Pulmonary tuberculosis in AIDS/ARC patients is an increasing problem. To assess the utility of acid-fast smears of pulmonary secretions in this patient population, we evaluated 38 AIDS/ARC patients with culture-positive pulmonary infection. A control group consisted of 57 non-AIDS/ARC patients, who also did not belong to an AIDS risk group, diagnosed during the same period. The number of cultur...

Arctigenin (Arc) has been shown to act on scopolamine-induced memory deficit mice and to provide a neuroprotective effect on cultured cortical neurons from glutamate-induced neurodegeneration through mechanisms not completely defined. Here, we investigated the neuroprotective effect of Arc on H89-induced cell damage and its potential mechanisms in mouse cortical neurons and human SH-SY5Y neurob...

Arc faults can produce very high temperatures and can easily ignite combustible materials; thus, they represent one of the most important causes of electrical fires. The application of arc fault detection, as an emerging early fire detection technology, is required by the National Electrical Code to reduce the occurrence of electrical fires. However, the concealment, randomness and diversity of...

A set of arc operators with transition and/or transversion mutations at each operator base pair has been constructed. By determining the ability of Arc to bind these variant operators, the importance of each base pair for Arc recognition has been assessed. Methylation protection experiments have also been used to probe points of close contact between Arc and most of the mutant operators. These ...

A feedback arc set of a digraph is a set of arcs whose reversal makes the resulting digraph acyclic. Given a tournament with a disjoint union of directed paths as a feedback arc set, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for this feedback arc set to have minimum size. We will present a construction for tournaments where the difference between the size of a minimum feedback arc set and ...

A family of arc-transitive graphs is studied. The vertices of these graphs are ordered pairs of distinct points from a finite projective line, and adjacency is defined in terms of the cross ratio. A uniform description of the graphs is given, their automorphism groups are determined, the problem of isomorphism between graphs in the family is solved, some combinatorial properties are explored, a...

The quality of a triangulation is, in many practical applications, influenced by the angles of its triangles. In the straight line case, angle optimization is not possible beyond the Delaunay triangulation. We propose and study the concept of circular arc triangulations, a simple and effective alternative that offers flexibility for additionally enlarging small angles. We show that angle optimi...

Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) is the primary process for precision joining of metals due to its capability for accurate control of heat input. As a close relative and modification of GTAW, plasma arc welding (PAW) has higher energy density and can penetrate thicker workpieces while maintaining the desired capability for accurate control of heat input. In order to produce quality welds consist...

Artepillin C (ARC) is a major active ingredient of Brazilian propolis which is a resinous mixed compound collected by honeybeesfrom various plant sources. Previously, we reported that the ethanol extract of Brazilian propolis possesses antiangiogenic activity both in vitro and in vivo. However, the mechanism of angiogenesis inhibitionby purified ARC has not been well-clarified. In this study, w...

The activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated (Arc) protein controls synaptic strength by facilitating AMPA receptor (AMPAR) endocytosis. Here we demonstrate that Arc targets AMPAR to be internalized through a direct interaction with the clathrin-adaptor protein 2 (AP-2). We show that Arc overexpression in dissociated hippocampal neurons obtained from C57BL/6 mouse reduces the density of AMPAR...