Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by neutrophils are crucial for defense against infectious diseases, and the adequate measurement of ROS levels is an important way to evaluate the possibility of infections. The fluorescent probe dihydrorhodamine 123 has been applied exclusively to the measurement of ROS thus far. We developed a novel method for detecting ROS, which utilizes the chemilumin...

In this paper, based on a thorough analysis of different policies for DAG scheduling, an improved algorithm ICPDP (Improved Critical Path using Descendant Prediction) is introduced. The algorithm performs well with respect to the total scheduling time, the schedule length and load balancing. In addition, it provides efficient resource utilization, by minimizing the idle time on the processing e...

Methods 10 healthy subjects were studied at 1.5 Tesla. LV shortaxis radial strain ErrSAX was derived from SSFP cine images using dedicated CMR-FT software (Diogenes MRI prototype, Tomtec, Germany) at rest and during dobutamine stress (10 and 20 μg * kg-1* min-1). Natural radial strain values (loge [End-systolic wall thickness/ end-diastolic wall thickness]) were calculated in identical segments...

BACKGROUND Dobutamine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (DS-CMR) is an established tool to assess hibernating myocardium and ischemia. Analysis is typically based on visual assessment with considerable operator dependency. CMR myocardial feature tracking (CMR-FT) is a recently introduced technique for tissue voxel motion tracking on standard steady-state free precession (SSFP) images to ...

The subgenus Hystricochaetonotus Schwank, 1990 is one of the most species-rich subgenera Chaetonotus Ehrenberg, 1830. It has a worldwide distribution and encompasses 37 species predominantly living in benthos periphyton limnetic habitats. We have discovered further nine new running stagnant waters Slovakia (Central Europe): Ch. (H.) arcanus sp. nov., avarus gulosus iratus luxus mirabilis optabi...

where h is the decision tree height, or the number of radial cuts, whose i cross edges can be chosen independently: h = (f L-k-l) / (f-1). Therefore, the number of permutations having the number of cross edges i = 1 in a stage-k subgraph of an (3, L) CC-banyan is C;,k=3(3L-k-1)/2, 0 < k < L-2. Now we can evaluate the total number of permutations in CC-banyan with fan-out 3. Theorem 6: The numbe...

The Byzantine writer Michael Attaleiates was born in Attaleia (Antalya) and, at a young age, left home to pursue his education Constantinople where he stayed and made career the law. He is mostly known for historical work that thoroughly describes empire’s military operations Anatolia. purpose of this article discuss reasons behind notable antithesis way Saldjuks general sultans Toghril Beg Alp...