Microbiological degradation of perchloroethylene (PCE) under anaerobic conditions follows a series of chain reactions, in which, sequentially, trichloroethylene (TCE), cis-dichloroethylene (c-DCE), vinylchloride (VC) and ethene are generated. First-order degradation rate constants, partitioning coecients and mass exchange rates for PCE, TCE, c-DCE and VC were compiled from the literature. The ...

High-mobility group box-1 (HMGB1) is a well-known pro-inflammatory cytokine. We aimed to investigate the effect of the ethanol extract of the root of P. cuspidatum (PCE) on retinal inflammation in diabetic retinopathy. PCE (100 or 350 mg/kg/day) was administered to diabetic rats for 16 weeks, and hyperglycemia and body weight loss developed in the diabetic rats. The retinal expression levels of...

The gram-negative, strictly anaerobic epsilonproteobacterium Sulfurospirillum multivorans is able to gain energy from dehalorespiration with tetrachloroethene (perchloroethylene [PCE]) as a terminal electron acceptor. The organism can also utilize fumarate as an electron acceptor. Prolonged subcultivation of S. multivorans in the absence of PCE with pyruvate as an electron donor and fumarate as...

High re-attendance rates are common after asthma emergency department (ED) care. Inadequate patient education has been cited as a potential cause of re-attendance and the optimal format of education is uncertain. The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of patient-centred education (PCE) and standard asthma patient education on ED re-attendance. A randomised controlled trial was con...

Hierarchical PCE is a standard architecture for multi-domain path computation. However, the mechanism to feed the Traffic Engineering Database of the Parent PCE is still under debate. This work validates the use of BGP-LS to build the Parent PCE TEDB and compares two H-PCE algorithms that use different amount of information. Introduction The International Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defin...

BACKGROUND In many studies, chemicals and natural materials were tested to reduce the harmful effects of radiation. It is known that Famotidine and vitamin C reduce DNA damage. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the radioprotective effect of vitamin C, Cimetidine and Famotidine on gamma-radiation-induced damage on mouse bone marrow. METHODS Six-to-seven week male NMRI mice (28 ...

A Path Computation Element (PCE) may be required to perform dependent path computations. Dependent path computations are requests that need to be synchronized in order to meet specific objectives. An example of a dependent request would be a PCE computing a set of services that are required to be diverse (disjointed) from each other. When a PCE computes sets of dependent path computation reques...

Multiscale design for dealing with 2-scale material and product system is implemented by employing the probabilistic analytical target cascading (PATC) and polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) approaches in this paper. PATC allows design autonomy at each scale subsystem by formulating the multiscale design problem as a hierarchical structure. PCE ensures uncertainties to be propagated within and ac...

In this work we propose Pixel Content Encoders (PCE), a lightweight image inpainting model, capable of generating novel content for large missing regions in images. Unlike previously presented convolutional neural network based models, our PCE model has an order of magnitude fewer trainable parameters. Moreover, by incorporating dilated convolutions we are able to preserve fine grained spatial ...

Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document presents a set of requirements for a Path Computation Element (PCE) discovery mechanism that would allow a Path Computation Client (PCC) to discover dynamically and automatically a set of PCEs along wi...