INTRODUCTION Hypoxia is a feature of the inflamed synovium in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Intra-articular injection of hyaluronan (HA) may be considered a potential way to treat RA. However, the exact molecular mechanism of HA on decreased cellular responses to hypoxic environment is unclear. The present study has been designed to use the adjuvant-induced arthritis model to examine the effects o...

man-made reservoirs constructed on running waters, where a decrease in flow velocity and anincrease in flocculent settling occurs, create perfect conditions for the deposition of allohtonic matter andadsorbed pollutants, such as toxic polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (pcdds) and polychlorinateddibenzofurans (pcdfs). the results obtained from the research on a cascade of five small reservoirs l...

Herman Melville’s final novel The Confidence-Man destabilizes conventional Western models of ethical behavior, particularly Kantian notions of moral agency, by exposing and challenging their basis in rationality and a progressivist model of history. The Confidence-Man shows rationality to be nothing more than one way, among many other possible ways, that human beings attempt to fix the world in...

Describing routes is an easy everyday task for people who know the environment well. However, strategies exist also for situations where only incomplete knowledge is available. We present a study eliciting verbalized route plans and thinkaloud data from novices and experts who were asked to find and describe routes in a complex building. The spatial descriptions were analyzed relating the level...

counted for 2.5% of all non-Hodgkin’s lym phoma (NHL) in south ern Tai wan ac cord ing to our pre vi ous study. There have been only three larger se ries on PBL from Tai wan. Huang et al re ported seven cases in 1987, with em pha ses on the pro tean clin i cal and ra dio log i cal man i fes ta tions. There were five dif fuse histiocytic lym pho mas and one case each of dif Chi nese Med i cal Jo...

We investigate the transient and stationary buoyant motion of the Rayleigh-Bénard instability when the fluid layer is subjected to a vertical, steady magnetic field. For Rayleigh number, Ra, in the range 103-106, and Hartmann number, Ha, between 0 and 100, we performed three-dimensional direct numerical simulations. To predict the growth rate and the wavelength of the initial regime observed wi...

An old Indian legend tells a story about six blind men who touched an elephant. The first man who touched his leg said: " it is a pillar. " The second man who touched the tail said: " it is a rope. " The third man who touched the trunk of the elephant said: " it is a thick branch of a tree. " The fourth man who touched the ear said: " It is a big hand fan. " The fifth man who touched the belly ...