Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, FASE, Chair, Theodore Abraham, MD, FASE, Mark S. Adams, RDCS, FASE, Charles J. Bruce, MD, FASE, Kathryn E. Glas, MD, MBA, FASE, Roberto M. Lang, MD, FASE, Scott T. Reeves, MD, MBA, FASE, Jack S. Shanewise, MD, FASE, Samuel C. Siu, MD, FASE, William Stewart, MD, FASE, and Michael H. Picard, MD, FASE, New York, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston,Massachusetts; Rochester, M...

in this work, hydrogel nanocomposites were synthesized by solution polymerization of acrylic acid (aa) and itaconic acid (ia) in the presence of cotton fabric. ammonium persulfate (aps) was used as the polymerization initiator in the presence of a crosslinker, methylene bisacrylamide (mba). insertion of ag followed by reduction of ag+ cations results in a hydrogel nanocomposite. the structure a...

The NHANES has monitored folate status of the U.S. population from prefortification (1988-1994) to postfortification (1999-2010) by measuring serum and RBC folate concentrations. The Bio-Rad radioassay (BR) was used from 1988 to 2006, and the microbiologic assay (MBA) was used from 2007 to 2010. The MBA produces higher concentrations than the BR and is considered to be more accurate. Thus, to b...

A high concentration of histamine, one of the biogenic amines (BAs) usually found in fermented foods, can cause undesirable physiological side effects in sensitive humans. The objective of this study is to isolate indigenous Acetobacter strains from naturally fermented Bokbunja vinegar in Korea with reduced histamine production during starter fermentation. Further, we examined its physiological...

The past six years have witnessed a number of large simulations of full QCD with two degenerate sea quarks and Wilson like actions. All of them were based on the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm (HMC) which has been systematically improved over the years. These simulations, however, albeit being milestones for lattice QCD in the pre-Teracomputing age [1], suffer from severe restrictions that preven...

As a severe chronic metabolic disease and autoimmune disorder, type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects millions of people world-wide. Recent advances in antigen-based immunotherapy have provided a great opportunity for further treating T1D with a high degree of selectivity. It is reported that MHC class II I-A(g7) in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse and human HLA-DQ8 are strongly linked to susceptibili...

In this paper, a cylindrical aluminum sample with an eccentric circular hole was prepared, and ultrasonic measurements were carried out by experimental means. The measurement area limited to plane edge perpendicular the axis of component. measured waveform data input into formula approximate correction method, section image obtained using modified Born approximation (MBA) method. Then, three-di...

PURPOSE The Ocular Protection Index (OPI) 2.0 System was developed to evaluate ocular surface protection under a natural blink pattern and normal visual conditions. The OPI 2.0 System implements fully automated software algorithms which provide a real-time measurement of corneal exposure (breakup area) for each interblink interval during a 1-minute video. Utilizing this method, the mean breakup...

A sandwich-structured noble metal-probe molecule-organic semiconductor consisting of Ag nanoparticles (NPs), 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA) and different concentrations poly(styrenesulfonate:poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT:PSS) was prepared by layer-by-layer assembly. Intermolecular hydrogen bonding observed to have a significant effect on the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) Ag...

A novel population-based algorithm based on the mine bomb explosion concept, called the mine blast algorithm (MBA), is applied to the constrained optimization and engineering design problems. A comprehensive comparative study has been carried out to show the performance of the MBA over other recognized optimizers in terms of computational effort (measured as the number of function evaluations) ...