Ten young adult cats, 6 intact males and 4 intact females, with reduced renal mass were randomized to receive either normal feline maintenance diet alone or diet plus phosphorus binder in a crossover design with each treatment period of 56 days in duration (Dietary Trial A). For Dietary Trial B, following a 3-month withdrawal period, 6 cats were placed on the intestinal phosphorus binder for 9 ...

Introduction Rapid prototyping technologies are the most extensively applied methods based on additive manufacturing (AM) principles, but the first complex-shaped AM parts are already in serial production for commercial aircrafts [1]. The main advantage of rapid prototyping includes the fabrication of models and prototypes for concept assessment as well as functional testing of new products. AM...

A patient presented at the age of 77 yr with a low serum cobalamin level. Subsequent study showed that he had persistently very low R binder (TC I) cobalamin-binding capacity in serum (less than 5 ng/liter versus 213 +/- 171 ng/liter in normal controls), and that almost all of his endogenous serum cobalamin was carried by TC II instead of TC I. His saliva also demonstrated virtually undetectabl...

This paper takes as its point of departure the hypothesis that surface structures directly receive a model theoretic interpretation, without being mapped into (or derived from) a mediating level such as deep structure or LF. In particular, I am concerned with those cases centering around binding which are often thought to necessitate some kind of abstract level. Note that the standard view of b...

We propose a model for the reflectance of a particle medium made of identical, large, spherical, and absorbing particles in a clear binder. A 3D geometrical description of light scattering is developed by relying on the laws of geometrical optics. The amount of light backscattered by a single particle is determined as a function of its absorbance and refractive index. Then, we consider a set of...

This paper concerns the sensitivity of artists’ oil paints to organic solvents. Specifically, it examines the respective capacities of single organic solvents and mixtures of solvents to cause swelling as a consequence of sorption into the paint and solvency action thereupon. The swelling power of a solvent is essentially an indicator of its relative strength in terms of action on the original ...

Despite the fact that Titanium material has been considered as difficult to cut material, its usage has been increasing day by day in all engineering sectors; wherever criticality is encountered. Many studies are going on in view of increasing tool life at high cutting speed to improve productivity. In this study, attempt has been made to see the effect of iron as a partial substitution  along ...