Animal studies suggest a role of vitamin D in fetal lung development although not studied in preterm animals. We tested the hypothesis that vitamin D depletion aggravates respiratory insufficiency in preterm rat offspring. Furthermore, the effects of vitamin D depletion on growth and lung surfactant were investigated. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned low vitamin D (VDL) or cont...

For subspaces, X and Y , of the space, D, of all derivatives M(X, Y ) denotes the set of all g ∈ D such that fg ∈ Y for all f ∈ X. Subspaces of D are defined depending on a parameter p ∈ [0,∞]. In Section 6, M(X, D) is determined for each of these subspaces and in Section 7, M(X, Y ) is found for X and Y any of these subspaces. In Section 3, M(X, D) is determined for other spaces of functions o...

DCT transform is widely used in audio and image compression and is the basis for compression JPEG and MPEG standards. In this report, we present implementations of 8x8 2-D DCT algorithm used in JPEG standard. In section II a fast algorithm using only eleven multipliers for 1-D DCT is discussed. Then the algorithm of 2-D DCT based on 1-D DCT is derived. Section IV will demonstrate different arch...

This chapter provides four sections. The first section introduces the moving object D&T infrastructure and basis of some methods for object detection and tracking (D&T) in videos. In object D&T applications, there is manual or automatic D&T process. Also, the image features, such as color, shape, texture, contours, and motion can be used to track the moving object(s) in videos. The detailed inf...

The type section of the Middle and Upper Jurassic Chaman Bid Formation is in the western Koppeh Dagh Basin (Northeast Iran). It is unusually thick and contains a rather rich ammonite fauna, ranging from Bathonian to Tithonian. The ammonites described here come from a 134-m-thick interval in the upper part of member (D) in the middle part of the formation, consisting of an alternation of grey li...

Full term crossbred sows were selected to study the interaction of the immune system, hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, and growth in pigs born by Cesarean section (c-section; n=4 sows) or vaginal birth (n=4 sows). Gestation length and birth weight did not differ between vaginal birth and c-section pigs (P=0.34 and 0.62, respectively). Blood and tissue samples were collected from 44 pigs at ...