this study investigated the relationships between nutrients and chlorophyll, a concentration in the international alma gol wetland. chlorophyll a is the major photosynthetic pigment in lots of phytoplanktons and has been used as a trophy index in aquatic ecosystems. water samples were collected fortnightly from five stations in the wetland during summer and autumn. chlorophyll-a ranged between ...

An analytically tractable design procedure is presented for a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) that uses frustrated total internal reflection and optical tunneling by a symmetric LHL trilayer thin-film stack embedded in a high-index prism. Considerable simplification arises when the refractive index of the high-index center layer H matches the refractive index of the prism and its thickness is qu...

It is shown that a L∞-space with separable dual constructed by Bourgain and Delbaen has small Szlenk index and thus does not have a quotient isomorphic to C(ω). It follows that this is a L∞-space which is the same size as c0 in the sense of the Szlenk index but does not contain c0. This has some consequences in the theory of uniform homeomorphism of Banach spaces.

BACKGROUND L-Arabinose is a non-caloric sugar, which could affect glucose and lipid metabolism and suppress obesity. However, few reports have described the effect of L-arabinose in metabolic syndrome, a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to explore the effects of L-arabinose in rats with metabolic...

A finite group amalgam of index (k,m) is a 5-tuple (L,φ,B, ψ,R) where L, B, and R are finite groups, φ : B → L and ψ : B → R are monomorphisms, and the indices of B and B in L and R are k and m, respectively. The amalgam is faithful if N ≤ B, N C L, and N C R implies N = 1. It is well known that the finite faithful amalgams of index (k, 2) are in a bijective correspondence with (the conjugacy c...

We shall use the distance chromatic index defined by the present author in early nineties, cf. [5] or [4] of 1993. The edge distance of two edges in a multigraph M is defined to be their distance in the line graph L(M) of M . Given a positive integer d, define the d+-chromatic index of the multigraph M , denoted by q(d)(M), to be equal to the chromatic number χ of the dth power of the line grap...

where Mk,n is the set of all k-by-n matrices with coefficients in {0, 1} and the variables y l are interpreted as follows: y i l = 1 if and only if z i = l. The matrix (y j) can be seen as a {0, 1} assignment matrix where each column contains exactly one coefficient equal to 1 while h denotes the index of the lowest row that is not identically equal to the zero row (cf. Fig. 1). Another variant...

The aim of the study was to assess the lipid atherogenic risk in women with metabolic syndrome (MS) based on calculating the atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) {(logTriglycerides)/HDL-cholesterol}, Castelli's I and II risk indexes (the ratios total cholesterol/HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol/HDL-cholesterol, respectively) and the leptin/adiponectin ratio (L/A ratio). Materials and methods: T...

We evaluated the effects of a combined therapy of pre-blockade endogenous nitric oxide synthase (NOS) with N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) and continuous inhaled NO (iNO) on the gas exchange and hemodynamics of Escherichia coli pneumonia and sepsis in newborn piglets. Seven to ten day old ventilated newborn piglets were randomized into 5 groups: control, E. coli pneumonia control, pneu...