The hypotheses that the chest wall insertion (CW) is displaced laterally during inspiration and that this displacement is essential in maintaining muscle curvature of the costal diaphragmatic muscle fibers were tested. With the use of data from three dogs, caudal, lateral, and ventral displacements of CW during both quiet, spontaneous inspiration and during inspiratory efforts against an occlud...

A novel Gram-negative, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterium, designated CW-KD 4(T), was isolated from a polluted soil sample collected from Jiangsu Province, China, by using a classic enrichment method. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the novel strain represented a deep-rooting lineage within the class Gammaproteobacteria that was clustered with the genera Hydrocarboniphaga and Nevskia an...

Emergency Services Agencies (ESA) are required to co-operate and collaborate on a regular basis to provide their communities with warning information about disasters and incidents. Community Warning (CW) systems are a vital component of ESA operations as there are many different types of disasters and emergency scenarios of varying complexity and uncertainty, which in turn directly influence th...

introduction: to investigate the ultrastructural changes of dentin irradiated with 980-nm diode laser under different parameters and to observe the morphological alterations of odontoblasts and pulp tissue to determine the safety parameters of 980-nm diode laser in the treatment of dentin hypersensitivity (dh). methods: twenty extracted human third molars were selected to prepare dentin discs. ...

Constructed wetlands (CWs) had been widely used to treat the tailwater from sewage treatment plants. However, enduring effectiveness of CWs was still unclear. Therefore, this study aimed investigate chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N), and total phosphorus (TP) removal efficiencies (RE) Hongze CW (HZ-CW) after multi-years’ operation. The average COD RE were 7.6% 15.14% in 4t...

background: human t cell lymphotropic virus type i (htlv-i)-associated myelopa-thy/tropical spastic paraparesis (ham/tsp) is an inflammatory disease which occurs in less than 2% of htlv-i -infected individuals. high proviral load, high htlv-i-specific cd8+ cytotoxic t lymphocyte frequency (ctl) and host genetic factors such as hla all appear to be associated with htlv-i infection. previous stud...

This crossover study assessed the effectiveness of plain water (PW), sports drink (SD), fresh young coconut water (CW) and sodium-enriched fresh young coconut water (SCW) on whole body rehydration (R) and plasma volume (PV) restoration after exercise-induced dehydration. Ten healthy male subjects ran at 65% of VO2max in an environmental temperature of 32.06 +/- 0.02 degree C with a relative hum...

BACKGROUND Intravenous recombinant tissular plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is the only approved pharmacological treatment for acute ischaemic stroke. The authors aimed to analyse potential causes of the variable effect on early course and late outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS 136 patients (42% women, 58% men) treated with intravenous rt-PA within 3 h of stroke onset in an acute stroke unit over a ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the ability of chest wall EMG (CW-EMG) using surface electrodes to classify apneas as obstructive, mixed, or central compared to classification using dual channel uncalibrated respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP). METHODS CW-EMG was recorded from electrodes in the eighth intercostal space at the right mid-axillary line. Consecutive adult clinical sleep stu...

OBJECTIVES To investigate polymorphisms in the genes for tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFA), interleukin 10 (IL10) and tumour necrosis factor receptor II (TNFRII) in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and their relationship to the HLA-Cw*0602 allele and to the ages at onset of psoriasis and arthritis and the pattern of joint involvement. METHODS One hundred and twenty-four well-characte...