The porous carbon matrix is widely recognized to be a promising sulfur reservoir to improve the cycle life by suppressing the polysulfide dissolution in lithium sulfur batteries (LSB). Herein, we synthesized mesocellular carbon foam (MSUF-C) with bimodal mesopore (4 and 30 nm) and large pore volume (1.72 cm2/g) using MSUF silica as a template and employed it as both the sulfur reservoir and the...

Six hundred and thirty-two blood samples from 879 consecutive admissions to one resettlement camp for Indochinese refugees in Great Britain were screened for markers of hepatitis B (HB) virus infection. The overall prevalence of HB surface antigen (HBsAg) was 15%, being 16% in those aged 40 years or less, and falling to 8% in those older than 40 (P<0-05). No significant difference in prevalence...

Curcumin, a commonly available spice and alternative medicine, has been tested in the laboratory and the clinic for activity against a wide range of diseases. It is thought to possess antiinflammatory and antioxidant activities and may also function to inhibit histone acetyl transferases, which activate gene expression via chromatin remodeling. Two reports in this issue of the JCI, by Morimoto ...

1 Bataille B, Bertuit M, Mora M, et al. Comparison of esCCO and transthoracic echocardiography for non-invasive measurement of cardiac output intensive care. Br J Anaesth 2012; 109: 879–86 2 Ishihara H, Okawa H, Tanabe K, et al. A new non-invasive continuous cardiac output trend solely utilizing routine cardiovascular monitors. J Clin Monit Comput 2004; 18: 313–20 3 Yamada T, Tsutsui M, Sugo Y,...

Physics of Fluids 11(1999), 875-879. In this paper, we discuss zonally periodic steady quasigeostrophic waves in a β−plane channel, by using variational methods. A class of steady quasigeostrophic waves are determined by the potential vorticity field profile, g(·), which is a function of the stream function. We show that zonally periodic steady quasigeostrophic waves exist when the bottom topog...

e Critical Care Canada Forum was held in Toronto, Canada from 25 to 28 October 2009 [1]. Th e conference, which focuses on the care of critically ill patients wherever the patients are located, was attended by 879 delegates and featured 197 separate presentations, includ ing several as yet unpublished trials. Th e hot topic this year was planning for the impact of a worldwide outbreak of H1N1 i...

The exploitation of nested inequalities and surrogate constraints as originally proposed in Glover [Glover, F., 1965. A multiphase-dual algorithm for the zero–one integer programming problem. Operations Research 13, 879–919; Glover, F., 1971. Flows in arborescences. Management Science 17, 568–586] has been specialized to multidimensional knapsack problems in Osorio et al. [Osorio, M.A., Glover,...

Human Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) transduces proinflammatory cytokine release by human cells in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS). This study tested the hypothesis that, if TLR4 is rate limiting for a successful response to bacterial LPS in humans, a human gene polymorphism that results in the amino acid substitution Asp299Gly and causes reduced expression and function of TLR4 should influen...

Autoantibodies against voltage-gated potassium channels (VGKC-Abs) are associated with acquired neuromyotonia (Isaacs' syndrome) and related disorders such as Morvan's syndrome and some cases of limbic encephalitis. The mechanisms underlying the various phenotypes induced by VGKC-Abs are not fully understood. Recently, we reported a case of LE with VGKC-Abs accompanied by severe intestinal pseu...

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