AIM Published data on thrombin generation variables and their correlation with thromboelastometry in the healthy population are scarce. This study aimed at assessing thrombin generation in adults and its correlation to classical rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM). METHODS Thrombin generation was measured in platelet-poor plasma from healthy volunteers using the calibrated automated thrombo...

A ray tracing method based on geometrical optics was used to study the tracks from alpha particles with different energies and with an incident angle of 50 . The transmission operation mode of the microscope is simulated. Considering the distribution of light intensities from the tracks, the mean and the 80% percentile gray levels from real experiments are proposed as quantitative variables to ...

The preliminary structural characterization of a reversible ferrous dioxygen complex is reported. Mono(N-methyl imidazole) (dioxygen) meso-tetra (alpha,alpha,alpha,alpha-o-pivalamidephenyl) porphinatorino(II), [Fe(O(2))-(N-Me imid) (alpha,alpha,alpha,alpha-TpivPP)], 1, isolated from toluene solution, crystallizes in the monoclinic system with four molecules in a unit cell of dimensions a = 18.6...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis of the hip is five to ten times more common in white people than in Chinese people. Little is known about the true prevalence of femoroacetabular impingement or its role in the development of osteoarthritis in the Chinese population. A cross-sectional study of both white and Chinese asymptomatic individuals was conducted to compare the prevalences of radiographic featu...

The intensity of light required to just counterbalance geotropic orientation of young rats, with eyelids unopened, is so related to the angle of inclination (alpha) of the creeping plane that the ratio log I/log sin alpha is constant. This relationship, and the statistical variability of I as measured at each value of alpha, may be deduced from the known phototropic and the geotropic conduct as...

BACKGROUND Cam impingement as a known sequelae of slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) has led to speculation that subclinical SCFEs may be the causative factor in idiopathic cam morphology; alternatively, others have implicated an abnormal extension of the growth plate as a causative factor. HYPOTHESIS/PURPOSE To investigate the growth plate tilt angle in 4 patient cohorts: normal patien...

We present the first demonstration that the individual 129Xe resonances corresponding to Xen (n = 1-8) clusters inside the alpha-cages of zeolite NaA can be narrowed under magic-angle spinning (MAS). Under these high-resolution conditions we also observe upon addition of Kr the individual peaks corresponding to mixed clusters, XenKrm, inside the alpha-cages, which will allow the first direct de...