Objectives. Both results of the odor identification and cardiac (123)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine accumulation have been investigated for their potential to enhance the detection of pathogenesis resembling that of Lewy body-related α-synucleinopathies in patients clinically diagnosed as having idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. Methods. We performed both the Odor Stick Identification Test for...

Mantel’s theorem says that among all triangle-free graphs of a given order the balanced complete bipartite graph is the unique graph of maximum size. We prove an analogue of this result for 3-graphs. Let K− 4 = {123, 124, 134}, F6 = {123, 124, 345, 156} and F = {K− 4 , F6}: for n 6= 5 the unique F-free 3-graph of order n and maximum size is the balanced complete tripartite 3-graph S3(n) (for n ...

Schmidt 1973; Kapusta and Rouwenhorst 1973; Weaver and Frederick 1974). However, the numbers needed to overcome indigenous rhizobia are in many cases too excessive to be practical. In much of the soybean-growing area in the north central United States, an area encompassing many soil types, indigeneous strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum serogroup 123 dominate nodulation of soybeans (Damirgi et ...

Waste energy represents one of the most critical issues for economic utilization and management in modern industrial fields. This article outlines a scheme to utilize two different source temperature levels within envelope higher than 200 °C zones. Two regenerative organic Rankine cycles (RORC) were implemented construct compound cycle (CRORC) improve sources. These mini-cycles integrated throu...

This article is part of a Minifocus on microtubule dynamics. For further reading, please see related articles: ‘Kinesins at a glance’ by Sharyn A. Endow et al., (J. Cell Sci. 123, pp. 3420-3424), ‘Tubulin depolymerization may be an ancient biological motor process’ by J. Richard McIntosh et al. (J. Cell Sci. 123, pp. 3425-3434), ‘Towards a quantitative understanding of mitotic spindle assembly ...

If the collaborative requirement of Lyt 1 T helper cells is bypassed by the Lyt 1 T cell-derived mediator of T help, termed Il-2, upon antigenic stimulation, PNA+ Lyt 123 thymocytes differentiate into either alloreactive or H-2-restricted PNA- Lyt 23 cytotoxic effector cells. Along the differentiation pathway from Lyt 123 leads to 23 effector cells, cytolytic activity is carried out by T cells ...

UNLABELLED All patients with primary hyperparathyroidism should undergo localization studies before reoperation, but it is not known which method is most accurate. The purpose of this prospective study was to compare the performance of planar scintigraphy with (123)I/(99m)Tc-sestamibi, (99m)Tc-sestamibi SPECT (SPECT/CT), (11)C-methionine PET/CT, and selective venous sampling (SVS) in persistent...

Many clinical and research studies in nuclear medicine require quantitation of iodine-123 (123I) distribution for the determination of kinetics or localization. The objective of this study was to implement several reconstruction methods designed for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using 123I and to evaluate their performance in terms of quantitative accuracy, image artifacts,...