To investigate the effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) plasma levels, and their possible implications on clinical outcome, we measured tPA and PAI-1 levels in 101 patients with acute paraquat (PQ) intoxication. The control group consisted of patients who ingested non-PQ pesticides during the same period. tP...

In this paper, the main Power Quality (PQ) problems are presented with their associated causes and consequences. The economic impacts associated with PQ are characterized. Finally, some solutions to mitigate the PQ problems are presented.

Loading erythrocytes with Primaquine (PQ) is advantageous. However, PQ produces damage to erythrocytes through free radicals production. Statins have antioxidant action and are involved in protective effect against situation of oxidative stress. Thus the protective effect of pravastatin (PS) against PQ induced oxidative damage to human erythrocytes was investigated in the current studies upon l...

Experimental evidence supporting 1,1'-dimethyl-4,4'-bipyridinium [paraquat (PQ)] as a risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD) is equivocal. Other agricultural chemicals, including dithiocarbamate fungicides such as manganese ethylenebisdithiocarbamate [maneb (MB)], are widely used in the same geographical regions as paraquat and also impact dopamine systems, suggesting that mixtures may be mor...

We discuss the problem of factoring N = pq and survey some approaches. We then present a specialized factoring algorithm that runs in time Õ(q0.31), which is comparable to the runtime Õ(p) of the factoring algorithm for integers of the form N = pq presented in [1]. We then survey the factoring algorithm of [1] and discuss the number of advice bits needed for it to run in polynomial time. Furthe...

The aim of this paper is to compute the rational character tables of the dicyclic group $T_{4n}$, the groups of order $pq$ and $pqr$. Some general properties of rational character tables are also considered into account.The aim of this paper is to compute the rational character tables of the dicyclic group $T_{4n}$, the groups of order $pq$ and $pqr$. Some general properties of rational charact...

was found that PQ-9 was required for both photoreduction of ferricyanide and photosynthetic phos,phorylation in Euglena chloroplasts. The structural integrity of PQ-9 was not required to the same degree in the 2 photochemical reactions. Photosynthetic phosphorvyation seemed to require the entire molecular structure of PQ-9 for the activity, whereas shortening in isoprenoid ch-ain and modificati...

In this paper we consider the problem of computing the weak visibility polygon of any query line segment pq (or WVP(pq)) inside a given polygon P . Our first non-trivial algorithm runs in simple polygons and needs O(n log n) time and O(n) space in the preprocessing phase to report WVP(pq) of any query line segment pq in time O(log n + |WVP(pq)|). We also give an algorithm to compute the weak vi...

Primaquine (PQ) is recommended to prevent relapses in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria infection. However, treatment with PQ causes methemoglobinemia. In this study, we measured the methemoglobin (MetHB) levels in three groups of subjects who received PQ treatment at 0.58, 0.83, or 1.17 mg/kg/d. A total of 112 subjects were studied. MetHB levels were detected at > or = 4% in 46-50% 1 day ...