units. To reduce conservativeness traditional robust optimization (RO) solutions, a data-driven optimal approach, which incorporates superiority both stochastic and approaches, employed to solve dispatch model in this paper. Firstly, deterministic dispatching es...