Final Report: Combustion of High Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Fuels and JP-8 at Moderate Pressures (Research Area 1: Mechanical Sciences) Report Title The objective of this research is to characterize combustion of high molecular weight hydrocarbon fuels and jet-fuels (in particular JP-8) and surrogates of jet-fuels in laminar non-uniform flows at elevated pressures upto 2.5 MPa. Experimental a...

We study heavy-light meson resonances with quantum numbers JP = 0+ and JP = 1+ in terms of the non-linear chiral SU(3) Lagrangian. At leading order a parameter-free prediction is obtained for the scattering of Goldstone bosons off heavy-light pseudo-scalar and vector mesons once we insist on approximate crossing symmetry of the unitarized scattering amplitude. The recently announced narrow open...

PURPOSE Management of appendicitis in children has always been an issue in pediatric surgery. Both diagnostic methods and treatment vary significantly among medical centers, and little consensus exists in many aspects of the care for patients with appendicitis. Here, we assessed the value of drain insertion after appendectomy in children. METHODS This study is a retrospective review of pediat...

Bácsi, K., Kósa, JP., Balla, B., Lazáry, Á., Nagy, Z., Takács, I., Speer, G., Lakatos, P. Decreasedactivity of lactase phlorizin hydrolase and bone mineral densityin postmenopausal women. American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)29th Annual Meeting Honolulu, HI, USA September 16-19, 2007. J Bone Miner Res2007, 22(S1): S186 Bácsi, K., Kósa, JP., Balla, B., Lazáry, Á....

Targeted deletion or selective pharmacological inhibition of α(2C)-adrenoceptors in mice results in increased brain tissue levels of dopamine and its precursor l-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (l-DOPA), without significant changes in l-DOPA synthesis. l-DOPA uptake is considered the rate-limiting step in dopamine synthesis in the kidney. Since α(2C)-adrenoceptors may influence the transport of l-DO...

OBJECTIVE: Jackson and Pollock's (JP) ground-breaking research reporting generalized body density equations to estimate body fat was carried out in the late 1970s. Since then we have experienced an 'obesity epidemic'. Our aim was to examine whether the original quadratic equations established by Jackson and co-workers are valid in the 21st century. METHODS: Reanalyzing the original JP data, an ...

Pure Appl Chem 1996;68:1831–6. 8. Colyer CL, Tang T, Chiem N, Harrison DJ. Clinical potential of microchip capillary electrophoresis systems. Electrophoresis 1997;18:1733–41. 9. Hofgärtner WT, Hühmer AFR, Landers JP, Kant JA. Rapid diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis using microchip electrophoresis of PCR products. Clin Chem 1999;45:2120–8. 10. Chen YH, Wang WC, Young KC, Chang TT, Chen SH...

Cyclin E-Cdk2 is essential for S phase entry. To identify genes interacting with cyclin E, we carried out a genetic screen using a hypomorphic mutation of Drosophila cyclin E (DmcycE(JP)), which gives rise to adults with a rough eye phenotype. Amongst the dominant suppressors of DmcycE(JP), we identified brahma (brm) and moira (mor), which encode conserved core components of the Drosophila Brm ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide; the most common pathologic type is lung adenocarcinoma (LADC). In spite of the recent progress in targeted therapy, most LADC patients eventually expired due to the inevitable recurrence and drug resistance. New complementary agent with evidence-based molecular mechanism is urgently needed. MiR-34a is an important p53 downstream tumor ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-directed amplification and sequencing of rearranged immune genes for identification of clone-specific markers are increasingly being used in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma INHL) patients instead of the time consuming and labor intensive Southern analysis. In previous reports, no single common VP and JP sequence had been identified t...