Protein targeting is essential for domain specialization in polarized cells. In photoreceptors, three distinct membrane domains exist in the outer segment: plasma membrane, disk lamella, and disk rim. Peripherin/retinal degeneration slow (rds) and rom-1 are photoreceptor-specific members of the transmembrane 4 superfamily of transmembrane proteins, which participate in disk morphogenesis and lo...

AIM To evaluate the association of NOS1 and NOS3 gene polymorphisms with the risk/severity of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) among preterm infants. METHODS The patient group was 189 preterm infants diagnosed with RDS. The control group was 227 preterm neonates who did not develop RDS. NOS genotyping was performed using an improved multiplex ligation detection reaction (iMLDR) te...

Measurements and modelling of rms delay spread (RDS) in indoor line-of-sight (LOS) conditions at HIPERLAN/U-NII frequencies (5.2GHz) with omni-directional antennas show that the maximum RDS in a room is dependent on the dimensions of the room and the reflection coefficient of the walls. Furthermore, in a given room RDS increases with distance from the transmitter up to a maximum value and plate...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of hypertensive disease of pregnancy (HDP) on the development of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in preterm neonates. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING All neonatal intensive care units in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. PATIENTS A total of 18,845 preterm neonates aged between 24 and 36 weeks gestation admitted to the un...

BACKGROUND Periodic surveys of research directors (RDs) in emergency medicine (EM) are useful to assess the specialty's development and evolution of the RD role. OBJECTIVES To assess associations between characteristics and research productivity of RDs and EM programs. METHODS A survey of EM RDs was developed using the nominal group technique and pilot tested. RDs or surrogate respondents a...

This paper explores bias in the estimation of sampling variance in Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). Prior methodological work on RDS has focused on its problematic assumptions and the biases and inefficiencies of its estimators of the population mean. Nonetheless, researchers have given only slight attention to the topic of estimating sampling variance in RDS, despite the importance of varianc...

Particle grain size is an important indicator for the variability in physical characteristics and pollutants composition of road-deposited sediments (RDS). Quantitative assessment of the grain-size variability in RDS amount, metal concentration, metal load and GSFLoad is essential to elimination of the uncertainty it causes in estimation of RDS emission load and formulation of control strategie...

In homozygous rds mutant mice the photoreceptor cells lack outer segment discs and slowly degenerate. In the heterozygotes the receptor cells develop abnormal outer segments and show altered disc shedding properties as revealed by the pigment epithelial phagosome content. The receptor cells also degenerate at a slower rate than in the homozygotes. The nature of the interaction resulting in dilu...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Suck development is a challenging hurdle for preterm infants who endure an extensive oxygen history due to respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). The fine structure of the non-nutritive suck (NNS) was studied in preterm infants according to RDS severity. DESIGN AND METHODS: Recordings of NNS were completed cribside in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in 55 preterm infa...

In 2010, FUJIFILM introduced “ETERNA-RDS” that is a black and white film used for archiving from color digital masters. ETERNA-RDS is the first film stock in the world designed especially for a digital separation workflow using a film recorder. ETERNA-RDS offers a significant improvement over conventional non-specific separation film stock, accurate gradation linearity, improved granularity, su...