lifeline for supplying the brain with essential nutrients and growth factors throughout development and into adulthood. At the same time, the brain exercises constant control to ensure that the flow of CSF is homeostatic. CSF is secreted by the choroid plexus and moves rostrocaudally through the ventricles and into the subarachnoid space before being drained into the venous circulation (80). Fa...

Testicular function is regulated by pituitary hormones and also by paracrine and autocrine factors. A number of reports have pointed out the importance of estrogens and progesterone in male reproductive tract. Recently, we have reported in testicular biopsies from men with Sertoli Cell Only Syndrome (SCO) or Hypospermatogenesis (H) with Leydig cell hyperplasia (LCH) an increase in the expressio...

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for intensity modulation direct detection (IM/DD) optical systems. By using this novel scheme of an OFDM optical system, not only odd subcarriers but also even subcarriers can be modulated to transmit a clipping optical signal. A conventional asymmetrically clipping optical (ACO)-OFDM is applied to mod...

We analyze the spatial distribution of young stars in Taurus-Auriga and Upper Sco, as determined from the two-point correlation function (i.e., the mean surface density of neighbors). The corresponding power-law fits allow us to determine the fractal dimensions of each association’s spatial distribution, measure the stellar velocity dispersions, and distinguish between the bound binary populati...

This study evaluated the microbial conversion of coconut oil waste, a major agro-residue in tropical countries, into single cell oil (SCO) feedstock for biodiesel production. Copra cake was used as a low-cost renewable substrate without any prior chemical or enzymatic pretreatment for submerged growth of an oleaginous tropical mangrove fungus, Aspergillus terreus IBB M1. The SCO extracted from ...

The Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex has produced in Lynds 1688 the richest known embedded cluster within ∼300 pc of the Sun. Unfortunately, distance estimates to the Oph complex vary by nearly ∼40% (∼120–165 pc). Here I calculate a new independent distance estimate of 135± 8 pc to this benchmark star-forming region based on Hipparcos trigonometric parallaxes to stars illuminating reflection n...

We have measured the phase-delay and rms amplitude spectra of Cyg X-2 and Sco X-1. Using EXOSAT data from the normal branch of Cyg X-2 we confirm earlier (Ginga) results, showing that at an energy near 6 keV there is both a minimum in the quasi-periodic oscillations QPO rms amplitude spectrum and a 150◦ phase jump in the QPO phase-delay spectrum. Surprisingly, using EXOSAT and Ginga data, we fi...

We investigate the rotational velocities of early-type stars in the Sco OB2 association. We measure vsini for 156 established and probable members of the association. The measurements are performed with three different techniques, which are in increasing order of expected vsini: 1) converting the widths of spectral lines directly to vsini, 2) comparing artificially broadened spectra of low vsin...

Phase-resolved VLT spectroscopy of the bursting Low Mass X-ray Binaries 4U 1636536/V801 Ara and 4U 1735-444/V926 Sco is presented. Doppler images of the NIII λ4640 Bowen transition reveal compact spots which we attribute to fluorescent emission from the donor star and enable us to define a new set of spectroscopic ephemerides. We measure Kem = 277 ± 22 km s and Kem = 226 ± 22 km s from the NIII...