Contractile reserve decreases with advancing age and chronic isoproterenol (ISO) administration is a well-characterized model of cardiac hypertrophy known to impair cardiovascular function. This study evaluated whether nonsenescent, mature adult rats are more susceptible to detrimental effects of chronic ISO administration than younger adult rats. Rats received daily injections of ISO (0.1 mg/k...

In this paper we propose a new evaluation model for e-learning systems with its implementation details extracted from two standard models, the Kirkpatrick„s classical model with the ISO 9126 standard for evaluating the e-learning systems. The new proposed model: “The Pyramid Model”, consists of five consecutive levels, each of which is having different research tactics as inputs that will draw ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the possibility of improving egg lipids and fatty acids composition of laying hens through inclusion of olive cake plus barley malt rootlets in the diets. Seventy, 54-week-old, Lohman laying hens were fed for a 12 weeks laying period on 3 iso-caloric and iso-nitrogenous diets contained 0 (control), 28.5 g olive cake (OC) + 25.5 g barley malt rootl...

We studied the putative relaxant effects of several isoprostanes (8-iso-PGE1, and 8-iso-PGE2, 8-iso-PGF1alpha, 8-iso-PGF1beta, 8-iso-PGF2alpha, and 8-iso-PGF2beta) on pulmonary (PA), mesenteric (MA), coronary (CA) arteries and pulmonary veins (PV), from newborn and 2-week-old piglets. Isoprostanes were compared with agonists of the EP (PGE1, PGE2, and misoprostol), DP (PGD2), and IP (iloprost) ...

Comparative Performance of Anode-Supported SOFCs Using a Thin Ce0.9Gd0.1O1.95 Electrolyte with an Incorporated BaCe0.8Y0.2O3− Layer in Hydrogen and Methane Atsuko Tomita, Shinya Teranishi,* Masahiro Nagao,* Takashi Hibino,** and Mitsuru Sano** National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nagoya 463-8560, Japan Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya Universi...

Özetçe. Kamu sektörünün kendine özgü özelliklerinden kaynaklı olarak kalite iyileştirme çalışmalarında problemlerle karşılaşılmaktadır. Bu problemleri çözmek için bilgi teknolojileri kullanılsa da, öncelikle iş süreçleri iyileştirilmeden yapılan bu çalışmalardan istenilen sonuçlar alınamamaktadır. Bu çalışmada kamu sektöründe iş süreçlerini iyileştirmek için gerekli olan yapının gereksinimleri ...

HED PARENT BODY. A. Yamaguchi, C. Okamoto, M. Ebihara, National Institute of Polar Research, Department of Polar Science, School of Multidisciplinary Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Tokyo 173-8515, Japan ([email protected]), Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 1...

IT security incidents pose a major threat to the efficient execution of corporate strategies. Although, information security standards provide a holistic approach to mitigate these threats and legal acts demand their implementation, companies often refrain from the implementation of information security standards, especially due to high costs and the lack of evidence for a positive cost/benefit...

During phase two of the SPICE trials, the Proposed Draft Technical Report version of ISO/IEC 15504 is being empirically evaluated. This document set is intended to become an international standard for Software Process Assessment. One thread of evaluations being conducted during these trials is the extent of reliability of assessments based on ISO/IEC PDTR 15504. In this paper we present the fir...