s of the 7th Cachexia Conference, Kobe/Osaka, Japan, December 9–11, 2013 Published online: 5 November 2013 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 1–01 Regeneration of the rat tibialis anteriormuscle is impaired despite induction of the SPARC-beta-catenin pathway during post-immobilization recovery Lamia Slimani, Emilie Vazeille , Christiane Deval , Julien Amat, Cécile Polge, Daniel Béchet , D...

researchers suggested that the individual fit test be conducted to estimate the protection effectiveness of workers’ hearing protection device (hpd) while working. practically, it is convenient to conduct single, instead of multiple, fit test measurement. this study examined if a single trial of earplug fit test can represent multiple performances. additionally, it investigated how much noise e...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the infl uence of ejection fraction (ef) on peak aortic time (pat) and  peak aortic enhancement (pae) during coronary computed tomography angiography (cta). materials and methods: one-hundred and twenty patients (64 men, 56 women) underwent measurement of coronary cta with a measurement of ef within 3 months of coronary cta.pearson’s correla...

this work presents a model for calculating the effective ‎thermal conductivity of nanofluids. the proposed model ‎includes the effects of nanoparticles and thermal conductivity ‎base fluid.we will focus on experimental of the volume ‎concentration parameter and temperature on thermal ‎conductivity, nano-fluid combination and multi-walled ‎carbon nanotubes-oxide / copper-paid deionized water. th...

background: bone marrow-derived mesenchymal cellscan transdifferentiate into cardiomyocyte cells and improveheart function after transplantation. since biomaterials canimprove the cell retention in the site, cell survival and differentiation,heart tissue engineering is now being explored as anapplied solution to support cell-based therapies and increasetheir efficacy for myocardial diseases. ch...

background: most preclinical studies are carried out on mice. for internal dose  assessment of a mouse, specific absorbed fraction (saf) values play an important role.  in most studies, saf values are estimated using older standard human organ compositions  and values for limited source target pairs. objective: saf values for monoenergetic photons of energies 15, 50, 100, 500,  1000 and 4000 ke...

dianchi lake is one of the most three seriously eutrophic lakes in china. in the present study, the phosphorus (p) and nitrogen (n) fractions in 37 surface sediments samples collected in the dianchi lake were investigated. the total phophorus (tp) in sediments was divided into two parts: inorganic p (ip) and residual p (res-p). the results showed that the total phosphorus content in surface sed...

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A graft is a representation of an even cut matroid M if the cycles of M correspond to the even cuts of the graft. Two, long standing, open questions regarding even cut matroids are the problem of finding an excluded minor characterization and the problem of efficiently recognizing this class of matroids. Progress on these problems has been hampered by the fact that even cut matroids can have an...