The interruption of lactation for a short period, without the use of pharmacological substances or maternal separation, causes offspring malnutrition and hypoleptinaemia and programmes for metabolic disorders such as higher body weight and adiposity, hyperphagia, hyperleptinaemia and central leptin resistance in adulthood. Here, in order to clarify the mechanisms underlying the phenotype observ...

Bactericidal effects of low concentration electrolysed water (LcEW) on microorganisms are previously well reported; however, the inactivation mechanism of EW is not understood. The lethal and sublethal injuries of L. monocytogenes and L. innocua by EW treatments were determined and the metabolic profile changes for L. innocua were characterised using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Microbial ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Only few data on the epicuticular waxes (EWs) of horsetails are available. This contribution therefore focuses on the wax micromorphology and chemical composition of Equisetum species of the subgenera Equisetum and Hippochaete. METHODOLOGY Distribution patterns and structural details of EW on the shoots were studied by scanning electron microscopy. After extraction with ch...

The physiological profiles contributing to hyperexcitability of hippocampal CA1 neurons following ethanol withdrawal (EW) were examined in an in vitro slice preparation obtained from EW rats. Sixty-two percent of CA1 neurons in slices from EW rats exhibited intrinsic burst property which was rarely observed in those from control animals. The mean duration of plateau component of calcium (Ca) sp...

Aims. We verify whether the O/H abundances of galaxies can be derived from the equivalent width (EW) R23 instead of the extinctioncorrected flux R23, and eventually propose a method of improving the reliability of this empirical method, which is often used for the non-flux calibrated spectra of galaxies. Methods. We select 37,173 star-forming galaxies from the Second Data Release of the Sloan D...

BACKGROUND The relationship between maternal and placental hemodynamic disorders and fetal growth is well known, but few studies have evaluated a link between maternal extracellular water (EW) and newborn birth weight. OBJECTIVE To identify the characteristics of body composition (BC) of women with small for gestational age (SGA) newborns, and to determine the relationship between maternal EW...

The use of paper as a material for various device applications (such as microfluidics and energy storage) is very attractive given its flexibility, versatility, and low cost. Here we demonstrate that electrowetting (EW) devices can be readily fabricated on paper substrates. Several categories of paper have been investigated for this purpose, with the surface coating, roughness, thickness, and w...

Aims. We verify whether the O/H abundances of galaxies may be derived from the equivalent width (EW) R23 instead of the extinctioncorrected flux R23, and eventually propose a method to improve the reliability of this empirical method which is often used for the non-flux calibrated spectra of galaxies. Methods. We select 37,173 star-forming galaxies from the Second Data Release of the Sloan Digi...

The study of mass problems and Muchnik degrees was originally motivated by Kolmogorov’s non-rigorous 1932 interpretation of intuitionism as a calculus of problems. The purpose of this paper is to summarize recent investigations into the lattice of Muchnik degrees of nonempty effectively closed sets in Euclidean space. Let Ew be this lattice. We show that Ew provides an elegant and useful framew...

Since reinforced concrete (RC) buildings have long service life, cutout openings are generally needed in their load-bearing walls as a sustainable solution order to meet new requirements of users. However, the decrease capacity walls, which may result failure buildings. In this paper, we investigate possibility making door opening RC wall an existing building Gävle Sweden. The studied current p...