OBJECTIVES To assess exposure of commercial application workers to the nematocide cis-1,3-dichloropropene (cis-DCP). METHODS The study was conducted during the annual application season, August to 15 November, in the starch potato growing region in The Netherlands. 14 Application workers collected end of shift urine samples on each fumigation day (n=119). The mercapturic acid metabolite N-ace...

Abstract The imprinted polymers were prepared to absorb dichlorophen (DCP) by using mesoporous silica with ordered pores and high specific surface area. Both scanning electron microscopy transmission results suggested that the nanosphere had a periodic distribution. layer of was thin uniform. adsorption experiments showed obviously improved due presence structure. maximum capacity MSNs@MIPs at ...

To the Editor: We read the manuscript by Lofgren et al. (7) with great interest and would like to compliment them for an excellent comparison and validation of plethysmographic methods to assess airway function in mice. There are two errors that we would like to bring to the authors’ notice. First, the units of specific airway resistance (sRaw) should be cmH2O s not cmH2O/s {sRaw Raw TGV (press...

A method to reconstruct the energy landscape of small peptides is presented with reference to a two-dimensional off-lattice model. The starting point is a statistical analysis of the configurational distances between generic minima and directly connected pairs (DCP). As the mutual distance of DCP is typically much smaller than that of generic pairs, a metric criterion can be established to iden...

traditional approaches to AI planning. Planning and executing the resulting plans in a dynamic environment implies a continual approach in which planning and execution are interleaved, uncertainty in the current and projected world state is recognized and handled appropriately, and replanning can be performed when the situation changes or planned actions fail. Furthermore, complex planning and ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the biomechanical effects of varying the length of a limited contact-dynamic compression plate (LC-DCP) and the number and position of screws on middle tibial fractures, and to provide biomechanical evidence regarding minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO). For biomechanical testing, 60 tibias from cadavers (age at mortality, 20-40 years) ...

It is well-known that the k-wise product of one-way functions remains one-way, but may no longer be when the k inputs are correlated. At TCC 2009, Rosen and Segev introduced a new notion known as Correlated Product secure functions. These functions have the property that a k-wise product of them remains one-way even under correlated inputs. Rosen and Segev gave a construction of injective trapd...