This article argues that an understanding of the successful process which led to Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (GFA) provides a useful context for constraints and opportunities peace making in Ukraine. In Northern Ireland political actors took pragmatic Realist approach negotiations using range skills, including manipulation deception, bring various contrasting often antagonistic audiences supp...

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely used for the treatment of pain, fever and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. A series of direct analogues of flurbriprofen [4’-methylbiphenyl-2-(substituted phenyl) carboxamide derivatives] have been reported as novel anti-inflammatory agent. In order to gain further insights into the structural require...

Radiation therapy is widely used for the treatment of brain tumors and may result in cellular, vascular and axonal injury and further behavioral deficits. The non-invasive longitudinal imaging assessment of brain injury caused by radiation therapy is important for determining patient prognoses. Several rodent studies have been performed using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but further studie...

The occurrence of different types of intermediate filaments in primary cultures of cells and in cultured cell lines was studied by the indirect immunofluorescence (IFL) technique. The antibodies used were spontaneous monoclonal human antibodies of immunoglobulin M (IgM) class against vimentin-type intermediate filaments (fibroblast 58 x 10 mol. wt subunit protein), and experimental rabbit antib...

Functional and structural heterogeneity exists among skeletal muscle vascular beds related, in part, to muscle fiber type composition. This study was designed to delineate whether the vulnerability to vascular dysfunction in insulin resistance is uniformly distributed among skeletal muscle vasculatures and whether physical activity modifies this vulnerability. Obese, hyperphagic Otsuka Long-Eva...

Hyperglycemia leads to alterations in mesangial cell function and extracellular matrix (ECM) protein accumulation. These adverse effects of glucose may be mediated by glucose metabolism through the hexosamine biosynthesis pathway (HBP). The HBP converts fructose-6-phosphate to glucosamine-6-phosphate via the rate-limiting enzyme, glutamine:fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase (GFA). We have in...

We s(ate the following conjecture and prove it for the case where q is a proper prime power: Let A be a nonsingular n by n matrix over the finite fieM GF~, q~-4, then there exists a vector x in (GFa) ~ such that both x and ~4x have no zero component. In this note we consider-the following conjecture: Conjecture 1. Let A be a nonsingular n by n matrix over the finite field GFa, q~_4, then there ...

Mobile IP is one of the solutions for connecting mobile nodes without breaking ongoing communications. Mobile IP uses two IP addresses: one is home address and another is care-of address which is used when the mobile node is moved to another network. Although original mobile IP can support seamless roaming, it still has many problems such as packet loss during handoff and handoff latency. Those...

The use of modern neuroimaging methods to characterize the complex anatomy of brain development at different stages reveals an enormous wealth of information in understanding this highly ordered process and provides clues to detect neurological and neurobehavioral disorders that have their origin in early structural and functional cerebral maturation. Non-invasive diffusion tensor magnetic reso...

We developed an analysis pipeline enabling population studies of HARDI data, and applied it to map genetic influences on fiber architecture in 90 twin subjects. We applied tensor-driven 3D fluid registration to HARDI, resampling the spherical fiber orientation distribution functions (ODFs) in appropriate Riemannian manifolds, after ODF regularization and sharpening. Fitting structural equation ...