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To evaluate the serum concentrations of haptoglobin (Hp) and serum amyloid A (SAA) in water buffaloes with abomasal ulcers, the abomasums of 100 randomly selected water buffaloes were examined after slaughter. Type I abomasal ulcers were found in 56 out of 100 buffaloes. Serum concentrations of Hp and SAA were measured. There was no significant difference between affected and non-affected buffa...

BACKGROUND Haptoglobin (Hp) functions as an antioxidant by binding with haemoglobin. We investigated whether serum Hp has a causal effect on macroangiopathy via Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis with common variants of the Hp gene in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS A total of 5687 type 2 diabetes patients were recruited and genotyped for the Hp gene. Clinical features and v...

In this paper, we present the hp-convergence analysis of a nondissipative high-order discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured hexahedral meshes using a mass-lumping technique to solve the time-dependent Maxwell equations. In particular, we underline the spectral convergence of the method (in the sense that when the solutions and the data are very smooth, the discretization is of unlimited ...

In this paper, a set of programs enhancing the Kenzo system is presented. Kenzo is a Common Lisp program designed for computing in Algebraic Topology, in particular it allows the user to calculate homology and homotopy groups of complicated spaces. The new programs presented here entirely compute Serre and EilenbergMoore spectral sequences, in particular the E p,q and d r p,q for arbitrary r. T...

We present a new numerical method to model micro-pulsed plasma thrusters as a single -fluid/twotemperature plasma flow. A spectral/hp element spatial discretization is employed both for structured and unstructured meshes in twoand three-dimensions. This method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin treatment of the advection and diffusion components, and it is stable in the L2 sense. Preliminary ...