The dynamics of buoyant water entering a rotating basin are studied using a series of laboratory experiments designed to elucidate the alongshore transport mechanisms in river plumes. Inflowing water, which is discharged perpendicular to the tank wall, is observed to form a growing anticyclonic bulge and a coastal current downstream of the bulge. Detailed simultaneous measurements of the veloci...

We study fragments of a μ-calculus over data words whose primary modalities are ‘go to next position’ (Xg), ‘go to previous position’ (Yg), ‘go to next position with the same data value’ (Xc), ‘go to previous position with the same data value (Yc)’. Our focus is on two fragments that are called the bounded mode alternation fragment (BMA) and the bounded reversal fragment (BR). BMA is the fragme...

Previous studies have shown that aging is associated with alterations in muscle architecture and tendon properties (Morse CI, Thom JM, Birch KM, Narici MV. Acta Physiol Scand 183: 291-298, 2005; Narici MV, Maganaris CN, Reeves ND, Capodaglio P. J Appl Physiol 95: 2229-2234, 2003; Stenroth L, Peltonen J, Cronin NJ, Sipila S, Finni T. J Appl Physiol 113: 1537-1544, 2012). However, the possible in...

BACKGROUND Heart failure (HF) with normal ejection fraction (diastolic HF [DHF]) usually occurs in elderly patients with hypertension. The presence and significance of altered systolic and diastolic ventricular function in DHF is increasingly controversial. Our objective was to develop a clinically relevant large-animal model to better understand the pathophysiology of DHF. METHODS AND RESULT...

Visceral hypersensitivity is one of the most important mechanisms of functional gastrointestinal diseases. Our previous studies have shown that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation (REMSD) decreases visceral sensitivity in rats, but the mechanisms involved in this effect, have not yet been clarified. In this study, we investigated the role of the CNS and peripheral endocannabinoids in vis...

The bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assay, which allows the investigation of interacting molecules in vivo, was applied to study complex formation between the splicing factor Y14 and nuclear export factor 1 (NXF1), which evidence indicates are functionally associated with nuclear mRNA. Y14 linked to the COOH terminus of yellow fluorescent protein (YFP; YC-Y14), and NXF1 fused to...

OBJECTIVE From 1995 to 2000, 422 youths, aged 18 years and under, died as a result of suicide in Quebec. More than one-third had received services from youth centres (YCs) at some point. This study sought to characterize a sample of those youths to improve services for this at-risk population. METHOD From a retrospective study of YCs and coroner's office files, we investigated the clinical fe...

One of the main indicators for the economical situation is the Yield Curve (YC). In particular, the most important part in the solution of the problem of the Asset liability management of a financial institution investing in bonds is the construction of the model of YC. There are many methods devoted to YC estimation, modelling and forecasting. YC is most often derived from all the bonds traded...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristics carcass yields and internal external organs broilers fed diets containing fermented moringa leaf meal (FMOL) + yellow corn (YC), moringa-corn (MC) diet formulated replace parts commercial (CD). As many as 100 DOC broiler chicken strain CP 707 were reared for up 5 weeks feed experimental diets. A Block Randomized Design (BRD) with sub...

We tested the hypothesis that supplementation of nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), a key NAD(+) intermediate, increases arterial SIRT1 activity and reverses age-associated arterial dysfunction and oxidative stress. Old control mice (OC) had impaired carotid artery endothelium-dependent dilation (EDD) (60 ± 5% vs. 84 ± 2%), a measure of endothelial function, and nitric oxide (NO)-mediated EDD (...