OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the fracture toughness (FT) of denture base and autopolymerizing reline resins, with and without thermocycling (T). MATERIAL AND METHODS Specimens of each material (denture base acrylic resin - Lucitone 550 - L; autopolymerizing reline resins - Ufi Gel Hard-UH, Tokuyama Rebase II-TR, New Truliner-NT and Kooliner-K), were produced, notched and divided into two gr...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS At our institution there has been a dichotomous antimicrobial treatment behaviour for acute haematogenous osteomyelitis (AHOM) since 1984. The surgical department favoured fosfomycin as initial choice and the medical department beta lactams. We aimed to compare the performance of both strategies. METHODS Data from patients discharged with the diagnosis of AHOM between Janu...

Thyroid function regulates lipid metabolism. Despite the fact that T2DM is more prevalent in the elderly, often associates with thyroid dysfunction and increases cardiovascular risk both per se and via high TC and LDL-C levels, the association of the latter with FT(3) and FT(4) levels has not yet been fully investigated in T2DM. While trying to fill this gap in 296 elderly outpatients with T2DM...

The labile iron pool (LIP) of animal cells has been implicated in cell iron regulation and as a key component of the oxidative-stress response. A major mechanism commonly implied in the downregulation of LIP has been the induced expression of ferritin (FT), particularly the heavy subunits (H-FT) that display ferroxidase activity. The effects of H-FT on LIP and other physiological parameters wer...

Day-length is important for regulating the transition to reproductive development (flowering) in plants. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the transcription factor CONSTANS (CO) promotes expression of the florigen FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), constituting a key flowering pathway under long-day photoperiods. Recent studies have revealed that FT expression is regulated by changes of histone mod...

We present results on total domination in a partitioned graph G = (V,E). Let γt(G) denote the total dominating number of G. For a partition V1, V2, . . . , Vk, k ≥ 2, of V , let γt(G;Vi) be the cardinality of a smallest subset of V such that every vertex of Vi has a neighbour in it and define the following ft(G;V1, V2, . . . , Vk) = γt(G) + γt(G;V1) + γt(G;V2) + . . .+ γt(G;Vk) ft(G; k) = max{f...

Mosquitoes were subjected to ultra-low volume (ULV) aerial applications of permethrin synergized with piperonyl butoxide (Biomist 30:30. Biomist 31:66) and Cythion and ULV ground applications of permethrin synergized with piperonyl butoxide (Biomist 30:30. Biomist 12:60), resmethrin (Scourge), and sumithrin (Solo 40-OS and Duets 8.8-OS). Permethrin compounds tested aerially against Anopheles qu...

Two pathways regulate planar polarity: the core proteins and the Fat-Dachsous-Four-jointed (Ft-Ds-Fj) system. Morphogens specify complementary expression patterns of Ds and Fj that potentially act as polarizing cues. It has been suggested that Ft-Ds-Fj-mediated cues are weak and that the core proteins amplify them. Another view is that the two pathways act independently to generate and propagat...

In this Supplementary Appendix we present additional new material related to the main paper “Generalized Autoregressive Score Models with Applications”. We refer to the model as the GAS model. For reference purposes, we first give a short review of the relevant equations for the general GAS model. Appendix A presents more existing models that can be represented as special cases of GAS models. A...

In flowering plants, the developmental switch to the reproductive phase is tightly regulated and involves the integration of internal and external signals. FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and TWIN SISTER OF FT (TSF) integrate signals from multiple pathways. FT and TSF function as florigenic substances, and share high sequence similarity with mammalian Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP). Despite their s...