PURPOSE The aims of this review are 1) to consider the hypothesis that interstitial cystitis (IC) is not a single disease entity in all patients by reviewing the evidence for the presence of IC subtypes and for the comorbidity of various unexplained clinical conditions in some patients with IC, and 2) to describe recent results obtained in humans and in cats with severe feline IC (FIC) that sug...

The post-translational modification AMPylation is emerging as a significant regulatory mechanism in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic biology. This process involves the covalent addition of an adenosine monophosphate to a protein resulting in a modified protein with altered activity. Proteins capable of catalyzing AMPylation, termed AMPylators, are comparable to kinases in that they both hydrolyz...

We investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate of $F= 1$ $^{87}$Rb atoms in 2D spin-dependent optical lattice generated by intersecting laser beams with superposition polarizations. For the effective interaction an atom electromagnetic field contains scalar and vector (called as fictitious magnetic field, $B_{fic}$) potentials. The Rb behave quantum rotor (QR) angular momentum given sum atomic rotat...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate whether a priming dose of ketamine-dexmedetomidine can effectively suppress fentanyl-induced coughing (FIC). METHODS Altogether 400 patients of ASA I and II, aged 18-70 years, undergoing various elective surgical procedures, were randomly allocated into four groups of 100 patients each. Patients in the placebo group received volume-matched norm...

In this paper, a new gain control scheme is proposed for a digital on-channel repeater (DOCR) with a feedback interference canceller (FIC) in Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB) networks. In the proposed scheme, a variable attenuator is placed behind the amplifier of the DOCR and the least mean square (LMS) adaptive algorithm is implemented in the FIC to estimate the feedback cha...

This paper presents a back propagation based neural network for fractal image compression. One of the image compression techniques in the spatial domain is Fractal Image Compression (FIC) but the main drawback of FIC using traditional exhaustive search is that it involves more computational time due to global search. In order to improve the computational time and compression ratio, artificial i...

Autonomous mobile robots require efficient control of their movement. There are several very good approaches for controlling autonomous robots under bound conditions; however, self-adaptation to dynamic environments is very complicated. This paper focuses on part of an autonomous mobile robot prototype named FIC (Fluent Interactive Codelets framework) that has both a main controller and a secon...

Chequerboard titrations were used to test the activity of trovafloxacin, alone and in combination with clindamycin or metronidazole, against 156 Gram-positive or Gram-negative anaerobes, including 47 Bacteroides fragilis group, 36 Prevotella spp., 26 fusobacteria, 21 peptostreptococci and 26 clostridia. MIC50/MIC90 values (mg/L) of each drug alone against all 156 strains were: trovafloxacin, 0....

In the first part of this study, agar dilution MICs were used to test the activities of trovafloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, sparfloxacin, clinafloxacin, ceftazidime, and imipenem against 458 gram-negative nonfermenters. The overall respective MICs at which 50% of isolates are inhibited (MIC50s) and MIC90s were as follows: trovafloxacin, 1.0 and 16.0 microg/ml; ciprofloxacin, ...