A. A. Deo, R. J. Grill, K. M. Hasan, P. A. Narayana Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States, Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States Introduction: Damage to white matter fiber tracts is a major consequence of traumatic spinal cord...

Genetic selection for fast growth rate and high breast muscle yield in modern broilers has unintended effects on animal welfare behavior, namely terms of inactivity leg disorders. We hypothesized that exercise stimulated through environmental enrichment could positively stimulate pen-wide activity improve bird welfare. The study objectives were to implement a laser device motivate active feedin...

Using a modified form (delta Q [AQ]-test) of Pielou’s (1979) Q-test, Templeton (1985) reanalyzed Sibley and Ahlquist’s (1984) DNA-DNA hybridization data for hominoid species. He concluded that the phylogeny (fig. 1A) supported by Sibley and Ahlquist is not significantly better than the phylogeny (fig. 1B) favored by Templeton (1983). However, Templeton’s (1985) AQ-test has several statistical p...

We show modern information technology (in short IT) is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970's and has contributed to slow growth of wages and decline in the natural rate. We first study all US firms whose securities trade on public exchanges. Surplus wealth of a firm is the difference between wealth created (equity and debt) and its capital. We show (i) aggregate surp...

The purpose of this paper is to study dynamics of a monopolistic …rm in a continuous-time framework. The …rm is assumed to be boundedly rational and to experience time delays in obtaining and implementing information on output. A dynamic adjustment process is based on the gradient of the expected pro…t. The paper is divided into three parts: We examine delay e¤ects on dynamics caused by one-tim...

Transplantation of ovarian tissue (OT) is currently the only clinical option to restore fertility with cryopreserved OT. However, follicle loss caused by ischemia and slow revascularization occurs in transplanted OT. To shorten the ischemic period and promote angiogenesis, some angiogenic factors have been used. Angiopoietin-2 (Ang2) is one of the major angiogenic factors and has been reported ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of anti-angiogenic therapy with dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound (DCE-US) in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients with liver metastasis.A total of 50 CRC patients with liver metastasis who received bevacizumab (BEV)-based chemotherapy (BEV + FOLFOX6 protocol) were recruited into the present study. Before the study (d0), and 3, 7, 14, and 42 days...

We study optimal price setting by a monopolist in an in…nite horizon model with stochastic costs, moderate in‡ation, and costly price adjustment. For realistic parameters, chosen to replicate observed frequencies of price changes, the model …ts numerically several empirical regularities. In particular, price reductions are larger but less frequent than price increases, and prices respond consid...

Inflammation can be defined as the reaction of a living vascularized tissue to a localized damage, and plays a role in both normal repair reactions and in the pathogenesis of disease. Inflammatory phenomena are at the basis of a number of disease processes in virtually any systemic or organ-specific disease, ranging from classical rheumatic diseases to bronchial airway hyper-responsiveness, inf...

1. In two experiments samples of blood and organs were taken from newborn and young lambs born to five groups of ewes that received different dietary iodine (I) levels. Dietary I contents (mg/kg dry matter [DM]) in pregnancy and lactation, respectively, were: Experiment 1--0.36 and 0.26 for group C, 2.01 and 1.94 for group D; Experiment 2--0.13 and 0.12 for group A, 0.22 and 0.20 for group B, 1...