objective: in this study efficacy of sub lingual misoprostol was examined in comparison to oxytocin (i.v.) for inducing of labor in term pregnancy. materials and methods: seventy patients were allocated by blocked randomization to groups a (n=35, sub lingual misoprostol 25 μg four hourly to maximum of 5 doses) and b (n=35, continuous oxytocin infusion). results: delivery active phase and total ...

The protozoan parasite Babesia equi replicates within erythrocytes. During the acute phase of infection, B. equi can reach high levels of parasitemia, resulting in a hemolytic crisis. Horses that recover from the acute phase of the disease remain chronically infected. Subsequent transmission is dependent upon the ability of vector ticks to acquire B. equi and, following development and replicat...

Epifluorescence microscopy was used to study the structure and phase behavior of phospholipid films containing a human-sequence monomeric SP-B(1-25) synthetic peptide (mSP-B(1-25)). Measurements were done directly at the air-water (A/W) interface on films in a Langmuir-Whilhelmy balance coupled to a fluorescence microscope and real-time detection system to yield an approximate optical resolutio...

Lizardite was pressurized up to about 28 and 20 GPa and heated at 1310 ( þ 50) and 1100 ( þ 100)3C; antigorite was pressurized at about 25 and 22 GPa and heated at V10003C, with a Nd:YAG laser using the double-side laser heating technique. Samples were then examined in situ by energy dispersive synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Our results show that phase E, superhydrous phase B, and phase D are i...

the distribution of gallium(b) and indium (b) between hydrochloric or sulphuric acid solution with sec-nonylphenoxy acetic acid(ca-100) in kerosene has been investigated under various conditions. ca-100 is a new organocarboxylic extractant, which has been shown to be efficient for gallium(b) and indium(b) whereas germanium(c), which was not extracted. the extraction system is studied as a funct...

Configural theories of hippocampal function predict that hippocampal dysfunction should impair acquisition of the transverse patterning task, which involves the concurrent solution of three discrimination problems: A+ versus B-; B+ versus C-; and C+ versus A-. The present study tested this prediction in rats using computer-graphic stimuli presented on a touchscreen. Experiment 1 assessed the ef...

Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica rely on the global two-component regulatory system BvgAS to control expression of distinct phenotypic phases. In the Bvg(-) phase, expression of vrg genes, including those required for motility in B. bronchiseptica, is activated and genes encoding virulence factors are not expressed. Conversely, in the Bvg(+) phase, genes encoding virulence fac...

it has been shown that the boltzmann equation for the viscosity of the a-phase of superfluid 3he at low temperatures has the same form as for a normal ferrni liquid. the viscosity coefficients a, b, c, d and e are derived exactly. the h , parameter plays an important role in determining the temperature dependence of the viscosity coefficients

The aim of this study was to test whether a combination of plant bioactive lipid compounds (also termed 'essential oils') and biotin (PBLC+B) could decrease the mobilization of body reserves and ketosis incidence in postpartum dairy cows. We compared non-supplemented control (CON) cows with cows receiving monensin (MON) as a controlled-release capsule at d -21, and with cows receiving PBLC+B fr...

By assuming the reflectivity series to be sparse rather than ”white”, we introduced the hybrid norm spiking deconvolution (Zhang, 2010). However one theoretical drawback of spiking deconvolution is that it assumes the source wavelet to be minimum-phase, which might not be true in practice. We propose a new formulation of spiking deconvolution with the hybrid solver that does not require such as...