0016-2361/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2011.03.042 Abbreviations: CFME, chicken fat methyl esters; American society of testing and materials; KOH, p sodium hydroxide; KOMe, potassium methoxide; NaO ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Automo Kocaeli University, 41380 Kocaeli, Turkey Tel.: +90 3032203. E-mail addresses: [email protected], Canakci). In t...

Background: Breast cancer in the elderly is associated with high recurrence and death rates, due mostly to undertreatment. Human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2) overexpression is infrequent in older patients. Trastuzumab-based chemotherapy is often withheld from elderly patients because of its cardiotoxicity. Patients and Methods: Medical records of consecutive HER2-positive brea...

* This work is supported by ONR “MINUTEMAN” project under contract N00014-01-C-0016 AbstractA Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is usually assumed to be homogeneous, where each mobile node shares the same radio capacity. However, a homogeneous ad hoc network suffers from poor scalability. Recent research has demonstrated its performance bottleneck both theoretically and through simulation experimen...

From deep optical images of three clusters selected by virtue of their X-ray luminosity and/or optical richness (1455+22; z = 0.26, 0016+16; z = 0.55 and 1603+43; z = 0.89), we construct statistically-complete samples of faint field galaxies (I ≤ 25) suitable for probing the effects of gravitational lensing. By selecting clusters across a wide redshift range we separate the effects of the mean ...

Chlorhexidine is a commonly used antiseptic and disinfectant in the health-care setting. Its usage has increased in recent years with intensive campaigns and infection control guidelines to combat hospital-acquired infections. As a result, patients and health-care workers (HCW) are exposed to increasing chlorhexidine usage. In recent years, adverse reactions to chlorhexidine ranging from allerg...

CONTEXT Lead toxicity is an ongoing concern worldwide, and children, the most vulnerable to the long-lasting effects of lead exposure, are in urgent need of a safe and effective heavy metal chelating agent to overcome the heavy metals and lead exposure challenges they face day to day. OBJECTIVE This clinical study was performed to determine if the oral administration of modified citrus pectin...

BACKGROUND Diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) have higher mortality than nondiabetic patients. The purpose of this study was to examine if larger infarct size explains the higher mortality in diabetic patients with acute ST-segment-elevation MI. METHODS In the CORE trial (n = 2948), subsets of patients underwent quantitative radionuclide measurement of technetium Tc 99m s...

Isotope fractionation of electroplated Fe was measured as a function of applied electrochemical potential. As plating voltage was varied from 0.9 V to 2.0 V, the isotopic signature of the electroplated iron became depleted in heavy Fe, with Fe values (relative to IRMM-14) ranging from 0.18( 0.02) to 2.290( 0.006) ‰, and corresponding Fe values of 0.247( 0.014) and 3.354( 0.019) ‰. This study de...

We study a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers’ investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially compensated through school resources. In this w...

Background. Right ventricular pacing (RVP) has been associated with adverse outcomes, including heart failure and death. Minimizing RVP has been proposed as a therapeutic goal for a variety of pacing devices and indications. Objective. Quantify survival according to frequency of RVP in veterans with pacemakers. Methods. We analyzed electrograms from transtelephonic monitoring of veterans implan...