This paper reformulates a time-discontinuous finite element method (TD-FEM) based on a new class of shape functions, called complex Fourier hereafter, for solving two-dimensional elastodynamic problems. These shape functions, which are derived from their corresponding radial basis functions, have some advantages such as the satisfaction of exponential and trigonometric function fields in comple...

objective: this study evaluated the theory of mind (tom) in adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder ‎‎(bd) during their euthymic period compared to a typically developing (td) group.‎ method: the bd group consisted of thirty 11-18 year old inpatients in euthymic phase. the td ‎group included 30 age, gender, and iq matched volunteer students. to assess the diagnosis and ‎comorbid disorders, ...

Two gene-targeted immunoglobulin heavy chain transgenic mouse strains, TgH(KL25) and TgH(VI10), expressing neutralizing specificities for lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and vesicular stomatitis virus, respectively, have been generated. Three days after lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection, TgH(KL25) mice showed a thymus-independent neutralizing IgM response followed by thymus-depend...

The contribution of Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling to T cell-dependent (TD) antibody responses was assessed by using mice lacking the TLR signaling adaptor MyD88 in individual cell types. When a soluble TLR9 ligand was used as adjuvant for a protein antigen, MyD88 was required in dendritic cells but not in B cells to enhance the TD antibody response, regardless of the inherent immunogenicit...

PURPOSE To examine the impact of aging and age-related maculopathy (ARM) on the activation of phototransduction in rod photoreceptors by measuring the a-wave of the flash, full-field electroretinogram (ERG). METHODS Enrollees consisted of older adults (> or = 60 years of age) in normal retinal health (n = 41) and those with early (n = 39) or late ARM (n = 7), in whom disease presence and seve...

Mice were primed with dinitrophenyl (DNP) (trinitrophenyl, TNP) coupled to thymus-independent (TI) or thymus-dependent (TD) carriers. B cells from these mice were transferred to irradiated recipients with T cells from keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-primed mice. After secondary immunization with DNP-KLH a significant DNP-specific IgG memory response was produced only by mice which received B ce...

— Let K be a field of characteristic p > 0 and let f(t1, . . . , td) be a power series in d variables with coefficients in K that is algebraic over the field of multivariate rational functions K(t1, . . . , td). We prove a generalization of both Derksen’s recent analogue of the Skolem–Mahler–Lech theorem in positive characteristic and a classical theorem of Christol, by showing that the set of ...

We study discrete Schrödinger operators on l2(Z) with γ-Lipschitz potentials defined on higher dimensional torus (Td, T ), where T is a shift or skew-shift with frequency α. We show that under the positive Lyapunov exponent condition, measure of the spectrum at irrational frequency is the limit of measures of spectra at rational approximations.